Super-insulating Glazing for Museums, Libraries, and Art Galleries

Libraries, museums, and art galleries have similar design goals: to protect collections from deterioration due to fading, and in many cases, from excess humidity.

• All SeriousGlass architectural products block more harmful ultraviolet radiation (99.5% or more) than any other similar products on the market, offering superior protection of valuable interiors from fading and healthier indoor environments.

• Natural daylighting can be maximized, where desirable, without the deterioration due to ultraviolet, also decreasing utility costs.

• Deterioration can also be mimimized by controlling excess solar gain. SeriousGlass not only offers superior insulation, but also optimum solar control with a full range of high to low SHGC.

• By providing super-insulation as low as U-factor 0.05 (R-20) COG (center of glass), SeriousGlass architectural glazing products control or in some cases virtually eliminate condensation, particularly from skylights and vertical glazing. This condensation can cause damage to exhibits as well as to window sash and walls.

• The ability to tune the building for optimum solar control and energy savings by using a combination of different wavelength-selective suspended film and low-E coatings for different building elevations, alleviating potentially dramatic temperature swings in different areas of the building for energy savings and optimum solar control.

• Higher  Sound  Transmission  Class  (STC)   with  SeriousGlass  (especially  with  a  1 1/2" system)  helps  reduce exterior noise for higher quality, more comfortable sounproofing and quite environments, improving the experience of visitors.

• For new construction projects, SeriousGlass can enable a simpler design, downsizing, of HVAC systems, thus saving initial upfront cost with continuing operating energy cost savings over time.

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