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Challenging_boundaries_of_structural_designs
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High Performance Building We help you invent the future?'

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High Performance Building • Trends in structural glass facades & impact on • High Performance Structural Glazing • New Engineering Solutions in structural design • High Performance Structural Glazing - Products • Crystal Clear Bonding • High Performance Insulation: Dow Corning ® Architectural Insulation Module We help you invent the future'

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Facade design trend... Grey shades & coloured glass

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Facade design trend... Curved glass- Single, Double Triple glazed units

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Facade design trend... More glass, larger units, less frame

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Challenges in highrise buildings... • Climatic changes increasingly impact highrise facade designs: – Designed for worst case wind loads – Hurricane safe – Temperature extremes

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SUSTAINABILITY & ENERGY EFFICIENCY • Green Building, Low carbon foot print – LEEDS / BREEAM, DGNB, etc. • ENERGY EFFICIENCY, less CO2 • Longterm Durability – building lifecycle • Low Facade maintenance • Building Integrated PV • Etc.

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Façade Trends vs. Technology Trend in high - rise buildings Curved glass High wind Protective Glazing Impact on Structural Design Higher Thermal dilatation High movement Capability Higher Loads Larger SG Joints Higher Design Strength Smaller joints

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SG-Silicones – High Strength vs. High movement Higher Strength lower Movement Capability Higher Strength Higher surface stress Higher Strength Sealant 2-3 times higher surface stress Dow Corning 993 Structural Glazing Silicone

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Combining XXL Glass & High Wind High Design Strength & High movement SG Silicone Movement European wind codes (<2.5kPa) SG Silicone Design Strength Standard Design DC 993, =0,14MPa High wind– (e.g. Wind tunnel test 3-7 kPa) DC 993: Finite element analysis: =0,21 MPa Hurrican loads & impact loads (bomb blast) >> 7 kPa DC 993; =0,14 MPa Trapezoidal Joints Rectangular Joints High Loads

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High Performance Structural Glazing New Engineering Solutions for Structural Glazing

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High Performance Structural Glazing Design & Energy & Performance Dow Corning 993 SG Dow Corning Spacer Tape for Structural Glazing High Movement: 23,4% Design Strength: 0,14MPa (ETA) 0,21 MPa for nonstandard designs >3kPa only with Finite element analysis Dow Corning 3363 Insulating Glass Silicone HIGH DESIGN STRENGTH: 0,21 MPa (ETA)

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High Performance Structural Glazing Design & Energy & Performance DC993 / DC 3363 enabling Dow Corning 993 SG High Movement: 23,4% Design Strength: 0,14MPa (ETA) 0,21 MPa for nonstandard designs >3kPa only with Finite element analysis • XL-glass units for more light & high transparency • Energy-efficiency - gas-filled double & triple glazed Dow Corning Spacer •Tape for Structural joints for wind >>3kPa with FEA Reduced SG •Glazing demanding high-rise building - Hurricane High Dow Corning 3363 glazing & Protective Glazing Insulating Glass Silicone HIGH DESIGN • Longterm durability under...

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High Performance Structural Glazing -Trapezoidal Joint Design for High Wind Loads- SILICONE SETTING SEALANT WITH iiiiiniiiDi nuniIITIImi Open cell urethane foam tape We help you invent the future!

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High Performance Structural Glazing -Trapezoidal Joint Design for High Wind Loads- New Innovative Engineering Solutions: Structural Glazing with Trapezoidal Joint Designs - Global Patent pending-

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High Performance Structural Glazing -Trapezoidal Joint Design for High Wind Loads (1) Rectangular Joint Peak Stress We help you invent the future'.

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High Performance Structural Glazing -Trapezoidal Joint Design for High Wind Loads (2)Benefits • For High wind application & protective glazing • Smaller joints • Significantly support aluminum savings >20% • Significantly reduce peak stress • High Movement Capability By Optimising joint design it enables you to maximise the facade with proven performance materials…

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Design Flexibility & Durability: DC 993 SG WL >7 kPa XXL glass units: 3.5m x 1.5 m Burj Kalifa Tower, Dubai World‘s Tallest Tower 828m Standard Joint Design Design Strength: dyn = 0,14 MPa Movement capability: 23,4% Flame Towers*, Baku Thin Facade Design Harpa Concert Hall Reykjavik, Iceland High Performance Design High Performance Design Reduced Joint Width & Reduce Joint Thickness Design Strength: dyn = 0,21 MPa Movement capability: 23,4% Reduced Joint Width & Reduce Joint Thickness Design Strength: dyn = 0,21 MPa Movement capability: 23,4% *Picture: Prof. Sobek, Stuttgart

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High Performance Building We help you invent the future?' Crystal Clear ransparent Structural

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Point fixed structural glazing – crystal clear Invisible Silicone Film High Strength compared to Crystal Clear Adhesive standard structural glazing sealants – smaller buttons

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Point fixed structural glazing – crystal clear Invisible Silicone Film Crystal Clear Adhesive 26

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Point fixed structural glazing – crystal clear Dow Corning TSSA (Transparent Structural Silicone Adhesive) for point fixed facades Silicone Film Adhesive 27

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CRYSTAL CLEAR BONDING AESTHETICS Invisible bonding and significantly reduced diameter of point fixings* * Compared to standard SG Silicones

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CRYSTAL CLEAR BONDING ENABLING FILM TECHNOLOGIES Uninterrupted coloured and functional interlayers Uniform and sleek facade designs Conventional point fixed facade – glass & interlayer interrupted

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CRYSTAL CLEAR BONDING Energy Efficiency & Durability • Gas-filled double and triple glazed units • No breaching of glass units • No gas loss due to mechanical fixation • Sleek, flush facade skin • Longterm durability & energy efficiency Imagine Energy Efficien

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New Innovations in High Performance Facades A Step Change Design and Performance

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Dow Corning Architectural Insulation Module VIP mineral wool

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Design Freedom We help you invent the future!

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