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Requirements for the selection and installation of glass in buildings.
Wednesday, 12th January 2022
The purpose of AS 1288-2006 Glass in Buildings – Selection and Installation is to provide requirements for the use and installation of glazing throughout Australia.
This Australian Standard allows for the selection and installation of glass in buildings, which is subject to wind loading, human impact, and special applications such as overhead glazing, balustrades and glass assemblies.
What's included
AS 1288-2006 contains five sections:
- Section 1: Deals with what the standard covers - and the terms used throughout the Standard
- Section 2: Deals with all the glazing materials - specified and not specified in the Standard
- Section 3: Deals with the glazing - to satisfy the general design requirements of the Standard. This in part includes loads and actions, limit states and design strengths
- Section 4: Deals with designing the glazing - when applying wind loads
- Section 5: Deals with any glazing - that requires to meet the criteria when there is a risk of human impact
- Section 6: Deals with glass - that is glazed overhead and sloped with an angle less than 75 degrees to the horizontal and all operable roof light windows
- Section 7: Deals with glass balustrade panels - including structural balustrade or infill balustrade panels
- Section 8: Deals with the basic installation - requirements for glass
- Section 9: Deals with the requirements - for framed, unframed, and partly framed glass assemblies that require an alternate installation technique to ordinary framed panels. The types of assemblies include faceted glazing, fin-supported glazing and unframed toughened glass assemblies
This standard also contains eight appendices:
- Appendix A provides a simplified method for determining ultimate and serviceability limit state design wind pressures
- Appendix B provides worked examples to section 4 wind loading requirements
- Appendix C provides a basis for the determination of fin design to prevent buckling
- Appendix D is the recommendations for shower screen installation
- Appendix E describes sloped overhead glazing different breakage characteristics
- Appendix F includes the design and installation of structural silicone glazing
- Appendix G is the flow charts when using glazing in a building
- Appendix H includes the Bibliography
This Standard is referenced in both Volumes One and Two of the National Construction Code (NCC) and is applicable to all classes of buildings and provides Deemed-to-Satisfy solutions for the selection and installation of glass in buildings.
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