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  • Skylights flood gallery with natural light
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    August 27, 2009
    The basics: Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new Broad Contemporary Art Museum building, a three-story, 72,000-square-foot structure, offers a large column-free gallery space. Two vaulted skylights flood the gallery with natural, ambient light. The skylights were designed to “fit around an unusual structure with minimal visual impact,” Groeschel says. “The end result...

  • Skylight fall protection: More than just the manufacturer’s responsibility
    February 19, 2009
    Daylighting has been proven to help students’ test scores, patients’ recovery time, retailers’ sales, and workers’ and manufacturers’ productivity, in addition to providing other benefits. However, disturbing accounts of individuals falling through roof openings, typically reported as skylights, have increased the urgency in developing fall protection standards and...

  • Project feature: skylights
    July 22, 2008
    Skylights enhance museum renovation, Pyramid House, and new airport terminal.

  • Super Dome
    Harrah’s Atlantic City pool complex pulls the sky in through its transparent cupola
    August 1, 2007
     Click here for a photo gallery on skylights. At the gaming hotel of Harrah’s Atlantic City it’s not all about the gambling. It’s also about the swimming pool. Forget the chain-link girded postage-stamp swimming holes of yesteryears. This past Memorial Day Weekend, Harrah’s unveiled its expansive 23,500 square-foot, eye-popping pool and multipurpose entertainment...

  • Guide to museum glazing: 5 storehouses of treasure
    The play of glass in the preservation of art, history
    September 1, 2005
    Museums house antiques, treasures and heritage. They conserve history and tell the story of who we are. People visit museums to view exhibits, preferably well lit. Curators and visitors, however, express dramatically opposing views of what kind of light best illuminates exhibits in a museum. The trend runs toward natural light from large expanses of glass. Nearly every current museum renovation,...

  • Glass or plastic: The question for skylights
    July 1, 2005
    There is good reason for architects’ recent emphasis on daylighting. Three different studies by the Heschong Mahone Group Inc., a research house in Fair Oaks, Calif., show that natural daylight can increase learning productivity of students, translating in the working world to higher sales in retail stores and improved employee productivity in office buildings. A major part of daylighting...

  • Future of commercial skylight market looks up
    Future of commercial skylight market looks up
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    Sunlight represents sustainability and other benefits of replacing noxious fossil fuel byproducts. As pressure to save energy mounts, green architecture and building movement drive increased use of daylighting, and the future of skylights looks bright, says John McHugh, lead technical engineer, Heschong Mahone Group Inc., Fair Oaks, Calif. Evolving building energy codes, such as the California...

  • Modern glazing provides safety, beauty
    Fire-rated curtain wall enhances IMAX theater adjacent to home of the Spruce Goose
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    On Nov. 2, 1947, famed businessman and aviator Howard Hughes taxied his hulking H-4 Hercules flying boat across the Long Beach harbor and surprised onlookers, and the world, moments later when he gunned the engines and rose above the water. Pushing engineering and design to the limits, he flew the “Spruce Goose”—the world’s largest aircraft at the time—for nearly one...

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  • The good, the bad, the suspect
    In April 2011, the U.S. International Trade Commission instituted antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum extrusion products from China, following a Department of Commerce investigation that determined 29 Chinese companies dumped some $500 million worth of extruded aluminum products into the U.S. market last year. According to the DOC, the Chinese exported their aluminum extrusions to...
  • PV Pioneers
    An increasing number of contract glaziers are getting involved in various aspects of the solar industry, from design and installation of BIPV and rooftop arrays, to product sourcing. "This is the future of where glazing is going," says Brendan Dillon, director of product marketing, Pythagoras Solar. "Solar has been developing over the last several years, and it seems like a very logical extension...
  • Between a rock and a hard place
    Cost increases have dominated the headlines the last several months, with glass and metal suppliers upping prices in response to rising raw material and operating costs. 
    Price hikesIn letters sent to customers this summer, glass and metal suppliers alike pointed to increasing raw material, fuel and operating costs as the reasons behind the price increases that took effect this June. (Visit GlassMagazine.com to see which suppliers raised prices and by how much.) Several industry representatives say prices have been deflated for years, and the increases were...