Switchable
Smart Window Film
An electro-optical liquid-crystal adhesive film that turns existing glass into switchable privacy glazing — transparent…
Education
Schools, universities and campuses, where the glazing has to support concentration, supervision and safeguarding at the same time.
Supervision and focus pull in opposite directions
Educational buildings are designed around visibility. Staff need to see into teaching spaces, and safeguarding practice depends on it. At the same time, learning needs focus, assessment needs privacy, and pastoral conversations need a room that can genuinely close.
Add the practical problems — projected material washed out by sun on the elevation, classrooms too hot by mid-morning — and the glazing is doing a great deal of work.
Glazing that supports how a campus actually runs
Light control keeps projected and screen-based material readable through the day without darkening the room. Heat control keeps classrooms usable on an exposed elevation. Switchable privacy gives assessment rooms, counselling rooms and staff offices a closed state without removing them from the supervised plan the rest of the time. Fire-rated glazing keeps escape routes glazed and daylit.
Benefits
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Optimal learning environment
Lighting conditions that support concentration rather than working against it.
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Climate control
Classrooms that stay usable on exposed elevations through the cooling season.
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Enhanced security and safeguarding
Visibility as the default, with private states where the pastoral or assessment requirement calls for them.
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Innovative glass technologies
The full range applied to teaching, circulation and administrative space.
Applications
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Classrooms with projection and screen-based teaching
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Assessment, examination and interview rooms
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Counselling and pastoral rooms
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Staff offices on supervised corridors
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Libraries and study spaces with glare problems
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Lecture theatres and seminar rooms
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