As the perfect way to celebrate Earth Day, Ripple Glass, a company of Strategic Materials, Inc., North America’s largest glass recycler, has announced some big recycling numbers in partnership with Owens Corning.
The climate’s chaotic disposition reveals oversights commercial construction workforces have made, but these are fixable with advances in fire-resistant building materials and resilient envelopes.
Vitro Architectural Glass announced it has updated its third-party verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) so that its architectural glass products all meet the Top 20 percent Low Embodied Carbon (LEC) material category based on standards set by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
A wonderful story of adaptive reuse, the former steel plant turned 2023 AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Award Winner features three connected buildings, now home to robotics, manufacturing and high-tech companies.
Guardian Glass has published new Environmental Product Declarations for its flat unprocessed glass products and processed glass products produced in North America.
Converting a brownfield site with demolished buildings and abandoned parking lots into a sleek curtainwall and metal paneled mid-rise, Brown & Brown’s new 11-story headquarters is a classic architectural tale of a phoenix rising from the ashes in downtown Daytona Beach.
With the launch of new Guardian CrystalClear glass in North America, architects and designers can answer the broad appeal for a highly transparent glass.
Vitro Architectural Glass announced that one of its highest-performing products, VacuMax™ Vacuum Insulating Glass (VIG), has been refined to deliver even better thermal performance and improved aesthetics.
Vitro Architectural Glass has added to its digital tool collection, introducing GlassFinder™, a new tool to help architects identify the best glass products to achieve their aesthetic and performance goals for their next project.
On-Demand: This course examines the wood and brick aesthetic of resin cast shapes and demonstrates their sustainability and performance qualities. They are durable, lightweight, easy to install, and contribute to a continuous building envelope.
On-Demand: This session will provide strategies for other cities struggling with sustainability addressing housing and transportation needs. Urban planners, architects, and policymakers will benefit most from this course.