Permasteelisa’s R&D engineers are at the heart of questions such as this on a daily basis, but even more so in the longer term search for sustainability in the design of modern buildings. Considerable work is being carried out, particularly in the home country Italy as well as the US, with university departments to develop new products for a design trend known as dynamic buildings. The 1987 Bruntland report identified buildings as the
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major source of the pollution that compromises urban air quality and produces the pollutants that contribute to climate change, making the need for sustainability a high priority. Permasteelisa has developed a number of systems designed to enhance the comfort and working conditions for tenants—particularly for buildings with all glass façades. In an approach they have dubbed Blue Technology the aim