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Top Glass West was a raging success. See you next year, Calgary, same date, same place.
- Patrick Flannery, publisher/editor
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Top Glass West, western Canada's trade conference for the architectural glass industry, welcomed over 140 glaziers, glass fabricators, facade designers and their top suppliers to a valuable day of education, discussion and relationship-building at the Best Western Premier Plaza Hotel and Conference Centre on Oct. 21.
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The Finishing Trades Institute of Ontario will host its first annual Glazier Expo tomorrow, Oct. 24 at its Toronto training centre located at 130 Toro Road.
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Recently appointed Walker Glass president and CEO Randy Brooks has announced two new vice-president positions and a senior team promotion within his market-facing organization.
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Walker Glass is back at GlassBuild! Stop by Booth #17007 for their Day 1 cocktail reception from 3 to 5 p.m. and connect with the team. Then on Day 2 of the show, don’t miss your chance to win a trip for two to Montreal for an NHL hockey game. One lucky fabricator and one glazier will score big!
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Concordia researchers have a modular curtainwall design that makes its own power.
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The environmental and economic arguments for mass timber are stronger than ever.
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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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