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Insulated Glass for Facades

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What is Insulated Glass Facades?

Insulated glass for facades? the exterior wall of a building—especially the front, but can also refer to the sides or back. Means the front or face of the house. We also called curtain walls, which use different kinds of glazed glass combined with an aluminum alloy frame to be a glass wall.

There are many glass types suitable for glass facades, such as tempered glass, laminated glass, Insulating glass, pinted glass, screening glass, and so on.

Curtain Wall with Insulated Glass Units

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The curtain wall is one type of facade, that normally combines aluminum alloy and DGUs together and is installed at the surface of the building. These kinds of products have many special requirements depending on different areas and environments, Dragon Glass can meet designers, architects’, and owners’ requirements, and provide the right products. For Insulated glass type choice, all types can be applied, such as Low E DGUs, laminated IGU, Triple glazing, and Decorative IGUs, depending on final project technical requirements.

Different Installation Types of IGU Glass for Facades

Framing Support

Frame-supported glass curtain wall is a glass curtain wall supported by a metal frame around the glass panel, mainly including: visible framed glass curtain wall and invisible framed glass curtain wall

Invisible Framed Glass Curtain Wall​

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The visible framed glass curtain wall is a glass curtain wall with metal frame components exposed on the outer surface. It is framed by an aluminum alloy profile with a special section, and the glass panel is fully embedded in the groove of the profile. Its characteristic is that the aluminum alloy profile itself has the dual functions of skeleton structure and fixed glass. The visible framed glass curtain wall is the most traditional form, the most widely used, and the working performance is reliable. Compared with the hidden frame glass curtain wall, it is easier to meet the requirements of the construction technology level.

The metal frame of the invisible framed glass curtain wall is hidden behind the glass, and the metal frame cannot be seen outside. Invisible framed glass curtain wall can be divided into two types: fully invisible framed glass curtain wall and semi-invisible framed glass curtain wall. The structural features of the hidden frame glass curtain wall are: the glass is on the outside of the aluminum frame, and the glass and the aluminum frame are bonded with silicone structural sealant. The load of the curtain wall is mainly borne by the sealant.

Invisible Framed Glass Curtain Wall

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Spider System Support

Also called point-supported glass curtain wall is a glass curtain wall composed of glass panels, point-supporting devices and supporting structures. Its support structure forms include glass rib support, single steel or steel pipe support, truss support and tension rod cable system support structure.

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This way It’s a special installation way for double glazing units curtain wall system, which use spider system for supporting, we can use speical technical to realize this effects for install the spider accessories, if want to get more information, kindly contact us anytime, our team always here provide professional solutions. In addition, we also cooperate with so many brand in China, like Kinlong