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An iconic new building in Cambridgeshire is underlining how world-class architecture and modern glazing systems can create buildings to breathe new life into areas of dereliction.
EnduroShield provides a glass scratch removal service to remove glass scratches, mineral deposits or soap scum build up from glass surfaces.
The upcoming American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA) Fall Conference, to be held October 10-13 in Santa Ana Pueblo (Albuquerque), N.
The Rise of Fire Safety GlassThe average cost of a fire to a commercial building is £58,100 and the effects it has on life, personal welfare, business and a property itself are immense.
A raft of orders from the Middle East and Asia has propelled London based security glazing business, Advanced Glass Technology (AGT) into the global arena for the first time.
Pilkington Pyrostop® and Pilkington Optiphon™ have been specified in a comprehensive, multi million pound refurbishment of the William Penn Leisure Centre in Rickmansworth, which provides state of the art leisure facilities to the local area.
Despite having customers in more than 70 countries, and currently more than 250 furnaces operating worldwide, there is one major sector of the glass industry that SORG has not been intimately involved in until now – the float glass sector.
One of Europe’s leading suppliers of high-performance steel glazing systems is to supply its systems to a company in Australia, underlining the increasingly global nature of this specialist market.
Regional specialist Exeter Glass Centre has teamed up with one of the most recognised world names of the glass industry to become the local stockist in the south west of Pilkington’s range of fire-resistant glass products.
Ideally suited to meet government buildings’ high-security and green goals, Wausau Window and Wall Systems combines blast mitigation, energy performance and recycled content in the Blast Hazard Mitigation (BHM) windows – the newest to join its…
Wrightstyle Ltd supplies specialist glazing systems internationally, and the company’s systems were recently chosen for the nationally-prestigious US Marines Memorial Chapel in Virginia.
Solid-rock bridge made of glass is new Georgia’s capital landmark.
Fairview Behavioral Services serves Minnesota as the largest, hospital-based mental health and chemical dependency program in the state.
A UK steel glazing specialist has helped to transform an Olympic media hub into one of Greece’s foremost retail centres, providing a good example of legacy planning for future Olympic Games.
Diedorf, August 2010 – between 28th September and 1st October 2010, the glass sector’s most important leading trade fair will be taking place in the form of the glasstec.
Vesuvius is a worldwide leader of Fused Silica products for the Solar, Glass Fabricating, Glass Forming and Foundry industries.
GREENDALE, Ind. -- Firefighters are investigating the second fire in three weeks at a local glass plant. Fire crews said the fire broke out at about 4 p.m.
In April, Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., welcomed patients and staff into a new, mental health care facility.
Considered the most expensive building of its kind, the $437 million Los Angeles Police Administration Building also is among the greenest, thanks in part to Wausau Window and Wall Systems.
The NSG Group and Saint-Gobain Glass have announced plans for the construction of a new float glass plant in Jacarei, close to São Paulo, in Brazil.
Bülach, 29 June 2010. The Board of Directors of Vetropack Holding Ltd has handed over the leadership of Business Division Switzerland / Austria to Johann Reiter.
Built at a cost of Dhs692m with technological assistance from US-based PPG Industries, the global leaders in glass manufacturing technology, EFG is the largest integrated glass processing facility in the UAE with a capacity of 190,000 tons per annum…
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, (the FSO, in effect from October 2006) has introduced a fundamental step change in the legislation governing fire safety.
Saint-Gobain and NSG Group have announced the construction of a new flat glass (float) plant in Jacarei, close to São Paulo, in Brazil.
This is a new door system that architects and designers have been waiting for, providing a new level of functionality coupled with absolute fire safety.