Kuraray Birdsecure® Pro Glass Facades
BirdSecure® Pro GLASS FACADES
BIRDSECURE® PRO GLASS FACADES
As urbanization encroaches closer to established wildlife habitats and flightpaths, large, glazed structures can present hazards to local and migrating birds.
To counter this, we have developed Trosifol® and SentryGlas® BirdSecure® Pro, which incorporate a dot pattern that makes it more visible to birds. Glass in architecture – and its danger for birds. As the human population grows, so does its effect on local flora and fauna.
Urbanisation has seen human habitation creeping into areas that were traditionally the realm of wildlife, presenting birds and animals with unfamiliar obstacles and structures, to which many find it hard or impossible to adapt.
With this urbanisation and population growth has come the need for greater population density and more efficient land use and, as a result, buildings have risen in height, often into the flight paths of domestic and migratory species of birds.
This problem is then compounded by the increasing use of glazing in architecture. From skyscraper curtain walls to feature windows in domestic buildings, glass has become an important material for both structural and aesthetic purposes.
Birds do not perceive glass in the way we do. Although it is transparent, we see all the visual cues, such as geometric shapes, frames, mullions and mounts, but to a bird, a modern float-glass panel is an opening or an entrance to a tunnel, it may also reflect vegetation and appear to them as safe passage.
They simply don’t have the same perception as us. Urbanisation, habitat encroachment, taller buildings and the wider proliferation of glazing have come together to create a real danger for birds, so we have to be conscious of this in our design exercise.
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THICKNESS
- Trosifol® BirdSecure : 0.76 mm
- SentryGlas® BirdSecure : 0.76
ROLL LENGTHS
- Trosifol® BirdSecure : 164 ft
- SentryGlas® BirdSecure : 164 ft
BRAND
Kuraray
PRODUCT TYPE
Glass Facades
APPLICATIONS
Facades, reflective facades, transparent aerial walkways, plants behind transparent surfaces, transparent noise barriers, glazed entrances or winter gardens with ineffective black silhouettes, glazed balcony walls and balustrades.
PRODUCTION
Made In Germany
DOWNLOADS
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FORMAT
- Slabs
- Plates
- Panels
TYPE OF GLASS
Laminated Glass
PROPERTIES
Solar Control
ROLL WIDTHS
- Trosifol® BirdSecure : 47 x 72 x 98 in
- SentryGlas® BirdSecure : on demand
USE
Bird safety glass
STRUCTURE
Large & Glazed
CHARACTERISTICS
- High Strength
- High Solar Control Performance
- Relevant Safety Features remain unchanged