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When Hurricane Laura struck the Louisiana-Texas coastline in late August, the property damage was devastating. In particular, the town of Lake Charles was hit hard. The symbol for the hurricane’s power and destruction was the town’s 22-story Capitol One building. The building had suffered serious damage during Hurricane Rita in 2005. And, now, 15 years later it was severely damaged again, with about half the building’s windows blown out. Fortunately, the building was empty and there were no injuries from the flying glass.   Lake Charles’ Mayor Nic Hunter told a local TV station that the building “looks like Swiss cheese.”   Unfortunately, Hurricane Laura appears not to be a fluke storm that happens once a decade or so, as was the case previously. Already in 2020 there have been 23 named storms, the seconds most on record. Moving forward, weather forecasters and scientists are predicting more volatile hurricanes, tornadoes and other foul weather events in the coming years r...

The relatively recent interest in anti-bird strike window film received a significant boost with the December, 2019, passing by the New York City Council of legislation requiring bird friendly glass in buildings throughout the city. The law passed after an intense bird safety campaign by local and national conservation groups and with the support of a number of influential building architects. The city is in a major northeast bird migration route known as the Atlantic Flyway. As a result of that and the huge number of high-rise buildings in the city with glass facades, between 90,000 and 230,000 birds die annually from flying into the buildings. New York isn’t the only city with this problem. There are five major bird flyways in North America, stretching from the West Coast to the East Coast. A number of major cities with numerous high-rise buildings are located in these bird migration zones. Chicago, Houston and Dallas are considered the most dangerous cities for bird migrations...

  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 ...

The protests in late May over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, brought between 15 and 26 million people into the streets of hundreds of American cities and towns. It’s considered to be the largest mass demonstration in U.S. history. While the overwhelming majority of the protestors were peaceful, there were violent elements among them who caused significant damage to thousands of buildings along with looting millions of dollars of merchandise. Some of the figures are staggering: $500 million – Estimated damage in Minneapolis-St. Paul to more than 500 buildings $10-$15 million – Estimated damage to buildings in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood 135 – Number of buildings damaged in Chicago’s central business district 14,000 – Number of looters arrested nationwide While the protests have subsided, building owners are now faced with the task of repairing their damaged buildings and replacing all their damaged property and stolen inventory. The cost would b...

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. This can even happen in the dead of winter in a cold climate where you’d think the sun rays would feel good. But the searing heat gain coupled with heat from the building’s HVAC system can make it intolerable to sit at a desk near a window. Not only do penetrating sun rays make for an uncomfortable work environment, the heat causes havoc with a building’s HVAC system, spiking utility bills. Also, with the HVAC system is out of whack, while it might be hot on one side of the office, it can be unusually cold on the other side, making it uncomfortable for people working there as well.  One remedy is to install blinds or shades. That can help alleviate the sun problem but it means the view out the window has been eliminated which can turn an office building into a cave-like a...