Nov 20 2013
Headed into Greenbuild, the industry’s leading sustainable building event, SAGE Electrochromics, the pioneer and leader in dynamic window glass, continues to gain momentum in the market including: the ramp-up of a state-of-the-art, high-volume manufacturing facility, a bevy of high-profile customer installations and industry awards, the appointment of a new CEO, and several impactful product innovations.
SageGlass® is electronically tintable dynamic glass that maximizes daylight and outdoor views in buildings while controlling glare and heat gain. The glass can darken or clear manually or automatically to save energy and help keep building occupants continuously comfortable throughout the day. On display at Greenbuild will be the next generation of SageGlass featuring SAGE’s exclusive in-pane zoning capability, which allows for up to three separate, independently tintable zones to be established and controlled within the same pane.
A Pioneer and an Innovator
This past June, SAGE celebrated 10 years of commercial production of SageGlass as well as the first shipments of SageGlass from its new high-volume manufacturing plant. The new facility uses leading-edge equipment and techniques to produce larger panes of dynamic glass – up to five feet by 10 feet – with a fully laminated exterior lite. SageGlass is also available in many geometric shapes including traditional squares and rectangles as well as trapezoids, parallelograms and triangles.
Argonne National Labs, one of the first customers to receive the latest generation SageGlass, will optimize daylight in its new state-of-the-art protein crystallization research facility. Similarly, the General Services Administration (GSA), the government’s largest property manager, installed SageGlass in its headquarters as a skylight atop a newly built seven-story atrium that was once an open courtyard. Some other notable SageGlass installations in 2013 included a cardiac operating room at Children’s Hospital Colorado, an external viewing area at Central Indiana Ethanol’s manufacturing facility and an installation at Dow Corning’s Solar Energy Exploration and Development (SEED) center in Switzerland.
Source: http://sageglass.com