When you have great choices making a decision is difficult, it’s great when your project can have both! This project for Magento in Culver City utilized both the Moderco Crystal acoustic glass and the Signature 8500 Operable Partitions. The results were beautiful glazed glass panels at the entry and operable partitions with markerboards for an additional room when needed. This project was wonderfully designed by Wolcott Architecture | Interiors and our GC was HBC.
Introducing the Architectural Solutions Team Services as Exceptional as Our Products!
The mission of the newly formed Architectural Solutions Team is to serve our clients as their comprehensive project partner for delivering the best customer experience in the market. Our team collaborates to create exceptional outcomes through the seamless integration of architectural daylighting design, thorough product education and inspiration, assistance in design, and full service support from project start to finish.
Now that Kingspan Light + Air and Solatube International have joined forces, we offer a full range of standard and custom daylighting solutions built to perform across a wide array of conditions and set a higher standard for the quality and versatility of daylighting technology and integrated design solutions.
For the past few years, our focus has been on digital access and sales transformation. We’re now renewing our efforts to connect with our customers and serve them on a more personal level.
All You Need to Know About Canopies
Airolite’s canopies allow architects and designers to minimize the effects of the sun’s rays and protect entrances from the elements. Airolite’s extraordinary customer service gives you the resources you need to make your job easier and your project seamless.
Airolite architectural C800H is an 8 in. deep, mechanically fastened canopy, built with 100% aluminum components that are functional, durable and aesthetically appealing. The canopy is designed to fit any building application seamlessly and allows for an optional rain gutter for water control. Airolite canopies are factory assembled in individual sections to minimize handling and installation in the field.
RESOURCES C800H
Airolite architectural model C800SH is an 8 in. deep, mechanically fastened canopy, built with 100% aluminum components that are functional, durable, and aesthetically appealing. The canopy is designed to fit any building application seamlessly and allows for front or back water control with a clean, visual pleasing flat soffit deck. Airolite canopies are factory assembled in individual sections to minimize handling and installation in the field.
RESOURCES C800SH
Call RPC today for assistance on using an Airolite canopy on your next project!
Kingspan
We are encouraged by and fully support Kingspan’s Planet Passionate Plan. We wanted to share with you the 2023 annual report so you can see the progress the company is making!
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Some highlights!
Operable Glass Walls Crystal 200
When design meets performance, the result is Crystal—a double-glazed, acoustically rated full-height glass wall system engineered to transform your spaces.
Backed by over 45 years of innovation, Crystal features a steel-reinforced structural frame that ensures durability and stability. With a laboratory-tested STC rating of 44, it offers exceptional sound control without compromising on aesthetics.
Why Choose Crystal For Your Project?
- Unmatched Design Flexibility: Available in single or paired panel configurations, with standard heights of 12’3” or customizable options for taller applications.
- Premium Finish Options: Choose from anodized or powder-coated frame finishes, complemented by glass options like acid-etched, sandblasted, frosted, or etched designs—even custom applications.
- Enhanced Privacy: Add remote-controlled, internal, tilting horizontal blinds for spaces where privacy is key.
- Secure Installation: Lock panels in place using mechanical acoustic seals, operated with a removable key—no floor bolts required, ensuring security and accessibility.
Crystal seamlessly integrates into your designs, whether you’re creating sleek office spaces, high-end residential projects or commercial interiors.
- Double glazing with 3” (75 mm) air space
- Interlocking astragal
- Individual and paired panels
- Automatic bottom seals
- Superior acoustics
- Laboratory tested STC of 44
- Allows optional remote-controlled horizontal blinds
- 1/4” (6 mm) tempered glass compliant with ASTM C1048
Don’t settle for less when your clients demand the best. Let Crystal redefine acoustical glass wall systems for your next project.
Learn more or request a consultation today!
Moderco Electrically Operated Partitions
Did you know?
Moderco’s Signature 800 series is the most manufactured and continuously “in-use” operable partition system in the world! Moderco is proud to be the sole US distributor.
The Signature 800 series features a lightweight, high strength, steel reinforced aluminum frame has been in continuous service for over 40 years. The series is available in single, paired or electric continuously hinged configurations. You can have single piece panels as high as 33’. Signature 800 has independently tested STC values as high as 55 and with extended warranty options.Excel 700 is your best choice if your project needs include proven field performance and durability combined with a competitive price point. Excel 700 Series is assembled with consistent quality. Each panel frame is fully welded utilizing heavy gauge galvanized steel. The trimless panel skins can be steel, welded to the frame or a steel reinforced surface also welded to the frame panel. Excel is available in single (right angle or switch and curve operation), paired center stacking or continuously hinged electric configurations. The Excel 700 series has been independently tested based on current ASTM test procedures and has achieved STC values of 43, 48, 49 and 52.
Architectural Skylight Solution: QuadSpan™ Translucent Roof Assemblies
QuadSpan™ translucent skylights deliver natural light, superior thermal performance and a sleek design with minimal visible framing. Pre-assembled panels enable quick, easy installation and long spans, making them ideal for innovative designs. Architects can choose from vaults, slopes, domes, and fully custom shapes. Removable Skin Technology ensures efficient repairs, while durable, color-customizable panels offer sound reduction and Class A fire ratings.
Enhance your next project with QuadSpan™, designed for both new builds and renovations.
Curved Options
QuadSpan™ is available in a wide variety of configurations, including curved systems.
Vibrant Colors
Make an impact by including vibrant colored glazing – choose from a variety of standard and custom options.
Easier installs and repairs
Removable Skin Technology allows you to install or repair sections of the system without opening the space to the elements.
Case Study – Allen High School
Case Study – Bloomingdale’s Retrofit
Loblolly House
The project goals included providing savannah-like views of the Chesapeake Bay and opening the interior fully for natural ventilation. The plan also called for thermal insulation when the operable glass walls are closed.
SPECK STREET PARKING GARAGE
Texas State University-San Marcos, founded in 1903, currently serves more than 28,000 students in 110 undergraduate and 96 graduate programs. Distinguished alumni include the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. The main campus in San Marcos, Texas is situated on the edge of the beautiful Texas Hill Country. Construction of the university’s Speck Street Parking Garage with 735 parking spaces was completed in August, 2008 and designed to address the urgent need for more student and special events parking. The facility is located at a principal campus entrance and borders a quiet residential neighborhood. The design team was challenged to develop a highly-attractive façade that concealed parked cars, supported the Spanish Colonial architecture utilized throughout the campus, and met the mechanical ventilation requirements for the enclosed parking structure.
Bloomberg European headquarters
Sector: Offices
Location: London, UK
Architect: Foster + Partners
The European headquarters for Bloomberg is one of the world’s most environmentally-friendly office buildings.
Designed by Foster + Partners for a 3.2-acre site in the heart of the City of London, the scheme comprises a pair of connected 10-storey stone volumes linked by aerial bridges. It hosts some 1.1 million square feet of office
space – as well as a new entrance to Bank Underground station, cafes and restaurants, two public plazas, and
a museum dedicated to the Roman archaeologic site it stands upon.
With a BREEAM rating of ‘Outstanding’ at a score of 99.1%, the building has been designed to deliver significant savings in water and energy consumption. Bronze fins set into the stone facades open and close in accordance with weather conditions to ventilate the space, while a smart device controls air distribution in
accordance with the number of people using the building at any one time.
Rainwater is collected from the roof, basins and showers to service vacuum flush toilets, and ceilings are covered in
2.5 million polished aluminium ‘petals’ that regulate acoustics, as well as temperature and light. A 210-metre
bronze ramp winds through six floors of the open-plan office furnished with sit-stand desks, encouraging staff
to walk rather than use the lift and perhaps meet a colleague on the way.
When the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded the building its prestigious Stirling Prize in 2018,
then-president Ben Derbyshire said the scheme had “not just raised the bar for office design and city planning, but smashed the ceiling”. Kingspan was commissioned to
create a bespoke American red oaktopped flooring system that would meet the demands of the design
and its sustainability targets.
The starting point was the existing TLM6 access floor system, which creates an accessible void for services beneath. But due to the building’s open floor plate,
the design called for much larger, 576 x 1334mm panels than the standard 600 x 600mm dimensions of the product, and with this increase in scale came fragility – presenting the team with its first opportunity to innovate.
The team needed to ‘think outside the box’ to create a more robust panel that would reduce waste through damage during installation and cost less to replace because of wear and tear in the future.
After rigorous testing, the technicians eschewed the typical solution of bonding timber veneers onto the boards altogether. Instead, they settled on using two separate systems – using the standard modular TLM26 access floor system below a newly-developed magnetised timber covering. “It provided everything the designers and client wanted – a timber floor finish with a homogenous aesthetic, ease of access into the floor void, ease of replacement in the event of damage and a reduction in construction phase and long-term waste,” says Devereux.
Some 34,000 square metres of this Attiro magnet-backed engineered timber overlay was laid over 37,000
square metres of the TLM26 access floor system to create floors throughout the building. On-site cutting of the
materials – all FSC certified – meant offcuts could be used elsewhere in the project, reducing waste in the installation process. “If one timber stave on a pre-bonded panel was damaged, 0.77 square metres of timber plus the panel would have to be replaced and disposed, whereas with the magnetic Attiro only 0.23 square metres would have to be replaced,” says Devereux
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