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Understanding EPDs

With climate change top of mind, coast to coast legislation is obligating building owners and architects to take a hard look at their building designs. In New York, the city's Local Law 97 has placed ...
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Clarity on Proper Glass Cleaning

Architectural glass is a durable product that can be maintained in satisfactory condition by regular cleaning using accepted good glass cleaning practices. Glass should be washed at frequent ...
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Codes and Climate Zones

Green Building Codes (and Why They Matter Earlier Than Ever) Energy codes aren’t static. For architects and specifiers, that reality shows up fastest at the building envelope. Increasingly, glass ...
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Biophilia and Glass: Supporting a Connection to Nature

The growing practice of biophilic design in architecture is all about maintaining a connection to nature and light through a building. Because glass is the most popular transparent building material ...
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Stainless Steel Spacers Outperform Foam in Residential Windows

When it comes to windows, homeowners are familiar with the parts of windows they can see, like the glass, the frame and the hardware. However, there are parts of the window inside the glass that play ...
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What is Embodied Carbon?

Targeting Embodied Carbon Energy efficiency and operational carbon are key elements of eco-friendly building design, but the spotlight is increasingly turning to embodied carbon emissions as a ...
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VacuMax™ Vacuum Insulating Glass (VIG)

With unmatched insulation performance, VacuMax™ VIG by Vitro offers performance rivaling that of traditional walls.
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Glass Options for Enhanced School Safety

With 49 recorded school shootings in 2018 and 2019, according to Education Week, and another 8 in 2020, safety in schools remains a top priority issue in the U.S.
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Celebrating 10 Years of the Glass Insider e‑Newsletter

For over a decade, the Vitro Glass Insider email newsletter has provided the glass industry with engaging, educational updates on glass trends, case studies, design challenges and applications.
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The Benefits of Glass for Construction and Hygiene Protection

For over four thousand years, the lustrous, hard, and inert characteristics of glass have made it one of the world’s most desirable and frequently used building materials. Glass is used in many of ...