- Alias
- Best Practices for Bird-Friendly Glass
- Applies to
- designer
- Document date
- July 2016
The City of Toronto City Planning manual that supports the bird collision deterrence measures in the Toronto Green Standard, written with the Fatal Light Awareness Program and architect John Robert Carley. Fifty-four pages set out why glass kills birds, the properties of glass and the building features that raise collisions, then the treatments — visual markers at 100 mm spacing, low reflectance and opaque materials, awnings, screens and grilles — with worked compliance illustrations for Tier 1. An appendix summarises the collision research and the Ontario legal context.
What it covers
- What is the Problem? Dead Birds
- Leadership in Bird-Friendly Design
- Why a Best Practices Manual?
- Ontario Legal Context
- The Cause: Light and Glass
- Why is the Problem Getting Worse?
- Growth of Cities
- Expanded Use of Glass in Architecture
- The Problem: Glass
- Properties of Glass
- Transparency
- Building Features that Impact Bird Collisions
- Building Envelope
- Design to Eliminate Fly-Through Conditions
- Awnings and Overhangs
- Exterior Screens, Grilles, Shutters and Sunshades
- Creating Visual Markers
- Opaque and Translucent Glass
- UV Glass (or Similar Products)
- Low Reflectance Glass
- Ineffective Strategies
- Areas Requiring Glass Treatment
- Municipal Buildings
- Compliance Strategies (TGS Tier 1)
- Appendix
- Magnitude of Collision Deaths
- Patterns of Mortality
- Birds and Night Time Light Pollution
- Landscaping and Vegetation
- References
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- Publisher
- City of Toronto, City Planning
- Category
- Guides
- Published under
- Ecology Biodiversity — the municipality's own heading
- Work types
- new construction · major renovation · glazing
- Instruments
- Toronto Green Standard · City of Toronto Act, 2006 · Environmental Protection Act · Species at Risk Act
- Building types
- residential · industrial · commercial · institutional
- Tags
guidebird-friendly-designtoronto-green-standardglazingecology