Structural Glass Roof Detail

A stick built structural glazing system is one of the oldest and most conventional curtain wall types.

Structural glass roof detail. The team at iq have developed a unique structural glass fixing system. For a different. Structural glass floors are not only stunning from a design perspective but also fulfil an important practical purpose allowing light to permeate a structure. We regularly design and install glass walk on floors and bridges along with structural glass roof lights for precisely this purpose.

A more recent example is the beijing poly plaza building where a glass wall 90m high by 60m wide designed by skidmore owings and merrill is supported by an orthogonal cable net with stainless steel cables. This detail is used greatly on glass box extensions. Standard glass roof light cad drawing references for flat roofs flush box sliding smoke vent and access roof lights. These files are formatted for use with autocad 2000.

Point supported handrail systems. As a single source supplier paragon offers turn key structural glass systems. The structural load that the glass is designed to take will depend on the location and purpose of the glass element. It is assembled from similar components to that of a captured system with the exception of an exterior aluminum pressure plate and cap with gaskets to hold the glass in place.

Glass swimming pool features. The beauty of structural glass is its ability to create completely frameless glass installations without the limitations you would incur with other systems. Structural glass roofs will generally need some type of structural support. Technical detail cad drawings to assist in integrating the typical details of our system into a specific application we have made a selection of cad files available for immediate download.

Low iron glass beams can give a great completely transparent horizontal element to a space with frameless detailing at the edges to hide all brackets and fixings to the structural glass beam. Invisio is the uk s only thermally broken structural glazing system. Practicalities of walk on glass floors and rooflights. The term structural glass is a wide reaching product term used to describe a frameless glass assembly where the glass is taking an element of the structural load.