Written By: Brad Campbell | August 22, 2024
Luxury purses, next-gen smartphones, sparkling jewelry — having these goods displayed in your storefront windows or near your entryway invites potential customers to come take a closer look, but it's also an open invitation for thieves and burglars.
The type of storefront glass used to display such items is definitely aesthetically pleasing, great for window shopping, and provides lots of visibility and natural light, but it’s also extremely vulnerable to forced entry and smash-and-grab theft.
All it takes is a couple of blows with a hammer to shatter a storefront window or door, making securing commercial glass with some type of protection against intruders a top priority for commercial properties. However, it’s difficult to do this when there’s so much glass in a building’s facade!
Fortunately, there is one solution that solves all of your problems when it comes to mitigating forced entry — Riot Glass.
If you’re looking for ways to secure your business’s doors and windows against forced entry, burglary, smash-and-grab theft, and other threats, Riot Glass is your best option.
Using specific formulations of security glass laminates, polycarbonates, acrylics, and other plastics, our highly advanced retrofit security glazing products provide unequaled protection against intruders, keeping your property safe and secure.
No matter what threats your commercial building faces, Riot Glass will protect the property and people inside it, securing your facility against everything from rioters and looters to active threats.
Riot Glass is not just another commercial security solution promising to protect businesses from intruders. It’s a comprehensive system designed to mitigate real-life threats, based on decades of experience in the security industry and countless hours of testing and iterating to find the perfect combination of materials and technologies.
When you install Riot Glass panels over your existing glass or use it to replace existing doors and windows, you are adding an incredibly robust barrier to forced entry that is highly impact-resistant, especially when it comes to blows from common burglary tools.
Whereas standard commercial glass doors and windows (even tempered glass surfaces) offer little resistance to attacks using tools like hammers and crowbars, Riot Glass resists shattering and remains in place even if cracked. This prevents would-be intruders from reaching through to open a door from the inside or stepping right in through a broken glass door or window.
Riot Glass’s resilience can significantly delay even the most determined forced entry attempts (or deny them altogether), providing critical protection against intruders, even in an active threat scenario.
Reinforced commercial glass entryway doors and windows provide the highest levels of protection against intruders when you use ArmorPlast security framing, such as Gen II Series framing, to secure the retrofit security glazing in place.
Traditional steel and aluminum frames can be pried open, but ArmorPlast’s patented security framing ensures complete protection against all types of forced entry, hardening your building’s physical security even more.
Many types of Riot Glass security glazing panels can be retrofitted onto your existing door and window frames using retrofittable framing adapters, simplifying installation and saving you money on glazing replacement.
This retrofit capability makes Riot Glass a cost-effective solution for enhancing your building’s protection against intruders.
Riot Glass glazing is crystal clear, maintaining your property’s aesthetic appeal and continuing to allow high levels of natural light transmission.
The framing and hardware used to install Riot Glass are designed to be unobtrusive and can be customized to match many different architectural styles, so your storefront's appearance remains inviting to potential customers.
In other words, Riot Glass fortifies commercial properties without making them look fortified!
Riot Glass products are designed and built in the USA using American-made materials. Each system is custom-built to meet your business’s unique security needs, ensuring the highest standards of quality and craftsmanship. This level of quality control ensures optimal protection against intruders.
Riot Glass provides protection against all common threats to commercial security. Whether you’re a retailer concerned about forced entry, burglary, and smash-and-grab theft, or a school board concerned about active threat protection, there’s a Riot Glass solution to provide the level of protection against intruders you’re looking for.
Riot Glass Protects Against:
Riot Glass offers a range of ballistic-grade solutions designed to protect commercial buildings and their occupants from active threats.
While it's important to note that no glazing material can be 100% bulletproof, Riot Glass provides substantial ballistic protection that can stop bullets and prevent intruders from gaining entry to a facility where they can do more harm.
Riot Glass solutions come with different levels of ballistic protection (UL 752 levels), designed to meet the specific security needs of different types of commercial properties.
These ballistic resistance levels indicate that the glazing can withstand attacks using specific types of firearms and ammunition, ranging from 9mm handguns to AK-47 assault rifles.
With its unique combinations of advanced security glazing materials, Riot Glass is engineered to absorb and dissipate the energy of bullets, preventing penetration and significantly reducing the risk of injury during an attack.
During an active threat scenario, Riot Glass may eventually become penetrated by bullets. However, its primary role is to provide continued access denial, creating a barrier that prevents attackers from entering the building where they seek to do harm.
This is crucial because even if the glazing sustains damage from gunfire, it remains intact and in place, thwarting attempts to breach the barrier.
By denying forced entry and maintaining its structural integrity even under an intense attack, Riot Glass keeps attackers outside, giving occupants valuable time to seek safety and allowing law enforcement to respond.
This delay provides a window of opportunity for authorities to arrive and neutralize the threat before the attackers can reach the people inside.
In addition to providing access denial, Riot Glass also minimizes the risk of secondary injuries from shattered glass.
Traditional glass windows and doors can shatter into dangerous shards when impacted by bullets, potentially causing severe injuries to anyone nearby.
Riot Glass, however, is designed to stay in one piece, even when cracked or damaged, preventing these secondary hazards and keeping the building's occupants safer.
Our security experts will discuss your needs and goals, inspect your property, identify vulnerabilities, and recommend the best type of Riot Glass for your needs.
This threat and risk assessment ensures cost-effective security upgrades tailored to your business and maximizes protection against intruders.
Riot Glass is suitable for all types of businesses, from small 24-hour convenience stores to government buildings and schools.
We provide solutions customized to address the specific threats your property faces, while ensuring they match your design style and provide all the functionality you need.
Our team of security glazing installation experts will professionally install your new Riot Glass solution, ensuring optimal protection and minimal disruption to your business operations.
Most of the security risks associated with glass entryway doors and storefronts can be mitigated by retrofitting Riot Glass and ArmorPlast security glazing and framing products.
By opting for Riot Glass, you are choosing a robust, impact-resistant barrier that provides unmatched protection against forced entry, burglary, smash-and-grab theft, and other security threats.
Riot Glass not only fortifies your commercial property, but does so without compromising its aesthetic appeal or accruing the high costs of other security solutions.
Ready to harden your commercial building’s physical security? Ensure your property and people are protected against intruders with Riot Glass!
Contact us today for more information about reinforcing your glass doors and windows against forced entry or to schedule a consultation and receive an estimate.
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