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Resilient Materials: Laminated Glass Interlayers for Increased Safety & Protection
Global Platform for Disaster Risk ReductionMay 22, 2013
Jonathan Cohen,
Global Business Director, DuPont SentryGlas®
Contact : [email protected]
Protecting People & Property
Terrorist attacks are on the rise
Impacts on human safety and capital related to both natural and manmade disasters likely to increase
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Severity of climate related events
Urbanization
A new Construction Material for DRR• Glass : increasingly popular and desirable
material
• Standard glass can cause major destruction, injuries and death
• Nickel sulphide spontenaous breakage
• When combined with SentryGlas® interlayer, laminated glass provides security and enhanced safety
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• Facilities vulnerable to severe weather conditions & bomb blasts
• High risk of injury or death from flying and falling debris
• High risk of destruction inside buildings
Improved Bomb Blast Protection
With SentryGlas®
• Injuries from flying glass are minimized
• Broken fragments of glass are retained
• Improved protection to building occupants
• Broken SentryGlas® laminates remain in place, protecting building contents from vandalism
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Industrial Accidents
Terrorism
Civil Unrest
Improved Protection from Severe Weather
With SentryGlas® laminates
• Resist effects of windborne debris impact and sustained high winds in storms
• Reduce catastrophic failures caused by internal pressurization of the building
• SentryGlas® laminates remain in place after breakage and serve as a weather barrier until replacement can be made
• Building protected from vandalism
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Building Codes & Best Practices
• Building codes are typically representative of minimum requirements for construction..
• There are building code requirements for buildings that are located in earthquake and hurricane prone areas of the United States
• Security from manmade attacks or terrorism is seen as a level above the minimum requirements
• Government agencies, such as the U.S. State Department and the UK Home Office are the entities that generate security glazing requirements for their buildings.
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Project Examples with SentryGlas®
HospitalsSports Arenas
MuseumsSchoolsHotels & Condominiums
Airports & Retail
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Example of Applications for DuPont SentryGlas®
Office Towers
Court houses and government buildings
Embassies
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DuPont SentryGlas® video
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2 Actions for more Resilient Cities and Buildings
1 - Require Increased Safety & protection in
Building Codes and Standards
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• Protect against the potential dangers of standard glass
• Impact
• Spontaneous glass breakage
• Protection against Extreme Weather
• Hurricane and Typhoon
• Tornado
• Protection against Man-made attacks
• Bomb-blast, Bullets
• Anti-intrusion
2 - Specify Laminated Glass and Resilient
Materials in Buildings
Contact : [email protected]