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Tuschall Engineering wants to make your vision come to life. With our metal panel design-assist services, let your dreams become a reality by incorporating innovative features, techniques, and materials into your plan. Below is a complete overview of metal panel system designs. Use these metal panel design features to incite and inspire new and innovative designs for your structure.
Metal panel design allows us to tailor our propriety designs to your intent. This means that you will select one of our metal panel systems and provide architectural details about how the metal panel system will work with the building.
Generally speaking, you do not provide detailing for the metal system; we do that. Instead, you provide project specifications and shop drawings. These documents are critical for the project’s success since they tell us your goals, expectations, and designs.
Once you select a design system, you will also choose other features. This includes additional requirements such as air and water barriers or rain screen. These requirements will be clearly labeled on the contract documents. Additionally, you should establish panel performance criteria. This can include the following:
The following are features of a metal panel cladding system to consider:
Walls need insulation. Unless you opt for insulated metal panels, most metal panel systems do not provide any insulation. If you go for a non-insulated metal panel option, use a batt insulation set with the wall stud behind the metal panel cladding to provide insulation.
Face shield systems don’t need an air and moisture barrier. However, drainage and rainscreen metal panels require secondary air and moisture system. This is a very important decision to make because it will affect your blueprints and requirements for the building. If you opt for an air and moisture barrier, you may also need more building papers, elastomeric coatings, waterproofing membranes, or more.
For you to have a complete design, integrate the metal stud framing with the panel design and fastening system.
When designing your metal system, here are things to look out for:
The Tuschall Engineering systems are designed to maintain well over the years. However, you will need to clean and replace the sealant as required. Dirt and pollutants easily get stuck on the metal panels. Remove this dirt so that the panel coatings last longer and do not pit. Try cleaning the system every 10 years. Most sealants need to be replaced between 7 to 20 years.
Here at Tuschall Engineering, we offer metal panel design-assist services and help maintain your metal system. This means that you do not need to do the hard work yourself. You don’t even need to keep up with the materials or designs used because we do that for you.
For over 80 years Tuschall Engineering has stayed on top of the evolution of metal wall panels.