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Underlining its commitment to an increasingly global market, Wrightstyle, the UK-based supplier of specialist glass and glazing systems, has successfully completed a second round of stringent US fire tests designed to further extend its range of…
KEO International Consultants has completed two major projects in Al Ain, UAE with a combined value of AED 257million.
To further enhance customer service and support to glaziers, architects, specifiers and other commercial construction industry professionals in Canada, Technical Glass Products (TGP) is opening a Toronto office and has hired Ron Pitts as Canadian…
A furnace fire at a major glass company building in Evansville had firefighters busy Friday. It happened around noon Friday at PPG Industries off Highway 41 on Inglfield Road.
Safti First, manufacturer of fire rated glazing and  framing products, raised over $10,000 to purchase bicycles for school children who attend four elementary  schools near the company’s Merced manufacturing plant, located in California’s San…
Architectural Glass Projects was selected as the specialist façade contractor for the Kirribilli Club project by builder AW Edwards.
For the first time in the UK, approved, purpose-made, aluminium fire-resisting  windows that are identical in appearance to standard windows are now available as  part of the expanding AWS range from Schüco International.
China Architectural Engineering, Inc. (CAE) (AMEX:RCH), which specializes in the design, engineering, fabrication and installation of high-end curtain wall systems, today announced that it has been awarded a contract to build the spherical external…
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…
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…
More fire resistant materials will be required by law for new construction in California, including homes, beginning Jan. 1, 2008.
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.
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This week crews poured the 60th and last residential floor at One Rincon, the condominium atop San Francisco's Rincon Hill.
After months of planning, work is ready to begin next week on the installation of the new curtain wall at Indiana Square.
Burj Dubai, on course to becoming the world's tallest tower, is taking its final shimmering form as installation of curtain wall glass panels commenced on Level 19 of the super-structure developed by Emaar Properties.
No other material is associated more closely with modern architecture than glass. In combination with new technologies, this versatile material offers a broad range of possibilities ranging from lighting to construction using solar technology.
A new mixed-use development is primed to add glitz and a pair of 44-story high-rises to a city on the rebound.
The race among the world's cities to build the ultimate record-busting, flat-out tallest skyscraper on the planet is fast and furious.
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Pilkington Building Products - UK provides the ultimate in fire-resistant glass, and works with specialist companies across the UK and Ireland to offer a comprehensive fire-resistant glass service.