resilient materials: laminated glass interlayers for increased safety & protection global...

Resilient Materials: Laminated Glass Interlayers for Increased Safety & Protection

Global Platform for Disaster Risk ReductionMay 22, 2013

Jonathan Cohen,

Global Business Director, DuPont SentryGlas®

Contact : Jonathan.v.cohen@dupont.com

Protecting People & Property

Terrorist attacks are on the rise

Impacts on human safety and capital related to both natural and manmade disasters likely to increase

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Severity of climate related events

Urbanization

A new Construction Material for DRR• Glass : increasingly popular and desirable

material

• Standard glass can cause major destruction, injuries and death

• Nickel sulphide spontenaous breakage

• When combined with SentryGlas® interlayer, laminated glass provides security and enhanced safety

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• Facilities vulnerable to severe weather conditions & bomb blasts

• High risk of injury or death from flying and falling debris

• High risk of destruction inside buildings

Improved Bomb Blast Protection

With SentryGlas®

• Injuries from flying glass are minimized

• Broken fragments of glass are retained

• Improved protection to building occupants

• Broken SentryGlas® laminates remain in place, protecting building contents from vandalism

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Industrial Accidents

Terrorism

Civil Unrest

Improved Protection from Severe Weather

With SentryGlas® laminates

• Resist effects of windborne debris impact and sustained high winds in storms

• Reduce catastrophic failures caused by internal pressurization of the building

• SentryGlas® laminates remain in place after breakage and serve as a weather barrier until replacement can be made

• Building protected from vandalism

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Building Codes & Best Practices

• Building codes are typically representative of minimum requirements for construction..

• There are building code requirements for buildings that are located in earthquake and hurricane prone areas of the United States

• Security from manmade attacks or terrorism is seen as a level above the minimum requirements

• Government agencies, such as the U.S. State Department and the UK Home Office are the entities that generate security glazing requirements for their buildings.

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Project Examples with SentryGlas®

HospitalsSports Arenas

MuseumsSchoolsHotels & Condominiums

Airports & Retail

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Example of Applications for DuPont SentryGlas®

Office Towers

Court houses and government buildings

Embassies

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DuPont SentryGlas® video

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2 Actions for more Resilient Cities and Buildings

1 - Require Increased Safety & protection in

Building Codes and Standards

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• Protect against the potential dangers of standard glass

• Impact

• Spontaneous glass breakage

• Protection against Extreme Weather

• Hurricane and Typhoon

• Tornado

• Protection against Man-made attacks

• Bomb-blast, Bullets

• Anti-intrusion

2 - Specify Laminated Glass and Resilient

Materials in Buildings

Contact : Jonathan.v.cohen@dupont.comwww.sentryglas.com