Cladding Design

Cladding design changes are making a mess for the glass & glazing industry.  If you’re a glazing contractor or a building envelop contractor; an estimator or project manager, you’ve probably tried to size your storefront and curtain wall members off of a wind design pressure.

The wind design criteria. Are usually given. On the contract structural drawings.  However, sometimes design wind pressures for components. And cladding are given as well.  However, the changes with the 2012 IBC. Have created much confusion regarding. The actual design. Pressures to be used.

Many times the components and cladding pressures listed on the structural drawings. They are also given in terms of. “Ultimate strength design”.  Using these pressures will ultimately lead to overly conservative design.

If you have a question about what is on a structural drawing, give us a call.

Stewart Jeske

JEI Structural Engineering

Curtain wall engineer, curtain wall engineering, glazing engineer, zoo design, curtain wall design, facade design.

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We work exclusively in glass, glazing and also metal panel design.

JEI Structural Engineering believes in providing the highest quality, lowest cost services in the glass and also glazing industry.

So we choose our battles, as your advocate; working hard to balance practical time and material constraints with safety, code adherence and liability concerns. We also enjoy long term relationships glazing contractors and manufactures who value excellence.

Consulting services have included pre-construction engineering design reviews for commercial contractors, structural inspections, and also analysis of existing structures and speaking / training events.

Design calculations encompass stress analysis, deflection analysis, system connections and anchor design to the structure.   JEI also provides value engineering, training and development of MR’s and PM’s.

Services include calculations for curtain wall engineering, storefront engineer, all glass systems engineering, submerged glass and zoo enclosure engineer design and also window blast engineering for DOD and GSA projects using WINGARD.

We also offer free quotes!

So contact a glazing engineer today!

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