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The Window & Door Manufacturers Association (WDMA) released today a comprehensive advocacy agenda for 2015.
Dow Corning will promote their innovative solutions for high performance façades to building designers and construction management at the forthcoming BAU exhibition in Munich, Germany.
Dr. Helen Sanders, our Vice President of Technical Business Development, has once again been named to USGlass Magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Glass and Glazing.
HyGear is currently developing a recycling system for the float glass industry to recover the hydrogen and nitrogen from the tin bath.
Lawrence D. Carbary, an industry scientist on the facade engineering and architectural design team, high-performance building solutions, for Dow Corning Corp. in Midland, Michigan, has been elected to serve a three-year term on the ASTM…
Glass production traditionally requires considerable energy consumption, which means the industry faces the ongoing challenge of managing the impact of rising energy costs.
The building housing the Louis Vuitton Foundation dedicated to contemporary art is equipped with Saint-Gobain glass.
One of Octatube’s recent projects in Germany is the engineering, production and installation of a bespoke structural glass facade of the Audi Sport facility in Heilbronn.
Architect Jesse Lizer, AIA, and his wife, Shannon, live in the dream home that they imagined and built together in Dike, Iowa.
District President visited company in Bretten. - District Karlsruhe. The dome of the Reichstag in Berlin, the facade of the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, the roof of the British Museum in London or the base of the World Trade Centre One have…
Folienwerk Wolfen’s EVA film opens up new application options in architecture and façade construction. In modern architecture, individuality counts.
Digital glass printing of architectural glass can be seen in cities across the globe. Join us on a few minutes world tour to check out some of these incredible glass architecture projects.  These beautiful and unique glass facades were all printed…
In the latest Pilkington blog, Phil Brown explains how an unexpected Christmas present led him to thinking about the modern construction miracle that is float glass.
Open and full of light, with a clear view to the outside. These were the requirements for the new cafeteria at the German-Spanish Primary School in Hamburg.
HyGear will present its cost effective Hydrogen Generation Systems on the Glasstec fair during the 21st till 24th of October 2014.
After leading the market with the UK’s first temperable low-E glass to achieve a U-value of 1.0 W/m2K, Saint-Gobain Glass has re-launched its PLANITHERM ONE and PLANITHERM ONE II as a single-stock product known as PLANITHERM ONE T.
The AVC showroom in Kortrijk, Belgium is a picture of magnificence, elegance and class. The massive structure exudes the quiet sophistication that comes from glass facades for commercial exteriors.
The subject of research and application on key technology of industrialized production of ultra-thin information display glass collectively completed by Bengbu Design and Research Institute for Glass Industry and other units passed the scientific…
The LEO Building in Frankfurt is covered by a highly technological skin done by operable modules of Closed Cavity Façade and Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete Units the permasteelisa group achieves the first “closed cavity façade” with operable…
Double the Height, Double the Light - An inherent characteristic of untreated glass is its natural transparency and light transmission.
You may have spotted GGR UNIC mini spider cranes and glass vacuum lifters making an appearance on Channel 5’s Super Skyscrapers this week.
AGC (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.; Head Office: Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazuhiko Ishimura) announces that it will enable avoidance of as much as six times the AGC Group’s own annual CO2 emissions in 2020, through its energy-saving and energy-creating…
According to Eco-Business, smart glass windows are about 70 percent more energy efficient during the summer season and 45 percent more efficient in the winter, reducing energy spending by approximately 25 percent.
Popular ShowerGuard Coating Now Available With Low-Iron Glass - Guardian now offers its popular ShowerGuard coating on a new low-iron float glass for North America.
Allegedly, the Commission is planning to propose an astoundingly low indicative target on energy efficiency for 2030.