, Session Block A4
8:30 Glass for Sustainable Buildings
Chair: Matthew Fineout, Director AE7, Dubai, UAE
Expectations for insulating glass in a carbon-neutral world
- Expectations of “effective service life” for an IGU
- Closing the “performance gap” for IGU assemblies
- The landscape of glass as a thermally insulating fabric
Advancing sustainability in building glass for façades
- Combining performance and sustainability with low-carbon glass
- End-of-life façade glass recycling initiatives and challenges
- Digitisation for environmental transparency
Implementation of an HVAC-integrated, sustainable and smart glass façade
- Functional principle and benefits
- Control concept and smart operating strategies
- Implementation in a sustainable office building
Glass meets functions
- Hybrid unit
- Inside not outside
- Combine - Don't separate!
Pushing glass technologies - The Burj Azizi mega-tall tower
- Solar radiation mapping, analyses and mitigation techniques
- Maximizing transparency while optimizing performance
- Curved glass manufacturing techniques
Brief Presentation
Thermal simulation techniques of spandrels in glazed wall assemblies
10:00 Coffee Break