Glazing Design Assist Services
Quality Glazing Design Assist Services for Glass consulting for building enclosures is rare. Aluminum, glass and glazing system design is not taught in universities. Finding the right engineering expert is more important than ever.
Building enclosure is moving toward more mixed material design including glass and glazing. Future cities are being designed by architects using glass exteriors to let in natural light, show off the buildings structure, and offer aesthetically pleasing visuals. Due to the increased use of glass, it has increased the need for innovations in glazing systems thermal efficiency and glass consulting.
Design Assist Services
1.Early Design Collaboration
•Concept Development: Partnering with your design team from the project’s inception to develop innovative glazing solutions that meet aesthetic and performance goals.
•Feasibility Analysis: Assessing design concepts for practicality, cost-effectiveness, and compliance with industry standards.
2.Technical Consultation
•Material Selection: Guiding the selection of appropriate glazing materials to achieve desired thermal performance, safety, and durability.
•System Integration: Ensuring seamless integration of glazing systems with other building components for optimal performance.
3.Budgeting and Scheduling
•Cost Estimation: Providing accurate budgeting assistance to align design aspirations with financial considerations.
•Project Scheduling: Developing realistic timelines to ensure project milestones are met efficiently.
4.Constructability Review
•Design Optimization: Identifying potential challenges and offering solutions to enhance buildability and reduce construction risks.
•Quality Assurance: Implementing measures to maintain high standards throughout the design and construction process.
JEI Structural Engineering specializes in all aluminum manufacturers storefront, window and curtain wall systems, including custom designs. In addition, JEI is aligned with strategic partners that offer shop drawings for the following, but not limited to sunshades, louvers, translucent panel systems, decorative grills, slab edge covers, column covers and trellis systems.
Thermal Analysis & Design
Today many building envelope elements, especially in high-rise construction, are pre-assembled at the factory. This trend that has led to the widespread use of curtain wall, window-wall, metal panels, and framing modules that can slide and snap together easily. Shipped to the site and ready for construction, pre-fab components provide cost and time savings for builders on a tight budget and schedule. But, internal to these modules are aluminum and steel components that are conductive, and in cold climates can cause thermal bridging.
Thermal bridging, occurs when metal elements inside a building’s walls are not properly insulated and results in the increased transfer of energy between materials. This decrease in thermal performance is most significant when differences between the interior and exterior temperatures are highest.
JEI Structural Engineering provides Thermal Analysis & Design of curtain walls or exterior cladding systems, utilizing the current version of LBNL’s THERM and WINDOW software programs.
Specification Sections require façade systems to meet certain thermal requirements. Standard systems produced by common manufacturers, come with detailed thermal analysis and testing standards. However, custom systems require computer simulation of in accordance with NFRC guidelines. JEI prepares thermal computer simulations of designs and products for project applications.
Therm Analysis is standalone service and can be combined with Window to provide comprehensive analysis. Therm is a 2-dimensional, finite element analysis thermal simulation software program. Therm analyzes heat flow through any cross section/component of a façade system. Window is a software program that determines thermal performance for glass and window components due to environmental conditions. Optic uses glass, laminate, coating spectral data provided by industry manufacturers to determine the performance of glazing assemblies.
Figure 1: Cross sections from Therm 6.3
Other Glass & Glazing Engineering Services
JEI works with limitless design possibilities for commercial skylight projects. We work with a Curtain Wall Company manufacture, glazing contractor or architect to provide Commercial Curtain Wall Details and Curtain Wall Design or Curtain Wall Consulting.
Our focus is exclusively glass & glazing industry expertise including work as a:
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