Stick System Curtain Wall Section

The reason to achieve a more significant height external access is necessary.

Stick system curtain wall section.

The stick curtain wall system includes components to be assembled by piece upon construction on site installed in low rise buildings or small areas. Stick curtain walling swc may be defined as non load bearing walls usually suspended in front of structural steel or concrete framing. When glass is used as the curtain wall an advantage is that natural light can penetrate deeper within the building. The vast majority of low to mid rise curtain walls are installed in this way.

This would further require scaffolding cranes etc. 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. If your project doesn t suit most of the criteria for a unitized system your other option is to use a stick built system. The term stick refers to the factory cut mullions and transoms which are transported to site as loose bars and sticks.

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. In the stick system the curtain wall frame mullions and glass or opaque panels are installed and connected together piece by piece.