DuPont to create glass façade for Portuguese office building

The street-facing façade of a newly-built office building belonging to Bouygues Imobiliária in Lisbon, Portugal, is formed by laminated glass panels made with strong and stiff DuPont SentryGlas interlayer. The ability of SentryGlas to create highly-resilient laminates with excellent post-breakage performance has allowed the façade engineering specialist Facal, of Santo Tirso (Portugal), to create a comparatively thinner, lighter glazing that is able to cost-effectively meet building and safety requirements and requires comparatively small point fixtures to hold the panels securely in place, according to a July 22 Construction & Maintenance report.