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Fully tempered glass and spontaneous fracture

September 24, 2025

Fully tempered glass offers designers certain advantages over annealed and heat-strengthened glass, including increased strength to resist imposed loads and thermal stresses, as well as a characteristic breakage pattern in a “relatively safe” manner; however, these features come at the cost of increased optical distortion and an often overlooked risk of spontaneous breakage in-service due to nickel sulfide inclusions.

By Christopher J. Brandmeier, PE, John A. Jackson, AIA, and Thomas A. Schwartz, PE

A modern office building surrounded by greenery, featuring a park-like setting with benches and a curved pathway under a cloudy sky.

The envelope challenge: Meeting Massachusetts Stretch Code

September 1, 2025

It has become challenging to design and effectively specify vertical above-grade building envelopes to ensure the building is stretch code-compliant. This article illustrates how to manage those challenges.

A modern healthcare corridor with glass-walled offices; a person walks by while another sits at a desk in the provider workroom.

Door specifications: Achieving code-compliant design flexibility

August 11, 2025

Flexible design allows a facility to offer occupants more functional interiors in the present while supporting the ability to shift and adapt to future needs. This approach to design can benefit almost any project, but healthcare facilities, in particular,...

A worker installs a skylight on a sloped roof, surrounded by red roof tiles and green trees in the background.

Bright ideas ahead: The skylight edge

July 5, 2025

Skylights can be used to provide significant energy savings and enhance the aesthetic appeal of buildings, flooding interior spaces with the warmth and illumination of natural light.

Transparent fire-rated design: Where safety meets student experience in campuses

June 10, 2025

Developments in fire-resistive glass have allowed designers the ability to increase transparency, daylighting, and visual connection while remaining code-compliant.

Choosing the right door hardware with ANSI/BHMA standards

May 26, 2025

When specifying door hardware for a new or existing project, a lot of time and effort goes into ensuring every piece of hardware chosen will perform to its highest performance level.

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Tag: Division 08

Fully tempered glass and spontaneous fracture

The envelope challenge: Meeting Massachusetts Stretch Code

Door specifications: Achieving code-compliant design flexibility

Bright ideas ahead: The skylight edge

Transparent fire-rated design: Where safety meets student experience in campuses

Choosing the right door hardware with ANSI/BHMA standards

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Tag: Division 08

Fully tempered glass and spontaneous fracture

The envelope challenge: Meeting Massachusetts Stretch Code

Door specifications: Achieving code-compliant design flexibility

Bright ideas ahead: The skylight edge

Transparent fire-rated design: Where safety meets student experience in campuses

Choosing the right door hardware with ANSI/BHMA standards

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