Understanding Low-E Coatings
Balancing aesthetics and performance: selecting the right low-e coatings to enhance energy efficiency and meet building codes
Sponsored by Vitro Architectural Glass
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This course will explain how to prioritize and balance the unique aesthetic and performance needs of your project—no matter how big or small. Although aesthetics is typically the first priority, making low-emissivity (low-e) coating selections is critical to executing building performance strategies. Using clear, low-iron, and performance-tinted glass can also help you provide your client with a high-performing building—all while still meeting code.
Corporativo Legaria
ARCHITECT: ZVA Arquitectos
Vitro Architectural Glass (formerly PPG Glass), North America’s largest glass producer, is dedicated to glass innovation and fueled by the same people, plants and products that made PPG Glass one of the industry’s most respected and reliable commercial glass manufacturers.
Originally published in Industrial Safety & Hygiene News
Originally published in May 2018
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Define the solar energy spectrum and common glass performance measures.
- Assess the manufacturing processes for pyrolytic and magnetron sputter vacuum deposition (MSVD) low-e coatings.
- Describe how passive and solar-control low-e coatings differ, and how they impact glass performance measures.
- Explain commercial energy usage and how low-e coatings can improve energy efficiency and earn LEED credit contributions.
