Whois & Analysis for kawneer.com

Kawneer is an American manufacturer of architectural aluminum systems and products for the commercial construction industry.

Headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, Kawneer has offices in 13 countries in North America, Europe, North Africa, and Asia.

Kawneer is part of Arconic's global Building and Construction Systems (BCS) business unit.

A curtain wall system is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, but merely keep the weather out and the occupants in.

As the curtain wall is non-structural it can be made of a lightweight material, reducing construction costs.

When glass is used as the curtain wall, a great advantage is that natural light can penetrate deeper within the building.

The curtain wall façade does not carry any dead load weight from the building other than its own dead load weight.

The wall transfers horizontal wind loads that are incident upon it to the main building structure through connections at floors or columns of the building.

A curtain wall is designed to resist air and water infiltration, sway induced by wind and seismic forces acting on the building, and its own dead load weight forces.

Aluminium or aluminum (in North American English) is a chemical element in the boron group with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

It is a silvery-white, soft, nonmagnetic, ductile metal.

By mass, aluminium makes up about 8% of the Earth's crust; it is the third most abundant element after oxygen and silicon and the most abundant metal in the crust, though it is less common in the mantle below.

Aluminium metal is so chemically reactive that native specimens are rare and limited to extreme reducing environments.

Instead, it is found combined in over 270 different minerals.

The chief ore of aluminium is bauxite.

Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to both a structure and the using of processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition.

In other words, green building design involves finding the balance between homebuilding and the sustainable environment.

This requires close cooperation of the design team, the architects, the engineers, and the client at all project stages.

The Green Building practice expands and complements the classical building design concerns of economy, utility, durability, and comfort.

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere.

It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea.