1 Scope
This part of Bs 5516 gives recommendations for design, properties and maintenance of sloping glass and
plastics glazing sheet materials in overhead situations in the envelope and interiors of buildings. It includes those
situations where the sloping glazing extends down to floor level.
These recommendations apply only when the glass is installed in an appropriate glazing system.
These recommendations do not apply to:
a)
vertical glazing (see Bs 6262);
b)
glazing for commercial greenhouses (see Bs 5502‑21);
c)
glazing for domestic greenhouses;
d)
sloping glazing which is to be used as a walking surface (see Bs 5516‑3);
e) profiled plastics sheets.
NOTE There are occasions, as with some curved glazing , where parts of a pane might be vertical, while other parts might be sloping. In this c...