A Plant Tour: Single-Source Glass Fabrication

Architectural glass offers a range of aesthetics, performance attributes, and size limitations critical to successful building design
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Other Considerations for Today’s Glazing Units

Client goals and best practices introduce additional demands on the design, fabrication and installed performance of glazing units and IGUs.

For instance, a project tracking LEED certification will need to balance thermal performance against other green design considerations, such as recycled and recyclable materials composition. Points won for reduced energy loads might be offset by high embedded energy based on a product life-cycle assessment, or LCA.

C.C. Sullivan is a marketing and content consultant specializing in the AEC industry.

Viracon

Viracon, the nation’s leading single-source architectural glass fabricator, is based in Owatonna, Minnesota, and has facilities in Statesboro, Georgia, St. George, Utah, and Nazaré Paulista, Brazil. Viracon produces high-performance glass products, including tempered, laminated, insulating, silk-screened, digital printing, and high-performance coatings, for North American and international markets. The company is a subsidiary of Apogee Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: APOG ). Apogee, headquartered in Minneapolis, is a leader in technologies involving the design and development of value-added glass products and services. For more information, visit
www.viracon.com.

 

 

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Originally published in Architectural Record
Originally published in June 2014

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