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We've put together an incredible presentation lineup for Top Glass West in Calgary and now all we need is you. See you at Goldray Glass on Oct. 20 and Top Glass West on Oct. 21!
- Patrick Flannery, publisher/editor
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Mark Walsh has been hired as architectural technical advisor at Prelco. He will concentrate activities in Ontario, mostly in the Greater Toronto Area.
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Lee-Anne Herriot has joined Guardian Glass as architectural design manager, serving Ontario, Quebec and parts of Atlantic Canada.
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Skills Ontario is kicking off celebrations for International Day of the Girl through hosting a series of free online events. Starting this week, participants can watch “A Sit Down With…” a series of videos dedicated to sitting down with passionate tradeswomen to learn about their journey in the industry.
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When it comes to premium float glass, mirror, and coated glass, there’s no substitute for authenticity. Other companies may claim access to Xinyi Glass, but unless it comes directly from our official Vancouver office, it is not the genuine product. Protect your reputation and your projects by sourcing only through the authorized Canadian channel to ensure Verified Quality & Direct Factory Support.
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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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We're going to think big and challenge some established practices on the One Number panel...and we need your input. Jonathon Layton of Layton Engineering, Dallas Paquette of Everlast and Shiva Zargar of Build Neutral will join Glass Canada editor Pat Flannery to discuss the possibility of discarding a lot of the sustainable building regulations we have today in favour of one imperative: produce the lowest lifetime carbon possible, however you can.
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Goldray Glass, one of North America's most renowned fabricators of decorative and specialty glass, will open its doors to Top Glass attendees on Oct. 20. What will the tour be like? Watch the video to find out!
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Top Glass West is honoured to welcome the GAMA Annual Apprenticeship Awards to our stage, where Alberta's glass association will recognize outstanding achievement in an inspiring group of students in the SAIT glazing program. GAMA president, Whitney Wilson, tells us why this is always such a great moment for these young tradespeople.
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Art Huard represents LuxWall, a Bill Gates-backed VIG fabricator run by former Guardian CEO, Scott Thomsen, in Litchfield, Mi. LuxWall is operating the most advance glass fabrication facility in North America, producing large units that insulate nearly as well as a wall. Huard is going to tell us how it's done.
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Fenestration Canada technical director, Terry Adamson, is here to make your day. FenCan has an online calculator that allows window manufacturers to take their tested product sizes and scale them up or down to match the actual sizes a project needs...and increasing numbers of jurisdictions across Canada are accepting the results. Adamson will explain all and show you how to take advantage of this huge time saver.
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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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