When a new building material or technology reaches commercial scale, the assumption is often that it requires dedicated new manufacturing infrastructure to match. For dynamic glazing, that assumption carries a real carbon cost that rarely makes it into the conversation about a product’s sustainability credentials. The embodied carbon of new manufacturing capacity The logic here […]

Sustainable building design has spent the last two decades focused almost entirely on operational carbon: the energy a building consumes once it’s in use. Embodied carbon, the emissions locked into a building’s materials before it ever opens its doors, has received far less attention until recently. For glazing specifically, that’s starting to change, and the […]

What Solar Heat Gain Actually Measures Solar heat gain is the amount of the sun’s energy that passes through glazing and ends up warming the interior ofa building. It’s one of the first things architects and specifiers considerwhen balancing daylight, comfort, and energy use on a facade, and it’s central to how eLstar Dynamics approaches […]