Stick System Curtain Wall Section

The vast majority of low to mid rise curtain walls are installed in this way.

Stick system curtain wall section.

The stick curtain wall system includes components to be assembled by piece upon construction on site installed in low rise buildings or small areas. A curtain wall system is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non structural utilized only to keep the weather out and the occupants in. This would further require scaffolding cranes etc. When glass is used as the curtain wall an advantage is that natural light can penetrate deeper within the building.

Stick curtain walling swc may be defined as non load bearing walls usually suspended in front of structural steel or concrete framing. If your project doesn t suit most of the criteria for a unitized system your other option is to use a stick built system. Our window and entrance products can be used to give your low rise multistory building the appearance of a curtain wall. In the unitized system the curtain wall is composed of large units that are assembled and glazed in the factory shipped to the site and erected on the building.

Since the curtain wall is non structural it can be made of lightweight materials thereby reducing construction costs. In the stick system the curtain wall frame mullions and glass or opaque panels are installed and connected together piece by piece. The term stick refers to the factory cut mullions and transoms which are transported to site as loose bars and sticks.