Glass. Your ally in sustainability
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Glass. Your ally in sustainability.
Sustainability is a key requirement of modern architectural design, bringing incredible opportunities and complex challenges as we build the future.
Few materials offer the design flexibility of high-performance glass in helping achieve energy efficiency – and often without compromising aesthetics. It can be beautiful yet versatile, innovative yet timeless, able to inspire yet also able to help save energy and promote wellbeing.
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Our new eBook introduces some important themes and case studies that start to demonstrate how glass can do this. How it:
- Encourages us to fully use spaces by increasing natural light, providing outside views, helping to control temperatures and reducing noise.
- Offers energy efficiency and design flexibility to help achieve sustainability goals and targets.
- Can be used to retrofit existing buildings to help save resources.
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We hope you find the eBook useful and we welcome further feedback and discussion so that we can work together towards a more energy-efficient future.
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