In architecture, the words façade design and façade engineering are often used interchangeably — but they shouldn’t be. A façade can look right on paper and fail in the field. It can photograph beautifully while struggling under wind load, racking under drift, or...
At Architectural Wall Systems, we don’t treat curtain wall engineering as a drafting exercise or a box-checking step in submittals. For us, a curtain wall is a structural, environmental, and architectural system that has to perform when the weather shifts, when the...
