All the information you need to specify Pilkington products in your projects. Your source of information on all of Pilkington's architectural glass products, including doors, roofs, structural glazing & other glass solutions.

A self-supporting glazing system, Pilkington Profilit™ Profiled Glass Architectural System offers a wide range of design options. With its significantly higher design flexibility, Pilkington Profilit™ Glass is an excellent alternative to glass block and other translucent materials.

It is inspired by the most creative uses of glass in buildings today and focuses on those where architects have combined functionality and sustainability with design. All of the projects in this edition are unique.

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Glass can be used to create building interiors which connect occupants with the external environment, combining unbroken views of the surrounding nature and high level of natural light with the comfort and safety of the internal environment.

We supply our glass in a non-fabricated, non-assembled form to our customer base, who then perform any fabrication of the glass as required (cutting of glass to the proper size, heating treating, insulating glass, or laminating). We would recommend contacting a local glazing contractor to assist you with any budget information.

Solar control is a key issue in terms of energy saving: Our range of solar control products cover all architectural requirements, offering solutions for large and small glazed areas of all types of buildings. Glass manages solar heat radiation by three mechanisms: reflectance, transmittance and absorbance.

Glass can be used for its mechanical strength in a number of situations. In architecture it can be designed to withstand the varied loads that the world's weather systems can throw at it. You cannot say that the glass will never break but the probability of it breaking can be minimized.

Fortunately glass can be modified to change these properties and reduce the risk of injury dramatically. There are standards and codes of practice that state where impact resistant glass must be used but the list of locations is not exhaustive.

Pilkington AviSafe™ features a UV enhanced pattern that’s more visible to birds than it is to humans, which helps to prevent these collisions and ensures maximum transparency, while maintaining the aesthetical appeal of glass in architecture.