Engineering the Future of Architectural Comfort™
The next revolution in architecture is how people experience buildings.
AN OPPORTUNITY TO RETHINK ARCHITECTURAL GLASS
New York City’s Local Law 97 is changing the economics of building ownership and modernization. Many buildings over 25,000 square feet are subject to carbon-emissions limits, with financial penalties for exceeding those limits and substantially more stringent requirements beginning in 2030.
Façade modernization, building electrification, adaptive reuse and increasingly demanding energy-performance requirements are changing how architects, engineers and building owners think about the building envelope.
IQ Radiant Glass Technologies brings a different approach to that challenge. We transform architectural glass from a passive component of the façade into intelligent, active building infrastructure—capable of contributing to thermal comfort, condensation control, energy strategy and building-management systems.
New York provides an extraordinary opportunity to demonstrate what the next generation of architectural glass can do.
Our Approach
IQ Radiant Glass Technologies begins with a different premise: architectural glass should no longer be considered simply a passive component of the building envelope.
By controlling glass-surface temperature and integrating glazing with intelligent building systems, the façade can become an active part of the building’s environmental strategy—contributing to radiant thermal comfort, condensation and dew-point control, building electrification, and coordination with heat pumps and building-management systems.
This approach can also change the relationship between the façade and conventional perimeter mechanical systems. Where engineering conditions permit, reducing dependence on bulky perimeter heating equipment can improve both the usability and economic value of space immediately adjacent to the glass—an especially important consideration in New York.
IQ Radiant Glass Technologies combines UL-listed electrically heated glass, advanced controls, large-format glazing capability and decades of architectural glass experience to engineer these systems around the requirements of the building.
We are not simply improving the glass. We are redefining what the façade can contribute to the building.
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