Humans have been learning to manufacture and use glass for thousands of years, but the development of building glass materials has been relatively slow over the past 1000 years. With the development of modern science and technology and glass technology, as well as the improvement of people's living standards, the function of building glass is no longer just to meet lighting requirements, but to have characteristics such as adjustable light, thermal insulation, safety (bulletproof, anti-theft, fireproof, radiation proof, electromagnetic wave interference proof), artistic decoration, etc. With the continuous development of demand, there have been new developments in the molding and processing methods of glass.
Nowadays, new technologies such as interlayer, tempered glass, ion exchange, glazed decoration, chemical thermal decomposition, and cathode sputtering have been developed, which have rapidly increased the use of glass in construction and become the third largest building material after cement and steel.