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  • RavenBrick, Trulite team up to provide dynamic windows for NREL facility
    September 26, 2011
    RavenBrick announced it has completed the installation of its smart window technology, RavenWindow, at the US Department of Energy's Research Support Facility on the campus of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, with the support of Trulite Glass & Aluminum Solutions.On a sunny winter day, when solar heat is desired, RavenWindow's self-tinting, heat-activated filter allows...

  • Falling glass blocks Toronto's Bay Street
    September 6, 2011
    Police blocked Bay Street in both directions from Grenville Street to Grosvenor Street at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, after another pane of balcony glass fell off a new condo tower, more than 40 stories high, that rises right across from Toronto Police headquarters, according to a same-day National Post report.A balcony on the north side of the tower, more than 30 stories in the air,...

  • Glass balcony panels shatter to sidewalk outside Four Seasons in Seattle
    September 2, 2011
    Owners of the exclusive Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences near Seattle's Pike Place Market are removing all 300 glass balcony railing panels after glass fell from upper floors in three separate incidents, according to a Sept. 2 article in The Seattle Times.More glass fell from the building again Sunday, Aug. 28, marking the third time in a year that glass has rained down from condominium...

  • High-rise window breaks in downtown Indianapolis, raining glass
    August 31, 2011
    Police shut down a one block stretch of Indianapolis' Ohio Street after a window shattered on a downtown high-rise, sending small pieces of glass crashing to the pavement, Aug. 31, according to a same-day IndyStar.com report. 

  • Toronto glass railing installer says it supports installation of heat treated laminated glass balcony railings

    August 22, 2011
    Toro Aluminum Railings, the balcony guard railing manufacturer that installed some of the glass railings at the downtown Toronto condominiums where glass balcony lites have fallen in recent months, issued an Aug. 19 Market Wire release stating that the company is "working with industry partners, developers, glass engineers, the city and other glass railing manufacturers to examine the...

  • Glass-roofed Apple Store gains approval in Santa Monica
    August 19, 2011
    The Santa Monica Planning Commission approved a plan for an Apple store with a giant glass roof, according to an Aug. 18 article from Apple Insider. The retail store will be located in the city's Third Street Promenade. 

  • Hilboldt Curtainwall awarded Lambert Airport window replacement contract
    August 18, 2011
    Almost four months after the Good Friday tornado, Lambert Airport has decided that Hilboldt Curtainwall, ranked No. 41 on Glass Magazine's most recent Top 50 Glaziers list, will replace the glass in Terminal 1, according to an Aug. 17 Foxs2Now report.The new glass will be laminated and twice as thick as the original. Hilboldt will replace more than 300 windows, at a cost of $900,000, by...

  • Laminated glass to replace tempered balcony panels at troubled Toronto condos

    August 18, 2011
    In an Aug. 17 statement to the media, Lanterra Developments, developer of the Toronto condominium developments that have been shedding glass balcony lites in recent months, announced that it will immediately remove the glass panels and railing systems in the affected buildings at the Bedford, Grenville and Grosvenor addresses. Lanterra is taking this action at the recommendation of ...

  • More than 10,000 windows enclose the new Reykjavik Concert Hall
    August 15, 2011
    The new Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Center, or Harpa, set to open Aug. 20, features more than 10,000 glass windows and a double wall façade of prismatic glass pieces, according to an Aug. 15 feature in Newsweek Magazine. The building was designed by Henning Larsen Architects of Copenhagen and artist Olafur Eliasson. 

  • BC Industries awarded glazing contract for Progression Place in Washington DC
    August 10, 2011
    BC Industries was recently awarded the glazing package contract for the Offices at Progression Place, located at 7th and S Street, NW, in Washington’s historic Shaw neighborhood, according to an Aug. 9 company release.BCI will fabricate and install all of the exterior glazing, which includes its unitized and pre-glazed 700 Series curtain wall system. The Offices at Progression Place is...
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