1、中文 4553 字 ， 3100 单词， 1.7 万英文字符 外文文献： Construction and Performance of Curtain Wall Systems for Super Highrise Buildings Raymond WM Wong INTRODUCTION The construction of super highrise buildings has been very active in Hong Kong for decades. Recent renowned projects like the 50-storey Manulife Tower,
2、the 62-storey Cheung Kong Center, the 80-storey “Center”, the 88-storey International Financial Center, and a number of recent residential buildings exceeding 60-storey tall, are without exception, using curtain wall as their external envelope. Using thin wall as external envelope for tall buildings
3、 has always been a challenge to designers and builders, in particular in terms of cost, energy, water-tightness, installation, dimensional and structural stability, interfacing arrangement with other building components and maintenance etc. Making use of the Hong Kongs experience, the writer wish to
4、 highlight some local practices and summarize how such thin wall systems are designed and installed. USING CURTAIN WALL IN BUILDIGNS OF HONG KONG High-rise buildings started to spring up in the skyline of Hong Kong since the 1970s in parallel with her economic take-off from a traditional manufacturi
5、ng-based industrial economy and transforming herself into an world-renowned international financial centre. High-rise buildings by that time were concentrated in the commercial districts like Central in the Hong Kong Island and Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon Peninsula side. The first generation of bui
6、ldings using what-so-called a curtain wall system can hardly be described as a full system which is usually of proprietary design. The pioneer systems were just external faade/walling designed by local architects and with materials supplied by local manufacturers. The common systems used by that time were in majority stick-type, spandrel and cover, or unit-in-frame systems, constructed of aluminum sections, sometimes incorporated with large areas of stone slabs to cover up s
