BBRI BELGIAN BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE INSTITUTION RECOGNISED BY APPLICATION OF THE DECREE-LAW OF 90 JANUARY 1947 CSTC-WTCB ~ Test centre : B-1342 Limelete, avenue P. Holoffe, 21 Tel: (32)2655 711 Fax :(32)2653 0729 + Offices : B-1932 Sint Stevens-Woluwe, Lozenberg, 7 Tel:(32)2 7164211 Fax :(2)272532 12 + Head office : B-1000 Brussels, Rue du Lombard, 42 Tel :(32)2 5026690 Fax: (52) 2.50281 80 VAT n°: BE 407.695.057 Page: 19 LABORATORY : STUDY REPORT | N°DE > 632xB648b Energy Aspects of Buildings N° Labo 2 EN242b (EN) NeSample = REQUESTED BY : AGC Flat Glass Europe Chaussée de la Hulpe 166 B-1170 Bruxelles Contact persons : ~ Client - - BBRI- Mr. M. Dubru ‘Mr. G. Flamant Study: Calculation of the light and solar properties and of the thermal transmittance of different glazings. Comparison between the results obtained by AGC Flat Glass Europe and by BBRI. References : EN 410 (1998), EN 673 (1997) Date and reference of the request = 2007.03.28 Date of receipt of the sample(s) t Date of the study + January 2007 — April 2007 Drafting date of the report + 2007.09.03 This report contains 9 pages, numbered from 1/9 to 9/9; it may only be reproduced in its entirety. Each page of the original report has been stamped (in red) by the laboratory and initialled by the head of laboratory. ‘The results and findings are only valid for the tested samples. ‘No sample C Sample(s) submitted to a destructive test 1 Sample(s) to be removed from our laboratories 60 calendar days after sending of the report, unless a written request is received from the client Assistant Head of laboratory G:Flamant, ir. Technical assistance : -88R 632xB6486 EN242b Page: 2/9 csT¢-wrce 1. SUBJECT This study consisted in the calculation by BBRI (Belgian Building Research Institute) of the light and solar properties and of the thermal transmittance (U-value) of 6 different glazings and in the comparison of the calculated properties with these obtained by AGC. The following steps have been followed : BBRI and AGC established 6 different glazings to be calculated. The 6 cases have been imagined in order to assess the validity of the different calculation algorithms which are used in the AGC home-made software. AGC sent all necessary data (spectral data of the layers of the glazings, exact composition of the glazings, thickness, etc.) to BBRI. BBRI calculated the light and solar properties and the thermal transmittance (U-value) of these 6 glazings. AGC sent their calculation results to BBRI. BBRI compared the results obtained by BBRI with these obtained by AGC. 2. STANDARDS EN 410 (1998) : Glass in building — Determination of luminous and solar characteristics of glazing EN 673 (1997) + AI (2000) + A2 (2002): Glas: transmittance (U value) - calculation method in building — Determination of thermal 3. SOFTWARE BBRI used the following tools : = WIS version 3.0.1, Windows Information System, 2003 (www.windat.org) = Optics, Version 5.1 - BBRI Home-made tool AGC performed the calculations with a home-made program written in FORTRANBBR! 632xB648b EN242 Page: 3/9 cstc-wice 4. DESCRIPTION OF THE GLAZINGS The 6 considered glazings are : Coating “Energy N” (25520) on green float glass (7150) Coating “Stopray neutral 50/40” (997) on blue float glass (8502) Laminate 1010.8 : glass (30347) / PVB (30351) / glass (30347) Laminate 55.4 : top N (5788) glass (5787) / PVB (30351) / blue float glass (8502) (Top N placed in position 1) 5. Double glazing 4/16/4 : glass (44), argon 90%, top N (5788) on glass (5787) (the coating top N is placed in position 3 in the double glazing) 6. Double glazing 6/12/44.4 : glass (44), argon 100%, glass (44) / PVB (30351) / glass (44) ayer ‘The number given into brackets is the reference of the glass / coating / PVB (see §5). 5. PROPERTIES OF THE LAYERS The spectral data in transmittance and reflectance of the following layers have been sent by AGC to BBRI: Identification [Thickness | Description Glass (mm) 44 3.86 Clear float glass 3787 3.89 Clear float glass — substrate for the coating “Top N” 24 6.01 Clear float glass — substrate for the coating “Stopray Neutral” 30347 2.84 Clear float glass entering in the composition of the laminate 8502 3.07 Blue float glass (azurplus 353) 7150 2.61 Green float glass (atherplus 350) 100 3.52 Green float glass Table 1 : Float glasses Identification | Substrate] Thickness ] Description Coating (mm) 25520 a4 5.93 Energy N 997 24 5.85 Stopray Neutral} 5788 5787 3.86 ‘opN Table 2 : Coatings