Pilkington Activ™ – BRE Report

Date: 12 May 2015

Displaying the benefits of Pilkington Activ™, The Building Research Establishment (BRE) have previously published results of a six-month research and evaluation project on the world’s first dual action self-cleaning glass.

BRE is one of the world’s most renowned research and testing institutions for building products and the results show the effectiveness of our Pilkington Activ™ glass the product in reducing costs, and environmental impact.They even suggest that by using this product loss of life and serious injury in window cleaning accidents may b­­e reduced.

Other outputs from this report include:



  • Very positive user and specifier feedback


  • Identification of window-cleaning cost savings, and other benefits, from real life examples


  • Whole Life Costings show Activ™ to be the most economic solution


  • Activ™ payback period 3-11 years


  • Activ™ is cheaper than reversible windows


  • Activ™ has one tenth of the environmental impact of normal glass, expressed as BRE “Ecopoints”


  • Individual environmental impacts quantified (eg CO2, toxicity, ozone depletion)


  • Avoidable deaths and injuries from window cleaning quantified (20 deaths a year)


  • External condensation reduction identified



To view the full report, please click here: http://www.pilkington.com/resources/brepilkingtonactivreportsummary3.pdf
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