Protection for award winning skyscraper
A curtain wall is the protective facade cladding a building. It usually consists of an aluminum frame, with metal and glass panels wedged into it. Usually built separately from the building and then “added on” to it, a curtain wall can sometimes be built piece-by-piece on site.
The aim of a curtain wall is to protect and seal the building from the outside elements. “It must keep out the air, water, sound, pollution, dust, and insects … It must even resist hurricanes and flying debris, such as trees,” explains Mike Scanlon, Vice President for Sales and Marketing for Trelleborg EPG, a leading provider of gaskets for the glazing industry based in Ohio.
Trelleborg acquired the company in 2006. That same year, Trelleborg EPG completed one of its most high-profile projects, when it provided 30,000 gaskets for the curtain wall of the Symphony Tower, an award-winning glass skyscraper in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The building won the prestigious Emporis Skyscraper Award, which recognizes the best new high-rises built.
“The curtain wall was glazed on-site, which is not that common anymore,” says Scanlon.
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