Twelve engineering notes from the team that designs, fabricates and installs the facade. Each note is built from a published Hanart engineering article, illustrated with field photography, and traceable to a documented project, the standards it cites, and the source page it came from.
Each note is built from a published Hanart article and illustrated with real field photography — and each one points back to a documented project and the standards it cites.
From pre-installation survey to final inspection — how Hanart manages aluminum curtain wall site installation across 40+ countries with documented QC and ...
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Building Information Modeling has moved from optional visualization to mandatory infrastructure for complex facade projects.
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A curtain wall earns its place in the building's structure through calculation: wind pressures, snow and seismic loads, thermal movement and inter-storey ...
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A curtain wall that leaks in year three is a curtain wall that was not engineered for the climate it faces.
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Metal roofing is not a secondary cladding decision — for stadiums, airports, exhibition halls and industrial plants with spans exceeding 60 metres, it is the ...
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A test report is worth more than a thousand pages of marketing claims.
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Point-supported glass and cable-net facades represent the extreme end of structural transparency.
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How joint design, structural silicone, EPDM gaskets and polyamide thermal breaks determine a curtain wall's air-tightness, water-tightness and U-value.
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Structural silicone glazing — SSG — turns the sealant joint itself into a structural element, letting glass read as an unbroken surface.
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Fabrication and installation fail or succeed on the drawings issued before them.
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A curtain wall's performance is decided twice — once in engineering, again in the factory.
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A facade's performance is engineered in the office and built in the factory — but it is earned on the site , panel by panel, at heights, in weather, against ...
Read the note →Every engineering note ends in the same place — a facade proposal in 24 hours, engineered, fabricated and installed by one contractor.
