The Benefits of Safety Glass [Infographic]

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Using Safety Glass for Protection

Safety glass is both hard wearing and easy to install and for that reason it is becoming a popular choice with home owners. This infographic looks at the benefits of having safety glass installed throughout your home. If this is something you have considered, then this great infographic will help you to decide if it is the right option for your house. There are many benefits of safety glass, it blocks out unwanted noise. This is perfect if you have noisy neighbors or live on a busy road. Safety glass has double glazing in order to do this. Safety glass will also help you to save money on your heating bill.

Because no one should ever compromise the aesthetic for the quality and safety, especially for the glass we use in our homes, it is important to weigh in your options and know the advantages and rewards of investing in better quality glass, specifically safety glass that will save you time, money and effort in the long run. Be it for yourself of for your family, it is important to acknowledge the relief and confidence it will give you, assuring that everyone in your house is safe from glass hazards and potential dangers from the outside.

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The Benefits of Safety Glass

Many people see glass as an instrument to augment the appeal of a certain space. Be it an office or residential location, glass can provide functionality, as well as attractiveness.

In architecture, the use of glass has increased has increased tenfold. Previously perceived as non-durable and fragile, glass today has been engineered to be safer, tougher, and more secure for residential, industrial, and architectural applications.

Available in a variety of layers and thickness, the safety glass as they come to term it, has a multitude of advantages and diverse applications without the hazards of conventional glass. The benefits of using safety glass include the following:

UV CONTROL

Laminated glass, a type of safety glass, features a UV protection, which reduces the fading and deterioration of photos, furnishings, and pieces of artwork due to prolonged radiation exposure.

With the laminated glass’s UV-absorbing interlayer, you’ll be able to screen out most of the damaging rays of the sun.

SECURITY

With ordinary glass, you are placing your property in grave danger. Often, windows are an intruder’s primary point of entry.

They make their way into a home, a building, or vehicle by breaking the glass windows. Fortunately, laminated safety glasses have the ability to safeguard a property and resist any intrusion even when they are broken.

Because it is manufactured with high-tech layers of glass and interlayer (a specialized plastic in between the glass sheet), laminated safety glass can also withstand bombs and bullets. It can even take the place of conventional jail bars to create a more humane environment in prison.

In addition, safety glass helps address the increasing urban crime and terrorism rates worldwide as its specialized glazing materials can ensure the safety of properties, assets, resources, and people from harm.

NOISE REDUCTION

In both work and home environments, sound pollution can be an issue. And similar to thieves, it can easily force its entry to your property through glass windows and doors.

Safety glass, particularly double glazing provides excellent soundproofing in your home. In fact the use of double glazed windows using safety glass can diminish a wider range of sound waves and dampen up to 25 percent of sound pollution.

If you are planning on purchasing glass to deter noise, consider using double glazing with units with two varying thicknesses to better resist frequencies.

THERMAL CONTROL

As you know, natural light plays a critical role in architectural design. However, too much of it would mean a hotter indoor temperature.

Safety glass is subject to thermal stresses. This means using tinted safety glass can significantly minimise indoor heat gain and glare.

Besides having good shading, tinted safety glass eventually offers better energy management and reduced air conditioning costs.

SAFETY

A typical glass is brittle and breaks into sharp pieces, posing a risk of serious, sometimes fatal, injury. Without the added safety factor, an ordinary glass is a threat waiting to be realised.

To avoid injuries caused by broken shards, safety glass, which comes in laminated, toughened and many more forms, is designed to absorb impact and resist penetration. Even if it does break, toughened glass produces small, blunt granules while laminated glass fragments remain firmly intact and bonded to its interlayer when broken, so they are less likely to cause any bodily harm.

This capability is especially important when constructing overhead glazing as a failing glass skylight could result in a ton of injury. Aside from overhead glazing, safety glasses that are CIP laminated can be utilized in balustrades and floors.

EARTHQUAKE AND INCLEMENT WEATHER PROTECTION

Homes, buildings, and vehicles are more at risk of damage during a storm, earthquake, or any natural disaster. With a laminated safety glass, properties are prevents from further destruction. Because it does not crumble to pieces when broken, laminated glass can shield you and your property’s interiors from flying glass and debris carried by strong winds during devastating hurricanes and cyclones.

By staying bonded onto the frame, broken shards of a laminated safety glass also resist potentially injuring people during earthquakes or tornadoes.

DURABILITY

As mentioned earlier on, safety glass is made of high-tech glass sheets and interlayers that are much more durable than ordinary glass.

In fact, toughened safety glass can be seven times stronger than its conventional counterpart of the same thickness.

Safety glass also demonstrates resistance to color fading over a longer period and are as easy to clean as standard glass.

VERSATILITY

Safety glass certainly offer seemingly endless product possibilities. In terms of design and style, safety glass has the almost limitless options that any type of glass offers – plus more. It can be produced, curved, or flat, and comes in a number of forms, including patterned, tinted, wired, reflective, fused, float, heat-strengthened, sheet, or annealed.

For enhanced aesthetics or added privacy, interlayers of certain safety glass can be utilised to add opacity or color to the glass.

Apart from their ability to be combined with thermal insulation, decorative, solar protection, easy clean, and other double glazed windows, safety glass can also be used to laminate fabrics, steel, pictures, artwork, and even organic materials, like leaves to keep memorabilia beyond reach of harsh cleaning products, abrasions, stains, or fingerprints.

EASE OF INSTALLATION

The use of safety glass has certainly redefined the feel and look of contemporary interiors. Beyond the safety and security factors.

Its application in modern architecture are a bold choice owing to its classic yet innovative visual impact.

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