Today architects have some extremely difficult decisions and choices to make, not the least of them is the right choice of glazing material.  The choice of the right glass is one of the most important, critical, and far-reaching decisions that you will ever make on a building, for this decision has more spin-off impacts than virtually any other construction material.  The glass decision impacts the overall.

In today's architectural design community the concept of "Green Architecture", "Sustainable Design", "Sustainable Architecture" has moved into the forefront in choosing the right materials for the job.  The Heat Mirror® family of high performance products enables the architect to actually environmentally "tune" a building by using different wavelength-selective films for different building elevations.  For example, as depicted in the diagram below, on South and West elevations, one might use HM-77 or SC-75, East elevation, HM-77 or HM-88, North Elevation - HM-88 or TC-88 and for overhead, skylight glass HM-55 or HM-44.  Tuning allows one to optimize by elevation daylight transmittance and address solar gain concerns at the same time.  This concept of using multiple Heat Mirror types to meet specific design criteria is recognized as one of the most powerful uses of this technology and makes for a truly "Green Building" and may provide you and your firm with the "architectural signature" you may be looking for.