Getting your building certified as 'Bird Friendly' in
the City of Toronto will bring market advantage as awareness rises for the plight of birds in modern urban urban environments. 21st Century cities are deadly for birds. The 'bird friendly' designation is awarded by city planners in
connection with Lights Out environmental conservation movement, and requires more than the usual nets and pigeon spikes. The Bird-Friendly Development Guidelines PDF document offers a
comprehensive list of development strategies to make new and existing
buildings less dangerous to migratory birds. SPOILER - lighting, design and glass are the three big elements to bird friendly buildings.
Other take-aways include having engineers set up proper window markers which humans can see and generally dont like, and using building design elements to 'mutate visual reflections' and thereby minimize the problem of bird strikes. Ancestry Guru blogs about the list of ingredients in bird friendy building applications and links to a piece explaining the science behind bird friendly glass.
Urban real estate developers need to be prepared to create green space, dark space and broken angles that stand out against the skyline. Dark areas are especialliy tricky to mainstain in urban landscapes because they are not entirely safe for humans, but birds love them.
Ornilux is orthinologically tested and approved window technology
Ornilux
is specially engineered ornithologically superior glass that birds can
actually see in reflections; the birds' eyes and brains detect spider
webs which means they recognize that there is a two dimensional obstacle
in their flight path. This high technology glassmaking innovation started the bird friendly building trend that is changing the look and shape of office towers and solariums.
Bird collisions with windows happen because the birds percieve a convincing reflection of a wide open sky. Birds will not slam into the Ornilux glass because they see thick ropey spider webs in reflection. Bird strikes kill thousands of flying creatures of all shapes and sizes across North America everyday. This new glass could end that problem.
There’s a discussion pinpointing bird friendly building sites in Toronto which asks forum users to pinpoint any particularly bird frieendly projects and the conversation that occurred there discusses the rise of falcons in cities ? Do they eat pigeons? as some believe.
Daniels Corporation, Regent Park Paint Box Condominums are Bird Friendly?
Bird friendly certification means more than just installing special windows and doors. The construction site you can see above has a special green roof that will include grass, shrubs, and fruit bearing trees.
Ornilux evolved from many historic glass making innovations that happened around the globe; Arnold Glass Co stands on the shoulders of many earlier geniuses to make bird friendly glass. There were many other masters who pushed the art of glass making into ecologically smart windows technology before Arnold Co. Building better and safer environments for wild animals is a mandate of many buildiers these days as they come to realize if not us, then who?
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