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Tvitec XXXL
10m glass panes, laminated, toughened and fritted on the new Uría Menéndez Abogados sustainable headquarters.
Tvitec manufactures more than 2,000 meters of different architectural glass solutions.

ría Menéndez is
considered one
U of the most pres-
tigious lawyer’s offices in
Europe. Over a thousand
people are working at their
offices worldwide. Their
new headquarters, in line
with the firm’s prestige,
will have a truly iconic de-
sign right in Madrid city
centre (Spain).
THE
TRANSFORMATION
Glass has transformed the
façade of the old building
of Uría Menéndez head-
quarters at, both in terms
of aesthetics and energy
efficiency. Tvitec supplied
the glass panes for the en-
tire building envelope, with
high performance solu-
tions and including about
six oversized units, clearly
visible on the main façade.
These large glass panes,
10 x 3 metres wide, top
In this case study, the whole façade, designed
by the renowned Rafael de
Tvitec shows us how La-Hoz architect office.
Tvitec has shown on this
the installation of a project their capabilities
in laminating extra-large
new glass façade can glass panes. Each unit
has been laminated by us-
ing SentryGlas interlay-
completely transform ers to improve the safety
and soundproofing of the
an old building – not building envelope. In ad-
dition, all lites were tough-
only aesthetically, but ened and heat-soak tested,
and digitally printed with a
also improving energy white pattern that creates a
unique design of high du-
rability.
efficiency.

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