Structural Glass Roof Details

Structural glass floors are not only stunning from a design perspective but also fulfil an important practical purpose allowing light to permeate a structure.

Structural glass roof details.

As a single source supplier paragon offers turn key structural glass systems. We regularly design and install glass walk on floors and bridges along with structural glass roof lights for precisely this purpose. 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. These glasses can be paired with a host of back up structures to create vertical walls roofs and skylights canopies elevator enclosures or windscreens.

A structural glass floor for instance will be designed to withstand a walk on load across its surface whereas. Strong lightweight easy to install and proven in hundreds of floor applications. The pre tested scenarios mean that we can provide testing data and typical design details for structural glazing something not possible with your typical steel angle system. Glass swimming pool features.

Have afforded paragon the opportunity to work with the world s premiere architects and glazing professionals. Above all the invisio system allows architects the flexibility to design bespoke structural glass installations with peace of mind from a fully tested and proven system. Point supported handrail systems. 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.

The structural load that the glass is designed to take will depend on the location and purpose of the glass element. Practicalities of walk on glass floors and rooflights. Frameless glass roofs. For most installations ibp supplies two ply laminated glass units.

Further details of this building are provided in the institution of structural engineers guide structural use of glass in buildings. A top layer tempered for impact resistance and a heat strengthened bottom layer bonded with a clear. 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. Especially useful in internal rooms where external windows are far away or small and rear extensions where side windows may be restricted due to neighbouring properties.

Standard glass roof light cad drawing references for flat roofs flush box sliding smoke vent and access roof lights. Structural glass can be utilised in roofing areas to create a fully glazed roof to any space or room. The heart of every glasswalk structural glass floor system is the modular ibp aluminum frame.