July 30, 2010
Antiterrorism : Blast-resistant Glazing Systems
The environment of rapidly evolving antiterrorism codes has left estimators. And manufacturers in a whirlwind of confusion asking themselves. “Why do blast resistant requirements seem to be a moving target?” It’s important for us to understand what is driving this part of the glazing industry. A great emphasis has been placed on protecting the inhabitants of government buildings from flying shards of glass due to explosion. The U.S. government will be investing great amounts of capital into protective glazing systems during the next 10 to 15 years to make the changes necessary to their existing buildings and for all new construction. The two major codes driving the changes are GSA/Interagency Security Committee Security Design Criteria and the U.S. Department of Defense Unified Facilities Code UFC 4-010-01, Minimum Antiterrorism Standards for Buildings. So the UFC code requires all future DoD programming beginning in 2004 to include blast resistant glazing systems. Over the last couple of years we have begun to see many of these projects entering into construction and it’s essentially the same story for the GSA’s programmed projects.
For more insight on this topic see the article we wrote for Glass Magazine:
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