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If you are in the US, then glass weighs 155lbs/ft³. If you are not in the US or you want to use metric, you will have to do a conversion.

155lbs/ft³equals approximately 1.52lbs/ft² at 1/8" thickness

Polyvinyl Butyral or PVB weighs .085lbs/ft² at .015" thickness.

Since laminated glass is two sheets of glass "sandwiching" a sheet pf PVB, we can calculate the weight of a square foot of laminated glass consisting of two lites of 1/8" glass plus the weight of the PVB interlayer - in this case, .015".

glass + interlayer + glass = 1.52lbs + .085lbs + 1.52lbs = 3.125lbs/ft²

A little bit of basic arithmetic and you can get the weight of any size or thickness desired.

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