I am doing a middle school with a limited budget, but am looking to include a sun shading system on the long south wall (2 stories). The Kawneer 1600 sunshade system clips onto the Kawneer 1600 cutrainwall. This would be optimal, but we cannot afford c-wall in these locations. Are there any systems that y'all know of that clip onto storefront or window systems? What about a system that in supported by metal brackets tied into the adjacent masonry wall (that isn't custom shapes).
cheap and better looking system than the prefab kawneer profiles:
metal brackets off your brick wall and design a cool purlin system or frame to hold these lightweight molded fiberglass gratings. that orange or green rectangular grate could be rather nice looking. and because its open you can tell structural that it has zero snow load.
Suture? Why do you think, that because it is an open grate, that snow load, can not still be an issue. I have seen many grating fabrications, that have, held snow, and sometimes ice, for quite a long time. Unless the temp. gets above freezing, or you use some form of heating element, to keep the grating temp warm enough to melt snow, in cold climates it is still going to be a facter.
Sun shading systems
I am doing a middle school with a limited budget, but am looking to include a sun shading system on the long south wall (2 stories). The Kawneer 1600 sunshade system clips onto the Kawneer 1600 cutrainwall. This would be optimal, but we cannot afford c-wall in these locations. Are there any systems that y'all know of that clip onto storefront or window systems? What about a system that in supported by metal brackets tied into the adjacent masonry wall (that isn't custom shapes).
Thanks for any ideas/ advice
I have a similar question here. Please let me know if you got any positive response.
cheap and better looking system than the prefab kawneer profiles:
metal brackets off your brick wall and design a cool purlin system or frame to hold these lightweight molded fiberglass gratings. that orange or green rectangular grate could be rather nice looking. and because its open you can tell structural that it has zero snow load.
http://www.mcnichols.com/products/fiberglass/molded/
Suture? Why do you think, that because it is an open grate, that snow load, can not still be an issue. I have seen many grating fabrications, that have, held snow, and sometimes ice, for quite a long time. Unless the temp. gets above freezing, or you use some form of heating element, to keep the grating temp warm enough to melt snow, in cold climates it is still going to be a facter.
im just trying to size down the metal brackets and make the structural coordination easier and cheaper.
but you are correct depending on your openings, weather...you may have to account for snow load.
Jefferson- where is the project?
Project is in VA
thanks for the link, I'm gonna check this out.
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