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1. Rain Storm
- Durable water-tightness performance due to
elimination of critical seal by design.
- Durable water-tightness performance due to
large tolerances to various structural movements
without sealant line stresses.
2. Wind Load
- Long term safety against fastener failure
due to direct force transfer into mullion by
panel engagement without reaction force on fastener.
- Additional safety against structural failure
due to automatic recoverable pressure venting
mechanism.
3. Thermal Load
- No system functional degradation due to free
thermal movement at vertical and horizontal
panel joints in all direction.
- No thermally induced noise due to the elimination
of member interference caused by thermal bow.
- Cooling effect in summer due to natural air
venting of the inter-connected Airloops.
- Added insulation in winter due to the near
still air in the Airloops.
4. Seismic Load
- Highest tolerance for inter-floor story drift
due to the allowance of automatic recoverable
panel drifts.
5. Floor Live Load
- Tolerable for any amount of spandrel beam
deflection without causing any functional problem
due to the ability to control the panel joint
movement to a small amount (e.g. 6 mm) while
allowing any large floor deflection (e.g. 30
mm).
6. Maintenance
- Least window/wall washing requirement due
to no exposed caulking design.
- Elimination of water stain problem due to
instantaneous and hidden drainage design.
- Various design options for easy replacement
of facing materials.
7. Exterior Fixtures (Decorative Fins; Sun
Screen; Building Sign; Window Washing Stabilizer
etc.)
- Easiest and strong attachment without wall
penetration.
- Zero interference with all other curtain
wall functions.
8. Interior Fixtures
- Vertical Support System (no inwardly protruding
horizontal mullion) allows uninterrupted vertical
blind or drape over horizontal panel joints.
- Horizontal Support System (no inwardly protruding
vertical mullion) allows uninterrupted horizontal
blind or drape over vertical panel joints.
9. Erection
- True guarantee on completion date due to the
ability of simultaneous multiple point erection.
- Maximum flexibility in erection management
due to the ability of skip-and-back-fill.
- Elimination of building hole problem in a
renovation project due to the ability of easily
converting any existing mullion into TingWall
mullion.
- Minimum shipping volume due to the separation
of the support system from the panel system
and the separation of different panel systems.
- Maximum construction fire safety due to the
ability of 3-way adjustments without field welding.
- Minimum field handling requirement due to
the fact that each panel unit involves one piece
of facing material only.
10. Quality Control Inspection for Sealing
Integrity
- In the construction industry, the QC inspection
for sealing integrity is totally relied on visual
inspection. The existence of a seal can be visually
inspected. However, the quality of a seal (perfect
or not) can not be visually inspected. The Critical
Seals in a conventional system require perfect
quality and thus, can not be visually inspected.
Therefore, the shop and field quality controls
for sealing integrity in a conventional system
are only a matter of "hope for the best".
- In TingWall System, the Critical Seal is completely
eliminated and the quality control inspection
for sealing integrity only requires to make
sure the existence of complete air and water
sealing lines without the consideration of perfect
quality. Apparently, the above requirement can
be easily accomplished by field visual inspection.
Therefore, the shop and field quality controls
for sealing integrity in TingWall System are
a matter of "water-tightness assurance".
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