We have installed Armor Glass™ solar/hurricane film in houses, large and small, across the U.S. and Texas, including houses of astronauts, retired space station executives, teachers, engineers, architects, and houses on Galveston Bay before IKE (and survived IKE undamaged).

Project Safe Windows
After the devastating 2004 hurricane season (which was followed by Katrina and Rita in 2005) the Protecting People First Foundation commissioned ABS Consulting to study the impact of hurricanes on various window-protection technologies. They studied Shutters, Hurricane Screens, Impact Resistant Glass (Laminated), Plywood — and Safety and Security Window Film

In short, they found that the differences in performance of the technology is dramatic in some cases — and that structures that had security window film installed survived storms in which the next-door structure that did not have it was destroyed or heavily damaged.  

The catastrophic chain-of-events begins with wind-borne debris that breaks a window, allowing the wind to rush in. Air going in needs to go out and the easy way out is UP, pulling off a roof. The same negative impact could happen from a debris strike by an urban tornado.

Once the envelope of a structure is breached, the researchers found that it led to a significant increase in the internal air pressure that can result in a wide range of damage including total building collapse and structural failure.  Security film kept structures both secure and dry.

Our security film is bonded to the frames with a special Dow 995 sealant on commercial applications. With this bonding and our 8 Mil hurricane film (which is also GSA 3a/3b explosion rated), none of the windows blown out of the Chase Tower building during Hurricane IKE would have blown out -- even if broken! Millions of dollars of internal damages and potential injuries on the streets below would have been avoided. Our film would keep people from being killed or injured by flying glass in an explosion.

Our film “Armors the Glass” of storefronts and avoids window breach at banks, offices, hospitals, restaurants, chain stores – anything with glass is vulnerable and needs our protection. This is the 21st century and threats from hurricanes and explosions, along with the sun, will be constant. Hurricanes are annual events. Burglars and the potential terrorist blast are ever present.

Why not protect your weakest link before something happens? And start saving energy costs immediately.

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