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We're getting close to event season with Top Glass West, FGIA Fall Conference, Glassbuild, WinDoor and The Buildings Show all on the horizon in the next couple months. Each of these brings something different and important to the industry.
- Patrick Flannery, publisher/editor
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Bigfoot Door has announced its appointment as the wholesale distributor of Schüco aluminum window and door systems across North America.
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INT Machinery has moved into a new space at 3500 Ridgeway Dr., Unit 11, in Mississauga, Ont.
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Every wonder why a certain code provision exists, or says what it says? Never fear, the Canadian Board for Harmonized Construction Codes (CBHCC) has released its intent statements supplement to the 2020 National Building Code.
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A panel of experts will offer a view of the current supply chain landscape, how to navigate it and what solutions can be put in place at the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance 2025 Fall Conference, taking place Oct. 6 through 9 in Indianapolis, Ind.
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Building off the great success of Top Glass West 2024, Canada's conference for the architectural glass industry will return to Calgary Oct. 20 and 21 for two days of education, discussion and relationship-building bringing glaziers, fabricators and facade designers together.
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The Ontario Glass and Metal Association's fall golf tournament attracted 114 golfers to Woodington Lakes golf club in Tottenham, Ont., on Sept. 17. Weather was perfect and golfers enjoyed a barbeque lunch and steak dinner. Everyone appreciated the chance to catch up with industry friends and enemies. There wasn't even much grumbling about market conditions.
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Many glass fabricators claim that their tempered or laminated glass is “safety glass.” Glazing contractors, architects and designers, general contractors, builders/developers and consumers make the erroneous assumption that this is fact but, like any purchase, it boils down to “caveat emptor” – buyer beware! What is the difference between decorative glass and safety glass?
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Across the world of construction and trades, failure to secure payment for work done and materials purchased is probably the biggest and most common threat to any company’s survival. The system of bonds, liens and sureties we rely on to safeguard contractors and subcontractors can be so arcane that many of us simply don’t bother – and take on massive risk in doing so. Steve Ness of SAC says the system can be made to work for you and joins GlassTalk to explain how. He also addresses the persistent myth that the Ontario court’s Earth Boring decision has undermined surety bonds.
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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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