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Glass. Your ally in sustainability

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Glass. Your ally in sustainability.

Sustainability is a key requirement of modern architectural design, bringing incredible opportunities and complex challenges as we build the future.

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Few materials offer the design flexibility of high-performance glass in helping achieve energy efficiency – and often without compromising aesthetics. It can be beautiful yet versatile, innovative yet timeless, able to inspire yet also able to help save energy and promote wellbeing.

E-Book: Glass, your ally in sustainability.
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DOWNLOAD OUR E-BOOK

Our new eBook introduces some important themes and case studies that start to demonstrate how glass can do this. How it:

  • Encourages us to fully use spaces by increasing natural light, providing outside views, helping to control temperatures and reducing noise.
  • Offers energy efficiency and design flexibility to help achieve sustainability goals and targets.
  • Can be used to retrofit existing buildings to help save resources.

All you have to do is register your details below to download it.

We hope you find the eBook useful and we welcome further feedback and discussion so that we can work together towards a more energy-efficient future.  

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