Leading UK architectural aluminium systems supplier Kawneer has enhanced its AA®100 curtain walling system with the launch of structurally glazed (SSG) and horizontally capped (HC) options.

The developments come in response to specifiers’ and designers’ ever-increasing demands for more flexible and more sophisticated curtain wall systems that offer total engineered design solutions.

The SSG option allows a flush appearance to the exterior of stick frame curtain walling to be achieved without the use of visible facecaps. As well as being more aesthetically pleasing, it is also more cost effective due to quick installation on site and reduced time fabricating and installing pressure plates and facecaps.

Constructed with structural silicone sealant and an integrated channel profile around the perimeter of the glazing unit, the system utilises toggle clips positioned on the mullions and transoms, to locate into the channel profile and provide the mechanical retention necessary to secure the pane to the curtain wall.

This dry-jointed, mullion drained system utilises specially-designed EDPM mouldings and is capable of accommodating glazing infills up to 37mm. Designed for use with both Kawneer’s AA®100 (50mm) and AA®110 (65mm) curtain wall systems, it is tested and certified to CWCT Sequence B and meets the requirements of Document L and Document J in Scotland.

The HC system completes the AA®100 curtain wall range to offer total flexibility to specifiers, offering a variety of distinctive facecaps to highlight horizontal features of the building envelope.

The new options were launched to approximately 200 members of Kawneer’s network of approved installers by its team of architectural advisers in a two-week series of best practice roadshows and practical workshops that took in Newcastle, Gloucestershire, Potters Bar, Coventry, Bathgate in Scotland as well as Kawneer’s home town of Runcorn.

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