Glaston has closed a more than $4 million (USD) deal for a heat treatment line with the Spanish company Tvitec – Técnicas de Vidro Transformado S.L. The line will be delivered to the customer in the final quarter of 2013. The ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Just a boat ride down the Waitomo Glowworm Grotto in New Zealand will lead you to a special cave filled with millions of tiny little glowing worms. Upon entering the cave you may feel as if you have entered a completely new solar system, ...
Tags: Larvae Bums, Lighting
If you have a large garage which is connected to your house, then you are one lucky person. I am saying this because most homes lack this utility space, forcing those who do not have their own garages to opt for parking spots instead. ...
Tags: Garage Floor, Rubber floor, tile
A year after a building with a glass façade in Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) caught fire, the city's municipality has come up with guidelines for such buildings which are mushrooming across the city, especially in business hubs. The ...
Three months after a blaze in a glass facade building claimed four lives at Andheri, the fire department and BMC have come out with a fresh set of guidelines for such buildings. These include openings on every floor of high-rises with ...
Tags: Glass Facades, Glass, Construction
In a collaboration project between Philips and Germany's Hochschule Wismar Architectural Lighting students this year, 10 students designed an installation entitled "Light Beats." It is an exploration of the relationship between light and ...
The newly completed 62 Buckingham Gate building, hailed by Land Securities as the jewel of its extensive transformation of London's Victoria district, owes its striking glazed facade to Saint-Gobain Glass. Conceived by architects Pelli ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
Motilal Oswal HQ is one of the brightest sparks of fresh, contemporary glass façade design in Mumbai. The building is complete with modern,energy efficient feature and a fair blend of modern trends and corporate sophistication. ...
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The Torre de Cristal at Madrid is an office building with the architecture design intended to look like a cut crystal. At 249 m and 52 floors, the glass tower is the second highest building in Spain. It features a photovoltaic dome ...
Tags: Construction Glass
The manufacturing of individually designed organic light-emitting diodes and solar cells and their combination can be realized in the near future. After three years the project ManuCloud (distributed Cloud product specification and supply ...
The manufacturing of individually designed organic light-emitting diodes and solar cells and their combination can be realized in the near future. After three years the project ManuCloud (distributed Cloud product specification and supply ...
Tags: OLED, LED, Facade Module, Lights, Lighting, solar cells
A church in Canada has developed an innovative way of producing renewable energy while retaining its grand architecture. The Cathedral of the Holy Family in Saskatoon, on the South Saskatchewan River, is the sunniest city in Canada, ...
Tags: Stained-Glass Windows, Solar Stained-Glass Windows, Construction
Some of the most advanced coated glasses available today apply three layers of silver during the magnetron sputter coating process; these are more commonly known as “triple silver” coatings and provide the glass with the ...
Tags: Silver Glass, Coating Technology
BASF has signed a contract with ROCKWOOL to sell BASF Wall Systems GmbH & Co. KG. The transaction comprises the German wall systems subsidiary including the Marktredwitz, Germany site. Currently, approximately 200 employees are working for ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The Michigan Baseball Foundation (MBF) acquired a grant from the Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network in the amount of $33,679 for converting lights and occupancy sensors to LED lighting on the exterior and front entries of Dow Diamond. ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED