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BUILDING GLASS

Evolution of glass in

BUILDINGS

he most remarkable most promising building
physical property of material, especially in the
a review T glass on its discovery last ten years. The author
in Mesopotamia must have
explores some of these
been its transparency. From new properties and how
of recent developments its earliest application as they have been harnessed
personal adornment to the to raise the application of
in the use of glass present day building enve- glass to yet another level.
lope, glass has stretched as NOT JUST CLEAR,
in architecture far as the imagination can ULTRA CLEAR -
reach. Although the basic LOW-IRON GLASS
component of glass is still
humble sand (silica), cen- The normal glass we use
turies of technology have has a VLT (Visible Light
transformed it into the Transmittance) of about

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