Presentation Teodor Caragioiu

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TEODOR CARAGIOIU - FACADE ENGINEER

PERSONAL PRESENTATION OF SOME OF

THE MOST IMPORTANT PROJECTS

WITH DESCRIPTION, TECHNICAL

DRAWINGS AND PICTURES

NICOSIA - CYPRUS

24 October 2013

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1. Tradewinds - Gibraltar

Description of the project:

Apartment complex built by the Taylor Woodrow as a developer and PCG Group

Overseas Ltd as a main contractor. The project consisted in a group of three building

blocks of descending height, connected together by some link buildings of smaller

height.

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Description of the systems:

1. Curtain Wall System - FW50 + and FW50 + SG from Schuco with mullions and

transoms. Curtain walls were calculated, manufactured and installed based on the

wind loads calculations on different parts of the building. The mullions started empty

at the ground floor, they received aluminium inserts at about 20m from the ground

level and they received steel inserts at the penthouse levels where the wind loads

were considered to be 2,5 KPa.

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2. Sliding Doors Systems - V8 Special Series from Shuco. All doors were calculated for

the worst case scenario at the penthouse levels (2,5KPa) and then executed

identically troughout the building. Most interesting feature is a reinforcing Shark Fin

section to withstand deflection from high windloads. All doors were fitted with lift

and slide locking mechanism. Doors were also tested in UK at Taylor Woodrow testing

facilities for air and water tightness, impact resistance and windload resistance

(deflection).

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3. Opening Windows System - Schuco AWS50 NI - Were used in various parts of the

building in combination with the Schuco FW50+ curtain wall systems and even with

custom made aluminium sun shades.


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4. Smoke Vents Tiptronic Windows SCHUCO AWS102 NI (Structural Glazing)

On the staircase of each building, calculations revealed that the last three floors

should have automatic smoke vents. The solution was to utilize four Schuco Tiptronic

Windows for each staricase floor (twelve in total). All windows were built with a

manual overide.

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5. Glass Balustrade with custom extruded aluminium base profile - The system

consisted in a custom extruded aluminium base profile, calculated for the worst case

scenario for a wind load of 2,5 KPa and linear edge load of 1,5 KN/m.

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6. Pictures of the Project

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2. NOUVEL TOWER – NICOSIA (Arch. Jean Nouvel)


Apartments and office complex built by Nice Day Development Ltd as a developer

and Lois Builders Ltd as a main contractor. The project consisted in a 16 stories

building, with open habitable spaces. It is a mixed apartment and offices building, the

highest at this moment in Nicosia. Height of the building: 62m at the highest point.

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On the last two floors there is a private residence penthouse, futuring a three

dimenssional curtain wall Schuco FW50+ SG, a roof swimming pool and terrace, all

surrounded by extra clear glass balustrade. Also the elevators shafts are ended with

extra clear spider glass construction. Everything is sun shaded with large solar control

aluminium louvers, installed on massive metal structures, with fixed blades,

calculated to provide shading only at specific time during the day, based on the

position of the sun in the sky.

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1. Aluminium Windows System - Muskita MU2000 Series.

The building has 1250 windows in various combinations, either opening, fixed, clear

or sandblasted glass, exposed or hidden frame.

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2. Aluminium Curved Sliding Doors - Schuco ASS50 Series.

On every floor on the North Elevation Balcony a special curved sliding door was

installed. Glasses and curved aluminum were ordered in Greece at requested size.


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Elevation

Vertical Sections

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Horizontal Details

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Vertical Details

3. Aluminium Curtain Walls Structural Glazing Schuco FW50+ SG & Aluminium

Sliding Doors KELLER Minimal Doors.

At the 15th

and 16th

levels, the main Penthouse featuring a three dimensional curtain

wall with an internal private garden and a roof swimming pool, with aluminium

sliding doors from KELLER – minimal doors.

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Plan View 1

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Plan View 2

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Vertical Sections 1

Vertical Sections 2

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Vertical Sections 3

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Vertical Sections 4

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Details 1

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Details 2

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Details 3

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3. Elevator spider glass extra clear – All elements custom made.

Glass cover made of extra clear glass was installed at the latest Penthouse level of the

panoramic elevator. All elements were custom made following the drawings bellow.

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Vertical Sections

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Details

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4. Project Pictures

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3. ANASTASI BUSINESS CENTRE – LIMASSOL

(Arch. Akis Charalambous Partnership)


The building represents the business headquarters of the George Anastasi Ltd., a

development company, one of the members of PCG Overseas Ltd, which built the

Tradewinds Project in Gibraltar (1st

project of this presentation). The building frame

consists in self supported concrete slabs reinforced with pretension cables supported

by concrete columns. The facade cladding is a mix of concrete slabs and curtain walls

from SCHUCO. The windows of this project were Schuco Tiptronic AWS65. Brise

soleils were installed above each vision area and they were made using perforated

aluminium sheets from RMIG (Denmark). In the centre of the building a fire resistant

EI30 glass atrium was constructed. The atrium was completed at the roof level by a

metal structure skylight on which was installed a structural glazing curtain wall from

Schuco, with screen printed glasses from Saint Gobain.

At the ground floor level, the shop area was closed with a spider glass system

developed by MDE Austria with Eckelt – Saint Gobain: Lite Wall Mono.

The staircase area walls cladding was made with Aluminium Composite panels

installed on an aluminium RHS frame.


1. Spider Glass Lite Wall Mono by Eckelt – Saint Gobain Austria.

The system consists in a glass wall made by 16 mm tempered and laminated glasses,

held by stainless steel 316 spiders installed on some trapezoid shape supporting

structure made of steel tubes ø88.9x5mm.

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Vertical Details 1

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Vertical Details 2

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Horizontal Details 1


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2. Interior Atrium Fire Rated Glass EI45 by Vetrotech – Saint Gobain Austria.

The system consisted in installing a supporting structure made of steel at the edge of

each concrete slab, fire protected by means of intumescing paint. On top and under

these structures stainless steel channels to support the fire rated glass have been

installed. After the installation of the glasses, the steel structure was filled with high

density mineral wool and masked with aluminium sheets 3mm thick painted

RAL9007. Some ornamental trapezoid shape aluminium sections were installed to

create architectural shadow gaps.

Joints between glass were sealed with intumescing strips and then sealed with

weather resistant neutral silicone from DOW Corning.

Plan View

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Vertical Section 1

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3. Roof Atrium – Metal structure & Structural Glazing Schuco FW50+ SG

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Vertical Details

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Horizontal Details

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4. Curtain Walls Schuco FW50+ with Tiptronic Windows AWS102 abd brise soleils

with perforated sheets from RMIG.

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Vertical Sections

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Horizontal Sections

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5. Project Pictures

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4. FEDERAL BANK OF MIDDLE EAST – Nicosia

(Arch. Zembylas and Associates)


The building destination is headquarters of the FBME Bank. The central points of the

design are the two spider glass curtain walls on the South and East elevations. The

building is surrounded at the top floor by a composite panel pergola with a metal

supporting structure. Directly under the pergola there is a continuous semi structural

curtain wall from MUSKITA (MU4200). On each corner of the building a corner curtain

wall from Schuco was installed. The rest of the building has stone cladding by Third

Party Company.

In the centre of the building there is a large atrium closed with fire rated glasses rated

EI30. The atrium is closed by a skylight (by others). On the roof, the ventilation and air

conditioning systems were contained by a fence made with Acoustic Lovers from

RENSON (445-86 system).

The architecture of the building features curved top windows, as per the architecture

of the area where the building was erected. The windows are AWS65 system from

Schuco, and the curvature of the aluminium was achieved through a third party

company in Greece. All the windows feature external venetian blinds from HELLA

Austria, controlled trough a smart house system.

At the first basement level, all doors and windows are bullet proof glass, SG1 and SG2

class.

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South Elevation

East Elevation

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Plan view

1. Spider Glass Systems

The spider glass curtain walls are based on a simple and effective design. Massive RHS

structures, 300x100x8mm and 250x100x8mm are holding the spiders which in turn

hold the glasses. Design and structural calculation were performed by our

collaborators in Austria – MDE (Metal Design Engineering), the same designers for the

Tradewinds Gibraltar Project envelope. The wind load taken into consideration for

both curtain walls was 1,5 KPa. The connectors are marine grade stainless steel 316.

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Vertical Details 1

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Vertical Details 2

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2. Roof Top Accoustic Louvers - RENSON 445-86

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3. Roof Top Continuous Louvers - Muskita MU53650 Clip-on System

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4. Fire Rated Atrium Glass Partitions - Schuco ADS80 FR60

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Elevation and Sections

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Details

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5. Pictures of the Project

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