Solar Gard window film is a proven energy-saving product that can directly help you achieve LEED and BREEAM Credits. Saint Gobain designed the Solar Gard Solar Film to offer the best experience in terms of comfort. The energy savings and aesthetics. Solar Control films are customized to meet your needs.
Because buildings are such a large source of carbon emissions, many building managers and homeowners are concerned with reducing their carbon footprint. Solar Gard window films are both carbon-effective and cost-effective, reducing a building’s carbon footprint more effectively and for less money than new windows and Low-E coatings. In many cases, Solar Gard solar control window films are carbon neutral within one month of installation.
In 2014, Solar Gard achieved an EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) certification from UL Environment. It encompasses 41 architectural window film products. Like a food label, an EPD provides a user with information on products’ environmental impacts and benefits. The EPD is based on a life cycle analysis of the cradle-to-grave effects of Solar Gard’s products and fulfils an ISO-compliant product category rule requirements. The results are third-party verified per international standards (ISO 14044 and ISO 14025).
Solar Gard Armorcoat Safety Films help keep shattered glass intact and protect building occupants. Anything from a stray golf ball to unexpected blast incidents can send dangerous shards of glass flying, subjecting people and property to serious damage, injury or worse. Armorcoat Safety Films help keep dangerous shards together on impact, whether due to accidents, severe weather, attempted break-ins, vandalism or acts of terrorism.
In today’s increasingly volatile world, it’s not surprising that tightening security tops the concerns of those charged with overseeing facilities of all kinds if your safety goals are focused on protecting your family at home. For this reason, the Armorcoat line from Solar Gard has been trusted for more than 40 years as an extra barrier against threats ranging from burglary to terrorism. You are also securing high-risk government buildings from bomb blast potential. Or commercial building tenants from potential glass breakage. However, buying critical time for students and teachers in the case of attempted intrusion or sheltering patients in a medical facility during unpredictable weather.
The tragic headlines keep coming, and an August 2016 Gallup poll shows that roughly one in eight students is fearful for their safety while in the classroom. CNN is clocking an alarming average of one school shooting every week. When every second counts, Armorcoat Security Films can buy critical time needed for law enforcement to arrive. An independent simulation conducted by Solar Gard (and validated by independent consulting firm CIS and third-party witnessed by Intertek Testing Services) found that an application of 14 Mil Armorcoat with an attachment system to a standard storefront glazing deterred a possible intruder by more than 90 seconds.
Armorcoat Safety and Security Films are a trusted solution for increased glass breakage protection with extensive testing and decades of successful performance. Commercial office buildings, hospitality properties, and medical facilities can all benefit from the added layer of protection Armorcoat Films offer. Whether the primary concern is a bomb blast surrounding high-risk structures, or preventing guest injuries in lobbies and guestrooms, also keeping patients secure during hospital stays or office visits from accidental or weather-related glass impact.
The cost of electricity-related to air conditioning, often overlooked, is 11% against 14% consumption for heating in the commercial sector. More than40% of the park office buildings are air-conditioned with higher rates in urban areas of high density and large area buildings.
The environmentally responsible company since 2007, 46 of Solar Gard’s solar control films were the first to be awarded an Environmental Product Declaration according to ISO 14040 and 14025 standards, showing:
We can influence the air temperature at the office with multiple factors. Solar energy transmitted throughout the year through the clear glass leads to increased heat greenhouse gas. The excess temperature and the intensity of the glare impact the productivity and employees’ health (5% reduction in productivity from 26° C and excessive fatigue at 30° C)
Mitigation avoids glare using internal blinds, opens the view outside limit, and uses artificial lighting while preserving the aesthetic offices.
Untreated glass is an area of weakness during a burglary and throwing projectile, explosions related to a natural or technological risk. In addition, office buildings classified ERP (facilities open to the Public) are in the scope of specific standards.
Retain fragments and absorb the shock waves. With a thickness of 50 to 350 microns, security films Armorcoatt® keep up the broken glass and the amortization shock wave in the case of an explosion. These films are enhanced properties: