The wall transfers horizontal wind loads that are incident upon it to the main building structure through connections at floors or columns of the building. The curtain wall façade does not carry any dead load weight from the building other than its own dead load weight. When glass is used as the curtain wall, a great advantage is that natural light can penetrate deeper within the building. As the curtain wall is non-structural it can be made of a lightweight material, reducing construction costs.
Our expertise, as well as our continual focus on quality, reliability, and cost-efficiency, ensures a precision fit as well as an unmatched customer experience.A curtain wall system is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, but merely keep the weather out and the occupants in. We are well-trained to handle every phase of your project: design, engineering, production, fabrication, application, and installation. team is well-equipped to meet your commercial construction needs with a superior curtain wall solution, whether it be a stick system or a unitized system. The Lockheed Architectural Solutions, Inc. In addition to the practical advantages curtain wall systems offer, they also enhance buildings with an aesthetically pleasing exterior design.
Lockheed Architectural Solutions, Inc.’s curtain wall systems provide customers with benefits including improved thermal performance, water diversion, and cost-effective heating, cooling, and lighting for the building. Typically aluminum-framed and thin, curtain wall contains in-fills of glass, metal panels, or thin stone. Curtain wall is framing attached to a building structure that does not carry the floor or roof loads of the building.