Stick System Curtain Wall Section

Since the curtain wall is non structural it can be made of lightweight materials thereby reducing construction costs.

Stick system curtain wall section.

When glass is used as the curtain wall an advantage is that natural light can penetrate deeper within the building. If your project doesn t suit most of the criteria for a unitized system your other option is to use a stick built system. This would further require scaffolding cranes etc. The vast majority of low to mid rise curtain walls are installed in this way.

Stick curtain walling swc may be defined as non load bearing walls usually suspended in front of structural steel or concrete framing. In the unitized system the curtain wall is composed of large units that are assembled and glazed in the factory shipped to the site and erected on the building. A curtain wall system is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non structural utilized only to keep the weather out and the occupants in. Our window and entrance products can be used to give your low rise multistory building the appearance of a curtain wall.

Long pieces of aluminum hence the name stick are inserted between floors vertically and horizontally between vertical members to support and transfer the load of the glass back to structure. The reason to achieve a more significant height external access is necessary. In the stick system the curtain wall frame mullions and glass or opaque panels are installed and connected together piece by piece.