The Vacuum Glass Lifter/High Load Vacuum Glass - クラッティーニ Diaries

Note how exceptionally thin the systems are (with a gap between the panes of glass just 0. 3 mm and extremely thin tempered glass). Image: Guardian Glass. So what is the setback? One trusted window industry source told me this: it's actually difficult to concentrate on and marshal resources for brand-new high-performance glazing when the market is as stoked as it is right now.

He said, "We are really interested in this innovation but we simply do not have the capability right now and are not rather ready to make the really considerable investment needed to set up a whole brand-new facility for VIG." In addition, when I asked Guardian Glass some extremely pointed questions about commercialization, among their written actions was: "The Guardian Vacuum IG team is concentrated on several industries, with commercial refrigeration leading the method.

( For more details on this standard, including descriptions of specific tests, see "Certification & Testing for Insulating Glass Units.") A wall of VIG Innovation systems installed in a Viracon office at their headquarters. The thermal performance is supposedly outstanding. Note the high visual transmission as well. Image: Viracon Industries. If Did you see this? lose the vacuum seal on these IGUs, the thermal performance does not fadeit crashes.

Frankly, no one appears to know, or be ready to state, whether these brand-new VIGs require tension screening tuned to their efficiency or residential or commercial properties. However that is precisely what this NREL/LBNL job has to do with. All of this issue might be one of the factors that Guardian Glass is focusing on the fridge door market: While the temperature difference from inside to outside the refrigeration systems is large, it represents a fairly steady delta-T.

A range of Guardian Glass VIG units have actually been installed at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) as part of retrofit projects of existing structure (in and around December 2017). Thermal performance studies of these units are being performed. Professors and students report much better thermal comfort and acoustics with the VIG units.

What about expenses? Not surprisingly, it's difficult to get this sort of details from VIG Technologies or Guardian Glass at this point. However here is what Curcija found out while in Asia: Chinese VIG producers offered manufacturing costs of approximately 1,500 Yuan/m2. Using $1 = 6. 7 yuan and approximately 10 sf/m2, that corresponds to $22 per square foot.