Three Major Advantages of Curtain Walls: Aesthetics, Energy Efficiency, and Easy Maintenance
Industry Dynamics: The curtain wall industry in China has developed rapidly over the past 20 years. China has now become the world's largest curtain wall market, producing the most curtain walls globally. With over 3,000 professional curtain wall companies, approximately ten million square meters of curtain walls are constructed annually. The development is astonishing, and the situation is magnificent. Curtain walls have truly swept across China and the world, dominating the architectural landscape. The great advancement and trend of curtain walls in Chinese construction is a major achievement of reform and opening up, and a significant leap forward in building wall technology. Wherever there are buildings, there are curtain walls; regardless of location, building size, or height, seven or eight out of ten exterior facades are curtain walls!
Should the developing curtain wall industry be negated? I say yes, because development involves negating inadequacy, and the "affirmation-negation-negation of negation" process is a spiral upward movement of development. After a period of great development, shouldn't we rationally analyze and reflect on everything that has happened, deepen our understanding, and more profoundly comprehend and appreciate it? The advancement and development of building curtain walls involves internal contradictions and struggles, and our understanding of curtain walls should evolve accordingly. Do we understand the development laws of building curtain walls? Can we comprehend them clearly? Can we grasp these development laws and internal contradictions to actively promote the development of curtain walls? After twenty years of rapid development in building curtain walls, how much theoretical understanding have we accumulated? I believe our understanding still lags far behind curtain wall practice.
