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Fire-Rated Glass Webinar’s Now Offered for Learning Units
Health, safety, and welfare remain a fundamental aspect of building design practices. Incorporating fire-rated glass products provides creative design options while adhering to current model building codes. A new generation of fire-rated products is available in larger sizes that can withstand a fire for longer periods of time, and many fire-rated products can provide high impact safety rating, solar control, sound reduction, bullet resistance and hurricane impact safety, to name only a few multi-functional features.
Join our industry expert, Lindsay Hampton, Vetrotech's Keralite Product Manager and South Central Sales Manager and learn more in this one hour live AIA-registered webinar. This course will define categories of fire-rated glass products, as well as the related test standards and current building code requirements for specifying architectural fire-rated glazing.
- Review the evolution of fire rated glass including code requirements & testing standards
- Understand the levels of impact safety relating to glass products
- Define the methods of radiant heat transfer & it's importance
- Compare the characteristics between FIRE RESISTIVE & FIRE PROTECTIVE glass
This program is eligible for 1 AIA Learning Unit/1 HSW Credit and takes place on December 8th, 2017 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM Central Time (US).