Leading window and glass manufacturer will use Green Building Studio's Product Placement Advisor to highlight product energy performance on actual building designs LOS ANGELES, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- AIA 2006 -- Green Building Studio, Inc., the leading sustainability analysis software and services company in the architectural, engineering, and construction industry, today announced that PPG Industries has selected Green Building Studio's custom Product Placement Advisor web service (GBS PPA), a first-of-its-kind product application engine, to promote their Solarban 70XL glass product line to building designers. The Product Placement Advisor is a new feature of the widely available, award-winning Green Building Studio web service. It is the first and only solution for building product manufacturers to promote their products to active building design projects and design teams. It instantly applies products to the design to determine its energy and resource use benefits. Solarban 70XL glass, by PPG, is one of the highest performing glazing products on the market that enables a design team to maximize natural lighting opportunities while minimizing the required cooling equipment with a clear glass aesthetic. The Green Building Studio web service is the first web service specifically designed for architects to use at the earliest phase of their design to fully understand the cost-effective opportunities to maximize their building's sustainability. The Product Placement Advisor engine is a first of its kind for this industry. The Product Placement Advisor specifically targets a manufacturer's product to the building designs they identify as their ideal market and allows building designers to automatically have the product applied to their building design for immediate determination of the possible energy and resource benefits. Green Building Studio, Inc., the leading sustainability analysis software and services company, provides the architectural, engineering, and construction industry with packaged and custom building energy and resource analysis tools and web-based solutions for sustainable building designers and product manufacturers.
