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| The path to low-carbon, high-performance facades depends on mastering the long-term thermal behavior and lifecycle performance of Insulating Glass Units (IGUs).
| A new study explores how the size, shape, and material of tiny support pillars in Vacuum Insulated Glass (VIG) impact both its thermal efficiency and mechanical strength — offering analytical tools to optimize VIG design for better performance.
| A new advanced FEM model has been developed to accurately simulate the nonlinear behavior of Insulating Glass Units (IGUs), including curved configurations, offering higher precision and faster computation compared to commercial software.
| Discover how TPS® boosts IGU longevity and energy performance in this Glastory blog and download the presentation.
| Renovating energy-inefficient buildings is vital to meeting the EU’s climate goals, and new research from Slovakia highlights how material choices can make or break a project’s environmental impact.
| Demand for laminated safety glass is holding strong, driven by rising safety needs and new advances in sustainability and recycling.
| Fused recycled glass proves its strength: recent testing confirms its durability and suitability for architectural use in even the most demanding environments.
| Retrofitting buildings is key to boosting energy efficiency and climate resilience, especially in dense, subtropical cities like Hong Kong.
| Vacuum insulating glass (VIG) has demonstrated competitive Ug-values (heat transfer coefficients) which show promise to further reduce energy consumption from buildings.
| There are ways to reduce the energy consumption and emissions of glass melting, such as recycling glass, using oxy-fuel burners, improving furnace insulation and design, and adopting electric melting technologies.
| This paper is a discussion about concepts to minimize the glass thickness as much as possible for a usage of thin glass for insulated glass.
| In this paper, the behaviour of various Insulating Glass Units (IGUs) is examined under the influence of quasi-static uniform wind pressure and weather actions.
| The organic design and seamlessly reflective surface of “The Henderson” establish it as a landmark in Hong Kong. With its all-glass façade and a height of 210 m, the skyscraper designed by Zaha Hadid Architects offers spectacular panoramic views.
| The main objective of this paper is to explore the effects of ageing and exposure to indoor and outdoor environment on the strength of glass.
| A recent study by BV Glas and Stuttgart University outlines three pathways to achieve climate neutrality in the glass industry by 2045.
| This paper aims to quantify the savings achieved through the ERM of secondary layer addition to existing glazed facades, for a high WWR office building in cooling and heating dominated climate locations.
| This paper deals with the question of how old insulating glass units can be re manufactured to match the state of the art in terms of the energy efficiency.
| The thesis examined the barriers to recovering end of life glass from commercial projects in London, and identified the drivers that will open pathways for glass to be recycled.
| Increasing the circularity of flat glass does not only mean to collect glass cullet from internal and pre- consumer processes. It also means to use glass cullet from the post- consumer applications, such as residential or commercial buildings.
| This research examines the viability of recycling soda lime glass from post-consumer Insulated Glass Units (IGU), mixing various types of architectural glass cullet and fusing them into flat plates by using electric kilns.
| In this latest Glastory blog, Uwe Risle explains why thin triple IG units are gaining popularity and what the key differences are between thin triple IGUs and other insulating glass types.
| In order to minimize the environmental impact of glass by preserving the embodied carbon and substituting newly produced glasses, the reuse of glass is considered to be of the highest potential.
