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Energy-Efficient Smart E Glass® from Innovative Glass to be Featured
on Discovery Channel’s Mega-Engineering Program –
“The Mile High Skyscraper”
September 22, 2009 , Plainview, NY - Innovative Glass Corp.’s smart E Glass® will be
featured in the “Mile High Skyscraper” episode of a new television series for Discovery
Channel called Mega-Engineering.
The program, which is scheduled to first air on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at
10PM ET, explores whether humans could build “Extopia” – a mile-high skyscraper – in
the future, and emphasizes the strategic role that Innovative Glass’s E Glass® product
line could have in sustainable building design.
Specific details of the episode have yet to be released publicly, but the intensive 3-day
film shoot covered an exclusive beginning-to-end inside look at the manufacturing
process of E Glass®. Portions included filming and interviews in the labs and Design
Center of Research Frontiers Inc. (NASDAQ: REFR), the developer and licensor of
patented SPD-SmartGlass, a detailed look at how both the SPD-Smartglass and LC
Privacy Glass technologies work, as well as the fabrication, lamination, and operation of
the finished E Glass® panels. The filming also included the installation of E Glass® on
the 84th floor of the Sears Tower in Chicago, IL.
Although the program is set in the future, E Glass® is a high-performance glazing
technology from Innovative Glass that is commercially available now and has the ability
to tint, shade, or switch to private on demand. It includes two types of dynamic glazings,
and is currently offered in windows, skylights, partitions, doors, atria and a variety of
other products. The first is SPD-SmartGlass, which gives users the ability to instantly
adjust the tint of the glass to any point between very dark and clear, through either
manual or automatic control systems. The second is LC Privacy Glass, which allows
users to switch the glass between clear or opaque states to achieve privacy as needed.
The use of E Glass® can save on energy costs by more effectively managing solar heat
gain and thus heating and cooling loads, as well as by reducing the need for artificial
lighting through daylight harvesting.
Steve Abadi, Chairman and founder of Innovative Glass noted, “Some of our more
visible commercial installations of SPD-SmartGlass and LC Privacy Glass earlier this
year caught the attention of the producers of this ground-breaking series. Glass has
become smarter and more functional than many people are aware of, and this episode
showcases the benefits of incorporating our electronic glass into modern building design.
Energy-efficiency, occupant comfort, and increased functionality are some of the many
benefits that E Glass offers. This episode shows today’s architects and builders not
only what is possible in the future, but what they can achieve for their clients today.”
About Innovative Glass Corp.:
Innovative Glass is at the forefront of providing and integrating electronic glazing
solutions to an international market, with a wide range of projects using its proprietary
E Glass® products. Working closely with world-class Architects, Building Designers and
Glazing Contractors, recent installations include conference rooms, educational facilities,
boardrooms, network operation centers, houses of worship, homeland security projects,
residential projects, and other unique applications.
Its E Glass® product line uses special electrically-activated films which are laminated
between multiple layers of glass. Once electricity is applied to the films (110V AC), the
particles within the films change to allow different levels of light through, thus varying its
optical properties. E Glass® products are custom fabricated in virtually any shape, size
and configuration for easy integration into standard framing and partition systems,
windows, doors, skylights, partitions, atria and more. They are shipped worldwide and
are easily installed.
Contact: Innovative Glass Corporation
Steve Abadi, Chairman & CEO
130 Newtown Road
Plainview, NY 11803
(516) 777-1100
Info@InnovativeGlassCorp.com
www.InnovativeGlassCorp.com