What is Structural Glazing?

Structural glazing, in simpler terms is described as glass work which is an essential and integral part of the building exteriors. It involves large glass panels, which usually bear some weight in the structure. Structural glazing can be used to create huge glass installations with minimal obstruction. It can bear weight both horizontally and vertically, and it can be bonded using everything from minimal glass beams and supports to heavy-duty steel struts, meaning it can be used on almost any scale, with almost any aesthetic imaginable. There are many ways in which glazing can be implemented in a building; from a heavy sliding door to high strength floors can be created using the glass.
Within the last few decades, glazing has gained popularity has been used in myriad ways such as staircases, doors and load-bearing floors and walls with taking into consideration the safety factors. Structural glazing has been used extensively in skyscrapers, with glass facades a ubiquitous feature in the financial centres of cities across the globe. Apple’s “the spaceship” in its headquarters is considered to be the heaviest and largest glass supported structure in the world.
Now-a-days glazing services is used in personal homes in a variety of architectural and aesthetically pleasing ways that has some important role to play in making it more sustainable and innovative as well as in looking visually beautiful. Strengthened, laminated are used in floors, roofs and frameless glass walls. This offers endless opportunities to homeowners and architects to create an open, light atmosphere while still organising internal spaces and providing shelter. Architects and engineers are continuously discovering new ways of using glass as a material with ecological and energy saving advantages.