The “super glass” curtain wall of the NorthGlass R&D Centre Building, a landmark project of the NorthGlass High-end Equipment Industrial Park, has been recently successfully installed.
The oversized, extra-thick, and overweight glass is neatly embedded in the centre of the building, like a giant silver screen.
Maximum height of a single piece — 18.3 metres
A total of 31 pieces of glass were installed on the façade of the R&D centre building. There are 19 pieces on the south façade, with the largest height of 18.3 metres and 3 metres wide, 5-layer laminated insulating glass, and the heaviest single piece is 8.8 tonnes, achieving the highest comprehensive area, coating and number of layers in the industry; 12 pieces on the north façade, with the largest height of 12 metres; the lobby entrance area is equipped with 8 pieces of 8-layer thick glass ribs, with a thickness of 126 millimetres. At the same time, there is a 20-metre-long and 6-metre-wide full-glass corridor connecting the building to the factory.
The latest glass tempering furnace technology
NorthGlass continues to promote technological innovation, especially for the control of wind spots and stress spots of super-large glass. NorthGlass actively developed the latest tempering furnace technology by refining the glass heating partition, increasing the temperature control distribution, accurately controlling the heating of each piece of glass and adding a round-trip speed intelligent algorithm during cooling to ensure that the quality of glass tempering is further improved.
High-reflection bight silver coating
NorthGlass has also made breakthroughs in high-reflection bright silver coating and high-transparency double-silver Low-E energy-saving technology, developing ultra-large unidirectional perspective coating products with a maximum of 24 metres. While ensuring privacy for the interior, it achieves high light transmittance.
Pedestal structure
The industrial park project is the second super-large glass project independently installed by NorthGlass after the installation of a 19 metres of self-supporting polygonal structural glass in the Culture and Art Centre of Anji “Two Mountains” Future Science and Technology City.
During the installation process, in addition to the glass rib support structure on the front, the two sides contain the floor area, and the pedestal connection cleverly used by NorthGlass is designed as a spring bearing to reduce the deformation of the panel under wind load in the later stage, which has better cushioning and adaptive characteristics.
