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What's your challenge?
Design with glass

From anti-reflection to color tints, modern glass enhances design in many ways.

Build with glass

Whatever the construction challenge, we have the glass to help meet it.

Glass for your home

See how the correct choice of glass can help transform a home – and even our wellbeing.

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122 Leadenhall - 'The Cheesegrater'

The 75,000 square metres façade features a curtain wall that is double glazed to allow for a high solar protection on neutral-looking glass.

Fruit and Wool Exchange

The new-build façades are predominately brick-faced, with punched windows to reflect the surrounding context.

Caudwell International

Curved glass, punch windows and precast stone panels make up the envelope on a figure-of-eight footprint.

All our projects

From landmark construction projects to innovative residential builds, this is how our glass can make the difference.

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Our story

Just as we were in 1932, we're ready to meet the challenges of now and the future

Environmental Stewardship

Find out more about how glass can support sustainable design

Quality control

We strive for quality in everything we do

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Glass Analytics

Access our comprehensive suite of engineering and analytical tools

BIM objects

Download and use our standardized Guardian BIM content to create project specific BIM files

Seminars and online learning

For anyone who is interested in learning more about glass and its use

Float glass

The foundation of all we do

Float glass has been at the core of everything we do since 1970, and it remains so today. It’s incredible how this material has become such a key feature of architectural design. Advancements such as solar control and thermal insulation mean that float glass is essential to how we design, build and live today.

  • Guardian ExtraClear®

    Guardian ExtraClear®

    Guardian ExtraClear® glass contains less iron than standard float glass. This greatly enhances the color neutrality and also natural light transmission – to offer clearer, cleaner, more natural views wherever it’s positioned.

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  • Guardian UltraClear®

    Guardian UltraClear®

    Guardian UltraClear® is a low-iron glass with a brilliantly clear, neutral color that offers incredible aesthetic benefits. It can be used for any application, but is especially suited as a base glass for architectural, interior and specialty applications.

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