Topic Terms: Product Spotlight, Specialty glass
Sleek Fire-Rated Systems Elevate Design at Costco’s New HQ
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At Costco’s new 624,000-sq.-ft. Building 4 in Issaquah, WA, expansive glazing defines the open, collaborative environment. To meet code without sacrificing visibility, designers turned to Fireframes® Curtainwall Series and Fireframes® Designer Series full-lite doors with Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-rated glass. Installed on Levels 1 and 9 of each main stairwell, these assemblies provide up to 120 minutes of fire protection while preserving openness. The slim steel profiles match adjacent non-rated systems for seamless visual flow, enhancing sightlines and wayfinding. TGP’s fire-rated solutions allow form and function to coexist—ensuring safety without compromising design.
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Sleek Fire-Rated Systems Elevate Design at Costco’s New HQ
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At Costco’s new 624,000-sq.-ft. Building 4 in Issaquah, WA, expansive glazing defines the open, collaborative environment. To meet code without sacrificing visibility, designers turned to Fireframes® Curtainwall Series and Fireframes® Designer Series full-lite doors with Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-rated glass. Installed on Levels 1 and 9 of each main stairwell, these assemblies provide up to 120 minutes of fire protection while preserving openness. The slim steel profiles match adjacent non-rated systems for seamless visual flow, enhancing sightlines and wayfinding. TGP’s fire-rated solutions allow form and function to coexist—ensuring safety without compromising design.
Read more here
Sleek Fire-Rated Systems Elevate Design at Costco’s New HQ
ADVERTISEMENT
At Costco’s new 624,000-sq.-ft. Building 4 in Issaquah, WA, expansive glazing defines the open, collaborative environment. To meet code without sacrificing visibility, designers turned to Fireframes® Curtainwall Series and Fireframes® Designer Series full-lite doors with Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-rated glass. Installed on Levels 1 and 9 of each main stairwell, these assemblies provide up to 120 minutes of fire protection while preserving openness. The slim steel profiles match adjacent non-rated systems for seamless visual flow, enhancing sightlines and wayfinding. TGP’s fire-rated solutions allow form and function to coexist—ensuring safety without compromising design.
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Painted glass solution
Designed to enhance the aesthetic versatility of building façades, Spandrelite glass is a painted glass solution that transforms structural elements into visual features, offering architects and designers a tool to achieve their design visions.
Spandrelite glass comes in three colors, black, white and warm gray. It helps obscure unsightly building components while delivering durability and resisting moisture, heat and UV exposure.
Spandrelite glass is shipped as annealed and must be heat-treated as part of final processing to fully cure the coating and to withstand impact and scratches that pose a threat to exterior glass. As a result, pre-coated stock sheets of Spandrelite glass can easily be kept in inventory by fabricators across the country for faster order fulfillment.
Spandrelite glass is available from hundreds of Vitro glass fabricators in the U.S. and Canada.
Painted glass solution
Designed to enhance the aesthetic versatility of building façades, Spandrelite glass is a painted glass solution that transforms structural elements into visual features, offering architects and designers a tool to achieve their design visions.
Spandrelite glass comes in three colors, black, white and warm gray. It helps obscure unsightly building components while delivering durability and resisting moisture, heat and UV exposure.
Spandrelite glass is shipped as annealed and must be heat-treated as part of final processing to fully cure the coating and to withstand impact and scratches that pose a threat to exterior glass. As a result, pre-coated stock sheets of Spandrelite glass can easily be kept in inventory by fabricators across the country for faster order fulfillment.
Spandrelite glass is available from hundreds of Vitro glass fabricators in the U.S. and Canada.
Glass Wall Office Partition
CRL's Cascade Office Partition meets a need for contemporary office interiors that call for glass partitions with minimal designs that promote daylighting and transparency. Concealed glass channels and no vertical extrusions produce expansive glass spans that are conducive to dynamic workspaces. Cascade is a scalable glass wall solution that seamlessly defines interiors and can be customized to the specific needs of a project. The system is ideal for conference rooms, office fronts, study rooms, waiting rooms, and lobbies. Cascade is available in Matte Black, Bronze Anodized, Satin Anodized, Polished Brass, Polished Stainless, Brushed Stainless and Black Powder Coat.
Glass Wall Office Partition
CRL's Cascade Office Partition meets a need for contemporary office interiors that call for glass partitions with minimal designs that promote daylighting and transparency. Concealed glass channels and no vertical extrusions produce expansive glass spans that are conducive to dynamic workspaces. Cascade is a scalable glass wall solution that seamlessly defines interiors and can be customized to the specific needs of a project. The system is ideal for conference rooms, office fronts, study rooms, waiting rooms, and lobbies. Cascade is available in Matte Black, Bronze Anodized, Satin Anodized, Polished Brass, Polished Stainless, Brushed Stainless and Black Powder Coat.
fire-resistive glazing
Contraflam One fire-resistive glazing, a low embodied carbon variant of Contraflam, is distinguished by a single-chamber foaming interlayer for all fire resistance performance classifications, from 60 to 120 minutes, due to its Hybridcore technology. Delivering outstanding fire-rated capabilities, Contraflam One’s light transmission values and significant weight savings empower architects and contractors with increased customization options and easier installation, providing benefits all the way down the value chain.
fire-resistive glazing
Contraflam One fire-resistive glazing, a low embodied carbon variant of Contraflam, is distinguished by a single-chamber foaming interlayer for all fire resistance performance classifications, from 60 to 120 minutes, due to its Hybridcore technology. Delivering outstanding fire-rated capabilities, Contraflam One’s light transmission values and significant weight savings empower architects and contractors with increased customization options and easier installation, providing benefits all the way down the value chain.
bird-friendly glass
AviProtek bird-friendly glass feature acid-etched visual markers on the exterior surface, or surface one, that maximize the visibility of patterns to birds and minimize the risk of collision. Suited for use in guard rails, linkways and shelters, AviProtek bird-friendly glass can also help with project certification under green building rating systems. All AviProtek bird-friendly glass comes with a 10-year warranty against surface degradation and is supported by EPD and HPD documentation.