Curtain Wall

A curtain wall is a building façade that does not carry any dead load from the building other than its own dead load, and one that transfers the horizontal loads (wind loads) that are incident upon it. These loads are transferred to the main building structure through connections at floors or columns of the building. A curtain wall is designed to resist air and water infiltration and wind forces acting on the building.
Curtain walls are typically designed with extruded aluminium members. The aluminium frame is typically infilled with glass, which provides an architecturally pleasing building, as well as benefits such as daylighting
Curtain walls are designed to span multiple floors, and take into consideration design requirements such as: thermal expansion and contraction; and movement; water diversion; and thermal efficiency for cost-effective heating, cooling, and lighting in the building.

GaleBaker design, supply and install curtain walling solutions for commercial glazing utilising profiles from the best known system houses in Europe.

Strong relationships with these key suppliers, enables us to undertake large and demanding projects for stick build, 2 and 4 sided structural silicone cassette and pre-framed designs.

Our strong in house design allows us to work with Architects to incorporate initial intent to complete bespoke design.

Bespoke designs or standard systems with bespoke embellishments can be developed with the design team on a project basis. The full range of finishes, anodised, PVF2 and polyester powder coating is available.

All commercially available glasses can be incorporated within the design together with metal, stone or terracotta inserts as required. Ancillary items such as brise soleil, automatically opening vents (AOV's), revolving entrance doors, safety latchway systems and cantilevered juliette balconies are often provided as part of the one-stop envelope package GaleBaker offer.