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The FGIA Summer Conference featured its usual lineup of top-drawer expert education. See our roundup below if you didn't have time to log in.
- Patrick Flannery, publisher/editor
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The Architectural Glass and Metal Contractors Association is celebrating its 46th year of serving unionized glazing and door contractors across Ontario with a new logo and refreshed website and branding.
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The Ontario Glass and Metal Association has announced that Race Nite is back. The association is inviting members to a night of excitement, networking, and entertainment at Woodbine Racetrack.
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Plans are in the works for what could be the largest single-site residential development in Chatham-Kent's history. At the very least, it will certainly be the tallest. Municipal officials in Chatham-Kent said they have received applications for a zoning change that would allow a new four-building, 774-unit residential development at 770 St. Clair Street in Chatham.
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Located at the northwest corner of Dundas and Simcoe within Toronto’s vibrant Grange Park neighbourhood, 250 Dundas Street West is anticipated to stand out as an exceptional mixed-use purpose-built rental tower.
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The Malahat Nation and Cowichan Tribes on Vancouver Island are receiving a combined $66.7 million in loans to enable on-reserve housing construction and business development from the Canada Infrastructure Bank. Funding for both projects comes from the CIB’s Indigenous Community Infrastructure Initiative (ICII).
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The Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) hosted speakers with the knowledge and expertise needed to give a current assessment of the state of the industry for both Canada and the U.S. Louis-Philippe Champagne (Canadian Construction Association) discussed how recent changes in federal politics and trade relations with the U.S. are two of the biggest factors in the Canadian industry at this time.
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The Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) hosted two speakers who shared their knowledge about new research in the fields of Property Resilience Assessment (PRA) and architectural weathering. In a session sponsored by Intertek Building and Construction, presenter Alan Scott spoke about “Designing for the Future | Understanding Resilience in the Built Environment.” This was followed by a presentation by Sean Fowler (Q-Lab), who shared the findings of a recently concluded five-year weathering study conducted by the Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) Subcommittee C.1.8 on fluoropolymers.
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Participants at the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) Virtual Summer Summit heard from speakers about best practices for the installation of both residential windows as well as commercial glazing, each of which can present unique challenges.
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The Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) hosted two sessions that reviewed the evolution of two different product types: security screens and vacuum insulated glass (VIG). A panel discussion on the former shared the latest about security screens, including the release of a new FGIA document on the topic. A second panel about VIG discussed some of the challenges of the technology, but also the many positive outcomes it can provide, particularly with energy savings.
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How would it be if all the databases and charts and spreadsheets and regulations and tiers defining whether our products comply with sustainable building laws just…went away? Replaced by one number: – the only number that matters – the amount of carbon dioxide emitted over a building’s lifetime as a result of its manufacture, construction, use and disposal. Partner at Layton Consulting, Jonathon “JoMo” Layton joins the podcast to chew over this radical idea and lend his expertise to the question of whether it could work and how it would affect us all.
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High-profile wildfires doing substantial property damage to urban areas in B.C. and Alberta have spurred NRCan to look at creating Canadian building standards for wildfire resistance. The consultation process has just begun, but it seems likely that some day soon we may see new codes requiring resistant windows, doors and other components in wildfire-prone areas. Robin Urquhart has worked on rebuilding communities destroyed by wildfires and joins GlassTalk to share his deep knowledge of this topic.
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David Cooper has been researching and developing vacuum insulating glass for over a decade and chairs multiple international standards committees that will define how it can be used, how its quality can be assessed and how to test its performance. With demand for VIG growing and producers multiplying, specifiers and contractors need guidance on what to look for in these products – guidance that may be coming soon in the form of balloted ASTM standards for durability and load tolerance. Cooper joins GlassTalk to explain where these efforts are at and to update us on the state of VIG technology and availability.
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Langley, B.C.,-based Cascadia has published its first environmental product declarations for its fibreglass fenestration systems and its happy it did. Marketing manager Chris Guelpa joined the Conversation to talk about the process; the help they got; the markets and opportunities the EPDs are opening up; and how fibreglass stacks up in the embodied carbon discussion.
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