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 ...
“Specifying” glass refers to the step in the building design process in which you or your team designate your architectural glass selections, often with a specific purpose in mind. It’s important to ...
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 ...
Compared to glass alone, the National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC) performance ratings of window units typically vary in several ways that may not be immediately apparent. To understand why ...
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 ...
Acid-etched glass is a type of decorative glass with a uniformly textured surface that diffuses light, softens views and reduces glare. When the substrate is low-iron glass, the result is a more ...
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are essential for evaluating embodied carbon in glass, but interpreting them correctly requires understanding lifecycle stages, declared units, Global ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
