Articles Tagged with ''glass''

Vitro Architectural Glass hosted the U.S. General Services Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at its plant in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to announce low embodied carbon progress, its sustainability objectives and its work to improve environmental performance.

Completed in October 2023, 20 Mass, the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and F Street NW has transformed into Capitol Hill’s go-to destination thanks to Solarban^® 72 Acuity^® glass by Vitro Architectural Glass. 

Vitro Architectural Glass has added a new option, Solarban^® 65 glass, to its family of high-performance, solar control, low-e glasses. 

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.