Glass solutions for
Thermal insulation
improves the energy efficiency of residential or commercial buildings, whilst enabling the extensive use of glass and the benefit of passive solar gain.
Solar control
helps prevent overheating of a building and offers high levels of natural light to provide comfortable and pleasant environments to live and work in.
Sound control
helps to reduce the noise inside the premises.
Safety & security
combinations available to provide impact resistance or impact-and-penetration resistance to protect people from accidental injury, deliberate attack and damage from criminal activity.
Building with glass
how glass can be used and integrated into buildings to optimise their design, appearance, function and performance.
Understanding glass
Understanding glass – what it is, the different types of glasses and their uses, how it’s made, what its properties and benefits are – is not as simple as it may seem.
Base glass
Industrial glass – which today would be glass used in the automotive and construction industries – was originally manufactured using a system known as float glass.
Insulated glass
A series of factors and physical rules define the characteristics of insulating glass as it is used in thermal insulation and solar protection applications.
Light, Energy and Heat
The physical definitions of light, energy and heat describe defined areas of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Guardian GlassTime technical manual
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This technical manual brings together all the information available on the website in a single document.
This technical manual brings together all the information available on the website in a single document.
Learning videos
Do you need a quick refresher on a glass or glazing-related topic? Are you new to the glass business or confused by some new glass terminology? The answers are all here in our series of short educational videos.
Guardian SunGuard® SuperNeutral & eXtra Selective: High selective glass explained
Guardian SunGuard® High Performance: High performance glass explained
Guardian SunGuard® Solar: Solar control glass explained
The benefits of high solar heat gain with next generation Low E glass
Guardian ClimaGuard®: Low E glass explained
GlassTime is all about glass.
As a glass reference guide and glass encyclopaedia, GlassTime provides you with everything you need to know about glass and glazing-related topics.