When specifying glass in buildings, sometimes architects and owners seek high levels of transparency and visibility. Other times, a building design calls for low transparency, or reflectivity, to ...
In North America, as many as 1 billion birds are killed every year flying into glass. Fortunately, this is a solvable environmental issue with the development of bird safe glass technologies. ...
Sustainable design is now the norm in modern construction. This shift was driven by stricter building codes, green certifications, climate change concerns, tenant demand for eco-friendly spaces and a ...
Glass – it's everywhere: our homes, our cars, and where we work. While we see this amazing material all around us every day, in its purest form it’s virtually invisible. Wondering exactly how glass ...
With both heat-strengthening and tempering, it is possible that glass will develop either optical image distortion or anisotropy, which refers to patterns or visual effects in glass that are not ...
As one of the most popular and versatile building materials used in modern architectural glazing, low‑e emissivity (or low‑e glass) coatings provide exceptional energy efficiency, thermal performance ...
