Growing Pains
The North American glass industry—first mired in the Recession and then in the construction market’s unsteady, sluggish recovery—is at last headed for a year of significant growth. U.S. employment has rebounded, confidence is high, and commercial construction is headed for double-digit growth, according to forecasts. However, as glass companies prepare for the busiest year since before the Recession, they face the pressures of increased demand in a much-changed industry.
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Energy Select 20 Tinted Options from AGC
 AGC Glass Company North America now offers Energy Select 20 low-emissivity triple silver coating for use with three of its most popular tinted substrates: Pure Bronze, Pure Grey and Meadow Green. Energy Select 20
provides maximum solar control, AGC officials report, offering a solar heat gain coefficient as low as .20 and light-to-solar gain ratios ranging from 1.58 to 2.02, depending on the selected tinted substrate. The new range of Energy Select 20 tinted low-E options and AGC's triple silver Energy Select 28 offer the combined benefits of maximum solar control and high visible light transmittance--designed for commercial buildings where cooling costs are of primary concern, and the energy code
requirements are more focused on the SHGC, according to AGC.
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Diamonds at Your Feet
By Katy Devlin
The story of Anne-Merelie Murrell’s time in the glass industry is the stuff of movies—fitting for the CEO of the Hollywood-adjacent Giroux Glass. It all began in 1991, when Murrell was in her early 60s and purchased the Los Angeles glass company as part of a larger real estate deal.
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From the Fabricator: Much Needed Education Everywhere
By Max Perilstein
As all of us know, the glass industry is not without its troublesome areas. If asked, many people will mention education as one of them, and it’s nice to see the efforts one company is putting towards that effort.
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University of San Francisco John Lo Schiavo Center for Science and Innovation
Contract glazier: Alcal
Glass supplier: Technical Glass Products
The new John Lo Schiavo Center for Science and Innovation at the University of San Francisco invites students into the facility with its glossy, three-story channel glass exterior, and then flows sleekly down into the hillside where below-grade laboratories and classrooms make efficient use of space on the landlocked campus. To put science on display and create buzz within the student body, the building’s architect high-performing materials, like the vertical channel glass, to
experiment with geometry, layering and lighting. The resulting space attracts students and satisfies the facility’s acoustic and thermal performance demands. Read more...
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