PPG Industries and Walker Glass Co., Ltd., have combined proprietary technologies to create AviProtek with SOLARBAN® glass, an advanced architectural glass that unites bird-friendly, acid-etched patterns by Walker TEXTURES™ glass ...
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PPG Industries has posted a new video about specifying glass to accommodate wind and snow loads to the PPG Glass Education Center, a comprehensive website that helps architects, specifiers, students and construction industry professionals ...
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PPG Industries and Pleotint, LLC, have renewed their agreement to jointly market a commercial window glass system that combines self-tinting SUNTUITIVE glass by Pleotint with SOLARBAN low-emissivity (low-e) glass by PPG to increase occupant ...
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PPG Industries has launched an online tool that enables architects and specifiers to model energy costs for a statistically representative 12-story building constructed with selected PPG architectural glazings to optimize daylighting, heat ...
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The Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance (IGMA) has announced the speakers for its upcoming 2014 Winter Conference, scheduled for March 3-7 in San Francisco, along with additional details on the event schedule. The first full day of ...
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J.E. Berkowitz, LP, (JEB) announced the completion of the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) campus in Philadelphia. The high-tech research facility and laboratory features 18,000 square ...
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Our products are at the heart of modern architecture, engineering and construction. They play a beneficial role in addressing some of the major environmental challenges of buildings, new and old. Architects increasingly seek to bring ...
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Winning Center for Sustainable Landscapes at Phipps Conservatory uses PPG glass PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) announced that its glass products helped the Center for Sustainable Landscapes at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in ...
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Guardian Automotive reinforced its commitment to a diverse and growing set of customers within its business when it launched Custom Glass Solutions, a company dedicated to meeting the glass needs of various transportation segments sometimes ...
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Yesterday PPG announced the Bullitt Center in Seattle, commonly known as the greenest office building, is constructed with PPG glass products. The six story 50,000 sq. ft. office building located in Seattle’s central district was ...
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Now available from Guardian Glass UK: SunGuard SuperNeutral SN 29/18. The new SuperNeutral glass offers exceptional solar control with a surprisingly natural looking appearance. Excessive solar heat gain can quickly cause a ...
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Triple Insulating Glass Improves U-value and Solar Heat Gain Performance - Viracon has expanded its triple insulating glass sizes to 70 square feet, giving architects and building designers more options as energy codes become stricter. ...
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The Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance (IGMA) has added a new industry calendar feature on its website listing events pertaining to the insulating glass industry. "Now there is one place to get the best IG technical information, as ...
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The chairman of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) working group on whole building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) says he thinks it’s not if the glass industry officially embraces a specific Environmental Product ...
Pleotint, LLC, will exhibit its new Suntuitive® interlayer for laminated glass at booth 642 during the GREENBUILD® International Conference and Expo in Philadelphia, Nov. 20–22. The redeveloped Suntuitive interlayer now has a ...
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