What is Architectural Glass Coating?

Transparency is now essential in commercial and residential construction, with many high-rise projects featuring vast glass expanses and curtain walls.

Fremont, CA: Humans have been working with glass for millennia, but it has become a luxury item for most of that period. It was not getting manufactured on a large scale until the 17th century when producers in England and Venice realized the advantages of lead in glassmaking. However, this mainly got confined to creating beautiful crystal glassware rather than glazing. Although the approach preceded the first noteworthy architectural projects utilizing big panel glazing by about two hundred years, lead glass became a vital stepping stone technology to using glass in architecture.

Transparency is now essential in commercial and residential construction, with many high-rise projects featuring vast glass expanses and curtain walls. Although glass is ubiquitous in a modern building, the underlying technologies are still the focus of research and development (R&D), intending to unlock new useful qualities from the material. Almost two hundred years have gone by since the industrialization of glazing, and new technologies are poised to disrupt the sector once more.