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| Transparent glass facades dominate much contemporary high– to mid–rise urban residential architecture. This article takes a closer look at life behind glass facades in contemporary surveillance culture.
| In modern high rise building, fully unitised systems are frequently being used in construction to save time and cost. Most of the unitised system comprises of structural aluminium alloy of grade 6063 T5 or T6, with spandrel panel (shadow box) and…
| Even If float technology has been developed and explored in details, the requirement of new and more aggressive glasses is incremental to the expected length of float sequences.
| Transposing the EPBD in national laws, why it is so important for the glass industry?
| Everyone in Germany knows the expression “yellow angel”, and most of its 17 million members have already made use of the organization's road assistance service at least once: it is the largest automobile club in Europe, the ADAC.
| October 2004: At glasstec, A+W and HEGLA present to the expert public the first SortJet controlled by the dynamic, online optimisation system DynOpt. For the first time ever, any sequence required can be achieved automatically, with optimum – in an…
| Insulating glass desiccants with different components give quiet disparate quality performances.
| Architectural glass coating business is continuing to mature. Building codes enforcing the use of energy efficient LowE coatings, which are implemented step by step in a growing number of countries around the globe.
| Modern digital printing technologies using ceramic inks are providing new interesting opportunities for longlasting decorations and optical effects on glass.
| The architectural façade has long been a compelling focus of interest for building scientists and designers alike, combining attributes of both appearance and performance in a manner unlike any other building system.
| A growing global concern over terrorist activities has resulted in an increasing number of architectural specifications that require security glazing.
| Corrugated glass is flat glass bended in the furnace into a certain shape.
| In the façade industry, glass panes have been bonded to aluminium frames with UV-resistant silicone adhesives for 40 years with almost unchanged mechanical strength.
| The paper shows that the residual stress at the surface of tempered glass panels may vary both locally and globally, i.e., stresses near the edges and corners of the panels may be considerably different from the stresses in the middle part of the…
| The new Spiegel headquarters and the neighbouring office complex, the Ericus-Contor, a fourteen and nine-storey building pair, expand the gallery of internationally recognized architectural works in Hamburg.
| The canopies are a composite construction between both steel and glass, leaving no element without stress or structural function.
| Case Studies in Optimization of Glass-panelized Architectural Freeform Designs for the Eiffel Tower Pavilions
| Approaching the built environment from the point of view of phenomenal light allows James Carpenter to consider the luminous qualities of glass and other materials and the experiential qualities of light as a primary concern of architectural design.
| Klaus Puschmann, Product Manager at Bystronic Lenhardt GmbH presented a paper on the new dynamic mixer system of the speed’sealer sealing robot which was designed to overcome the limitations of static mixer systems.
| Fused silica rollers are widely used to convey glass in high temperature environments, the tempering furnace being among the most demanding operations.