The gasket
This picture has been taken upward inside the spandrel.
The brown board is a glass, the white members are the mullions.
It shows one of most popular deficiencies: the gap in the gasket corner.
The
new installed gaskets have a tendency to shrink, that's why they shall be cut
with extra spare length.
It is my experience that unfortunately this
simple task is usually entrusted to the least experienced employee and the outcome
may vary.
In a concealed location like this one, the leak investigation
is a particularly difficult task because the water entries into the closed
spandrel insulation, saturates it and travels inside the room thru the firestop
to finally show up on the wall or soffit. In order to track its origin, the
investigator has no choice but to tear down the wall board or the soffit and get
close enough to spandrel. Usually at the time the destructive
investigation starts, the furnishing is already devastated because of the
leak and first investigation attempts undertaken by the building maintenance
staff.
A designer should specify vulcanized gasket corners, which
are idiot-proof.