Pilkington Planar

The Worlds Leading Structural Glass System

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GLASS FIN WALLS TENSION STRUCTURES & CABLE NETS ROOFS, SKYLIGHTS & CANOPIES

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The Pilkington Planar System

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Unrivaled Performance for Over 45 Years - There is no equal!

Pilkington Planar structural glass systems have a proven track record in the most demanding applications. Architects can have absolute confidence in our ability to create soaring facades, roofs, canopies, or even clad an entire building knowing that the client will receive the most highly engineered system in the market backed by the most respected glass manufacturer in the world. Pilkington Planar readily adapts to the design teams requirements for designing backup structures elegantly light or highly expressive. The combined experience of one of the oldest and largest glass makers in the world along with one of the largest glaziers in the United States assures a safe and successful result!
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4. 12 Year Warranty Gives You Absolute Confidence

Continual and rigorous testing programs have given us a wealth of knowledge concerning structural glass systems. This has allowed us to introduce a Code of Practice for structural glass facades, and every part of every Pilkington Planar solution is designed in accordance with this criteria. This means we can give Pilkington Planar a 12 year design and materials warranty, and give you total confidence in the systems performance and reliability.
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5. Rollerwave Distortion Control

Rollerwave distortion (the visual waviness inherent in tempered glass) is reduced to an average of 0.0007 peak to valley in lieu of the published norm of 0.05. This exclusive feature virtually eliminates visual rollerwave allowing the glass to accurately reflect its surroundings.

Manufacturer
Pilkington Planar is exclusively made by Pilkington, the worlds leading glass manufacturer for over 150 years. Pilkington provides the complete glazing system as a sole course to insure undivided responsibility. One of the worlds largest glass research facilities supports a rigorous continual in-house testing program. This allows Pilkington to offer their 12 year comprehensive warranty. Pilkington maintains a separate and exclusive facility designed strictly for the manufacturing of the Pilkington Planar system. This results in exclusive glass features found only in the Pilkington Planar (see below).
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Major Advantages
1. Sole Source Manufacturing and Engineering
In-house, sole source quality assured system totally manufactured and controlled by Pilkington. The system is never sold by mixing outside glass or hardware suppliers. Pilkington and W&W maintain dedicated in-house engineering staffs that review every detail of each system prior to manufacture.

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2. Superior Tempering
Minimum compressive strength of 16,000 psi in an exclusive modern furnace versus typical domestic tempering of approximately 11,500 psi. This gives the glass added strength so that even when the glass is subjected to required high static and dynamic loading, there will be very high factors of safety at the hole locations where maximum stress occurs.

3. Research And Testing

Pilkington maintains one of the largest glass research and testing facilities in the world, and regularly tests, in-house, for various Pilkington Planar projects as well as new products.
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Cover Photo: Time Warner Center, New York City, NY Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Photographer: Adrian Wilson

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Most Tested Most Trusted

Architects, engineers and consultants are continually demanding higher performance and creating newer and more complex designs. When you select a Pilkington Planar system, you are selecting the most tested system available in the marketplace. You are selecting a system backed by over 45 years of IN HOUSE testing where the end product gives your client unparalleled levels of comfort in the knowledge that no products are bought outside of Pilkington and therefore all are backed by the Pilkington 12 year total warranty. See our website @ wwglass.com for more information on our WARRANTY.
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Recent Testing
Testing never stops with Pilkington Planar . Recent testing has been done in areas of Pilkington Planar Integral hidden bolt laminated glass, energy efficient Pilkington Planar Triple IG units, Pilkington Activ , self cleaning glass, and Pilkington IntraFix concealed bolt IG units.
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Water Penetration Test

Fail Safe Redundancy of Fins

The consultant demanded an unprecedented FAIL-SAFE, REDUNDANCY TEST that had never been done before. Under design load (40 psf), we remotely broke a glass fin to prove that the system would stay in place with a broken structural element on the wall! In addition, we tested for dynamic water, air, and seismic loading.
Long Span Truss Test Rig

Bomb-Blast Testing
Pilkington leads the way with recent testing allowing Pilkington to design systems to the level 1 standard of the GSA when tested to both GSA level C and D standards.
High Strength Laminated Fin Test

Hurricane Testing
With the development of the Planar | SentryGlas Plus System, and with the growth of hurricane impact codes, Pilkington will be moving forward in late 2007 with full scale testing for the Pilkington Planar Hurricane Impact System. Pilkington and W&W have already successfully completed preliminary impact testing.
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Bomb Blast Range Testing

Hurricane Impact Testing

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System Applications
The Pilkington Planar system easily adapts to various backup structures giving the architect a wide range of systems to choose from. See our website www.wwglass.com for further applications of the following systems:
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Steel
Steel backup structures can be anything from simple pipe columns to complicated, expressive truss systems. The steel can either by supplied by us or can be supplied by others working in close cooperation with W&W and Pilkington.

Afognak, Anchorage, AK Koonce Pfeffer Bettis, Arch. Metro Transportation Bldg. Division 9 Elmonte, CA Kennard Design Group, Arch.

American Bible Society, New York City, NY FX Fowle, Arch.

Glass Mullions
Glass mullions form the structural system. These systems are always suspended from above with the face glass fastened to the fins with Pilkington Hardware. The structure above carries the combined weight of the faade and fins. Pilkington Planar fin systems have been tested to loads of 270 psf (320 mph) for 15 minutes as well as for use in areas of high seismic activity.
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Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA Drexel Univ. Planning, Design & Construction, Arch

Technologies Parametric, 140 Kendrick St., Needham-MA Tsoi /Kobus & Associates, Arch. Photograph: Robert Benson

AMC Theater, Century City, CA,

STK Architecture, Inc., Arch.

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Tension Structures
Pilkington leads the way in the development of sole source cable tension and structural glass systems. Full design assist 2D and 3D analysis is available. These systems require very early design assist cooperation with the building engineer to ensure that proper perimeter steel is designed early in the project. Various types of standard designs exist and custom designs are available.

Tampa International Airport Remote Parking Garage, Tampa, FL Gresham Smith & Partners, Arch.

The Rose Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY Polshek Partnership Architects LLP, Arch.

University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT,

Perkins & Eastman, Arch.

Roofs and Canopies

Pilkington Planar has an impressive track record when used in horizontal applications. Years of testing for snow, seismic, wind, water and impact have proven the use of structural glass in these applications. Horizontal glazing can be virtually flat with a minimum of 3 degrees of slope to eliminate ponding in the middle of individual glass panels.
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Planar Net
In addition to cable truss structures, Pilkington and W&W have developed and tested the Planar Net System. Planar Net uses the same principles used by the Pilkington Planar System by attaching Planar countersunk panels to pre-tensioned cables which are then attached to a coordinated boundary structure. Combined with Planar Integral (page 8), cable nets can be supplied without any exterior fittings or patches!
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Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn, NY Polshek Partnership Architects LLP, Arch.

Centre Square Philadelphia, PA Daroff Design, Inc., Arch.

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SentryGlas Plus System

The worlds leading forces in structural glass systems and laminate interlayers have joined together to create the ultimate in strength, safety, durability and appearance in laminated structural glass the Planar | SentryGlas Plus System. Pilkington has been at the forefront of frameless glazing technology for more than 30 years, and Pilkington Planar is the most tested and most trusted structural glass system, chosen by architects and engineers for their most challenging applications. Now Pilkington engineers working with DuPont scientists have combined their leading edge technologies to develop the Planar | SentryGlas Plus System: the latest advance in frameless glazing. Applications of the Planar | SentryGlas Plus System are not just confined to complex projects.
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Significant benefits can be realized on any project in which increased strength or enhanced appearance are considered to be of importance. The versatility of the Planar | SentryGlas Plus System can now match the demands of projects on all levels.
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Relative Strength (Bending)

1.6
T = 230C 1.52 mm Interlayer Laminate Dimension = 2m

Strength Relative to PVB Laminate

1.4

1.2

Design
1.0 0.8
SentryGlas (R) Plus PVB Reference EVA

0.6

0.4 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Nominal Laminate Thickness (mm)

To gain maximum benefit from the enhanced properties of the toughened laminated glass, Pilkington engineers have developed customized fittings incorporating advanced engineering plastic technology. The connections have been upgraded from standard Pilkington Planar fittings to provide a number of additional functions including developing maximum strength while eliminating compression in the interlayer which can reduce load bearing capacity and durability.
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Creep Loading: Post-Glass Breakage

5mm HS / 2.29 mm Interlayer / 5 mm HS / 0.75 m x 1.2m Plate 5kg steel ball dropped from 3m

300
SGP-Lami PVB-Lami

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Centre Displacement (mm)

200

150

100

50
Load ramped to 330kg.

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Time (Seconds)

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Benefits
Stronger The laminated glass in the Planar | SentryGlas Plus System is substantially stronger than traditional PVB laminated systems. Therefore, while the system still offers the same high levels of performance synonymous with Pilkington Planar , it can be made with a thinner glass.
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Lighter The use of custom designed Pilkington Planar fittings in combination with stronger laminated glass panels results in a Planar | SentryGlas Plus System typically being much lighter than its more conventional PVB counterpart. This can result in longer panels, a reduced number of support fixings and lighter weight support structures. This reduces their visual impact, as well as provides cost savings.
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Safer Tests have proven that the Planar | SentryGlas Plus System has residual strength, even with both glass components broken. This brings greater peace of mind in locations subject to typhoons or hurricanes, and makes it possible to specify laminated glass for canopies and skylights which can be accessed for maintenance.
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Edge Stable
SentryGlas Plus has been subjected to intensive testing to

ensure its long term edge stability as well as compatibility with silicone sealants. The Planar | SentryGlas Plus System can also be designed to withstand a variety of bomb blast performance requirements. Subject to local regulations and safe working practices. The Planar | SentryGlas Plus System can be supplied using the revolutionary Pilkington Planar Integral System where our fasteners are hidden within the laminate (see page 14). This allows a much wider choice of glass than traditional structural laminates.
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Maximum Clarity The SentryGlas Plus structural interlayer is significantly clearer than traditional interlayers. When used with Pilkington Optiwhite exceptional clarity is achieved.

12 year warranty
The Planar | SentryGlas Plus System is subject to a design and engineering check by Pilkington engineers, and carries the full Pilkington Planar 12 year warranty.
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DuPont , the DuPont Oval and SentryGlas are registered trademarks or trademarks of E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co. or its affiliates and are used under license from the trademark owner.

Glass Laminating Solutions

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Leading The Way Through Innovation

Pilkington never stops in the development of new and exciting additions to the system!

Pilkington Planar Integral

A fully tested and patented method of fixing laminated glass panels to a backup structure without any exterior bolts, caps or washers! All fittings are concealed within the laminated glass. This fixing system allows a much wider variety of glass types, including art and textured glass, to be used in a structural glass application. Integral allows us to horizontally glaze an entire roof or canopy without any fasteners in the exterior glass!

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Pilkington Planar Triple Insulated Glass PP

Pilkington introduces the worlds first triple glazed frameless glass system. Triple glazing offers substantially lower U Values than traditional double glazed Pilkington Planar . There are three layers of glass giving the architect multiple choices for increased solar performance and noise control. Performance figures available upon request.
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Embedded Flange

Pilkington T Glass Plus

Pilkington T Glass Plus 905 Fitting

Detail of Pilkington Planar Integral

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Pilkington Planar IntraFix

For applications in which the design team wants an insulating wall without any external bolts, caps, or washers, the Planar IntraFix bolt will finish, in late 2007, a punishing set of durability trials and be launched. This fixing mechanism captures the tempered or laminated inner leaf of an insulated unit with a stainless steel disk system which does not penetrate the outer glass. Planar IntraFix allows high performance coated glasses to be used for the external lite of the IG unit. IntraFix will carry the Pilkington Planar 12 year warranty!
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All glazing components in this brochure have been supplied by Pilkington. Certain backup structural elements displayed in photographs within this brochure have been supplied by others. This publication gives a general description of the product. It is the responsibility of the user to ensure that any use of the system fully complies with all relevant building codes, industry standards and other requirements. Pilkington and W&W hereby disclaim all liability arising from any error in or omission from this publication. Pilkington Planar , Pilkington Optifloat , Pilkington K Glass , Pilkington Activ , Pilkington Optiwhite , Pilkington Insulight are all trademarks of Pilkington United Kingdom Limited. DuPont , the DuPont Oval and SentryGlas are registered trademarks or trademarks of E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co. or its affiliates and are used under license from the trademark owner.
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