According to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the number of residential homes certified to its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) system is at an all-time high, having risen 19% since 2017.* Close to 500,000 single- and multi-family homes, as well as affordable housing units, are LEED certified around the world; more than 400,000 are in the U.S.
The movement toward sustainable construction provides myriad opportunities for adhesives and sealants. In this issue of ASI, we feature an article focusing on a reactive thermoplastic spacer system for insulating glass unit (IGU) edge seals. As H.B. Fuller’s Brian White writes, “This cohesive system can elastically deform, diffusing strain throughout the entire edge seal, rather than concentrating it into the weakest link in the edge system, commonly the polysiobutylene primary seal.”