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Guarding Design for Windows

  • 12-09-2013 1:24pm
    #1
    Ray Dow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭


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  • #2
    shane6977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭shane6977


    Refer to BS 6180:2011.

    If the window/glazing won't achieve the minimum imposed loads then you will definitely need to provide a barrier with infill balustrade.

    There are three criteria:

    Horizontal uniformly distributed line load: 0.74kN/m
    Uniformly distributed load applied to the infill: 1kN/m2
    Point load applied to part of the infill: 0.5kN.

    No reason why you couldn't provide a barrier in toughened glass that will meet these criteria, all comes down to cost!


  • #3
    Ray Dow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭Ray Dow


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  • #4
    sky6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭sky6


    Use Bomb proof Glass. Have a friend with a shop which sells high end goods 20 years ago he decided to install Bomb proof glass instead of Shutters etc.
    It was expensive at the time but he has said it has paid for itself many times over. Despite several attempts at smashing it. No one ever got in.
    He leaves it lit at night and the amount of Business he has got from passing trade, He said has more than covered it's cost.


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