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How LiSEC glass technology enhances buildings exterior beauty, façade

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As the expansion in the construction of office space projects continues to fuel demand for exquisite furnishing materials, international glass processing companies like LiSEC are finding more reasons to expand their frontiers in Nigeria.

The firm which is the brain behind Nestoil Towers (corporate headquarters) iconic exterior in Victoria Island, Lagos sees the gradually growing market for specialised kind of construction glasses too important to be overlooked.

Gulping approximately 10, 000 square metres of insulating glass with solar control e-coating, Nestoil’s curvy glass plastering project is one of the solutions it is creating from a flat glass machine industry that can comprehensively plan and develop large projects.

Apart from Nestoil Towers,  LiSEC is proud of other projects like Private Villa in Lagos, built with bullet-resistant insulating glass; Rose of Sharon Tower, furnished with 3, 000 square metres of glass solar control low e-coating, and the National Institute for Legislative Studies in Abuja.

Floran Batik, LiSEC head of sales, explained that the firm’s entry into Nigeria was encouraged by project managers who needed insulation glass finishing that was not readily available locally.
“One of our partners whom we have worked with continued to refer us and from there we have had more projects to handle. We are confident about the opportunities here,” Batik told BusinessDay at  an Austrian Embassy-led exhibition in Lagos.

50-year-old LiSEC with over £230 million turnover in 2017 uses the integration of production management software and machinery control that allows top operation and optimisation.
Glass insulation has come to stay in luxury construction projects, especial in commercial and private office spaces. Many of the skyscrapers in highbrow Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Lekki do not finish up without a touch of glass.

The obsession for glass is not just has not been for mere structural beauty, it has also been motivated by considerations such as heat Insulation, sound insulation, protection against injury, solar control and burglar resistance.

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LiSEC’s Eurotherm insulating glass, for instance, is a thermal insulation glass made with a component that is highly heat-insulating ultra-thin stainless coating; it has an inert gas-filled space separating the sheets as well as an optimum distance between the glass sheets to ensure maximum heat insulation.

The coatings not only significantly influence the heat insulation, but also let most of the sunlight into the building, generating a passive solar gain. As a rule of thumb, the higher the  value, the higher the passive solar gain.

Europhon insulating glass takes care of health with sound insulation of high performance; turns noise into a whisper and solves the noise problem. It is particularly interesting for use in windows, façade, and conservatories of buildings located in areas with high traffic or close to other noise sources.

Safety is based on the technology of specially  laminated safety glass with a highly tear-resistant polyvinyl butyral (PVB) which offers excellent sound insulation properties along with protection against injury if the glass breaks.

While Eurosol gives building their visual appearance, it allows optimal designs combined with all of the functions needed such as noise protection. Solar control glass is intended to maximise the penetration of natural daylight so-called light transmission and to reduce total energy transmittance to a minimum.

LiSEC started manufacturing glass early on. By 1968, the technology behind the relatively new product, insulating glass, had become so sophisticated that an own system with its own trademark was launched and patented. Since then, the product insulating glass has developed in a way that it now meets all fundamental requirements of buildings, courtesy advanced technologies.

Temitayo Ayetoto