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 ...
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. ...
Embodied carbon is one of the most important factors shaping how buildings are designed, specified and constructed today. Embodied carbon in glass refers to the greenhouse gas emissions generated ...
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 ...
To provide architects with the assurance and documentation they need to meet and verify their sustainability goals, glass manufacturers can electively participate in a range of programs and ...
What Is Condensation? As you may have first learned in science class, condensation is a phase in Earth’s water cycle in which water vapor in the air condenses into liquid water. Condensation occurs ...
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 ...
Enacted in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) directed close to $400 billion toward climate and energy-efficiency initiatives. This unprecedented legislation incentivized building owners and ...
What is LEED® Cerfitication? Run by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the LEED green building program is an environmentally oriented certification program for buildings that stands for ...
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are essential for evaluating embodied carbon in glass, but interpreting them correctly requires understanding lifecycle stages, declared units, Global ...
