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Spider glazing
Spider glazing holds each pane at its corners and nowhere else. Stainless arms — the spiders — reach out from a backing structure of glass fins, steel tubes or tension rods and pass through holes drilled in the pane, so nothing crosses the face of the wall except a silicone line between one sheet and the next. It is the system for atria, hotel lobbies and double-height entrance halls, where the point is to look through the wall rather than at it. All the discipline sits in the fittings: every bolt swivels, so that when the glass or the structure behind it moves, the hole is not levered.
- bolted corners how a pane is held
- articulated every fitting
- fins or rods structure behind
Why choose aluminium windows?
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Durable EPDM seals
Three contours of EPDM seals keep the glass off the aluminium and close the gap between sash and frame, so dust, humid salt air and wind-driven rain stay outside.
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Foamed thermal inserts
Foamed inserts fill the profile chambers and stop air circulating inside them, so less outside heat and street noise passes through the frame into the cooled room.
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Polyamide thermal breaks
Glass-filled polyamide thermal breaks up to 40 mm wide keep the outer and inner shells apart, so the frame holds its shape and its insulation through a UAE summer.
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Energy-efficient double glazing
Double glazing up to 60 mm thick puts a sealed gap of still air or gas between the hot street and the cooled room, so less heat crosses the glass into the room.
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What point fixing asks of the glass
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Stainless
Spider arm
Two, three or four arms per node
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Countersunk
Hole
Positioned at fabrication, never later
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Swivelling
Bolt
Articulates instead of pinching
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Fin, tube or rod
Backing
Its deflection is budgeted for
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Silicone
Pane joint
A weather line without a frame
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How a bolted glass wall is built
- Opening measured and the pane grid set out Survey inside 48 hours of the enquiry
- Backing structure designed around its own movement The glass follows whatever it hangs on
- Hole positions fixed on the processing drawing Nothing is drilled at site
- Edges worked and holes made, then the furnace Processing comes before toughening
- Spiders set, panes hung, joint widths held Aligned across the whole wall
- Joints gunned and the wall washed down Cleaning route agreed at the same time
Partitions
Office partitions made of aluminium profiles are a simple, quick, and cost-effective way to organise efficient zoning within a large space, while maintaining interior unity.
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Aluminium office partitions with glass
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Full-glass office partitions
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Transformable partitions for the office
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Accordion partitions for the office
The honest downside
What point-fixed glass asks of a building
Taking the frame away puts the work behind the glass. Fins, tubes or rods have to carry the wind that a frame would have taken, so the cost moves into steelwork and engineering rather than disappearing, and every pane is drilled to a drawing that cannot be changed after toughening.
A wall of glass held at the corners also gives the sun a clear run into the lobby, with no frame for a blind or a screen to fix to, and it shows every mark along its silicone joints between cleans.
For an office front or a lobby that faces the afternoon sun and has to be cooled economically, a framed curtain wall with insulated units is easier to shade, seal and maintain. Spider glazing is worth it where the view through the wall is the whole point of the space.
Consider instead
Curtain wall
Frequently asked questions
Because a frame is the thing you are trying to remove. Point fixing pulls the support back to four small nodes and hangs everything else — the stiffness, the wind resistance — on a structure set behind the glass, where it can be a slim fin or a rod rather than a grid across the view. In an atrium that is the whole reason for the wall: from inside you read the courtyard, not the mullions.
The load path runs backwards, not sideways. Wind on a pane goes into the four bolts, from the bolts into the spider arms, from the spiders into the fin, tube or rod behind, and only then into the building at the head and the base. That is why the backing structure is designed first and the glass second, and why how far it is allowed to deflect is settled before any pane is ordered.
No. A pane that has been through the toughening furnace will not take a drill or a saw afterwards — the processing all happens while the glass is still annealed, and the heat treatment is the last step. In practice this is a filing question: the processing drawing is kept with the job record, and a replacement is ordered from it rather than measured off the gap.
It has to be designed with an answer already. Depending on the space that means a maintenance walkway above, a cradle from the roof, or simply reach from the atrium floor with a pole system, and each of those changes what the structure carries. Frameless glass also shows every mark, and dust settles along the silicone joints first, so the cleaning interval is part of the conversation rather than an afterthought.
Aluminium windows of any configuration
Made to size in our own factory in Dubai — in 3–5 weeks.
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Related pages
Nearby pages and the rest of the catalogue.
- All-glass corners
- Aluminium railings
- Balcony glazing
- Balcony glazing upgrade
- Cassette facades
- Conservatories
- Curtain wall
- Floor-to-ceiling glazing
- Frameless balcony glazing
- Frameless glazing
- Garden rooms
- Glass balustrades
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