tempered safety glass

However, Novak said, non-laminated tempered safety glass is still permitted in glass facades.

No one has been seriously injured by the fallen glass, all of which was tempered “safety glass” designed to be particularly strong and to break into small pebbles rather than more dangerous shards.

“The building was constructed with 100% tempered safety glass that breaks into small granular pieces,” York said.

‘The game here is energy absorption,’ says Edwin Thomas, Lee’s colleague and Dean of Engineering at Rice University, US. ‘If you can nucleate many cracks, it is a way of spreading the impact into more material.’ Thomas likened the effect seen in graphene to that of tempered safety glass, a material engineered to spread damage and not locate it to a point.

Once construction begins, NorthStar engineers continue that level of care by using the latest techniques and materials, from resins, cores and gelcoats in the hull and structure to tempered safety glass in the windows and vacuum-bonded teak on the decks and swim platforms.