A mullion/transom facade is assembled on site from vertical and horizontal members with the glass held in the grid; FWS 50 is Schüco's 50 mm version of it. We fabricate Schüco profiles to the manufacturer's specification at our Dubai factory and install them ourselves.
Where FWS 50 fits
Glazed fronts of offices, showrooms and shops, the atrium roof of a mall or a hotel, a double-height villa wall, a stair tower glazed from floor to roof. Because the same system covers vertical walls and skylights, a building can use one set of sightlines for both. The option of integrated spandrel safety barriers means floor-to-ceiling glass on upper floors does not need a separate railing added inside.
Heat, weight and water
Glass or infill units up to 1080 kg and glazing up to 62 mm allow large, heavy panes: thick solar-control units, laminated safety glass, acoustic layers. Uf from 1.5 W/(m²·K) is the value of the frame grid; on a sunny facade the coating on the glass still decides most of the heat that reaches the room.
Watertightness RE 1200 describes the system's resistance to driven rain under test. What makes a facade tight on a real building is the familiar list — bracket layout into the slab, movement joints, drainage of each field — calculated for that building rather than copied from the catalogue.
FWS 50 with the Schüco windows and doors
Openings in an FWS 50 facade can come from the rest of the range: AWS 65 or AWS 75.SI+ window units inserted into the grid — both list facade insert units among their uses — and ADS 70.HI or AD UP 75 doors at the entrance. Staying within one systems house keeps the finish and detailing consistent across the elevation.
FWS 50 is the Schüco facade for glazed fronts and skylights with heavy glass, and it pays to take the windows and doors in it from the same range.
