Clearview Midlands April 2014 - Issue 149 | Page 32

DOORS&WINDOWS

Clear toughened glass benefits
demonstrated for BBC Watchdog
Toughened glass features in
the BBC’s new “Watchdog Test
House” series at 11.45am on
Thursday 27 March courtesy
of Sheffield-based independent
research, testing, analysis
and design specialist, Glass
Technology Services Ltd (GTS).
The episode – one of a series
of 15 hosted by news presenter
Sophie Raworth – will focus
on toughened ‘safety’ glass
construction products used across
architecture and glazing - and the
rigorous safety and performance
requirements tha t must be met
before the product can be CE
marked and made available on the
European market.
Philip Marsh, Business
Development Manager at GTS
comments: “The programme

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makers contacted us to provide
expert, independent insight into
the relevant product standards
and to film the physical tests
and assessments needed to meet
stringent safety and performance
requirements for glass.
“We were delighted to help
raise public awareness of the
incredible capabilities of glass
- and of the testing that must
be carried out to ensure these

products meet the performance
and safety requirements of the
relevant standards, including both
impact resistance and breakage
characteristics.”
The Watchdog Test House
programme shows the GTS
product testing and development
team demonstrating the impact
resistance and safe breakage
characteristics provided by
toughened, or ‘tempered’, glass
using their specialist pendulum
soft body impact testing rig - with
BBC cameras capturing footage
at close to 100,000 frames per
second.
The series investigates a range
of consumer goods and domestic
products, calling on expertise from
a variety of independent specialists,
including BRE and BSI.

GTS laboratories hold Notified
Testing Laboratory status for
the Initial Type Testing (ITT)
of glass construction products,
under the EU Construction
Products Regulation, in order
for these products to be CE
marked, so the company works
with manufacturers, tougheners,
laminators and processors and
across the supply chain.
As well as expert analysis, testing
and assessment, GTS specialists
are commissioned as expert
witnesses, in both criminal and
civil cases, to provide independent
advice on all aspects of glass
quality, performance and product
failure.

www.glass-ts.com

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