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Development of Curtain Wall Systems inHong Kong (Cont.)2nd Generation – Early 1980’s to early 90’sfeatures: mainly proprietary products usually instandard design out from the manufacturer’sinventorycommon systems: stick-type, spandrel and cover,unit-in-frame and sometimes unitized typesmaterial: sections in aluminium or its alloys,fabricated overseas and delivered to site forinstallation.
Development of Curtain Wall Systems in HongKong (Cont.)3 rd Generation – mid 1990’s onwardfeatures: mainly proprietary or expert productsusually tailor-designed and made for highlyspecific purposescommon systems: majority are in unitized typesmaterial: sections in aluminum alloys, some instainless steel, large areas of glass was also used,large amount of accessories and fixing componentsare involved, components fabricated overseas (incl.China) and delivered to site for installation.
Page 1 and 2: Construction and Performance ofCurt
Page 3: Development of Curtain Wall Systems
Page 7 and 8: The city profile of Hong Kong as vi
Page 9 and 10: Close up seeing the buildingfaçade
Page 11 and 12: Merits of using curtain wall in bui
Page 13 and 14: Stick SystemCurtain wall in stick s
Page 15: Unit SystemUnit systems are compose
Page 18 and 19: Unit and mullion systemThis is a co
Page 20 and 21: Column-cover-and-spandrel systemCol
Page 22 and 23: pGlass wall and skylight for the Fe
Page 24 and 25: pGlass wall used for theHong Kong C
Page 26 and 27: The glass wall for theInternational
Page 28 and 29: Glass Wall andSkylight used in theI
Page 30 and 31: Functions and performance requireme
Page 32 and 33: Testing of curtain wall1) air infil
Page 34 and 35: Handling of thewindow units
Page 36 and 37: Detail of fixing (basicallyfixed on
Page 38 and 39: Setting up of a mock-up wall sectio
Page 40 and 41: Shun Hing Plaza- 68-storey officebu
Page 42 and 43: Close up of the mullion frame at th
Page 44 and 45: Wall to cover thebracing membersloc
Page 46 and 47: Detail of the fixing bracket
Page 48 and 49: Manulife Tower(Lee Garden HotelRede
Page 50 and 51: Curtain wall installationfor the ty
Page 52 and 53: Close up seeing the wallingarrangem
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Transporting the wall unitsinto the
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Close up of the standard units
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The configuration of the building f
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Gondola set up to facilitate theins
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Pyramid feature atthe building corn
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Detail of the backing frame before
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Seeing the window fromthe pyramid
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Rail track for the hanging-typeslid
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Close up detail of theautomatic cle
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Cheung KongCenter at night
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Belt truss atbuilding topCurtain wa
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Backing frame for the louveredpanel
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Fixing detail of the panels
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Detail of the louvered panels
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Exterior detail ofthe standard pane
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Enlarged detail of a typical panel
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Close up of standard panels seeing
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ResidentialDevelopment atStubbs Roa
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Detail of the built-in anchorchanne
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Detail of the fixing atthe rebate w
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Langham Place -Commercial Complex w
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Maintenance Considerationcommon pro
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