Spider Glazing
Spider glazing offers a beautiful external appearance with uninterrupted views. Spider glazing curtain walls provides maximum daylight possible to the building interiors. They also provide large transparent glass surface as building envelopes.
With the advent of science and technology curtain walls and frame-less glass systems have become popular and are finding wide applications. Spider Glazing is a part of the frame-less glass system where they provide a flush external appearance with uninterrupted views.
This acts as a structural support to the exterior designs and spider glazing can be customized for buildings of any design concepts. This is highly suitable for both commercial and residential buildings.
Advantages of spider glazing
Spider glazing offers maximum transparency and ensures entry of natural light to the building interiors. Therefore, spider glazing curtain walls are widely used to provide day light to commercial buildings. Being visually attractive, they are also used to create quality building skins.
Spider Glazing Specifications
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Spider glazing is a very flexible and contemporary design medium that can create designs with vast expanse of glass, frame-less entrances and canopies.
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All doors and windows can be inserted in the spider glass area.
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Tempered or heat soaked glass can be used in spider glazing systems so as to have the performance of a safety glass facade. The glass thickness that is used is usually 12mm thick.
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The spider glazing is designed to resist wind pressure. It can be fixed with either 2 way spiders or 4 way SS spiders fitting options.Fin glass support could also be used to resist wind pressure.
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Silicone Sealants and gaskets are used to make the glass frames watertight.
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Allows full penetration of natural light into the interiors, certain types of glass prevent the absorption of UV light.
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Spider glazing is easy to install and maintain.