Comparison of Terracotta Panel and glass panel
Posted By Claire on November 15, 2012
Currently, curtain wall materials commonly used in the market are glass, stone, aluminum and ceramic plate. The matarial of Terracotta panel is clay which is green, no radiation, will not bring the light pollution. And color is rich, good durability, able to meet the requirements of the architect and the owners of the building’s exterior color choice and reach the stone decorative effect in appearance.
Therefore, despite the light weight of aluminum curtain wall, ductility good, relatively high degree of security, but Terracotta curtain low cost, relatively cheap, and decorative effect than aluminum curtain wall.
Each curtain wall materials have their own purposes, based on their respective strengths each other to form a certain competition. Terracotta Curtain wall as new products enter the market soon, will replace part of the glass curtain wall, metal curtain wall, aluminum curtain wall, stone curtain wall will have a certain impact. But building walls leading products, still dominated by glass.
Although the international standards of the curtain wall glass blew rate is one-thousandth, but large glass curtain wall building, even ten thousandth of blew rate will bring serious security risks.
Many industry experts said, the glass curtain wall can not be blind to the excessive use of light transmission of the material itself, no other material can substitute. INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC stressed, designers, developers, and other related personnel, curtain wall materials for architectural building body should be selected according to the function of the building itself.
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