Some 200 committees are responsible for a continuous update of existing and the development of new standards (SIA, 2020). The SIA develops, updates and publishes numerous standards, regulations, guidelines, recommendations and documentation for the Swiss construction industry. The Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) is Switzerland’s leading professional association for construction, technology and environment specialists. The Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects Anew approach for the determination of temperatures in IGU was established to determine the climate loads of insulated glazing units (IGU).ġ.1. The standard allows taking into the shear coupling effects and thus will lead to more economic pane thickness.A new concept was developed to meet post failure requirements without time-consuming and costly tests.
An important issue in glass design practice is the shear coupling effect in laminated glass. In future, this standard will be the basis of the Swiss national annex of the Eurocode. The new Swiss glass design standard is based on the same concept as the Eurocode10 "Design of Structural Glass", which is currently in preparation. The Swiss society of engineers and architects (SIA) initiated a structural glass standard committee with the task to develop a Swiss glass design standard. The most used standards are the German technical regulations for the use of glazing with linear supports (TRLV) and the DIN 18008.
Questions raised whether the application of these standards is suitable, as they do not comply with the Swiss Standard SIA 260 –Basis of design. In the past glass design in Switzerland was based on foreign standards and regulations. Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glassīelis, Bos & Louter (Eds.), Ghent University, September 2020.Ĭopyright © with the authors.