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  • 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,...

  • Role of Desiccants
    Complex subject made easy
    September 1, 2005
    Would you want to consider a “climate” inside your insulating glass unit? Probably not. During manufacture, a volume of air is trapped in IG at a certain temperature and relative humidity, then exposed to the forces of nature, heat, cold and pressures. Without a desiccant to dry the air space, the trapped moisture condenses and creates “rain” inside the IG when the...

  • Glaziers delight: Scrim walls, like those on Caltrans headquarters, are multifunctional
    August 1, 2005
    Caltrans District 7 headquarters in Los Angeles a striking addition to the bustling boulevards of downtown. The building is an architectural testament to the state transportation agency that made metropolitan L.A. the eminent car-crazed city.

  • Bent glass: Undulating and insulating
    High-technology walls on Greenwich Street wow jaded New Yorkers
    May 1, 2005
    Hidden pocket parks in Manhattan invite pedestrians to escape the discordance of bumper-to-bumper traffic, blaring horns and screaming subway trains by enveloping them in the white noise of man-made waterfalls. Winka Dubbeldam, a designer and principal in charge at Archi-tectonics in New York City, created a visual counterpart to the pocket parks at 497 Greenwich St. The building’s custom-...

  • Congregation sings praises of windows
    Curtain-wall replacement improves church’s energy efficiency
    November 1, 2004
    Few project teams receive an invitation to a church service to celebrate the completion of a window system renovation. Leaders of the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis honored specialty glazing contractor Harmon Inc.’s Minneapolis team in front of their congregation, singing the fitting tune “I Can See Clearly Now” by Roberta Flack.The Harmon team removed the original...

  • Day of the sun: Energy savings result from testing a mock-up of The New York Times’ new headquarters
    November 1, 2004
    Owners of The New York Times Co., along with researchers at the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif., constructed a 4,500-square-foot mock-up of the paper’s new headquarters in the parking lot of its College Point, Queens, printing facility. The researchers used the model of the southwest corner of the headquarters for...

  • Anthony J. Celebreeze Federal Building: Energy savings success story
    Cleveland federal building becomes energy efficient with window inserts
    July 1, 2004
    As the 2005 deadline requiring federal buildings to reduce energy use by 30 percent draws near, property managers who haven’t addressed the issue look for a cost-effective solution that requires minimal installation time and pays for itself in less than 10 years, as required by Executive Order 12902. The Anthony J. Celebreeze Federal Building in Cleveland represents one energy savings...

  • Still in love with tall buildings: And the technology advances at breakneck pace
    July 1, 2004
    By rights, the terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, should have made the world, and the international construction industry, skittish about society's ongoing fascination with skyscrapers and mega high-rise buildings.This clearly proves not the case, as seen by May’s CIB World Building Congress 2004 in Toronto. Members of the CIB, the Conseil International du...
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