111 Main Enclosure | Responding to Extreme Performance Criteria

First presented at GPD 2017 A 35’ tall all-glass storefront designed and constructed in a market that had no prior experience with glass of that scale, and almost three feet of vertical movement between the glass storefront and the tower above. The design and execution of a structural glass façade required input and expertise from […]

Ahead of the Curve: Innovative Cold Bent & Insulated Glass Entry Wall

Challenging Glass 6  Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass Louter, Bos, Belis, Veer, Nijsse (Eds.), Delft University of Technology, May 2018. Copyright © with the authors. All rights reserved. ISBN 978-94-6366-044-0,  Authors: Terry McDonnell – Klein & Hoffman Connor Bruns – Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Oliver Lahr – Roschmann Group Patrice Couret – […]

Dimensioning of silicone adhesive joints

Authors: Micheal Drass & Michael A. Kraus  Source: Glass Structures & Engineering |  Abstract This paper deals with the application of the semi-probabilistic design concept (level I, DIN EN 1990) to structural silicone adhesives in order to calibrate partial material safety factors for a stretch-based limit state equation. Based on the current legal situation for the application of […]