A new architectural glass catalogue published by PPG Industries features spectacular photography of 40 building projects along with detailed descriptions and performance data for more than two dozen architectural glass products.
PPG Industries has published a new architectural glass catalogue that features spectacular photography of 40 building projects along with detailed descriptions and performance data for more than two dozen architectural glass products, including Solarban® 67 glass and Sungate® 600 glass, both introduced this year.
The 40-page booklet, last updated in 2010, also details two new online tools, the PPG Glass Education Center and PPG Glass eVIEW, which enables architects, glazing contractors and other industry professionals to search for, filter and visualize hundreds of potential glazing configurations to identify the best solutions for their projects. A digital version of the catalogue can be downloaded from www.ppgideascapes.com.
Glenn T. Miner, PPG director, construction, flat glass, said the glass catalogue remains a valuable tool for architects and specifiers. “We have made substantial investments in online resources the last few years,” he said. “Nevertheless, we have found that there is still high demand for the printed catalogue because it contains all the product descriptions, product data and other information designers and customers need in a convenient, portable package.”
The brochure contains an educational section on glass and energy management that explains how low-emissivity (low-E) glass such as Solarban and Sungate products can reduce energy use in homes and commercial buildings. It includes illustrations for terms such as visible light transmittance (VLT), solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC), light-to-solar-gain (LSG) ratio and U-value.
There is also information about other advanced PPG products.
PPG is the first company to have its entire collection of architectural glass products approved through the Cradle To Cradle Certified(CM) programme.