DESIGN OPTIONS
Smart Designs is proud to offer an array of our most popular offerings with design options to help achieve your design intent, meet project requirements, and comply with governing codes. From our libraries filled with hundreds of products and thousands of samples, Smart Designs has the solutions in lamination to bring focus and clarity to your millions of ideas.
Acoustical
Among Architects and Interior Designers, noise remains an important criterion in the evaluating of a building’s performance. No matter where it originates, noises produced either outside or inside, and transmitted from one space to another, can negatively impact the comfort, well-being, productivity and communication between people.
In fact, for nearly two decades, Smart Designs has been a pioneer in bringing sound control capability to décor and lamination technologies. From a start in uniting simple materials with the possibilities of “What If” years ago, has lead Smart Designs to the forefront of winning design solutions with STC and OITC ratings. Need to hear less and what to know more? Smart Designs is listening.
Benefits
Improves Human Comfort
Reduces Noise Pollution
Controls Sound Levels
Anti-Eavesdropping
It has been said that as our world continues to expand it is amazing how the transfer of sensitive information can flow across the narrowest of divides. No longer is simple distance a real deterrent and with advances in technology even hard surfaces of our built environment have soft points to unwanted intrusion.
With that in regard, Smart Designs is unique in the field of lamination technology and decor by being able to incorporate within our design offerings anti-eavesdropping and surveillance counter measures. From government facilities to corporate headquarters, Smart Designs remains a leader in protecting spaces and places that handle private, sensitive, and classified information. Want to see and not be heard? Let Smart Design have your ear.
Provides
Bluetooth Shielding
Wifi Shielding
IR Attack Protection
WLAN Security
Anti-Glare
There is a saying in exhibit design, from Aquariums to Zoos, that the least visible glazing provides the best visibility. So true is this statement, that Architects and Interior Designers, focused on settings that display, will align themselves with glazing solutions that achieve the greatest invisibility.
In fact, the ability to create design solutions that can both visually impact as well as disperse light, to reduce glare and reflection, has been central to Smart Designs success. From our libraries filled with hundreds of offerings and thousands of decorative samples, Smart Designs has the solutions in lamination to bring focus clarity to your millions of ideas. Looking for a clear solution for a showroom, restaurant, or museum? Let Smart Designs be your window.
Results
Enhances Color Rendering
Increases Visibility
Reduces Reflection
Anti-Microbial
It hard to image that in today’s society, where technology has made advances in every field and corner of the planet, that bacteria continuous to remains a significant problem. From tabletops used only by a few, to hospitals partitions visited by thousands of patients daily, it hard to imagine that almost every surface we encounter is a battlefield for our health.
With that in regard, Smart Designs has been taken a leading role in the field of décor and lamination to make available the latest in anti-microbial science and metal agents to nearly eliminate a broad range of surface staining and odor-causing bacteria. Does your next project need to begin with a clean slate? Let’s Smart Designs turn ionic silver into gold.
Benefits
Ease of Maintenance
Greater Longevity
Impedes Bacterial Growth
Promotes Wellness
Attack | Forced Entry Resistant
In a world focused on transparency, the need to keep others out remains a foremost concern of most people. From unwelcomed attempts at simply entry, unplanned grab and goes, to headlining making sustained attacks, there are simply others in society who are focused on doing harm.
At Smart Designs, the need to offer attack resistance with our décor and lamination technologies dates back to our very start. In fact, Smart Designs has not only has been an industry leader in surfaces with deterrence but additionally holds patients designed with our children and schools specifically in mind. Feeling fenced in regard past design decisions? Let Smart Designs be your good neighbor.
Provides
Enhances Response Times
Protection of Property
Restricts Intruders
Saves Lives
Slows Unwanted Entry
Ballistic and Blast
From the perspective of best practice, when you are on the front line, in a zone of possible danger, it makes sense to keep back from potential harm. However, in today’s world exactly where that line is isn’t always clear, and if you follow the news, what was considered a safe place yesterday may not be as secure as once thought tomorrow.
To meet this challenge, Smart Designs is proud to offer an array of design options that incorporate the latest in laminated ballistic and blast technologies without aesthetic compromise. From retail to hospitality and from government agencies to foreign installations, Smart Designs remains a leader in design and décor that is equally able to help prevent and protect against threats. Have concerns? Let them rest with Smart Designs.
Results
Improves Response Times
Protects Occupants
Saves Lifes
Fire Resistant | Fire Rated
Of all building related concerns, probably none is more critical to the preventing of life, property damage, and downtime than fire prevention. Fire, regardless of its origin, can disrupt business activities far beyond its start, and concerns regarding life safety and its potential spread, and are what create stricter codes and corral the design options open to Architects and Interior Designers.
With that in regard, Smart Designs has taken a leading role in the field of décor and lamination by bringing fire-rated options to its line of designs that comply with today’s governing codes and project regulations. Only finding barriers to your choice of barriers? Do burning design questions only produce smoke? If so, let Smart Designs open doors.
Benefits
Contains Radiating Heat
Prevents Flame Spread
Provides Smoke Barrier
Switchable Privacy
In business, there are times when it best to be seen and times when it’s best not. There are moments when activity benefits from seeing group interaction and moments when the need for privacy in the same space is paramount. To Architects and Interior Designers, the ability to switch between access and exposure not only has an impact on user satisfaction but with new technologies in laminated glass can be accomplished in seconds by the mere flick of a switch.
At Smart Design, the ability to incorporate “Smart Glass” technology which our aesthetic lines dates to our earliest days. From offices and conference room to specialty applications in airports, hospitals, and museums, switchable glass is changing the way we do business, keeping facilities safe, and expanding upon the possible. Have a project that needs a point of difference? Click on Smart Designs.
Provides
Hygienic Benefits
Privacy Control
Thermal Control
Thermal Protection
Despite the ready availability of power to light rooms, run equipment, and condition spaces, the reality is we live in a world of limited resources and ever-increasing costs related to them. In fact, the economic loss alone attributed to exterior glazing accounts for nearly 25% of the annual cost to cool and heat a space without even factoring in the possible negative impact upon productivity, occupant health, and retention.
With that said, it’s not surprising that Smart Designs has taken a leading role in making energy conservation an available option within its array of design and décor offerings. From company offices to corporate headquarters and from regional clinics to major medical centers, Smart Design for over two decades has been a pioneer in combining aesthetics with energy efficiency and thermal protection. Feeling the loss? Gain with Smart Designs.
Results
Increases Comfort
Lowers Operating Costs
Noise Control
UV Protection
In the world of thief, nothing is as silent, less forgiving, or takes more than ultra violet light. Within the built environment, it steals everything down to very finish we cherish and as any Architect or Interior Designer will tell you fading is cumulative, permanent, and difficult to remedy. In fact, the life and health of places and spaces of exhibit and design, from aquariums to zoo, depend on glazing solutions that understand the science of sunlight and its effects on aesthetics.
To deal with this challenge, Smart Designs is proud to offer the latest in UV blocking and low-e coatings as an available option with it design and décor offerings. Whether a solution is sought for a single regional event or made necessary for a permanent installation or complete roll-out, Smart Design has the knowledge and ability to prevent and protect from damaging rays. Have an invisible problem with visibility? Let Smart Designs bring you clarity.
Benefits
Lowers Operating Costs
Protects Property
Reduces Glare
Reflects Heat