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Airport redesign uses Chromafusion^® for solar control

Delta Airlines Terminal at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport

Architect Mark Thompson, of Thompson, Hancock and Witte Associates Inc., Atlanta says that appearance, light and thermal properties were the major design reasons for using Cesar Color's Chromafusion^® translucent glass laminate for two 9.1 m x 16.8 m, east and west-facing glass curtain walls framing a major redesign of the Delta Airlines Terminal at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, completed earlier this year.

Area lighting and task considerations, such as the numerous CRT screens used by ticketing agents, required a balance of solar control, light diffusion and a fair amount of daylight transmission. A shading coefficient of 0.40 and a daylight transmission of 20-30% was specified.

Cesar Color tailored a density with opacifying floodcoat that produced a translucent, uniformly white interlayer. The curtain wall structure consists of a 25 mm insulating glass sandwich – an outboard ply of Chromafusion^® and an inboard ply of 6.35mm, clear, annealed tempered glass. The two plies are separated by a 9.5mm dual-sealed, insulating airspace.

The two curtain walls – each more than 488 square meters – are designed using different size glass panels. Sizes range from 457 cm by 762 cm to 609 cm by 1,524 cm to 1,524 by 1,524 cm, which are oriented both horizontally and vertically within an imaginative rising grid pattern.