Commercial
Reviews
Expert reviews of commercial acrylic window products.
ACRYLITE Soundstop Transparent Noise Barrier Panels
The transparent acrylic highway noise wall: 15 to 25 mm sheet at STC 32 to 36, a 30-year no-yellowing guarantee, and a cast version with embedded polyamide threads that holds together when it breaks, so it can go on bridges without a catch net. It is the most-used clear barrier in the United States, MASH TL-4 crash tested, and priced at roughly twice an opaque concrete wall. The weak point in the field was never the acrylic; it was the gaskets.
Plaskolite OPTIX G BR Bullet-Resistant Acrylic Sheet
Monolithic cell-cast acrylic at 1¼ inches for UL 752 Level 1 (three 9 mm rounds) and 1⅜ inches for Level 2 (.357 Magnum), with 92 percent light transmission and an abrasion-resistant coating option. It is what most teller lines, pharmacy counters, and gas-station windows are glazed with, at roughly a quarter the price of a UL-listed polycarbonate laminate and half the weight of ballistic glass. It stops the round by being hard, not by flexing, so it stays indoors and stays away from forced-entry jobs.
VELUX FXG Acrylic Double Dome Skylight
The acrylic dome skylight you can order off the shelf: two thermoformed acrylic domes in a thermally broken aluminum curb frame, with a ten-year no-leak warranty and a clear/clear U-factor of about 0.56. It gives a flat roof the most daylight per dollar of any glazing, but clear acrylic runs hot, sits in fire class CC2, and costs four to ten times a polycarbonate dome the same size.