Items Tagged with 'thermal breaks'

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.

PanelShield SA joins three other underlayments offered by ATAS. For underlayments, ATAS has added PanelShield™ SA, by VaproShield, to their product offering.

Modern insulated glass units provided the Crystal windows and doors used for the OMNI Shoreham Hotel renovation project with superior energy efficiency.

Steinberg will be responsible for sales growth and market penetration of Schöck’s North American product line, centered around Isokorb^® structural thermal breaks, with a focus on increasing awareness and preference among architects, engineers, owner/operators and contractors. 

The 26,000 square-foot Statue of Liberty Museum located on Liberty Island was designed to complement the experience of visitors to this important UNESCO heritage site by illustrating the sculpture’s historical significance and method of construction.

Situated on the site of Gadsden’s Wharf, the landing point for nearly half of all enslaved Africans brought to the United States, the International African American Museum will encompass 41,800 sq ft of program and exhibit space to preserve and protect the cultures, genealogy and accumulated knowledge of Africans in the Americas.

The developers are aiming for LEED Platinum Certification, as well as compliance with Toronto Green Standard (TGS) requirements. In effect since 2010, the TGS sets tiered energy, emissions, and sustainability benchmarks for new buildings to support Toronto’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.