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WHY IS CLEARSHADE™ IGU BETTER THAN FRIT?
ClearShade™ IGU exterior glazing offers a couple of crucial advantages over frit. ONE: NO SHADING DEVICES REQUIRED Frit patterns are burned directly onto the glass surface during the tempering process. While the dots are opaque, the glass surface … MORE…
WHY IS CLEARSHADE™ IGU BETTER THAN ELECTROCHROMIC GLASS?
A ClearShade™ glazing solution offers several advantages over electrochromic glass. ONE: PRIVACY AND VIEWS ClearShade™ provides privacy from a close distance while also opening up views from the inside. Building occupants have the advantages of privacy and views … MORE…
PANELITE CEU HSW COURSE
Course Title: Advanced Glazing Solutions for Optimum Daylighting, Energy Performance and User Safety + Wellness Credits: 1 AIA HSW Learning Unit The Panelite CEU course on advanced glazing is available live by appointment or on-Demand through the CE| … MORE…
EASY DAYLIGHTING ANALYSIS OF CLEARSHADE HONEYCOMB GLAZING USING LIGHTSTANZA – FREE TRIAL
Panelite’s ClearShadeTM Honeycomb Insulated Glass Unit has been integrated into LightStanza, a web-based software platform allowing for easy and accurate daylighting analysis of building envelope solutions. ClearShadeTM redirects light rays to transmit up to 70% daylight and substantially diffuse … MORE…
CLEARSHADE™ NAMED ACCEPTABLE PATHWAY TO LEED V4 EQC DAYLIGHT
GBCI (Green Business Certification Inc.) has declared that Panelite’s ClearShade™ honeycomb technology meets the LEED requirements for diffused daylight as a way to minimize glare while maximizing usable daylight on a LEED project, a baseline requirement for the LEED v4 … MORE…
WHY THIS STORYCORPS PAVILION HAS HONEYCOMB WALLS
In designing a public pavilion for StoryCorps, MESH Architectures and MASDesign, working with Front Inc. engineers, chose Panelite ClearShade™ glazing to achieve: the ideal balance of privacy and dynamic views plentiful, diffuse daylighting solar heat control Other design goals included … MORE…
VIDEOS: DYNAMIC VIEWS AND PRIVACY WITH CLEARSHADE™ GLAZING
With Panelite ClearShade™ IGU, views are interactive and dynamic: your view depends on your position relative to the honeycomb core and to lighting conditions. Sightlines are directed through the tubular, cellular structure of the honeycomb, creating a cone of vision. … MORE…
FLOATING LIGHTWEIGHT TRANSLUCENT CEILING FINS AT TARGET STORES
Target Corporation’s revamped retail store design features an installation of ceiling fins – in bright Target red – creating a visual marker over the check-out area and visible from anywhere in the store. Target chose Panelite’s Bonded Series honeycomb … MORE…
PANELITE PANELS ARE MADE OF 80% AIR: WHY DOES THIS MATTER?
HOW WE MAKE A PANEL USING 80% AIR: Panelite Bonded Series panels consist of a lightweight cellular network – a honeycomb core – in which each cell acts like the web of an I-beam when bonded to thin, translucent facings. … MORE…
5 LIGHT-FILLED, COLORFUL WAYS TO USE TRANSLUCENT HONEYCOMB PANELS
Five different applications in which Panelite’s lightweight, light-transmitting honeycomb panels can be used to bring daylight and color to interiors: Translucent Partitions. Prefabricated, frameless partition systems are easy to install and increase natural daylighting for occupant health and productivity. Backlit … MORE…