Articles Tagged with ''rainscreen''

This presentation provides options available to reduce water-leaks by properly specifying proper construction methods.

To minimize the resulting effect of full sun on the south side of the building, the project team introduced sunshades along the lengths of 13 floors. Each 100 foot-long sunshade, however, presented a potential thermal bridge where it attaches to the interior building slabs via steel brackets. The team avoided the problem by specifying structural thermal breaks.

If you’re passionate about the future of sustainable architecture and resilient construction, join RAiNA this fall in Chicago, Illinois for Creating Buildings that Endure - a full day conference focusing on the crucial role of rainscreens in modern construction.

Knight Wall Systems General Manager Brian Nelson has been elected to the Rainscreen Association in North America (RAiNA)’s Board of Directors, according to RAiNA Executive Committee Chair Todd Kimmel.

CENTRIA®, a Nucor® company, announced INTERCEPT+™ modular metal panels for exterior walls, powered by NEXGEN Metal Design Systems, a leader in high-performance exterior wall panel design and fabrication.

The design team at PJHM Architects considered many cement fiber rainscreen options before selecting metal wall panels.

Laminators Incorporated presents AdaptaClad™ RS, a new shop-fabricated rainscreen wall system designed to provide significant time and labor savings to fabricators and installers.

Sheet Metal Supply is now stocking 16-gauge and 18-gauge galvanized steel for the fabrication of hat channels, Z-channels and U-channels in Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) Black.

Knight Wall Systems announced the appointment of Pittsburgh-based Ghise Associates Inc. as its new manufacturer’s representative for Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, according to Knight’s National Sales Manager, Travis Cacciatori.

To clad the 37,200-square-foot structure, Old Country Millwork supplied Four C’s Construction with approximately 8 tons of RHEINZINK’s architectural zinc. Four C’s fabricated the natural metal material into 12-inch-wide reveal wall panels and installed 7,600 square feet on the building’s exterior.