Pound for pound and inch for inch, glass is extremely strong and durable. Obviously we are not talking about glass that is formed into quarter-inch panes and shatters into thousands of shards at the impact of an errant baseball.

We mean structural glass. Glass that holds up ceilings. Glass that can take a bullet. Glass that can take a hurricane. Glass you can walk on. Glass you can drive on.

Most contractors and builders are just familiar with the glass that acts as a typical window. They only know the ASTM standards for annealed glass and do not consider all of glass’s remarkable strengths and properties – especially when combined with a structural framework of metal or concrete.

Everyone understands the basic benefits of integrating glass into buildings. Aesthetic enhancement, light sharing capacity, fire safety and even thermal protection. Circle Redmont’s legacy of glass experience and engineering allows us to push the known boundaries of glass to perform in ways never imagined by many architects or GC’s.

We encourage builders to think outside the ‘glass box’ and just consider what they would like to do with glass if there were no restrictions. Would they build a glass bridge? We’ve made plenty. How about a glass garage floor? We built one for Skywalker Ranch. How about a cast iron hyperbolic fountain with hundreds of embedded glass bullets? Who would think of that? An architect working with the world-famous Dakota Apartments in Manhattan, NY.

Circle Redmont considers all of the variables and determines the type of glass required to perform in our structural glass fabrications. Because our standards are 30,000ths of an inch, we frame glass in prefabricated systems that control and focus the strength of glass. Normal construction conventions don’t apply to glass. The slightest twist in laying glass will weaken it.

We sweat the details so you don’t have to. Just imagine the possibilities.