Kawneer UK. (Specifier's Information).The facades of a 10-storey speculative office building in Leeds have been clad with Kawneer 1612 curtain walling curtain wall Nonbearing wall of glass, metal, or masonry attached to a building's exterior structural frame. After World War II, low energy costs gave impetus to the concept of the tall building as a glass prism, an idea originally put forth by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies using two different glazing methods. The curtain wall to the main entrance and two end bays of the building are glazed glaze n. 1. A thin smooth shiny coating. 2. A thin glassy coating of ice. 3. a. A coating of colored, opaque, or transparent material applied to ceramics before firing. b. with frameless glass panels bonded with structural silicone to achieve a completely flush appearance. Elsewhere the curtain wall is sealed with pressure plates overlaid o·ver·laid v. Past tense and past participle of overlay1. with decorative metal caps. As the building faces a busy road the glass specification provides natural daylight, low 'U' value, effective shading See Phong shading, Gouraud shading, flat shading and programmable shading. and significant noise reduction. 901 www.arplus.com/enq.html |
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