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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Well-daylit interiors boast a range of benefits, such as occupant mood and productivity, a sense of connectivity between spaces, decreased use of artificial light and energy bills, stunning views to ...
The Ever-Shifting Code Despite being immovable, buildings must be incredibly versatile because the standards that influence their design are ever-changing. Continually, architects and designers are ...
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 ...
Understanding the solar energy spectrum is key to understanding glass coatings. Glass coatings affect the way the different parts of the solar spectrum are absorbed into, transmitted through or ...
