Which safety glass is right for the application? Read more to find out.

How Well Do you Know your Safety Glass?

Safety glass is designed to resist breaking and to minimize the risk of injury when it does break.

Safety glass comes in two forms:

tempered
laminated

Tempered Glass is four times stronger than annealed glass of the same thickness. Tempered glass is heated in an tempering furnace to a precise softening point and then quickly air-cooled.

The tempering process is what makes the glass safe. If a tempered piece of glass breaks, it breaks in small, relatively harmless, diced-size pieces.

Laminated Glass is two or more glass sheets with one or more interlayers of plastic(PVB) or resin. When laminated glass breaks, the interlayer(s) holds the glass fragments in place, and prevents the glass from breaking into sharp pieces. Laminated glass offers superior safety and other benefits including security and sound transmission control. It also prevents pass-through of objects and increase protection against fall-out and penetration of the opening.

Applications and Safety Glass

Building Code Regulations

Tempered or laminated glass as well as building code regulations should be considered for all safety applications including but not limited to:

Glass doors & sidelites
Glass enclosures
Partitions
Glass Shelves
Table tops
All frameless glass installations
Glass surrounds for bathtubs, showers, hot tubs, saunas
Glass railings and balustrades

For more information on glass safety and applications, go to Bendheim Glass' website:

http://www.bendheim.com/news/article.cfm?id=97

Attention Architects
Learn More About Glass Safety and Application

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Course:

Decorative Architectural Glass for Aesthetics & Sustainability (#BEND03); Credits: 1 LU HSW.

Learning Objectives:

Identify two or more methods to manufacture architectural glass
Discuss the two major types of safety glass, their benefits and required applications
Select the optimal decorative specialty glass to enhance your project's aesthetics, functional, and environmental performance
Identify the LEED category/categories where a select decorative glass can contribute points

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