MAY 2024 Designing bird-friendly buildings Preventing collisions with bird protection glass solutions Glass is an essential material in buildings. It benefits occupants by providing the natural daylight necessary for health and well-being, offers architectural freedom in design as well as visual connections with the outdoors and nature. While all these benefits are made possible by
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Choosing ‘High energy performance’ glazing in windows Informative paper on the benefits of high energy performance glazing in renovation, its technologies and key performance parameters compared to older and inefficient glazing https://glassforeurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/GFE_HP_Glazing_Final.mp4 Glass and glazing have a unique feature: transparency. It is thanks to this transparency that glass lets daylight into buildings and offers
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Glazing contribution to summer comfort A social and climate priority During the last years, heat waves have become more severe, frequent, and prolonged in the European Union and temperatures are expected to rise further in the next century throughout the continent. The impact of heat waves has shown that European buildings
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October 2022 Calculations of embodied and operational carbon of double and triple glazed windows To achieve the EU’s goal to reduce overall carbon emissions, one route pursued by EU authorities is to move towards zero-emission buildings[i]. It means that the CO2 emitted for heating and cooling the building throughout its lifetime, i.e., the operational carbon,
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Ensuring a proper assessment of the energy performance of windows when implementing the revised EPBD The revision of the Energy Performance of Building Directive[1] offers a unique opportunity to the European Commission to instruct Member States on how to optimise the energy performance of national building stocks and thus to contribute to achieving a
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Minimum performance requirements for window replacement in the residential sector As required by the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, EU Member States have to set cost-optimal minimum energy performance requirements for the replacement of building elements such as windows. The map and the table below illustrate how EU Member States have implemented this 2012 EPBD requirement and
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Other languages Daylight and glazing requirements in new constructions Minimum glazing surface for genuinely sustainable buildings Glazed surfaces in buildings play a pivotal role to ensure the design and construction of genuinely sustainable buildings. The use of glass in constructions delivers economic, environmental and social objectives, all of which are central when defining
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