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CALIFORNIA SERIES ® LAMINATED GLASS |
Southwall's California Series® laminated glass invites the architectural use of
sunlight while selectively reducing unwanted heat gain. The demand by architects,
builders, owners and occupants today is for natural daylighting with reduced
cooling loads. Conventional monolithic glazing with clear glass allows the use of
sunlight to meet daylighting needs. However, clear glass allows unwanted infrared
heat gain. Although tinted or "heat absorbing" glass reduces heat gain through
absorption, it also reduces visible light transmission. Solar energy that is absorbed
rather than reflected is re-radiated into the building and adds to the heat gain.
Southwall's California Series provides monolithic glazing that reflects unwanted
infrared heat while allowing visible light in.
California Series products sandwich an XIR® "heat rejecting" coating between two
layers of PVB and glass (see figure below). The finished product has a unique, low
reflectivity appearance, while allowing greater than 70% visible light transmission
but reflecting more than 50% of invisible heat. Since this technology reduces the
heating effect caused by absorption, greater design flexibility for energy efficient
glazing is available. California Series also has the benefits of reduced sound
transmission, increased security and ultraviolet protection (99.5% blockage).
California Series can be used in vertical, sloped or overhead glazing applications.
From curtain wall (captured or structurally glazed) to monumental skylights, this
technology offers expanded choices of energy efficient glazing. California Series
can be fabricated in nearly all flat configurations or architecturally curved. Glazed
monolithically or combined into sealed insulating glass units, XIR film can be
laminated with annealed, heat strengthened or tempered clear glass, or combined
with tinted PVB and/or glass.
California Series laminated glass, the next generation in energy efficient
glazing technology. |
