What is spandrel glass detail?

Unlike vision glass, which is meant to be transparent, spandrel glass is designed to be opaque in order to help hide features between the floors of a building, including vents, wires, slab ends and mechanical equipment.

What is spandrel glass used for?

Glass spandrels are typically used to prevent visual read-through of objects or features that are behind the spandrel glazing, such as between floors of buildings. They are also sometimes used to create colorful aesthetic design elements in building projects.

What is a spandrel glass wall?

Spandrel glass is the opaque glass that conceals structural building components such as columns, floors, HVAC systems, vents, electrical wiring and plumbing, preventing these from being visible from the exterior of the building.

What is a spandrel panel?

What is a spandrel panel? A spandrel panel, is a factory produced prefabricated panel used as a dividing wall or in place of a traditional gable block wall, which is manufactured off-site to save construction time on-site. Spandrel panels can also help improve safety onsite, as they require less time working at height.

What is spandrel material?

Spandrel panels are also known as infill panels, or insulated aluminum composite panels. They are commonly used to infill areas of glazing curtain walls or storefronts. They take the place of 1″ or 1/4″ thick glass units.

What is the difference between vision glass and spandrel glass?

Unlike vision glass, which is meant to be transparent, spandrel glass is a non‑vision application designed to be opaque in order to help obscure the spaces between the floors of a building, including insulation, vents, wires, slab ends and mechanical equipment.

Is spandrel glass tempered?

Is spandrel glass tempered? Spandrel glass must be HEAT TREATED to withstand high thermal stress. If the Spandrel is intended for an opening where safety glass is required by law or code or where human impact is a concern, the glass substrate should be TEMPERED.

Is spandrel glass insulated?

Insulating Glass Unit (IGU) Spandrels consist of insulating glass units, which can have coated or uncoated glass as part of the exterior lite, and an opacifier applied to the #4 surface of a dual-pane IGU or on the most interior glass surface.

What is insulated spandrel glass panel?

INSULATED SPANDREL GLASS PANELS. MapeSpan panels are an insulated spandrel glass panel which includes an exterior skin of 1/4″ tempered spandrel glass laminated directly to an insulating core, interior substrate and exterior skin.

How thick is a spandrel panel?

They take the place of 1″ or 1/4″ thick glass units. Spandrel panels are useful to hide areas in glazing systems exposing slab edges and ceiling details.

What is the proper application for ceramic enamel spandrel glass?

The proper application for ceramic enamel spandrel glass is to install it in an opening that has a uniformly colored insulation or back-pan that eliminates the possibility of read-through or viewing the glass in transmission.

What is the best way to view spandrel glass?

When done properly, the glass may only be viewed from the exterior of the building, with daylight reflecting from the glass surface. Viracon’s ceramic enamel spandrel glass products are to be glazed against a uniform, opaque background.