Glass façades require all-year-round environmental performance. Otherwise, in the summer time, the interior will quickly overheat and in the winter cool down. High performance double glazing and triple glazing units make it easy to maintain a stable, comfortable temperature in rooms with large surface glazing throughout the year.

Glass systems offer many interesting and varied architectural solutions. Pilkington Profilit™ allows designers and specifiers to transform courtyards into cosy interiors, enclose private and public outdoor areas under glass roofs and build stunning glass façades.

Modern architecture needs to get natural daylight in through façades and roofs into the core of the building. This is facilitated above all by transparent fire-resistant glazing in corridors, escape routes and fire compartments. Special shapes of buildings, arrangements and layouts can be achieved using fire-resistant glass products even when ...

Glass Structure There are numerous structural glass systems offered by various suppliers that open up vast possibilities for architects, allowing them to create a complete glass envelope for buildings with frameless façades on any plane.

The architectureworld is a fair and congress for architecture regarded as the most innovative event for architects, planners and building engineers. The architectural community will meet at the event to discuss façades, technology and sustainable construction. The topic of "reflection" leaves a number of different perspectives in the literal ...

As an industry, we’re now beginning to talk a lot more about how glass can affect building occupants. It’s a topic of conversation that’s easily overshadowed by the performance benefits glazing can bring to buildings themselves, like energy-efficiency and sustainability, for example.

The Pilkington Planar™ system has given architects the capability to create the stunning glass façades and canopies that are such a feature of modern landscapes. With a proven track record in the most demanding applications, the Pilkington Planar™ system enables architects to create a complete glass envelope for buildings, with façades on ...

Pilkington Planar™ provides a bolted glass surface for façades and internal walls, utilising stainless steel fittings housed in countersunk holes to fix the glass directly back to the structure. The result is a fully engineered system offering all of the properties of conventional framed façades, with the minimum of visual obstructions.

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