`Skyscraper glass curtain wall panel breakage`

Holman's consulting work on structural glass failures in curtain walls. IGU optimization shrunk the gap layer, raised internal temperatures under morning sun, produced thermal stress breakage. Notes the LEED-credit trade-off.

One of the other things I've seen is with glass — battery casings, and structural glass. I've worked on glass failures on a lot of structural glass, like panels on large skyscrapers. There are issues there in terms of glass breakage, because what you have with glass is called an IGU, insulated glass unit. Generally it's more than just one panel, it's multiple panels tied together. If you think of that as a composite, like a sandwich, you have a small gap space between the IGU glass layers.