Glass for Enhanced Building Design
Glass plays a pivotal role in modern building design, affecting aesthetics, performance, and occupant comfort. With evolving technologies, glass can improve air quality, energy efficiency, and sustainability, making its selection crucial for both functional and environmental goals.
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1 AIA Health, Safety, Welfare Learning Unit
Speaker: David Murtough, Regional Sales Manager and Marketing, New England, and QuebecNSG Group – Pilkington North America, Inc., Architectural Glass.
Description:
Different buildings have differing needs for aesthetics, performance, and functional operations. Few building materials have as great an impact on all three of these areas as glass since it plays a unique and important role in building design and the environment. The use of glass in buildings affects design, appearance, thermal performance, and occupant comfort.
Historically, glass was used mainly for windows to admit air and light, but with advanced manufacturing options and the need for high performance buildings, it is now integral to interior and exterior architecture. Glass now plays a critical role in achieving a wide variety of dynamic and varied performance requirements from reducing bird strikes to generating power. These evolving technologies enable a variety of occupant and building performance improvements such as air quality improvements, fire protection, and improved acoustic performance.
Additionally, these technologies can be used to enable significant reductions in the energy usage of existing and new buildings, which further improves sustainability and the push towards zero net carbon building future. Therefore, the selection of the right types of glass is a crucial element of the design process to create solutions that not just achieve the performance and aesthetic targets, but also directly lead to the greater goals of occupant health and comfort as well achieving the macroscale building demands in terms of sustainability and operations.
Architects who understand the full range of possibilities available from glass manufacturers can use them to design the aesthetics, performance, and wellness standards required of the built environment today
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the different types of high-performance glass that are available and explain how these products impact occupant health, safety, and sustainability.
- Investigate the design potential and innovative opportunities to reduce bird strikes, improve sound attenuation, reduce fire risk, and improve surface cleanliness using advanced glass technologies.
- Acquire insights into emerging technologies being used to create glass and glazing that address broad and specific design issues including energy use.
- Assess the functional contributions of glass as it contributes to green and sustainable design in buildings in different climates.
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