Functions | Glass that gives you comfort all year round

Reflective Glass

Glass that keeps the heat out!

Solar control glass/Sun Ban Glass controls the entry of solar heat into a building, thus preventing interiors from heating up excessively. In this way,solar control glass promotes energy-efficiency by reducing the load on air conditioning, even as it obstructs visibility from the outside

How does it work?

Solar control glass has a microscopically thin coating on its surface. This coating is made up of metal or metal oxides, and is comprised of a single or multiple layers. It is this coating that cuts out the sun's heat. While keeping the building interiors cool, Sun Ban glass also ensures optimum light penetration, thus minimizing dependence on artificial lighting during the day.

Benefits

Solar control glass can be used extensively for façade glazing, as also for windows glazing, curtain walling, bolted glass assemblies and glass greenhouse roofs. The benefits of using this glass are several:

• Enhanced comfort: By controlling the penetration of the sun's heat into a building, Sun Ban glass makes for cooler and more comfortable interiors. 
   
• Energy efficient cooling: A naturally cooler interior space automatically reduces the need for air conditioning, thereby saving on energy costs. 
   
• Energy efficient lighting: Sun Ban helps save energy not just through reduced air conditioning, but also through reduced artificial lighting – this glass ensures that sufficient daylight enters the building. 
   
• Privacy: Obstructs visibility from the outside, thus protecting the privacy of the occupants. 
   
• Aesthetics: Sun Ban is not just about functionality. The various colours it is available in impart unmatched visual appeal and brilliance to a building.

Solar control glass can be combined with several other glass products for multi-functional glazing, such as with thermal control glass for low emissivity, glass for acoustic insulation, decorative glass for aesthetics and even safety glass.
 

Green Buildings

Energy-efficiency is, unarguably, the most important criterion for classifying an architectural structure as a ‘green building’. Energy-efficiency could entail reduced dependence on artificial lighting by maximising the use of daylight, or minimising the need for air conditioning or heating, as the case may be.

Saint-Gobain's glass products provide these very functionalities, thus being almost indispensable to modern green buildings. A comfortable internal environment is known to substantially improve the work productivity and health of the occupants of a building.

Here are some examples of how Saint-Gobain’s energy-efficient glass has been applied to commercial buildings.

• ITC
• WIPRO