Generally speaking, the “wireless” fire-rated glazing materials are more expensive than polished wired glass. How can I persuade my building owner that those products are worth the extra cost?
We generally see architects and designers using the more expensive products for reasons of aesthetics and/or higher performance. The manufacturing process for the high performance wireless products are complicated, and frequently make use of expensive materials. While costs are coming down as production volumes increase, we suspect they will never reach the levels of wired glass. Interestingly, we often find the wireless products are in line with the architectural construction costs – they are just more expensive than traditional wired glass. In addition, the amount of fire-rated glazing used in most projects is rather small as a percentage of overall building costs. Increasingly, we see architects and designers willing to use the newer products for aesthetics reasons, such as opening up entire glass walls that have high performance ratings. Characteristics such as higher fire ratings, larger glass sizes, higher impact ratings, meeting energy codes, etching and beveling, etc., are also
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