Top Glass Returning to Calgary for 2025
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. The agenda is set, the vendors have piled in with support and now all we need is YOU!
See the magic happen
On Oct. 20, attendees can tour Goldray Glass, on of Canada’s premier fabricators of specialty glass for all applications. This video from Goldray explains what you will see better than we ever could…https://youtu.be/BYB-aq5ROs4
An all-star agenda
Come on out to the Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza Hotel and Conference Centre on Oct. 21 to join the discussion with these great speakers.
Test Once and Scale: The Fenestration Canada thermal performance calculator
Oct. 21 opens at 9:30 at the Best Western Premier in Calgary with Fenestration Canada technical director, Terry Adamson, revealing the Fenestration Canada online thermal calculator, which has now been approved by the city of Vancouver with more jurisdictions soon to come. The calculator solves the problem of having the performance of fenestration assemblies certified at certain sizes, but not the sizes your project demands. It allows you to scale up or down the size and obtain new performance data without re-testing. Saving time and money – what’s not to love?
Inside LuxWall: An exclusive look at vacuum insulating glass manufacturing
Next, Art Huard of NVOY Architectural Products will take attendees inside the most advanced glass fabrication facility in North America: LuxWall’s vacuum insulating glass transparent insulating wall panel plant in Litchfield, Mi. This is where former Guardian Glass executive, Scott Thomsen, – backed by Bill Gates, among others – is making Enthermal VIG units achieving R-18 insulating values in an eight-millimeter-thick pane. Almost nothing about this process is like anything you’ve seen in a glass fabrication plant before.
GAMA Apprenticeship Awards
Let’s celebrate the next generation of Canadian glaziers! The smiles are big and the future is bright when the Glass and Architectural Metal Association hands out its awards recognizing outstanding apprentices in the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology’s glazier program. Top Glass West is proud to help encourage our next generation of skilled glass professionals.
Fireproof Fenestration: Time to get ready for wildfire resistance requirements
Some people would curl up in a ball if their beautiful new cabin burned down two days before their first planned visit with the family, but Murry Frank has used the terrible experience as a learning opportunity. One of Canada’s leading building science educators, Frank will take lessons learned from that tragedy, combine them with what he’s been hearing and discussing on the codes and standards development committees he sits on, stir vigorously with 40 years of building science knowledge, and deliver a heady elixir of information about wildfire resilience in fenestration design.
The One Number Panel
By some counts, fenestration assemblies need to meet up to 19 different standards before they can be installed and the building approved for occupancy. Many of those address energy efficiency and efficiency-adjacent issues such as airtightness and solar heat gain, with embodied carbon soon to jon the list. What if there were a way to get rid of it all, and drive innovation and a better climate outcome at the same time? We’ve assembled a blue ribbon panel of top sustainable building experts to chew over the idea of asking project owners to hit One Number: the total carbon emissions created by their buildings over their life span. It’s a wild concept, and we need your opinions on it.
We get by with a little help from our friends
Top Glass West is proudly supported by Canada’s top architectural glass organizations. Representatives from Fenestration Canada, the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance, GAMA and the Provincial Glaziers Association of Alberta will all be on hand to answer your questions and tell you how you can help advance our industry.
Top Glass West would not be possible without the generous support of Canada’s top suppliers to the architectural glass industry. Browse our \show floor of over 30 companies that have demonstrated their commitment to serving Canadian glass professionals.
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/top-glass-conference-exhibits-west-tickets-1461464673179?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl Note: Registration is free fo PGAA members. Use the code TGW25CONF to secure your free ticket.
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