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Solar control glass

Redefining West Palm Beach’s skyline with revolutionary glass innovation

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One Flagler, a 25-story, 285,000-square-foot office tower in downtown West Palm Beach, is now a beacon of modern design and sustainability. Developed by Related Ross and designed by SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), the property sets a new standard for luxury office spaces and highlights innovative Solarban R77 Acuity glass by Vitro Architectural Glass.

London

AGC: Glazing so close to heaven

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The London skyscraper 8 Bishopsgate combines a striking tiered design with high-tech sustainability features – from active facades with intelligent glass to energy reuse systems. Its use of AGC Interpane glazing and cradle-to-cradle materials helps it earn top environmental certifications.

ENI’s new HQ

A LEED Gold-certified Innovation Campus with high-performance glass facades

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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.

 Solarban 70 glass, shown here on the National Security Collaboration Center of the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has a transparent, neutral aesthetic and allows ample visible light to pass through while delivering low interior and exterior reflectance to preserve views.
Solar control glass

US company Vitro presents a new solar control glass

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Vitro Architectural Glass has launched Sungate ThermL glass, a new low-emissivity (low-e) coating engineered for use on the interior surface of a typical one-inch insulating glass unit that reduces heat transfer and dramatically improves U-values when paired with a Solarban solar control low-e glass by Vitro on the second surface.

eyrise Smart Glass

Facade modernisation with 3300 square metres of switchable glass

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Today, 3300 square metres of eyrise s350 solar control glass are making an important contribution to sustainable building certification as part of a building renovation in Zurich. Here you can find out why eyerise glass was chosen.

Saint-Gobain glass for the "Redmolen" in Copenhagen

Optimum use of daylight and magnificent views

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The construction of the "Redmolen" building in Copenhagen harbour was preceded by a variety of daylight analyses. The result: a 12,000 m² unitised façade whose inclination filters the daylight as required in order to achieve optimum daylight utilisation. The facade glasses used were Cool-Lite SKN 176 and Eclaz from Saint-Gobain.

The impressive design of the 190-metre office tower was penned by the architects of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF).
AGC Interpane

Facade glass for The Scalpel in London

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A successful example of the integration of contemporary architecture in the City of London is 52 Lime Street, also known as "The Scalpel". The 190-metre office tower designed by the architects of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) is an impressive building. The facade glass came from AGC Interpane.

Retail space

Facade glass for the new Dreiländergalerie shopping mall

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Weil am Rhein has a new shopping mall for visitors from Germany, France and Switzerland. The Dreiländergalerie was designed by Chapman Taylor. The Climaplus Cool-Lite Xtreme facade glass from Saint-Gobain Glass was supplied by vandaglas from the ClimaPlusSecurit partner network, and Lamparter Stahl und Glas from Kassel acted as the installer.

Lanserhof on Sylt with IGUs from Flachglas Wernberg

Thatched roofs and lots of glass for a good atmosphere

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On the site of a former officers' home in the north of Sylt, ingenhoven associates realised the Lanserhof Sylt - a modern medical health resort. The result is buildings with impressive thatched roofs, which with their natural materials blend harmoniously into the gentle dune landscape. Sun protection is provided by Infrastop insulating glass units from Flachglas Wernberg.

In this project in France, the challenge was to improve year-round comfort in the conservatory. Fineo Solar Control protects against cooling on cold days while limiting heating in summer.
Fineo Solar Control

This glass makes for a pleasant indoor climate all year round

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With its high-quality solar control coating, the new Fineo Solar Control vacuum glass ensures that even rooms behind larger or south-facing windows and façades can maintain a pleasant indoor climate all year round.

No less than three new "Stopray" coatings now effectively protect façade glass from overheating in summer and allow plenty of daylight into the building.
AGC

New "Stopray" coatings for summer thermal insulation

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Climate change is leading to more frequent hot spells today, while at the same time demands for daylight transmission are increasing. In response, AGC Glass Europe has expanded its solar control glass range to include three new "Stopray" coatings that are highly selective, colour neutral and low reflective.

Innsbruck, Austria

A glass facade that reflects mountains in all directions

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Near Innsbruck's main railway station, a total of 173 residential units were built as part of the Pema 2. The facade architecture of the 50-metre-high building is unique. Depending on how the light falls in, it quotes the surrounding mountain formations.

The extra-light insulating glass Climatop Eclaz Solar Extra Light weighs around 30% less than standard triple IGU.
Saint-Gobain Glass

Extra-light insulating glass and extra-white shower glass

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Saint-Gobain recently launched a range of new glasses, which were presented at glasstec 2022 in Düsseldorf in September. They included an extra-light insulating glass with good sun shading and an extra-white glass for the bathroom. Here are the details:

The glass products of the new "Guardian Sun" series can be individually adapted to the requirements of different climate zones. The use of optimally matched glass thus enables a comfortable home in all seasons.
Guardian Glass: Guardian Sun

New solar control glass for residential buildings

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At glasstec 2022, glass manufacturer Guardian presented the new Guardian Sun family, whose glasses are designed to provide greater comfort in residential buildings in all seasons. The new glasses can be individually adapted to the requirements of the respective region or climate zone.

With its elegant curve, the new building of the Fraunhofer IEE in Kassel makes a striking statement towards the city centre.
Energy Glas | Schollglas

Solar control glass for new Fraunhofer IEE building in Kassel, Germany

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The facade of the new building of the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy Systems Technology IEE at the main railway station in Kassel was equipped with triple insulating glass, including Gewe-therm solar solar control glass from Schollglas. Here you can find out what role this plays in the energy concept of the building.

"Making technology come alive" is the motto of the Nuremberg branch of the Deutsches Museum. The large sunbelt D60 solar control glasses from arcon in the facade, which allow a view of the exhibits from the outside, also serve this purpose.
arcon:

sunbelt glass for the Augustinerhof in Nuremberg

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The Augustinerhof in Nuremberg's old town has recently been transformed into a new building complex that houses, among other things, a branch of the German Museum and a hotel. Striking windows with sun shading glass from arcon adorn the facade.

The new SunGuard SNX 70 solar control glass is characterised by its high light transmission.
Guardian Glass:

New solar control glass for more light and comfort

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Guardian Glass Europe has added SunGuard SNX 70 to its SunGuard eXtraSelective range of solar control glass. With its triple silver coating, it combines excellent solar control with light transmission of around 70% and high thermal insulation. Here are the details.

362 circular windows were inserted into the fixed facade glass at De Walvis. The window sashes of the portholes were specially developed by Schollglas for this project.
Schollglas: Special glass for facade renovation

A Dutch building with a new glass facade that includes portholes

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After complete renovation, Amsterdam's De Walvis office building now has a new glass facade made of highly selective glass. Here you can find out about the role played by the glass portholes, which were specially developed for the project by Schollglas.

The new MicroShade Film has a passive microstructure that is applied to a thin foil. This is then bonded to a (carrier) glass. The incoming solar rays are blocked both by the glazing and the microstructure.
GLASS + MICROSHADE FILM = SUN SHADING FOR GLASS FACADES

How MicroShade revolutionises solar shading

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Danish solar shading manufacturer, MicroShade A/S, is now launching a groundbreaking solar shading solution. Find out how this invention is redefining the function of solar shading in buildings.

Visually impressive, unobstructed views of the surroundings, high thermal protection and high energy efficiency: These are just some of the features of the eyrise solar control glass.
FC-Campus:

First office building to utilise switchable liquid crystal solar control glass

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The new FC Group headquarters is the world's first office building to be equipped with eyrise s350 solar control glass from Merck, which can be switched at the touch of a button. See here for more details:

The architects of the Nivy Tower wanted facade glass in two different shades, with virtually identical values for light transmission and thermal insulation. The special glass Eclaz One from Saint-Gobain was used.
Saint-Gobaim:

Eclaz One glass for the Nivy Tower in Bratislava

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The Nivy Tower in Bratislava is outstanding: the tower is the tallest building in the city. It is also the first building in Slovakia to be awarded the BREEAM sustainability certificate and to meet the WELL Building Standard. Here you can find out why specially coated glass from Saint-Gobain was used in its glass facade.

AGC Interpane's new Stopray Vision 70 solar control glass combines effective solar control with high daylight transmission.

Highly selective solar control glass with Cradle to Cradle certificate

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With a selectivity of 2.0, the new Stopray Vision-70 and Stopray Vision-70T temperable solar control glass products outperform all conventional double silver products, according to AGC Interpane. Find out more about the details and technical values here.

The solar control insulating glass Infrastop Q 60 25 is very neutral in appearance and transparency and meets the requirements of a colour-neutral, low-reflective facade glass.

Flachglas MarkenKreis: Low-reflection facade glass

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With Infrastop Q 60/25, the Flachglas MarkenKreis has a high-performance solar control glass for facade applications in its range. The very selective solar control glass meets the current market demand for extremely low reflection and also impresses with its other technical values.

Stopray Ultra-60 on Clearvision as used for the facade of the Astro Tower in Brussels.

AGC Interpane: Solar control glass

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AGC Interpane has unveiled a new generation of combinable, highly selective glazing: Stopray Ultra-60 on Clearvision and Stopray Ultra-60T on Clearvision, both of which are solar control coatings on low-iron glass.