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Fire-Rated Glazing Shapes Safer, Daylit School Design

Eric Hamber Secondary School sets a benchmark for modern, safety-driven educational design in Vancouver, BC. Replacing a 1960s facility, the building integrates advanced fire- and life-safety strategies with open, student-centered spaces. Central to this vision are fire-rated glazing systems from Technical Glass Products, including the Fireframes SG Curtainwall® Series with Pilkington Pyrostop® transparent wall panels and Fireframes® Designer Series Doors paired with Fireframes Aluminum Series sidelites and transoms.  These systems enable expansive glazed openings that support compartmentation and safe egress while preserving daylight and visibility. The result is a resilient, code-compliant school that demonstrates how fire-rated glazing can seamlessly unite safety, performance, and contemporary design.

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Fire-Rated Glazing Shapes Safer, Daylit School Design

Eric Hamber Secondary School sets a benchmark for modern, safety-driven educational design in Vancouver, BC. Replacing a 1960s facility, the building integrates advanced fire- and life-safety strategies with open, student-centered spaces. Central to this vision are fire-rated glazing systems from Technical Glass Products, including the Fireframes SG Curtainwall® Series with Pilkington Pyrostop® transparent wall panels and Fireframes® Designer Series Doors paired with Fireframes Aluminum Series sidelites and transoms.  These systems enable expansive glazed openings that support compartmentation and safe egress while preserving daylight and visibility. The result is a resilient, code-compliant school that demonstrates how fire-rated glazing can seamlessly unite safety, performance, and contemporary design.

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Fire-Rated Glazing Shapes Safer, Daylit School Design

Eric Hamber Secondary School sets a benchmark for modern, safety-driven educational design in Vancouver, BC. Replacing a 1960s facility, the building integrates advanced fire- and life-safety strategies with open, student-centered spaces. Central to this vision are fire-rated glazing systems from Technical Glass Products, including the Fireframes SG Curtainwall® Series with Pilkington Pyrostop® transparent wall panels and Fireframes® Designer Series Doors paired with Fireframes Aluminum Series sidelites and transoms.  These systems enable expansive glazed openings that support compartmentation and safe egress while preserving daylight and visibility. The result is a resilient, code-compliant school that demonstrates how fire-rated glazing can seamlessly unite safety, performance, and contemporary design.

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One challenge in safer school design is balancing physical security and free egress routes with welcoming interior spaces. TGProtect™ FR System provides a transparent solution. As North America’s first full-lite, fire-rated door system certified to forced entry standards, this attack-resistant door assembly provides multiple forms of protection simultaneously. Featuring a die-rolled steel profile swinging door with optional sidelite(s), TGProtect FR System has the narrowest sightlines available with a fire rating. Pre-hung, pre-finished and easy to install, it is ideal for school applications and complements adjacent non-fire-rated doors. 

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One challenge in safer school design is balancing physical security and free egress routes with welcoming interior spaces. TGProtect™ FR System provides a transparent solution. As North America’s first full-lite, fire-rated door system certified to forced entry standards, this attack-resistant door assembly provides multiple forms of protection simultaneously. Featuring a die-rolled steel profile swinging door with optional sidelite(s), TGProtect FR System has the narrowest sightlines available with a fire rating. Pre-hung, pre-finished and easy to install, it is ideal for school applications and complements adjacent non-fire-rated doors. 

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One challenge in safer school design is balancing physical security and free egress routes with welcoming interior spaces. TGProtect™ FR System provides a transparent solution. As North America’s first full-lite, fire-rated door system certified to forced entry standards, this attack-resistant door assembly provides multiple forms of protection simultaneously. Featuring a die-rolled steel profile swinging door with optional sidelite(s), TGProtect FR System has the narrowest sightlines available with a fire rating. Pre-hung, pre-finished and easy to install, it is ideal for school applications and complements adjacent non-fire-rated doors. 

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One challenge in safer school design is balancing physical security and free egress routes with welcoming interior spaces. TGProtect™ FR System provides a transparent solution. As North America’s first full-lite, fire-rated door system certified to forced entry standards, this attack-resistant door assembly provides multiple forms of protection simultaneously. Featuring a die-rolled steel profile swinging door with optional sidelite(s), TGProtect FR System has the narrowest sightlines available with a fire rating. Pre-hung, pre-finished and easy to install, it is ideal for school applications and complements adjacent non-fire-rated doors. 

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Technical Glass Products’ (TGP) Fireframes ClearView® System helped create a sense of openness within University of Pittsburgh’s Allen Magee Scaife Hall. Able to defend against fire, smoke and heat transfer, this fire-rated glazing system joins pieces of Pilkington Pyrostop®, low-iron, fire-rated and impact safety-rated glass with nearly colorless butt-glazed joints. This eliminates the need for vertical mullions within TGP’s Fireframes® Heat Barrier perimeter frames, maximizing the amount of glazing possible. Providing unobstructed sightlines through the building’s central stairwell, the Fireframes ClearView System contributes to the hall’s open design and offers a close visual match to adjacent non-rated assemblies. 

To learn more about how this butt-glazed, fire-rated system can help facilitate code-compliant designs without aesthetic compromise, click here.  

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Technical Glass Products’ (TGP) Fireframes ClearView® System helped create a sense of openness within University of Pittsburgh’s Allen Magee Scaife Hall. Able to defend against fire, smoke and heat transfer, this fire-rated glazing system joins pieces of Pilkington Pyrostop®, low-iron, fire-rated and impact safety-rated glass with nearly colorless butt-glazed joints. This eliminates the need for vertical mullions within TGP’s Fireframes® Heat Barrier perimeter frames, maximizing the amount of glazing possible. Providing unobstructed sightlines through the building’s central stairwell, the Fireframes ClearView System contributes to the hall’s open design and offers a close visual match to adjacent non-rated assemblies. 

To learn more about how this butt-glazed, fire-rated system can help facilitate code-compliant designs without aesthetic compromise, click here.  

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Technical Glass Products’ (TGP) Fireframes ClearView® System helped create a sense of openness within University of Pittsburgh’s Allen Magee Scaife Hall. Able to defend against fire, smoke and heat transfer, this fire-rated glazing system joins pieces of Pilkington Pyrostop®, low-iron, fire-rated and impact safety-rated glass with nearly colorless butt-glazed joints. This eliminates the need for vertical mullions within TGP’s Fireframes® Heat Barrier perimeter frames, maximizing the amount of glazing possible. Providing unobstructed sightlines through the building’s central stairwell, the Fireframes ClearView System contributes to the hall’s open design and offers a close visual match to adjacent non-rated assemblies. 

To learn more about how this butt-glazed, fire-rated system can help facilitate code-compliant designs without aesthetic compromise, click here.