Bird Friendly Glass that fits all of your sustainable development goals
The AviProtek® eBooks of bird friendly glass
Bird friendly building is a real and growing concern. Across North America, cities are implementing and strengthening their regulations for bird deterrent building. How to keep up with all of this? The AviProtek® eBooks of bird friendly glass provide busy building professionals with guides to the latest green building codes and bird deterrent legislations.
The third edition of the series brings new bird-safe projects, the latest updates in bird-friendly building legislations, and much more!
Meeting all Canadian bird friendly legislation
Canadian eBooks
The Toronto and Canada eBooks of bird friendly glass address the Canadian market. The Toronto Green Standard leads the world in bird deterrent building legislation. Our Toronto eBook helps architects navigate bird friendly strategies along with energy efficiency requirements under the strictest iteration of this standard to date, Toronto Green Standard version 4.
Bird friendly building legislations are appearing across Canada. While each region brings its own approach, municipal and provincial bodies all look to the Canadian Standards Association as the country’s guide to bird deterrent building. The Canada eBook of bird friendly glass contains information on the CSA A460:19 standard for bird-friendly building design, as well as individual standards in cities across the nation.
US eBooks
The first eBook covers New York City. It addresses the city’s bird safe legislation, known as Local Law 15, as well as New York Energy Conservation Code as it relates to glazing. Updates include new requirements for U-factor, SHGC, and VLT.
The second covers the Pacific Coast states (WA, OR, and CA), where we highlight the different bird friendly legislations in cities across the region, as well as energy codes in each state.
The third eBook in the series encompasses bird friendly building legislations across the continental United States, with the exception of New York City and the three Pacific Coast states. It offers a broad overview of best practices for bird safe building, including regional legislations and guidelines from industry leaders like the National Glass Association.
What’s in the eBooks
The AviProtek® eBooks of bird friendly glass are information resources for architects working on bird safe projects. The documents provide an overview of why birds can’t see glass, rules for individual municipalities, and updates to cities’ energy efficient building codes. The eBooks pay special attention to glazing solutions incorporating AviProtek® bird friendly glass and high performance low-e coatings from Vitro Architectural Glass. With successful outcomes from projects across North America, the AviProtek® solutions are efficient, sustainable and will help you to meet your design goals.
Case studies show how bird deterrent glass was successfully incorporated into ecologically responsible structures. Architects can draw inspiration from these bird friendly projects, along with many other examples throughout the documents.
A collaborative effort
The AviProtek® eBooks of bird friendly glass were made possible by the collaborative efforts of specialists in bird deterrence, green building certification, and the glass industry. Their combined expertise provides essential information for building professionals in North America.
Daniel Klem, Jr., Ph.D., D.Sc.
Bird deterrence expert with over 45 years of experience researching bird collisions
Vitro Architectural Glass
North America’s largest glass producer
Vertima
Materials and green building certification experts
Walker Glass
Bird friendly glass manufacturer
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The AviProtek® eBooks of bird friendly glass
Thank you for your interest in bird friendly building. We are honored to be part of your material selection process, and confident that these ebooks will help in planning your next bird safe project.
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