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Discover more about how Tvitec’s glass solutions fit magnificently with other materials and claddings for projects headed by renowned international architects.
The first curtain wall of the project is 6m high ribbed glass curtain wall, 5 layers of 12mm ultra-white tempered laminated Low-E insulating glass unit.
Vitro Architectural Glass products promote daylighting, energy performance for buildings at Swarthmore College
The benefits delivered by large glazed surface are more than we think. They provide access to natural daylight and a visual connection with the external environment.
Arkay Windows Limited is the latest industry name to come on board for this year’s Glazing Summit.
Four different types of Guardian SunGuard® coated glass help to create a stunning, energy- efficient glass façade for the recently opened La Seine Musicale music and cultural centre located in the Boulogne-Billancourt suburb of Paris.
Facades+ Washington DC, September 21 - Facades+, Premier Conference on High-Performance Building Enclosures.
Do you know an exemplary project or project team that's made extraordinary contributions to facade design and delivery? Submit a nomination by October 4th!
Şişecam received the Facade Material of the Year Award for 2020 with Şişecam Temperable Solar Control Low-E Glass Neutral 70/37.
Introducing Titan glass, Vitro’s newest oversized glass product for large-scale exterior insulating glass units (IGUs).
Ubiquitous Energy, the leader in truly transparent solar energy technology, and Antamex Industries have agreed to form a partnership to bring transparent solar glazing to the commercial glazing market in North America.
First, modulus values are now in-line with the revised product technical sheets that were published earlier in 2020.
Face Time 2022: Bringing Together the Many Voices of the Building Industry
Lisa Heschong, author and scientific researcher, took to the virtual stage during the FGIA 2021 Virtual Summer Conference to share her findings on the benefits of daylighting and window views.
Get NGA downloadable resources to support the use of glass and glazing materials in buildings.
Articles
For years and years research, development and discussions have been made on the safety of glass structures.
For nearly 50 years, glass has been used as structural elements in glass fin applications. These applications include interior and exterior projects, supporting facades, canopies, storefronts, curtain walls and skylights.
Post breakage strength of glass is still an unknown area as analytical models for this are inconclusive so far and thus destructive testing is the only reliable solution.
This article is dedicated to dynamic glazing in the façade. This is an update of the articles on smart products in the façade I and II published in March 2019 and May 2020.
Connecting glass with heat bonds is a way to create all-transparent glass structures. Two methods have been researched in theory and practice, glass welding, through local heating, and glass fusion through global heating.
This research investigates the potential of glass as a new design tool to highlight and safeguard our historic structures.
This paper focuses on the geometric optimization of the free-form gridshell towards planar quad glass units.
UNStudio made a beautiful design for the C&A building with a lots of glass elements to connect with the buildings around.
The Swiss society of engineers and architects (SIA) initiated a structural glass standard committee with the task to develop a Swiss glass design standard.
The present work uses non-linear material laws for FEA and exhibits the behavior of the sealant joint in various load scenarios on several projects.
In this work, a combined Voronoi and finite-discrete element method (FDEM) approach for reconstructing the post-fracture model of laminated glass (LG) was proposed.
The study describes the results of the principal applicability of fiber optic strain sensors to evaluate the structural behaviour of laminated glass and provides the basis to define a model for the material characteristics of viscoelastic interlayers.
