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The Spanish PV market is growing so fast, by at least 100% in 2007, that the official goal in the Renewable Energy Plan for 2005-2010 (PER) of 400 MW will be reached by the end of this year.
Multiforms, architectural façade specialists and a subsidiary of Emaar Industries & Investments, has won a contract worth Dh175 million from leading contracting company Arabtec for the supply and installation of the external cladding for Tiara…
Zamil Glass, a business unit of Zamil Industrial and the prominent processor of architectural glass serving contractors and end users in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the GCC region, is pleased to announce that expansion efforts have resulted in a…
For many buildings, glass makes up the most striking and visible part of a structure’s exterior. And as owners and tenants in office buildings and other property types seek attractive views, energy efficiency and security, glass engineering and…
Schüco’s decision to launch the TTC 50 low-rise aluminium façade system is proving popular with its fabricator-partners because while still offering undiminished Schüco quality and impressive 'U' values, its price allows them to compete…
Ferro Corporation has commissioned its new tile color plant in Castellon, Spain, just a year after breaking ground on its sprawling campus in this southern Spain city.
Visitors can now tour architect Philip Johnson's famed Glass House in Connecticut.The Glass House site, which he donated to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1986, opened to the public in June and has already become a magnet for…
Craftsman Fabricated Glass of Houston will begin production on its new laminated glass line next week. The company plans to provide both custom laminated products and longer standardized automated runs.
Adshel Infrastructure has completed another successful shelter project for Albury Council in NSW. The Evo Walkway shelter was commissioned to cover a new taxi rank in one of the main streets outside a night club area in the centre of town.
The flexibility and style of the Pilkington Planar™ structural glazing system, and the practicality of Pilkington Activ™ self cleaning glass, have been combined for the first time in the refurbishment of superior office blocks at 54 Hagley Road,…
The new addition to IDC Colourfield’s range of services is Hi resolution digital imaging in glass. Specialising in Onyx, Marble and Stone Images, the digital image is printed on to the interlayer between 2 pieces of laminated Class 1 safety glass…
Increasing requirements of energy saving and climate protection for buildings have led to a clear improvement in the insulation in buildings - also with respect to glass.
For the Colombian Chamber of Commerce in Bogota, the design dream of two local architectural firms, AIA Arquitectos and Convel, was “a big stone box with a gigantic glass opening at the front of the principal facade facing El Dorado Avenue, one of…
It’s not every new development project that turns established processes on their head, but according to experts, dynamic sorting is just such an innovation.
The ‘Palazzo Tendenza’, the shopping wing of the NET Center in Padova, Italy, now boasts the country’s tallest fin-supported glazing system, thanks to the installation of the latest glass technology from Pilkington.
Blue LEDs set into the road surface of the B 311, similar to those used as runway markings on airfields, show the way at night as drivers enter St.
The “four-cylinder” building located inside Munich’s Olympiapark has helped create public awareness of BMW for many years now.
Butterflies Batch, a group of 20 female artists who paint on glass, graduated from IMPACT Institute on June 5. After the graduation party, the artists held an exhibition in which they displayed and marketed their work.
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Lifts in The Shires shopping centre in Leicester have been created using 400 metres square of Pilkington Planar™/Sentry Glas Plus with Pilkington OptiWhite™ .
Glaston is in the process of centralizing its Heat Treatment business area's R&D i.e. safety glass machine product development activities to its Finnish headquarters.
This week crews poured the 60th and last residential floor at One Rincon, the condominium atop San Francisco's Rincon Hill.
DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™ interlayers are being used in the Church of Saint Stephen in Vicenza, Italy, to replace marble slabs with transparent floor panels in decorative laminated glass.
After months of planning, work is ready to begin next week on the installation of the new curtain wall at Indiana Square.