Grand Canyon Skywalk Bridge
Giroux Glass has been a part of another great project!
The laminated glass bridge over the
Grand Canyon, that allows visitors an unobstructed view 4,000 feet down to the
Colorado River.
The u-shaped Grand Canyon Skywalk extends 70 feet from the rim, and is the first
cantilevered walkway over the canyon.
Giroux Glass of Las Vegas installed the glass for this project.
The balustrades feature laminated bent glass of two 3/8-inch lites with a .06-inch polyvinyl butyral interlayer. They rise about five feet from the glass floor, allowing visitors an unobstructed view out over the railing,
The 2-inch thick structural glass floor consists of five layers of glass alternating with four layers of the SentryGlas Plus interlayer from DuPont Building Innovations of Wilmington, Del. The bottom four layers are 3/8-inch glass, with a 5/16-inch lite on top.
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