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Using a laser printing process, Hegla boraident from Halle in Germany offers a solution for making window and facade glass visible to birds. At glasstec 2024, the company presented the BIRDfriend Mobile, a device that can be used to retrofit existing glass surfaces with protection against bird strike.
Glaston, the inventor of the Thermo Plastic Spacer (TPS), has developed a new processing method that allows the use of thin glass in insulating glass units. The process is also suitable for triple insulating glass.
Discover ENI's new headquarters, an innovation campus dedicated to energy research and production. Designed by Morphosis Architects and Nemesi Architects, the LEED Gold certified complex features high-performance glass facades from AGC Interpane, ensuring optimal light conditions and energy efficiency. Learn more about the state-of-the-art features and sustainability achievements.
If you are looking for the highest insulation values in insulating glass, you will find them in insulating glass units with an integrated vacuum element, such as Fineo Hybrid. It insulates with a Ug-value of less than 0.5 W/(m2K), but are significantly more delicate than triple insulating glass with a thickness of 22 mm or more. But such hybrid glass offers even more advantages, which we present here.
The Ikeuchi Gate Building in the Japanese city of Sapporo combines technology and innovation at the highest level. Here you can find out how facade glass from Saint-Gobain Glass and the associated Ultimate insulating glass spacers from Swisspacer contribute to optimising the energy efficiency of the building envelope.
Swisspacer Air - integrated into the edge seal of insulating glass - ensures continuous pressure equalisation with the environment and thus mitigates climate loads. In collaboration between Swisspacer and the Saint-Gobain Glassolutions Insulating Glass Centre, the foundation has now been laid to allow it to obtain a CE mark.
Glaston recently launched the Active'Sealer for IGU production. GW-News has now interviewed Uwe Risle, the responsible product manager, about this: here are his answers.
Energy efficiency, quality and automation in production play an important role in every piece of glass processed. To this end, Glaston will be presenting a number of innovations at Vitrum 2023 in Milan from 5-8 September 2023, including for the following segments.
The new ift guideline VE-15 "Multi-pane insulating glass - tested type statics according to DIN 18008" offers a legally secure and simple dimensioning of insulating glass according to DIN 18008 by diagram without the additional examination by a structural engineer.
Swiss whisky lovers Rinaldo Willy and Pascal Mittner have chosen a very special place for their production: the mountain station of the Corvatsch cable car. Today, the highest distillery in the world is located there. Insulating glass with warm-edge spacers from Swisspacer also allow the best views into the distillery from the outside.
Vetreria 2M offer anything from standard-sized insulating glass to interior glass products and XXL IGUs. Keeping their lines up to the cutting edge over the last 30 years has allowed them to even supply solutions to other glassworks in the region.
Karl Lenhardt, Managing Director of Glaston Germany GmbH, passed away recently. He will be remembered as one of the pioneers of insulating glass production.
Super Spacer can lay claim to some world premieres in facade technology solutions. Here are some very spectacular examples in museum spaces.
At an altitude of 1040 m, guests at the Hostellerie am Schwarzsee hotel have a wonderful view over the lake and of the Swiss Pre-Alps. In order to preserve the prospect in the newly renovated Panorama Dining Room even when the sun is shining, switchable Harmony glass from SageGlass was installed in the facade.
In view of massively rising heating and energy costs and the advancing climate change, many historical buildings need to be modernised in terms of energy efficiency.
Alongside curved multi-pane insulating glass, large-format units are the supreme discipline in insulating glass production. Christoph Rubel, Technical Manager at Edgetech Europe examines below the use of flexible, foam-based spacers in relation to the quality of large-format insulating glass units.
Sustainable facades and architectural projects from all over the world were the focus of the "International Next Facade Summit" at Wicona + Partners' Next Studio in Frankfurt on 15 November 2022. Leading experts showed what matters today in the planning and implementation of complex buildings and facades in global markets. Here are the details.
XXL safety glass explained, curved bullet-proof triple glazing, warm edge spacers in an aluminium facade and FESTERBAU FRONTALE now to be held in July. These are our top stories of the week:
With "Fineo Hybrid" there is now an insulating glass in a 2-pane construction with one pane of it made of vacuum glass. The IG unit surpasses even triple glazing in thermal insulation and sound insulation and can be glazed into well-preserved window frames within a few minutes. The glass replacement is also subsidised by BAFA with up to 15,000 euros. Here are the details.
The copper shell for the Maersk Tower in Copenhagen is a prime example of what can be achieved when Danish architecture, Austrian steel and glass construction and German curved glass come together with Edgetech’s Super Spacer warm edge spacers. Read here how it all works:
Super Spacer insulating glass lines are at the heart of production at Deschanet. Here is the example of the Tropical House at the Zoo de Vincennes in France where Super Spacer warm edge spacers were used:
The new Deichman Bjørvika Library in Oslo: A building that is the result of an approach that combines innovative thinking and energy-efficient architecture. With skylights from Okalux playing a pivotal role:
