Latest Articles

• Sustainable Design and Advanced Fire Rated Glazing in Schools
• Case Study: Fire Rated Glass in School Settings
• Achieving Sustainable Design with Advanced Fire Rated Glazing Systems
• When, Where, Why? For Architects, Taking the Time to Understand Fire Rated Glazing Can Ensure Success
• SFPUC Building Wins US Glass Magazine's Green Design Award
• Jack of All Trades: From Aesthetics to Performance, Fire Rated Glazing Tackles Multiple Demands
• From Wired Glass to Clear Solution: Advanced Fire-Rated Glass for Today's Schools
• 2012 IBC Clarifies Fire-Rated Glass ans Framing Applications
• Need Glass and Metal Specs?
• Fire-rated Glass Code Update - Tips for Architects and Specifiers
• Fire Rated Glass for Exteriors
• Playing with Fire
• Daylighting and Decorative Design with Fire Rated Glass at UC Davis Medical Center
• 2012 IBC Changes to Make Fire Rated Glazing Specification Easier
• One-on-One with Tim Nass, SAFTI FIRST’s VP of National Sales
• Protective Windows for Productive Occupants
• Sustainability Through Fire Rated Glass
• Design Team Uses Fire Rated Glazing to Bring School Building Up to Code While Preserving Historic
• NFPA Code Changes Force Industry Response
• Wired Glass Still A Misunderstood Product
• ABCs of Total Fire Protection
• Invisible Wall: Fire-Rated Glass
• USGNN.com Announces Supplier Website Winners
• New SAFTI Hires
• 5 Myths About Fire Rated and Protective Glass
• Beauty and Brawn
• Fire Rated Code Proposal
• Fire Rated Forecast
• Fire Rated Glass and Safety in Canada
• Fire Rated Glass
• Fire Rated Glass Reaches New Heights
• G3 Industry Talks
• Hose Stream or Smoke Screen?
• New Forms and Functions of Fire Rated Glass
• One World, Why Not One Standard?
• Room for Improvement - While Constructions Stalls, Suppliers Take a New Look at Retrofits
• Top Tips for Considering Fire Rated Glass and Safety Glass
• Specifying Fire Rated Glazing - Choices, codes, and clarifications
• What Make Specialty Glazing Special
• SAFTI receives honor - Q&A with President William O'Keeffe
• Speak up: Threat of radiant heat should not be ignored
• Fanning the Flames - New Fire Rated Products
  Offer Versatility and Respond to Code Changes (USGlass)
• SAFTI FIRST Wins $1M Patent Case
• Bugged by Labeling
• Speak Up: Looking beyond budgets.  Value-added,
  performance- based solutions

The Hose Stream Test

• History of the Hose Stream
• The Hose Stream Test: What it does and does not tell you about the performance of fire protective glazing materials.
• The Hose Stream Test … Safety Test or Sales Strategy?

Radiant Heat Transfer

• Fire-Rated Glass and the Effects of Radiant Heat Transfer
• Letter from John Debenkolb, Fire Protection Engineer and Code Consultant

Fire Resistive Glazings

• Safety glazing: Fire-rated curtain wall
• What Do Fire Resistance Ratings Really Mean?
• Glasses for Fire Resisant Glazed Assemblies

Visual Distortion

• Visual Distortions in Heat Treated Glass and Sealed Insulating Glass

Code Requirements
for 60-Minute Fire Resistive Glazings

• Sorting Fact from Fiction: Code Requirements for 60-Minute Glazings
• Code Application and Interpretation: Section 4306(g) of Uniform Building Code
• Where are the 60-Minute Requirements in the Codes?
• 1997 Uniform Building Code: Section 713 fire Resistance Assemblies for Protection of Openings
• 2003 International Building Code: Section 715 Opening Protectives
• NFPA 80 - Standard for Fire Doors and Fire Windows 1999
• Letter from John Debenkolb to J. R. Beyreis from UL

Wired Glass

• Replacement and litigation costs make wired-glass alternatives worth the price
• Prices still too high for most fire-rated glass - School administrators can’t come up with the funds
• Safti First exec responds to cost concerns
• VIDEO: Safety Glass: Anything But?
• CPSC to Face Congressional Review for Failure to Protect the Public From Hazards of Wired Glass
• Shattering the Myth of Wired Glass
• Safe Solutions to Wired Glass
• Oregon Building Codes Division Bans Wired Glass
• Wired Warrior - Bill O'Keeffe's passionate quest to rid the country of wired glass - U.S. Glass Magazine
• Unanimous Vote for the Removal of Safety Exception for Wired Glass
• First Wired Glass Product that Meets CPSC Safety Standard