Vertical Glazing PS1

***Summer Holiday Closure: 19 Dec 2025 – 19 Jan 2026*** Metro Performance Glass will be closing for the 2025/26 summer holiday period from midday Friday 19 December 2025 returning on Monday 19 January 2026. PS1 requests can still be submitted during this period and will be processed and actioned as soon as we have returned to work. Wishing you a safe and enjoyable holiday period. 

Vertical Glazing

Important notes prior to submitting your PS1 request:

• It may take up to 5 working days for our team to review your Specific Design PS1 request. After the review is done, all the required details have been received and the compliance document quote has been accepted, the PS1 document will take a further 3-6 weeks to complete.

• If you have any questions about the compliance document fees, please email technical@metroglass.co.nz 

Specific design producer statement documents will only be provided to architectural and/or building construction drawings specifying Metro Performance Glass glazing systems. See notes "Before you Start"

The vertical glazing RFI is typically used for interior or exterior vertical glass (doors, windbreaks, partitions and windows) up to 15 degrees from vertical.

Please have all of the following information available to complete the RFI form in one session:

1. E-mail address for recipient of PS1.

2. Project details (street address, owner/developer, client/designer).

3. Building Consent Authority (the form has a drop-down list).

4. Project windzone (windzone only for buildings <10m high), or design windloads (preferably a building wind-map) or building and site drawings for wind pressure calculation.

5. Preferred glazing system (2 or 4 edge support, structural sealant, point support, other).

6. Confirmation of movement separation (refer NZS 4223.1:2008 Section 3.8 Building Movement).

7. Confirmation if/where safety from a fall >1m is required.

8. Confirmation if a facade engineer is involved.

9. Any special architectural or acoustic requirements.

10. Plan Elevation & fixing detail/cross section drawings.

Please note that the RFI form does not automatically save the entered information.

*** Some building related standards have recently been sponsored and are available for free download from Standards New Zealand.