• Vitro participates in a seminar organized by the National Commission for Energy Savings that took place in Mexico City
• The importance of glass in architectural projects is highlighted, as its appropriate use can generate energy savings as high as 70%

Value added, glass contributes to important energy savings.

Before an audience of a little over 5 thousand people who attended the event “XII Energy Savings Seminar, Cogeneration and Renewable Energy”, Hugo Lara, President of Vitro’s Flat Glass business unit, gave a presentation at the conference over the importance of glass in sustainable architecture.

Government authorities, businessmen, academicians, researchers and specialists in energy and environment attended the event organized by the Mexican Commission for Energy Savings, that took place at the World Trade Center in Mexico City on the 16th thru the 18th of October, 2007.

The principal topics discussed in the seminar were: efficient architectural design through regulation, new isolation materials and the use of efficient glass in construction, new alternatives for housing developments in Mexico, buildings and their environmental impact, water treatment and solid waste management.

“Our participation focused on underlining that glass, in addition to being 100% recyclable, is a basic material for the development of sustainable architecture, as it is a material that contributes significantly to the reduction of energy consumption”, pointed out Lara.

With a high degree of attentiveness the attendees listened to “Factors for the use of Glass in Construction” presented by Lara, particularly when he showed a comparison between standard glass and the Duovent unit, a Vitro exclusive product.

 

Efficient solutions, glass can be present in interiors as well as exteriors.

“Thanks to the application of glass technology, in Vitro we have successfully created glass that gives value added to our customers, as in the case of Duovent, by which savings of 70% can be attained in electric energy use”, he pointed out to the amazement of the audience.

He added that this is only one of a great variety of products that Vitro offers that can form part of all types of construction, interiors as well as exteriors, since it is one of the most versatile materials utilized in architecture that can be molded into many different forms leading to multiple benefits.

“We have low emission glass that is an ideal solution for extreme climates as it maintains constant temperatures within the structure: we have tempered glass that attains up to four times its normal structural resistance, to give only a few examples”, explained Lara.

The thermal, aesthetic, acoustic and safety characteristics of the glass that Vitro produces make these factors central elements for the future of sustainable architecture of the new millennium.

 

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