Commercial curtainwall for Florida towers, institutional buildings, and landmark facades. Unitized and stick-built systems. Structural engineering coordination from shop-drawing phase forward.
Who installs commercial curtain wall in Florida?
Commercial curtain wall in Florida is installed by American Commercial Glass for towers, institutional buildings, and landmark facades. ACG self-performs unitized and stick-built curtain wall with structural-engineering coordination from the shop-drawing phase forward, holding Florida license CGC #1531993, $3M/$6M bonding, and HVHZ Miami-Dade NOA compliance experience across 350+ projects.
Curtainwall spans past the structural slab and hangs from the building frame. It requires system engineering, structural coordination, and performance-mock-up planning that standard storefront subs do not provide.
Curtainwall is specified for Class A office towers, institutional buildings, luxury hospitality, landmark facades, and any project where the facade has to read as a continuous plane of glass past the slab edge.
Curtainwall requires more than Florida Product Approval — it requires system-specific structural engineering, delegated-design submittals, and often project-specific mock-up testing.
ACG only installs manufacturers on our partners list. For this scope, that means:
Curtainwall is a critical-path trade with the longest lead times on the job. Early coordination with structural, MEP, and envelope teams is the difference between a clean install and a schedule problem.
Two-story amenity envelope with impact storefront and curtainwall-adjacent systems.
POLPO arched storefront and custom glazing with curtainwall-grade engineering.
Amenity building glazing package with high-performance curtainwall detailing.
Curtainwall is usually right when the facade is taller than 4 stories, when the architect wants a continuous plane of glass past the slab edge, or when the budget supports unitized fabrication for schedule compression. Window wall is right for slab-by-slab multifamily.
Unitized curtainwall: 16–22 weeks from approved shop drawings. Stick-built curtainwall: 10–14 weeks. Performance mock-ups add 8–10 weeks if specified.
Yes. ACG coordinates AAMA 501.1 dynamic water and thermal performance mock-ups at approved Florida test labs. We include mock-up fabrication and testing in the preconstruction phase when specified.
Yes. Our ESWindows unitized systems carry active Miami-Dade NOAs. We install unitized curtainwall across Miami-Dade, Broward, and coastal Palm Beach, Martin, and Lee counties.
At schematic design, ACG provides a per-square-foot budget range based on system class and project exposure. At DDs, we refine to a line-item budget. At CDs, a hard bid with submittal package, lead-time commitment, and structural-delegated-design summary.
Curtainwall lives or dies at preconstruction. ACG partners with GC teams from schematic through hard bid, providing system-selection direction, performance-mock-up planning, and long-lead-time commitment.
A curtain wall is a lightweight, non-load-bearing exterior facade that hangs from a building's structural frame and carries only its own weight plus wind loads. It can span multiple floors and is used on mid- and high-rise buildings. American Commercial Glass installs curtainwall systems on commercial projects across Florida and the Southeast.
No. A curtain wall is non-load-bearing — it supports only its own weight and the wind loads acting on it, transferring those forces back to the building's structural frame. American Commercial Glass engineers curtainwall anchorage to meet Florida wind-load and HVHZ requirements on commercial buildings.
Stick-built curtainwall is assembled piece by piece on site from individual mullions, transoms, and glazing; unitized curtainwall is prefabricated into large modules in a factory and lifted into place for faster installation. American Commercial Glass installs curtainwall on commercial Florida projects, coordinating shop drawings and field sequencing through Procore.
A window wall sits between floor slabs, anchored at head and sill, and spans floor to floor; a curtain wall hangs outside the slab edge and spans multiple floors. Window wall avoids inter-floor fire-stopping; curtainwall meets higher performance. American Commercial Glass installs both systems on Florida commercial projects.