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Bird-Safe Glass: How Bird-Friendly Glazing Prevents Window Collisions

What Is Bird-Safe Glass? Bird-safe glass (also called bird-friendly glass or bird-safe glazing) is architectural glass designed to reduce the number of collisions using permanent visual markers that ...
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Bird Vetted & Approved

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. ...
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Soaring Together

Vitro Architectural Glass values the pivotal role that its industry-leading, low-embodied carbon glass plays in shaping contemporary architecture. The organization is dedicated to preserving nature's ...
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Four Essential Questions about Tinted Glass in Bird-Friendly Applications

As the interest in bird-safe windows and glazing applications grows, inquiries about tinted glass have become more frequent. Questions have emerged about the effectiveness of tinted windows for bird ...
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Designing with Low-Iron Acid-Etched Glass

Editor's note: This article was originally published as Full Surface Acid-Etched Starphire® Glass: The Designer's Choice on the Walker Glass Blog
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Bird-Safe Glass Building Legislation

What is bird-safe glass legislation? Bird-friendly building legislation refers to building codes, laws and standards that require the use of bird-friendly glass or bird-safe building materials. The ...
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Decorative Glass Applications

In recent years, glass fabricators have made significant advances in their technologies, creating a range of decorative glass applications that are increasingly specified by architects who seek ...
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Bird-Friendly Glass

Glass that’s For the Birds A recent study by the American Bird Conservancy, Fordham University, NYC Bird Alliance and Stony Brook University found that building collisions kill over one billion birds ...