By: james dacanay
Submitted: 2010-09-24 06:21:59 | Word Count: 375
The penchant in modern design for glass roofs, canopies, entrances, walling, windows and doors necessitates expert maintenance companies for even the simplest of window washes.
The average person taking a walk around any metropolis is unlikely to notice a few lofty specks on a thirty-storey building, but there they are - the window maintenance professionals toiling away at the end of their safety ropes like nimble, hard-hatted spiders.
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Skyscrapers, particularly those with excessive glass frontage, require extremely specialised high level maintenance in terms of everything from glazing repairs to window cleaning. Accomplished specialist glazing firms bring an encyclopedic level of knowledge to even the most repetitive tasks - to say "mundane" about a job that involves repelling over the edge of a skyscraper before the their second morning coffee seems wrong!
In terms of basic safety precautions, when it comes to external building rope access there's no such thing as 'basic'. A little fear goes a long way, and in terms of replacing a damaged window frame fifteen storeys off the street, overcautiousness is lifesaving.
Catering to the unexpected is familiar to the high level commercial glazing specialist. In 1981 Owen Morrel's "Boomerang" became New York's first skyscraper-sited sculpture instillation when it was fitted to the 32nd floor of Raymond Hood's Deco building. Specialist commercial glazing maintenance teams were brought in to work alongside high rise building engineers in a collective showcase displaying just how versatile their unique skills could be.
Nature enjoys raising her head in even the most seemingly sterile of situations. Aside from the issue of flocks "making a mess" of extensively glazed superstructures, there's the matter of nesting and the territorial response of such birds. City birds, particularly Peregrine falcons, have adapted to their cosmopolitan new environment by nesting in and on skyscrapers with a notable level of aggression. High level glazing professionals list territorial bird-life as their number two natural unexpected hazard....second only to the weather!
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