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Will be very interested to see what results from VIG manufacturer LuxWall partnering with fabrication powerhouse Viracon. Thin units that insulate like walls...the possibilities are endless.
- Patrick Flannery, publisher/editor
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Viracon and LuxWall have announced a strategic partnership to advance high efficiency solutions for commercial building facades.
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Shiva Zargar, founder and director of science and life-cycle assessment at Build Neutral, will join the One Number panel Oct. 21 at Top Glass West in Calgary.
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The Ontario Construction Secretariat reported better-than-expected employment numbers in the Ontario ICI construction sector.
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TCL Asset Group Inc.is offering for sale surplus assets from the Harmon Facades curtain wall fabrication and assembly facility located in Brampton, Ontario. The state-of-the-art 330,000 sq ft. plant features late model machinery and equipment including Elumatec profile machining centers, double-head miter saws, notchers, Haas vertical machining centers, large quantities of fabrication, assembly, material handling, furniture and plant related assets.
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The Missing Middle Initiative, a University of Ottawa housing think-tank, has released a white paper, RoCA Benchmark, introducing its new methodology for forecasting housing demand. In it are a number of key facts about Canada's present housing supply that suggest the likely direction of residential development policy going forward. Crucially, the paper addresses communities with a lot of low-rise housing separately from high-rise-heavy communities, and breaks down its analysis by region.
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Following the recent release of BirdSmart bird-safe glass by Vitro Architectural Glass, the glass supplier is claiming an extensive amount of research and testing went in to vetting the technology before bringing it to the market. This is significant because the industry has yet to develop a set of standardized guidelines for testing, performance and quality for this relatively new product category.
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Doug Milburn of Solera tells us what he really thinks about polycarbonate glazing.
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Chris Magwood of the Rocky Mountain Institute joins the podcast to discuss the One Number approach to sustainable building regulation…and he has some objections. While a performance-based approach aimed at regulating the whole-life carbon impact of a construction project should be our ultimate goal, Magwood feels the upfront impact of embodied carbon needs to be evaluated separately, but adjacent to, the long-term impact of operational carbon. Listen now to find out why, and for Magwood’s assessment of where we are in being able to do the carbon impact modelling we will need to meet the future sustainable building regulations under discussion today.
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Our business is making things, not talking about them. So it’s no surprise that many of us struggle with the demands of promoting our businesses to potential clients and customers. Alison Simpson, president and CEO of the CMA, has been helping major corporations do just that throughout her career and she joins Pat Flannery for a lively conversation chock full of good advice. She also has details of an exciting program enabling small businesses to obtain government funds to hire digital marketing experts and to upskill their existing IT staff.
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The Ontario government’s award of a $140 million hospital façade project to American contractor Permasteelisa/Benson is making waves in Ontario’s glass community. After receiving multiple angry comments and calls from members, the Ontario Glass and Metal Association has taken the unusual step of going public with an open letter to the Ford government, complaining about the lack of support for our industry at a time when tariffs and a general commercial building slowdown threaten our businesses. Sanders joins GlassTalk to make his case for why Ontario should do a better job of looking after its own.
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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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