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Seeing the Light Product Focus: Building Envelopes
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Products Focus: Building Envelopes
Custom-Glazed Terra-cotta Tile
Telling Architectural
The exclusive North American supplier of Argeton's terra-cotta rainscreen systems, Telling now offers in-house glazing for the German brand's cladding. This application enhances performance by lowering the porosity of the glazed tiles, rendering them more resistant to atmospheric pollution as well as graffiti. Matte, medium, and high-gloss finishes are offered.
HX32 Single-Hung Tilt Window
EFCO
An expansion of EFCO's Xtherm fenestration line, HX32 is a single-hung tilt window. Its 3¼”-deep frame is thermally isolated from the glass with glass-reinforced nylon struts, resulting in a U-factor as low as 0.35. Frames come in clear, champagne, light- to dark-bronze, and black anodized finishes, and optional internal muntins can be added to replicate historical grid windows.
Baguette Panel Rainscreen
Shildan
This new terra-cotta baguette panel rainscreen system uses vertical or horizontal aluminum attachments and can be customized in lengths of up to 10' to create striking textured facades. For a mixed-use building in Brooklyn, New York, CookFox Architects specified the panels in three shades of gray to produce a ribbed appearance and to reference colors of adjacent buildings.
Reliance-HTC
Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope
A triple-glazed curtain wall system, Reliance-HTC offers both excellent thermal and acoustical performance. Front-set, using either captured or SSG vertical mullions, the glazing system is able to meet ASHRAE thermal comfort standards for climate zones 1–8 thanks to polyamide insulating strips on all vertical and horizontal members, in combination with low-E insulating glass.
PVA Fiber Reinforced SlenderWall
SlenderWall
A precast-concrete cladding system, SlenderWall is now available with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber reinforcement. The PVA is dispersed throughout the concrete to form a molecular bond, resulting in increased tensile strength and resistance to corrosion and cracking. Each panel's interior frame consists of 6” 16-gauge galvanized-steel studs spaced vertically at 2' intervals. Installed, the system can withstand a wind load of 226 mph.
PrismFX
Alcoa Architectural Products
Alcoa has introduced a new finish for its Reynobond aluminum-composite cladding that creates a dramatic visual effect. Shown installed on a business park complex in Warsaw, Poland, PrismFX shifts color as sunlight conditions change throughout the day. Nine base colorways are available, with or without Duragloss 5000, a high-performance coating that can withstand saltwater corrosion and extreme temperature shifts.
