Glass has been used for centuries for many purposes such from making bottles to windows, Interior decorations and building exteriors. Glass is indeed an amazing building material. With its versatility in form and function, glass has evolved to become – both aesthetically and functionally - extraordinarily well suited to address the requirements of the architect of today creating the modern cityscape. It is lightweight, transparent, appears fragile but is one of the toughest building materials available today. Used to deflect bullets, replace concrete walls and pillars, insulate against heat and light, glass is a building material that enhances safety, promotes comfort and aesthetics, makes buildings more cost-effective in construction and in maintenance.

How glass keeps the interiors cool

The Reflective glasses or Sun Ban Glasses are made of special metallic coating which reflects incident radiation (read as heat) from the Sun and allows only the natural light to flow into the rooms giving a pleasant environment to live. Nowadays Glass is given more importance in construction of a building, because of its heat reduction property and also it saves on electricity bills.

Saint Gobain Glass India is a leading manufacturer of float glasses for various building applications
These glasses help to fulfill a variety of needs: 

• Stay cooler in summer: Glass that helps to keep the heat out!
  Solar control glass can be used to keep interiors more comfortable by preventing excessive heat build up in sunny weather without the need for costly air conditioning or blinds. Saint Gobain Glass India offers its range of solar control reflective glass under the brand name Sun Ban Glass. This Sun Ban range includes SGG REFLECTASOL, SGG ANTELIO PLUS, and SGG COOL-LITE.
• Acoustic insulation: keep noise out!
  Noise pollution is a serious issue, particularly when living in an area with high levels of air traffic or busy roads.  Too much noise can be damaging to health (increased stress, disrupted sleep). It can hinder academic learning and concentration.
• Decorative glass : Create individual and contemporary interiors
  Be it transparent, translucent or opaque, glass can offer a wealth of designs, Colours and textures to add style and modernize a room. Glass is an ideal material to transform an interior.

Glass for Fire Protection

Fire in home is more hostile and it needs to be prevented in all cause. So it is necessary to safe guard our home and office from fire. Glass has a property to melt only at very high temperature and specially designed glass can even offer very high protection in case of fire accidents. There are various glass products from Saint Gobain that helps home and office safe from fire:

1. Contraflam
2. Vetroflam
3. Pyroswiss