Lighting Specifier Issue 10 2017 | Page 4

Award-Winning ALED Privacy-Plus Technology The patented ALED Privacy-Plus technology by the Austrian technology company convinced the jury of the Architizer A+Award and won the award in the category "Building Products – Glazing Systems & Products". The award was presented on May 11, 2017 during a celebratory gala in New York City. Great success for Austrian technology company LightGlass. The patented ALED Privacy-Plus technology by the smart glass company was honored with the most renowned American architecture award, the Architizer A+Award. Paul Brettschuh, CEO of LightGlass Technology GmbH: "The Architizer A+Award is confirmation for us that we are moving in the right direction. As a result of all this attention, we have already been able to book several development orders from the automobile, glazing, yacht building, room division and façade industries. We will use this awareness to become even stronger internationally." The Architizer A+Award recognizes the best architectural projects and products every year. As the largest award of its kind, it has a worldwide audience of more than 400 million people. The top- class jury, consisting of industry icons like Denise Scott Brown, Bjarke Ingels and Tom Kundig as well as architecture personalities like Tony Hsieh (Zappos), Yves Behar (Fuseproject), John Edelman 4