Fire-rated framing evolves
(03/04/2022)
Architects increasingly require designs that offer more unique geometries and can stand up against a greater multitude of challenges.
Tag: Fire-rated
Specifying fire-rated glazing in schools
(05/17/2017)
The National Building Code of Canada (NBC) requires glazing in certain applications in educational facilities to be fire-rated. Today’s advanced fire-rated glazing products make it possible to do significantly more than protect against the...
Specifying steel curtain walls with enduring beauty
(02/28/2017)
Each year, curtain walls continue to soar higher, form angles that are more challenging, and push the building envelope closer to total transparency. A case in point is the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC’s) Vaughan...
Every year, more structures featuring glass floors are announced internationally, with each one claiming to be more spectacular than the last.
Cutting through the smoke
(11/19/2014)
For decades, the words ‘design flexibility’ and ‘fire-rated glass’ would not have appeared in the same sentence. Traditional polished wired glass was the only glazing material permitted in fire-rated areas. Its network of wires...
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