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| Buildings fitted with glass facades are often death traps for wild birds, particularly when they reflect a natural environment or when they are transparent, and thus invisible.
| TROSIFOL庐Sound Control (SC), a sound-attenuating PVB acoustic film from Kuraray, has given Marvel Architects the ability to incorporate a substantial glazed fa莽ade on a residential development, which would otherwise may not have been feasible due to鈥
| Bullet-resistant glass with SentryGlas庐 ionoplast interlayer has been installed on the majority of the exterior facades on the new San Francisco Public Safety Building, ensuring maximum protection of the building and its occupants, while also鈥
| The Flachglas Group employs around 1,100 employees at three sites in Switzerland and three sites in Germany 鈥 around 650 of them generate revenues of approx. 鈧 70 million at the Wernberg site (Bavaria).
| SentryGlas庐 ionoplast interlayer have played a key role in the fa莽ade construction on the new Sir Samuel Griffith Centre at the Nathan Campus of Griffith University; a building that is destined to become a model for 鈥榦ff-grid鈥 remote communities鈥
| The visually stunning cable-stayed glass facade that surrounds the recently-opened Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena, Italy, is another outstanding demonstration of the qualities and capabilities of SentryGlas庐 ionoplast interlayer.
| Over half the world鈥檚 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.
| An innovative synthesis of UV-cured digital print and industrial surface coatings transforms fa莽ades into modern art
| Thanks to on-going research and development efforts glass products can take on ever new functions.
| Finding ways to improve energy efficiency is one of the greatest challenges facing contemporary architecture.
| High-performance functional glazing has a significant impact on the energy efficiency of buildings and their level of usability or life quality. Experts agree that increased demands will lead to improved functionality of the glass products used in鈥
| DuPont鈩 SentryGlas庐 Expressions鈩 technology has played a key role in helping to create a new 1,700 square-metre, bright red glass fa莽ade for the AIDA Entertainment building in Hamburg, Germany.
| Zahner opens the public beta for CloudWall鈩 鈥 the first application for Zahner鈥檚 ShopFloor鈩 platform. CloudWall provides an interface for users to design and fabricate curving facades in metal.
| The Chinese city of Guangzhou may have many skyscrapers, but one has been designed specifically to be a bright beacon against the often gloomy backdrop provided by the city's weather.
| This paper intends to present how applications of structural glass systems have evolved in HDA鈥檚 projects since the author鈥檚 intial work at La Villette with Peter Rice and RFR.
| The new HQ for the Belarusian Potash Company (BPC) is a staggering example of glazing being deployed to maximise light and colour.
| 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鈥
| One of the main problems of glass fa莽ades is concerned with solar radiation and thermal isolation.
| Laminated glasses consist of two or more glass sheets bonded together with plastic interlayers. The lamination gives to LGs a safer behaviour than monolithic glasses, avoiding injuries to people in case of breakage.