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| In home settings, many people want glass windows for the view, but worry about having to install additional curtains or blinds for their privacy. In office settings, many want glass partitions for their meeting rooms, but worry about privacy not being achieved.
| With the market value of switchable glass windows expected to reach 5.81 billion USD by 2020, the technology is clearly soaring in demand.
| Switchable glass offers a privacy solution with a surface that is easy to clean and maintain.
| Switchable smart glass technology enables contemporary design with built-in usability that can adapt spaces to users’ needs at the flick of a switch.
| Low-e glass stands for low emissivity, whereas emissivity indicates the ability of a material to radiate energy.
| One way to enhance corporate image through the design of the business premises or office space is to install switchable glass.
| Choosing new windows should be approached with care and calculation.
| A green building is the hallmark of economically sound business decisions, thoughtful environmental decisions, and smart human impact decisions.
| Energy regulations in the construction industry are getting harsher, restricting the amount of glass that we can install in a façade.
| Condensation, and in very cold scenarios, ice can form on the external pane of some modern glass units.
| Triple glazing is essentially the same as double glazing, except it is constructed with 3 panes of glass, creating 2 sealed air cavities.
| The Station Hotel in Prahran’s Greville Street was a favourite watering hole and stay-over for generations. Its recent revision by architects Interlandi Mantesso sees 41 apartments rise discretely behind the classic Victorian pub facade and an uber-cool, bespoke, Viridian glass shell.
| Modern, transparent and prestigious – large glass façades are very much in vogue for office complexes and industrial buildings.
| Curtain wall, storefront glass, and windows are everyday parts of building design and construction. Like all parts of a building exterior, glazing elements have to meet the fundamental functional
| Spandrel glazing has developed to a stage where more efficient insulation can generate higher thermal stresses than can normally be resisted by heat strengthened (HS) glass on which ceramic enamel (frit) has been applied.
| Over half the world’s seven billion inhabitants live in cities, by the year 2050 the number will grow to almost ten billion. In order to avoid a climatic collapse in the metropolises, there is no other alternative to energy-efficient buildings.
| Cities are eating up an increasing amount of heat and electricity. In order to reduce this consumption, buildings have to become increasingly efficient and integrate more renewable energies.
| Although the costs for solar power have come down considerably lately, photovoltaics are still unable to compete with conventional energy sources.
| Prepare the fireworks and parade, we have an announcement to make regarding the reliability and quality of our Privacy and Solar switchable glass products!
| Currently modern facade buildings rely on glazed curtain wall systems. These systems include either singular aluminium alloy frame glass curtain walls or frameless glass curtain walls. This is the case of the so called spider fixing systems, which are pointed supported.
| Melting glass is a very energy intensive process, with process temperatures of more than 1600°C required to melt the raw materials in the furnace.
| Transposing the EPBD in national laws, why it is so important for the glass industry?
| 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 panels.
| The canopies are a composite construction between both steel and glass, leaving no element without stress or structural function.