Curtain Wall Assembly | Google Auto Suggest Building Science Edition Ep. 13

Let us take a peek at what you've been Googling about curtain wall assemblies...Ken, you're up!
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Hey everyone! We're getting back into the building science again...and this is Ken from SIGA with Google Auto Suggest Building Science Edition!
Now that I've got you here
and got your attention, we're going to start
seeing what you've been Googling.
What is a curtain wall assembly? A curtain wall assembly is basically just where your wall panel is nonstructural. So, think of it like a big skyscraper
that's full of glass. Those glass panels
don't actually hold the building up, the cores do that. So nonstructural wall assembly is what a curtain wall assembly is.
Next up, what is a wall assembly? This is a collection of all the components that go
into making the wall of your building.
How to calculate the wall
assembly R-value? All right. The most important part
about calculating the wall assembly R-value is understanding that it's
not just the R-value of your insulation, so you can't just put R-13 insulation
in your wall and your wall is R-13.
You need to accommodate for the studs, the thickness of the studs,
how many studs there are, if you're putting exterior insulation,
so you need to accommodate for everything that's in the wall
to get your effective R-value,
which if it's just studs and insulation,
is actually going to be lower than the insulation number. Rockwell has a really great effective R-value calculator
on their website so Google effective R-value calculator Rockwell
and you can go from there.
All right. Now we have wall assembly in cold climates. Your wall assembly in cold climates is going to depend on a lot about your building performance goals
and your building type. So like, you know,
you have a different wall assembly if it's taller building
versus residential structure, if you're building a passive house
versus code built. So there's some differences there.
All right, and last but not least, we have wall assembly in residential versus
commercial construction. So sometimes it can be the same. So let's say you're building
just like a small little building, they might be built nearly identically. The bigger the building,
the different the wall assembly gets. So if it's a residential house,
you're not going to see the same wall assembly, say, in like a 12-story
mid-rise building. Codes change for commercial construction
versus residential construction. There's a lot of like fire protection
and things that go into it. So there
can be quite a few differences, that is a little bit
more in-depth than a Google Auto Auggest Video allows for explanation.
So we are done with today...
I can't wait to see you guys again
because I'll be back in front of this camera
entertaining you hopefully soon.
See you soon!