PPG Industries has declared that its architectural glass configurator can be downloaded as a desktop widget for MAC and WINDOWS computers. This desktop widget is the company’s most recent launch in web and mobile-based tools in order to ease the work of architects in the product specification and research whether they are at home, office or travelling.
PPG's Architectural Glass Configurator
The architects can use this new configurator for finding the most suitable architectural glass for their specific application, as it is possible to observe and compare the performance and aesthetics information of each PPG glass product that contains ultra-clear STARPHIRE glass, high-performance tinted glasses, energy-efficient passive and solar control and the glasses with low emissivity like SOLARBAN and SUNGATE products. Since this online tool was unveiled in 2010, it has been utilized for over 200,000 times. Currently, it attracts over 10,000 visitors per month.
Architects can view and evaluate the glass products by directly downloading this configurator widget to the computers. For this PPG Glass Configurator widget download, the YAHOO! Widgets application must be first downloaded and then the WinZip file comprising the PPG widget. The IDEASCAPES TOOL on the home page has to be clicked and finally “glass configurator widget” must be selected from the appearing list.
This widget follows the introduction of the PPG Glass Product Performance Calculator’s mobile version in early 2011, wherein the architects can use the calculator with ANDROID system and APPLE brand smartphones.
The performance calculator from PPG is dependent on the Enermodal FRAME plus Program and has facilitated the specifiers and architects to calculate the optical and thermal performance of insulating glass units (IGU) and windows made from any PPG product combination. The tool will immediately estimate the correlated performance data for solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC), U-value, light-to-solar gain (LSG) ratio, optical and thermal measures, color index and visible light transmittance (VLT), when the architects enter a potential IGU design.
Source: http://www.ppg.com/