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  • Glass in GSA Buildings

    <p>Embodied carbon in buildings is a key factor in building decarbonization and while it is generally small compared to operational carbon, the…

  • Glass Spandrels and Shadow Boxes

    Glass spandrels are a common design strategy utilized to opacify floor levels in building facades. These opaque glass assemblies are integrated into

  • Glass Balustrade Design

    <p>Glass handrail design in the United States lags behind best practice in other parts of the world. There can be as much as a factor of four (4)…

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    Glass Strength Under Point Loading

    <p>Structural glass is used in a range of building applications, and while the ASTM E1300 has recently been updated to provide a design method to…

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    Undulated Glass Self-shading

    <p>The research is structured around complex optical effects of undulated glass and coatings that exhibit high reflectivity, especially at higher…

  • The Glass Failure Prediction Model

    ASTM E 1300 Standard Practice for Determining Load Resistance (LR) of Glass in Buildings defines the load resistance of a glass construction as being

  • Spandrel Glass Design

    Currently, most spandrel glass in commercial curtain walls comprises insulating glass fabricated using an interior heat strengthened glass lite that

  • Contextualizing Glass and Carbon Impacts

    Climate change goals will require significant improvements in the way buildings are constructed and operated. Building reuse can combat climate

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    All-Glass Bearing Facades

    <p>The Green Village at the TU Delft is a living lab for sustainable innovations. The Co Creation Centre (CCC) will be their new meeting center (13.5…

  • Insulating Glass Unit Gas Loss

    Concerns over time-dependent argon permeation through the perimeter edge seals of insulating glass units (IGUs) led the authors to utilize two

  • Consistency In Glass Design

    <p>Glass structural elements have become increasingly common to the point of ubiquity; however, there currently is no universally recognized and…

  • A Structural Glass Design Manual

    Other than limited special cases, there is a lack of standards providing guidance on the design of structural glass. This has resulted in an ad-hoc

  • Heat-Treated Glass

    What was once an accepted reality in heat-treated exterior glass, optical disturbances in glass are under increasing scrutiny by developers,

  • Control Tower Glass Design

    ASTM published the first version of ASTM E2461-05: Standard Practice for Determining the Thickness of Glass in Airport Traffic Control Tower Cabs in

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    Fully Tempered Glass in Spandrel Applications

    <p>Recent years have seen an increase in the use of insulated glazing units (IGUs) in spandrel applications to visually blend the appearance between…

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    Innovations with Glass

    <p>Glass has become a popular building material that is used not only for windows but also as a load-bearing material. New dimensions of glass panes…

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    Specifying Electrochromic Glass

    <p>Electrochromic (EC) glass is a seemingly magical solution to a building’s sun shading problems. A technology that was originally developed about…

  • Silicone Spandrel Glass Opacifiers

    Curtain wall design commonly uses insulating glass units for vision and spandrel glazing to provide better visual harmonization of building facade

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    Let Thin Glass in the Facade Move

    <p>Facades play an important role in the control of energy flow and energy consumption in buildings as they represent the interface between the…