Introduction of Architectural Glass

Architectural Glass Products Development Overview

Humans learned to manufacture the use of glass has been for thousands of years, but over the 1000 years, the development of architectural glass material is relatively slow. With the development of modern science and technology and glass technology and the improvement of people's living standards, the functionality of the architectural glass is no longer just to meet the lighting requirements, but to have to adjust the light, thermal insulation, security (bullet-proof, anti-theft, fire, anti- radiation and anti-electromagnetic interference) and art decoration features. With the continuous development of the demand, the glass forming and processing method has also been a new development. Has developed a mezzanine, steel, ion exchange, glazed decoration, chemical, thermal decomposition and cathode sputtering glass, so that the amount of architectural glass panels is increasing rapidly, becoming the third largest building material after the cement and steel.

Architectural Decorative Glass Variety

The main variety of architectural decorative glass (architectural glass) is the plate glass, it has the advantages of crystal surface smooth, translucent, sound insulation, thermal insulation, abrasion resistance, climate change and stable material. It is made based on quartz sand, sandstone or quartzite, limestone, feldspar, dolomite and soda ash as the main raw material, after crushing, screening, batching, high temperature melting, forming, annealing, cooling processing and other processes. The detailed categories are: plate glass, patterned glass, safety glass and special glass. Especially the insulating glass is now widely used in many high level office buildings.

Requirements Change of World Architectural Glass

From the 1960s, with the appearance of the first glass curtain wall, curtain wall construction has been occupying a dominant position in the construction market and leading the development of the construction industry technology. Currently, after the change from white glass, tinted glass, heat-reflective coating to the low-E glass building glass requirements. Glass color has also changes from colorless, brown, golden yellow to blue, green, and finally to the development of transparent direction. With modern architecture design concept to the humane, close to natural as well as the world of the sense of urgency of the energy crisis by increasing emphasis on building energy efficiency, the requirements of the glass gradually change in the functional permeability.

Development of Architectural Glass Fittings

Currently, China is already the world's largest building materials producer and consumer. The main building materials such as cement, flat glass, building and sanitary ceramics, stone and wall materials production years, ranking first in the world. At the same time, building materials continuously improve product quality, energy and raw material consumption is declining, emerging new types of building materials, building materials products constantly upgrading. Outbreak of infrastructure investment in the 11th Five-Year Plan "has the chess set, highways, railways and other infrastructure construction investment growth and the steady growth of the ordinary civil construction investment, the construction industry is in the upward phase of the economy.

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