VueSafe

VueSafe is the ultimate choice for homeowners seeking enhanced safety and durability in both external and internal glass applications. Featuring interlayers that are five times stronger and up to 100 times stiffer than conventional laminating materials, VueSafe offers superior protection against storms, impacts, and powerful blasts. Whether used in windows, floors, balcony rails, or glass canopies, VueSafe ensures your home is safeguarded without compromising on clarity.

Designed for versatile use, the weather safe interlayers prevent delamination, maintaining the glass’s outstanding clarity and beauty for years. With VueSafe, you get a robust, secure solution that meets the highest standards of energy efficiency and safety, all while enhancing the elegance and functionality of your living spaces.

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Exploring The Benefits

UV Protection

The SentryGlas SGP interlayer used in VueSafe eliminates 99% of ultraviolet radiation.

Weather Resistant

Used externally without fear of delamination. An ideal choice for applications where exposure to the elements is inevitable.

Safety & Security

The VueSafe range allows for handrail-free balustrading. Providing the ultimate in engineered design excellence.

Easy Processing

Can be toughened, laminated or used in DGU Pro. 

Range of Tones

Colour options are available within the VueSafe range.

DGU Application

Can be paired with an array of glass types to create a double-glazed unit with added safety and security.

Strength and Durability

VueSafe interlayers are engineered to be five times stronger and up to 100 times stiffer than conventional laminating materials. 

Versatile Applications

From floors and stairs to balcony rails and minimally supported glass canopies, VueSafe is a versatile solution for a wide range of applications.

The Strength of VueSafe

The structural strength of VueSafe is amazing. See how it still says in position when an axe has been swung into it. The slow motion from different angles clearly shows how strong it is under impact. Even with the full force of the axe, the 2nd panel of glass didn’t break.

The Quality of VueSafe and Edge+

The edgework on all of our Laminated Glass is amazing. Just look at the alignment of the two pieces of glass, no steps, no mismatches. The video also shows how perfectly flat FGS Edge+ is. It is not concave, not convex, just perfectly flat. 

Performance Data

  • Calculation method: LBNL WINDOW Calc Engine v2.4.0, Optics 6.0
  • Environmental Condition: NFRC 100-2000
  • Results are for center-of-glass; does not include effect of frames
  • Location of LowE coating is indicated with surface number
    • #1 indicates exterior surface, #4 indicates the interior surface in a typical double-glazed unit
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Tilt

Tilt-angle (°)

Angle of the glass relative to the horizon

  • Typical skylights with a slight pitch: 3-5°
  • Typical windows in vertical walls: 90°
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Ug (W/m².K)

Heat-transfer coefficient (center-of-glass)

  • Heat transfer (W) per square meter (m²) of glass for each degree (C) of temperature difference
  • Lower implies better insulation

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NFRC 100-2010 Winter Condition

  • The standard environmental condition for Ug quoted in the Window industry
  • Useful as a reference for performance comparison between different glazing systems but can lead to inaccuracies if used to estimate energy consumption
  • Inside Condition:
    • Air and effective room temperature: 21 deg C
    • Room emissivity: 1
  • Outside Condition:
    • Air and effective sky temperature: -18 deg C
    • Effective sky emissivity: 1
    • Convection coefficient: 26 W/m².K
    • Wind speed: 5.5m/s windward
Ug.s

Ug (W/m².K)

Heat-transfer coefficient (center-of-glass)

  • Heat transfer (W) per square meter (m²) of glass for each degree (C) of temperature difference
  • Lower implies better insulation

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NFRC 100-2010 Summer Condition

  • The condition used to calculate SHGC
  • Ug.s better represents performance in warm environmental conditions
  • Inside Condition:
    • Air and effective room temperature: 24 deg C
    • Room emissivity: 1
  • Outside Condition:
    • Air and effective sky temperature: 32 deg C
    • Effective sky emissivity: 1
    • Convection coefficient: 15 W/m².K
    • Wind speed: 2.75m/s windward
    • Direct solar radiation: 783W/m²
SHGC

SHGC (Range: 0 – 1)

Solar heat gain coefficient

  • Proportion of solar heat radiation transmitted
  • Generally lower SHGC is desirable for north and west facing windows for reducing air-conditioning cost in summer
  • However, higher SHGC for north and west facing windows would help reduce heating cost in winter
VLT

VLT (Range: 0 – 1)

Visible light transmittance

  • Proportion of visible light (380 - 720nm) transmitted
  • Generally higher VLT is more desirable
VLRf

VLRf (Range: 0 – 1)

Front Visible light reflectance

  • Proportion of visible light reflected on the external side of the IGU
VLRb

VLRb (Range: 0 – 1)

Back Visible light reflectance

  • Proportion of visible light reflected on the room side of the IGU
Tdw

Tdw-ISO (Range: 0 – 1)

Damage weighted transmittance

  • Proportion of colour fading radiation transmitted
  • Lower Tdw-ISO means lower risk of colour fading
  • Accounts for the colour fading potential of both UV and visible spectrum
Tuv

Tuv (Range: 0 – 1)

UV transmittance

  • Proportion of UV radiation (280 - 380nm) transmitted (Range: 0 – 1)
  • Not recommended as a metric for assessing colour fading potential
  • Visible spectrum could account for as much as 40% of the fading from solar radiation
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Selectivity (VLT/SHGC)

Ratio of visible light transmittance over solar heat gain coefficient

  • Useful for comparing spectral selectiveness of the low-E coating
  • Higher selectivity means less visible light is sacrificed to lower solar heat gain

Example:

  • Sel. in the 0.5 - 0.8 range results from the use of Grey glass; less visible light is transmitted vs infrared radiation
  • Sel. in the 1.9 - 2.2 range results from the use of LightTech LI Max; less infrared radiation is transmitted vs visible light
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Nom.

Nominal thicknesses (mm)

List of nominal thicknesses of the IGU components separated by the '+' symbol

Example:

17.52:

  • 17.52mm single-pane laminated glass

6+12+6:

  • DGU made up of:
    • 6mm glass
    • 12mm spacer
    • 6mm glass
Total.

Total thickness (mm)

Total thickness of the glazing system; sum of component thicknesses

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Applications

Vuesafe can be used in many laminated glass applications including:
  • Handrail free Balustrading
  • Structural Glass Flooring
  • Stairs
  • Pedestrian bridges
  • Hurricane resistant windows, doors and skylights
  • Bomb blast resistant windows, doors and facades
  • Minimally supported and open-edged railings, facades and canopies

Specifications

How to Specify

FGS Glass VueSafe uses SentryGlas®  laminate interlayers

  • FGS can help you find the correct engineered solution for your particular application.
  • Call us on 03 8562 0880 and ask for our Technical Lamination Manager.
  • FGS Glass can crate your laminated products and ship them around Australia

 

FGS Glass can crate and deliver Laminated Glass to anywhere in Australia

Order a VueSafe Sample Board, click here for more details

Considerations

Things to Consider

Application

EnergyTech™ when single glazed, must be single glazed with the exposed coating to the inside of the building (surface #2). When incorporated into IGUs solar control glass products can be glazed with coatings to surface #2 or #3.

Glass Processing

Does not require edge deletion for use in insulated glass units.

Thermal Stress and Fracture Risk

Some products recommended for thermal stress fracture risk assessment.

Large Projects

Oceania Glass recommends that for large glazing facades (particularly curtain wall) the customer should highlight this in writing to enable consideration of colour management of supplied product.