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Precision Glass Services Inc., fire-resistant glass solutions offer the ultimate protection for people, property and marine while providing the aesthetic and multi-functional qualities you expect. Our Fire-Rated glazing solutions are manufactured to provide the best possible protection for Human Impact Safety, Fire Rated Glazing solutions for Construction, Schools, Marine, Hurricane, Limiting Distance issue's Bullet and Blast Protection. We are dedicated to making your building, property or vessel fire resistant, functional and beautiful... With more than 50 years of combined experience, we are able to deliver solutions for virtually any application.
Fire-Rated glass and glazing assemblies deliver safety and security benefits while offering a number of aesthetic and functional qualities that building teams demand from architectural glass. These systems include fire-protective and fire-resistive glass formulations.
While the two are different, they are both able to meet and exceed building codes and life-safety requirements, according to a number of code experts and authorities having jurisdiction (AHJ's). In addition, these products allow the opening up of fire separations and exterior walls, which benefits building occupants and helps meet sustainability goals.
However there have been longstanding limitations of fire-resistant glass ceramics from an aesthetic standpoint. In addition, there are well-known shortcomings in performance that have limited the acceptance and application of architectural fire glazing. In particular, glass ceramics offer excellent life-safety characteristics but until recently have been associated with undesirable visual, colour and reflectivity attributes.
A New glass ceramic technology has been introduced that addresses these drawbacks. Expanding the ability of a fire-rated glass ceramic to meet the multi-functional requirements demanded for in today’s high-performance building projects.