Based on a polyisobutylene (PIB) formulation with integrated desiccants, Butylver TPS provides rapid adhesion to both glass and secondary sealants while ensuring low moisture permeability and stable performance for cavity widths of up to 20 mm. The system also enables the production of complex IGU geometries, including round and non-standard shapes, offering greater design flexibility for fabricators.

Its integrated design simplifies production by eliminating compatibility issues between separate spacer, sealant and desiccant materials, while reducing inventory requirements and streamlining quality control. By consolidating multiple functions into a single product, Butylver TPS supports faster automated production, lower material handling and more efficient manufacturing processes, while maintaining reliable warm edge performance and long-term durability in insulating glass applications.

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The EPD certifications were issued in accordance with ISO 14025 and EN 15804, two internationally recognised standards for assessing and reporting the environmental performance of construction products. The certification process involved an independent, third-party verified life-cycle assessment, evaluating environmental impacts from raw material sourcing and manufacturing through transportation, product use and end-of-life recycling.

The certified portfolio covers ten specialised VIG applications, including architectural curtain wall systems, integrated windows and doors, medical cold-chain solutions and home appliance glass. By providing transparent, verified environmental data across every stage of the product life cycle, the certifications support architects, developers and manufacturers seeking materials for ultra-low-energy buildings, green healthcare facilities, zero-carbon industrial parks and other sustainable construction projects.

Environmental Product Declarations have become increasingly important in global construction markets, serving as independently verified documents that quantify indicators such as carbon footprint, water consumption and pollutant emissions. Their transparency and comparability make them a key requirement for many international green building certification schemes and procurement processes.

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The new range covers washing requirements from standard glass sizes to jumbo glass processing, enabling manufacturers to compare equipment, review specifications, and configure suitable solutions through a single platform. By integrating glass washers into its existing system, Uniglass simplifies equipment selection and quotation, reducing the need to work with multiple suppliers.

Designed as high-performance stand-alone machines, the glass washers can also be integrated into existing production lines. This allows processors to install the equipment independently or connect it with broader manufacturing systems as production requirements evolve.

The washing systems are engineered to provide consistent cleaning and drying while ensuring stable and gentle glass handling throughout the process. Proper surface preparation supports downstream applications including coating, laminating, tempering, and insulated glass manufacturing, helping reduce defects and improve production quality.

The portfolio is suitable for a variety of glass types and processing applications while incorporating optimized water, energy, and resource consumption. According to Pyry Ollonqvist, the expansion enables customers to configure more production equipment through a single platform while maintaining a transparent and streamlined purchasing process.

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Forel’s Sorting System Art. SS is designed to address this challenge by acting as an intelligent buffer between cutting and subsequent production stages. Rather than functioning as a simple storage area, the system automatically sorts, stores, and retrieves glass sheets according to production priorities and downstream requirements.

This capability is particularly valuable in facilities processing a high mix of products. Window manufacturers, IGU producers, and facade fabricators frequently handle multiple glass dimensions, thicknesses, and order references within the same shift. Without an organized sorting solution, operators often spend valuable time locating specific sheets, rearranging stock, or manually routing glass to the correct destination.

The Art. SS eliminates these inefficiencies by maintaining a structured inventory of work-in-progress products. Glass sheets are automatically assigned storage positions and retrieved in the sequence required by the next production stage. This ensures that tempering furnaces, insulating glass assembly lines, edging machines, or other downstream processes receive the correct glass at the right time.

For custom architectural projects and contract glazing applications, where delivery schedules and production priorities can change rapidly, the system provides greater operational flexibility. Urgent orders can be prioritized without disrupting the entire production flow, reducing delays and minimizing manual intervention.

Another significant advantage is the reduction of glass handling. Every manual movement increases the risk of scratches, breakage, and production errors. By automating transport and storage operations, the Sorting System Art. SS contributes to higher product quality while improving workplace safety.

The system also supports better space utilization within the factory. Instead of accumulating glass racks throughout the production area, semi-finished products are stored in an organized structure, creating cleaner workflows and more efficient material movement.

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The project’s defining spatial logic is derived from a repetitive trapezoidal module rotated along a continuous curved axis. This generates a serpentine massing strategy that organizes the building as a continuous infrastructural loop rather than discrete blocks. The resulting geometry enables a calibrated distribution of built volume around preserved site vegetation, producing a sequence of semi-enclosed courtyards that function as intermediate social and environmental buffers. These voids are not residual spaces but intentionally programmed micro-environments supporting informal interaction, visual permeability, and daylight penetration.

A critical architectural decision is the elevation of the building into a continuous landscape roof, extending the ground plane into a six-storey elevated topography. This green roof system operates as both ecological infrastructure and spatial extension, incorporating grass and flowering vegetation while supporting a continuous circulation path. It functions as a public-like linear park, offering panoramic visual access toward Lake Lyngby and reinforcing the project’s conceptual positioning of architecture as inhabitable landscape rather than object-based construction.

Environmental performance is embedded in both envelope and systems design. The façade incorporates approximately 4,000 insulated glazing units utilizing Pilkington Suncool 70/40 supplied by Glaseksperten A/S. This specification achieves a controlled solar gain strategy, balancing high daylight transmittance with reduced thermal load, thereby mitigating cooling demand while maintaining visual continuity with the surrounding landscape. In parallel, energy recovery ventilation systems are implemented, enabling up to 90% heat recovery from exhaust air, while floor slab thermal mass contributes to diurnal load stabilization.

The project operates under a DGNB Gold certification framework, reflecting integrated sustainability criteria across environmental, economic, and social dimensions. Key strategies include stormwater retention via the extensive green roof system, reduction of urban heat island effects, and enhancement of local biodiversity through layered planting strategies. The façade and building envelope are calibrated to optimize daylight autonomy while minimizing operational energy consumption.

Programmatically, the development is structured around a dual hierarchy: private residential units and a dense network of shared infrastructure. Interior planning, developed by Studio Aisslinger, prioritizes compact private living conditions supplemented by extensive communal programming, including shared kitchens, laundries, fitness areas, and study environments. A central communal volume functions as the social condensate of the scheme, explicitly designed to facilitate cross-cohort interaction between students and senior residents, reinforcing the project’s intergenerational housing model.

The architectural and urban strategy positions Basecamp Lyngby within a broader discourse on socially sustainable housing typologies, particularly the reconfiguration of student accommodation as a hybridized civic infrastructure. The project has received multiple international recognitions, including the Golden A’ Design Award in Architecture (2020), the Iconic Award for Architecture (2020), and the Green Cities Europe Award (2023), reflecting its relevance as a reference case for integrated design approaches combining modular construction logic, landscape urbanism, and high-performance building envelopes.

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Unlike conventional insulating glass units that rely on argon or krypton gas between panes, this new system uses a vacuum layer to significantly reduce heat transfer. As a result, it delivers insulation performance comparable to triple glazing but within a much thinner and lighter construction. The glass measures just 11.5 mm in thickness, compared to 26.4 mm for standard double glazing and 38 mm for triple glazing with similar performance levels.

Velux will introduce the technology in two variants. The single vacuum glazing option features a slim double-pane design that eliminates the need for a third pane. This reduces weight by approximately 1.5 to 5 kg per window unit, depending on configuration, making installation easier while achieving a Uw value of 1.0 W/(m²K). Additionally, it offers around a 30% lower CO₂ footprint for the insulating glass unit.

The hybrid version combines vacuum glazing with a third pane separated by gas filling. This configuration reaches a Uw value of 0.83 W/(m²K) and delivers sound insulation of 38 dB, while reducing carbon emissions by up to 12% compared to the glass unit alone.

A subtle dotted pattern, created by micro spacers within the vacuum layer, is visible but does not obstruct the view. The technology will debut in 2026 in the UK and Ireland as part of the Velux Heritage range, with further European expansion expected.

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This updated manual provides comprehensive guidance on the performance, testing and quality assurance of box spacer constructions, critical components positioned at the edges of IGUs. These spacers, typically manufactured from metal, plastic or hybrid materials, play a key role in maintaining the separation between glass panes while supporting sealant application and housing desiccants to control internal moisture.

According to FGIA Glass Products Specialist Amy Becker, the document outlines standardized methods for evaluating important characteristics such as sealant compatibility, airflow performance, compression behavior and overall workmanship. These criteria are essential for ensuring that spacers effectively support primary edge seals designed to limit moisture vapor transmission and argon gas loss within the unit.

By updating this long-standing technical resource, FGIA aims to align industry practices with modern materials, technologies and performance expectations. The revised manual serves as a valuable reference for manufacturers, suppliers and quality assurance professionals involved in IGU production.

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Designed for IGUs with a 16mm cavity, the SL16MB stands out in a market where most integral blind systems require a 20mm cavity. This makes it particularly attractive for retrofit projects, allowing homeowners to upgrade to a motorised integral blind without replacing existing window or door frames.

The system incorporates next-generation brushless motor technology, delivering smooth, precise and near-silent operation. When installed across multiple IGUs, such as bi-fold or sliding door systems, the blinds can be programmed to move in sequence, creating a coordinated and premium visual effect.

End-user control is available via wall-mounted switches, a dedicated remote handset, or smart-home integration with platforms such as Loxone, enabling smartphone and automation-based operation.

Available in nine slat colours, including Agate Grey, Black and Beige, the SL16MB aligns with current interior design trends while maintaining the minimalist appearance expected from slimline integral blinds. To accommodate the motorised system within a 24mm IGU, the slat width has been reduced from 12mm to 10mm, ensuring optimal performance without compromising aesthetics.

Developed in collaboration with Pellini S.p.A., the global leader behind ScreenLine, the SL16MB reinforces Morley Glass’s focus on innovation, smart integration and retrofit-friendly glazing solutions for modern homes.

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The acquisition is aimed directly at one of the most sensitive areas of modern façade and interior glazing projects: fabrication alignment. In storefront and glass-intensive wall systems, success depends on how accurately glass production supports the system’s design intent, edge quality, cut accuracy, hole locations, and overall fit must match the framing and detailing without on-site improvisation. KI Wall says this closer alignment will deliver greater precision, flexibility, and reliability across its storefront and wall system applications.

By strengthening coordination between system planning and finished glass supply, KI Wall expects improvements in lead time predictability, project-specific customisation, and responsiveness on complex specifications where tolerances are tight and timelines are unforgiving. This matters especially for architects who want a seamless result: clean sightlines, consistent glazing geometry, and details that perform exactly as drawn.

CGP-WI brings decades of experience in producing insulated glass units (IGUs) and monolithic glass, and has supplied KI Wall projects for many years, making this a proven partnership, now elevated into a strategic structure designed for long-term capability growth.

Importantly, CGP-WI will continue operating as a standalone business, with no changes to customer relationships or day-to-day operations. For KI Wall customers, that continuity, combined with stronger internal alignment, supports one clear outcome: more dependable delivery of integrated storefront and glass-focused wall solutions, built to specification and delivered with confidence.

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With more than three decades of experience working with thin glass, HEGLA supports manufacturers using glass starting from 0.5 mm thickness to create a new type of triple insulated glass unit. The idea is simple: use thin glass as the middle pane of the IGU. This makes it possible to produce a triple-glazed structure without increasing the overall unit width.

For renovation projects, this is a major advantage. Instead of replacing entire window frames, an existing double-glazed unit can often be removed and swapped for a triple unit of the same thickness. That means better insulation, faster upgrades, and fewer structural limitations.

The finished unit stays slimmer and lighter, while achieving thermal performance comparable to conventional triple glazing, including U-values at a similar level to standard triple IGUs.

Using thin glass in the centre helps processors achieve multiple gains at once:

• Lower total weight compared to standard triple glazing
• Reduced thickness, ideal for retrofit and compact profiles
• Improved energy efficiency without major redesign
• New design flexibility for both residential and façade applications

This approach is especially valuable for markets where renovation demand is growing and energy standards are tightening, because it delivers performance upgrades without forcing full system replacement.

Handling thin glass requires accuracy and stability. That’s why HEGLA performs the cutting process fully automaticallywith the HEGLA Galactic TG. Automated cutting improves consistency, reduces risk in handling ultra-thin panes, and supports smooth integration into modern IGU production lines.

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