The wide range of modern functional glazing now available has opened up remarkable scope for creative design in today’s architecture. Transparent designs facilitated through the replacement of solid roofs and introduction of entire ...
Tags: Resistant Glazing, toughened glass
Glass plays a key role in modern façades and structural solutions in buildings. The use of glass has expanded from mere window solutions to a whole new level. At its best, glass is a building material that offers high-tech solutions ...
Tags: Glass Industry, Glass Architecture
This ambitious slogan will be the strapline, from 2013, for architectural aluminium glazing systems specialist, Technal. For the very first time since the business was established 50 years ago, Technal has introduced a global communications ...
Tags: aluminium windows, façades, Construction
Never before has the façade industry been as challenged to innovate as it is now. Aurecon’s Steve Daniels, Global Façade Leader, and Greg Borman, Façade Engineer, discuss the changing face of façade design, ...
Tags: buildings, building practices, building skin
Pilkington Planar™ has been used to transform a Grade II Listed building into a state of the art youth centre in Middlesbrough. Prior to renovation the Georgian building, last used in 2001, was in a virtually derelict state. ...
Tags: Pilkington glazing, building, Glass
Deep overhangs and awkward soffits on buildings can cause a dilemma when trying to install glass, but these troublesome areas pose no problem for GGR and our arsenal of lifting gear, as was expertly demonstrated on this glazing job at a ...
Four new elegant and comfortable rooms. A refined taste solution, where simple and unique handcrafted items are carefully matched and integrated even in the smallest detail. This is Marioni Home Collection concept, a Made in Tuscany offer, ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, sofa, dinningroom furniture
The European Commission is currently reviewing the existing regulatory framework on food contact materials, in particular Directive 84/500/EEC for ceramic articles. Among the discussed features of this revision are: the extension of the ...
Tags: Glass, ceramic articles, glass materials
Architects have unprecedented opportunities to bring their design visions to life with the launch of Pilkington Planar Crystal Connect. The latest addition to the world’s leading structural glazing system, Pilkington Planar Crystal ...
The international technology group SCHOTT will be presenting solutions in the areas of security and fire protection, as well as architecture and design, at BAU 2013. One particularly spectacular highlight at the exhibition will be the ...
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Glass for Europe releases new evidences of glazing benefits to sustainable buildings. The latter were gathered by David Strong Consulting in a recent study on the distinctive benefits of glazing, which highlights the socio-economic ...
Tags: Glass, Europe, Sustainable Buildings
Glass for Europe is the trade association for Europe’s manufacturers of flat glass. Flat glass is the material that goes into a variety of end-products and primarily in windows and façades for buildings, windscreens and windows ...
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With thousands of visitors descending on London in 2012, some of the city's more aged infrastructure desperately needed upgrading. Blackfriars and Stratford Regional were among the railway stations chosen for major redevelopment. Pilkington ...
Tags: London, Pilkington Planar, structural glazing system, Stratford Regional
We cordially invite you to participate in GLASS Glass Industry Fair, which will be held on 29 January – 1 February 2013 in PoznaÅ„. In the same place and at the same time there will also be held BUDMA International ...
Tags: GLASS Glass Industry Fair, glass, construction, self-cleaning facade
Dip-Tech, the world-leading provider of digital ceramic in-glass printing solutions, today announced that it has received ABZ-70.1-75 certification from the Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (German Institute for Civil Engineering). ...
Tags: glass panel, Structural glazing, glass, Dow Corning