Bird-friendly

Key developments in bird-friendly glass, including new legislation, cutting-edge technologies and application strategies.

Bird-friendly glass remains a niche product largely limited to high-profile commercial projects, but to meaningfully reduce the more than one billion annual bird deaths from glass collisions in the U.S., it must become a mainstream option across residential and smaller-scale commercial markets.…

Guardian Glass partnered with BirdLife International on “Designing Safer Skies,” a Global Flyways series episode exploring how the built environment can help reduce bird-glass collisions, featuring a first look at Guardian’s Bird1st Mirage glass solution expected to launch in 2027.

Recent incidents involving a school shooting in Bend, Oregon, and a mass bird strike at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Global Hub highlight the consequences of partial adoption of security and bird-friendly glazing products, reinforcing the industry’s need to push harder on education and…

Last week, the National Glass Association staff and 23 leading members of the glass and fenestration industries went to Capitol Hill to advocate for architectural glass as the material choice for the spaces where people live, play, learn, work and heal.

As awareness of bird safety grows, architects, building owners and states, cities and municipalities are increasingly working to mitigate bird collisions. Yet unlike long established product categories, bird-safe glass lacks a fully standardized set of performance and durability benchmarks. That…

Bird-friendly glass solutions protect birds without compromising aesthetics, performance.

As part of its Thirsty Thursday webinar series, National Glass Association code consultant Nick Resetar, Roetzel & Andress, shared updates on existing American and Canadian legislation and ordinances to help navigate the rules around bird-friendly glazing during his “Navigate Legislation for…

The glass industry steps up to protect animals with architectural glass solutions.

New design trends in the decorative glass market call for larger sizes, custom designs, vibrant colors, new inks, multi-functional products and more. Successful glass fabricators keep a close watch on emerging trends, track relevant changes in codes and standards, and implement factory best…

The glass industry has faced growing scrutiny in recent years over bird deaths caused by collisions with glass façades. Most in our industry know that those collisions could have been prevented through bird-friendly design and product solutions. Word of these solutions has yet to reach…