Commercial Window Shield

  Solar control window film have been a poplar choice for architects, engineers and building owners aiming for increased comfort for office employees and reduced utility bills. Security window films, developed in the late 90s after the Oklahoma City bombing in which numerous casualties and injuries were connected to flying glass shards from windows blown out by the blast.   Which film is right for your building depends on which issue is of greater concern. Let’s look at each situation:   Solar Control Window Film   Everyone has sat next to a window in an office or other environment in which the sun’s rays penetrate the glass causing an uncomfortable heat that can’t be controlled unless you move elsewhere.   Not only do penetrating sun rays make for an uncomfortable work environment, the heat causes havoc with a building’s HVAC system, causing utility bills to spike. Also, when the HVAC system is out of whack it can be hot on one side of t...

  The second of two explosions that rocked Beirut, Lebanon on Aug. 4, 2020, caused more than 170 deaths to date and injured more than 6,000. Property damage has been estimated at $10-$15 billion and more than 300,000 people are homeless. Some of the deaths and unspecified thousands of the injured were victims of glass shards, as the force of the explosions shattered windows sending glass flying through the air in a large section of the city. What triggered the main explosion has not yet been determined. But it has been confirmed that 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at the Beirut port for six years without proper safety measures was detonated. The blast is considered one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions in history. Coincidently, the same material – ammonium nitrate – was used in the 1995 terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla. That bombing caused 168 deaths and nearly 400 injuries. As in the Beirut blast, flying glass ...