Architects: Havin’ fun with sun
As discussed last week, I wrote a Clean Break column on a Nova Scotia-based company called Advanced Glazings that has developed a honeycombed-structured glaze for windows, dubbed Solera, that both insulates and diffuses direct sunlight. The column appears in today’s Toronto Star.
A major project for Advanced Glazings was the installation of its Solera product at a Cape Breton hockey arena, where sunlight is generally difficult to manage because of its impact on ice quality and building temperature. I encourage anyone interested in green buildings to read this article. In my view, Advanced Glazings has a very interesting and innovative product that would be a perfect fit for schools, hospitals, office buildings, retail stores, greenhouses, athletic facilities (see picture above)… you name it. The company was one of a handful of Canadian ventures that presented at the recent Cleantech Venture Forum in Washington, D.C., where founder and president Douglas Milburn was trying to raise a round of financing. Attention investors: He’s still looking.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca