This informal CPD article, ‘Why heated glazing has the cutting-edge technology to transform your space’, was provided by Glass Aftercare, one of the leading commercial glazing specialists in the UK, with 150 years’ combined glass and glazing industry experience, covering everything from maintenance to consultancy.
Why heated glazing has the cutting-edge technology to transform your space.
There are significant, multiple benefits to using premium quality heated glass. Engineers, architects and prime construction contractors are turning to it for its design versatility and aesthetics, as well as its energy efficiency and safety properties.
Offers innovative ideas
Latest innovations in the heated glass sector solve structural problems connected to condensation, snow and ice thanks to the electric current that passes through cables and bus bars on transparent, conductive coating. This electric component is integrated and invisible, providing comfort, maintenance and visual advantages. It offers benefits for indoor and outdoor glazing, including façade, roof glazing, and walk-on glass.
Improves building comfort
We usually feel cold drafts when we are close to traditional doors or windows. These cold patches mean we often turn up the temperature on thermostats to unhealthy, and inefficient, levels. As air close to glass is colder than the air in the centre of a room, cold air descends and creates cold spots and drafts. By heating the internal pane of window glass by just two degrees with heated glazing, these cold spots are eliminated – making homes and work spaces more comfortable.
Heated glass also increases comfort as it decreases damp. This reduced risk of condensation makes a home more habitable, minimises maintenance, and improves views and aesthetics. It is also highly durable and designed for longevity, reducing HVAC wear and tear as well as cutting down on cold weather ice damage on your building’s exterior.
Enhances design opportunities
Heated glass allows architects and developers to design a building around comfort, not necessity. Thanks to the energy saving properties of heated glass, you can significantly reduce the required number of radiators in your property – improving flow and aesthetics, and increasing the potential usable floor and wall space, with fewer restrictions on your design.
Heated glass can also be used across most glazing features, including skylights and other statement features like all-glass façades – maximising architectural opportunities. Some systems are controlled with smart home systems and apps, too, providing a premium appeal and ease of use.
Provides cost advantages
With heated glass, you’ll notice a significant difference in the running costs for your property. As heated glass is naturally warm, there are limited requirements to use heat from other sources. This means heated glass keeps your building warm in winter and cool in summer, minimising other energy costs associated with a property’s high bills.
Equally, the reduction in running costs also reduces your carbon footprint, and therefore enhances your property’s energy efficiency performance and rating. This is further boosted as heated glazing can be incorporated into insulated units for solar control and UV filtering, which in turn helps with noise reduction.
The cost to run heated glass in your building is dependent on several factors. Yet largely, it will provide an energy saving benefit as well as huge aesthetic and comfort advantages.
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