After 40 years in the skylight business George Petzen is retiring and moving out West. Before his retirement on Tuesday Petzen was an estimator for Linel Architectural Glass and Metal Solutions, based in Mooresville, Ind., where he worked for 16 years.
Forty years ago, Petzen was involved in antique furniture reproductions and wanted to make more money. He was told to go across the street to Gammans Industries, a maker of glass enclosures, and he was [more]
The Facade Tectonics Institute’s (FTI) 2020 World Congress continued this week with paper presentations on a range of topics including lab testing of glazing system mock-ups and challenges for mass timber curtainwall systems.
Timber Curtainwall
David Barber, principal for Arup, presented “Fire Safety and Code Challenges for Mass Timber in Curtain Wall Systems: Negotiating Codes for a Sustainable Design,” on behalf of his co-authors, HOK senior associate John Neary and FTI ambassador of innovation and collaboration Mic [more]
As labor shortages hang over the construction industry, suppliers and contractors ponder how they might use the latest technologies to replace human functions. Five years ago, around 20% of builders reported they had begun to tinker with technologies such as drones and 3D printers. Since then, robots have surfaced doing everything from installing studs, drywall and tile to laying bricks at a rate of 1,000 per hour. Now, engineers at Carnegie Mellon University are taking [more]
Ronald Olson, a former vice president and deputy operation manager for Turner Construction Co., pleaded guilty to charges of evading taxes on more than $1.5 million in bribes he received from subcontractors in exchange for being awarded contracts for Bloomberg projects. He is one of four who have been charged in the scheme, which amounted to bribes exceeding $5.1 million.
On July 24, 2020 in related proceedings, Michael Campana, a former construction manager at Bloomberg LLC, [more]
Safety, security and acoustic performance—all are benefits of laminated glass. But what happens when someone in hurricane-prone Miami, for example, in a busy high-rise neighborhood, wants glazing that combines sound control with the required hurricane performance? That’s somewhat of a challenge, according to Steve Bennison, a technology fellow with Kuraray, who discussed a new laminated glass technology for combining both hurricane and acoustic glazing technologies. Bennison explained that the polymer requirements are different for each [more]
The U.S. has reimposed a 10% tariff on non-alloyed unwrought aluminum imported from Canada, citing a substantial increase in imports over the period from June 2019 through May 2020. The tariff will take effect August 16, 2020.
The U.S. originally imposed a 10% tariff on Canadian aluminum in March 2018 as part of Proclamation 9704, using section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. In May 2019, the U.S. government determined that aluminum imports from [more]
The Facade Tectonics Institute’s 2020 World Congress began this week with paper presentations from glass industry experts from around the world. Paper presentations are split into different topic groupings.
In the European Façade Network: Safety and Structure group, professor Jens Schneider with the Technical University Darmstadt, presented his paper, “Innovations With Glass.” Schneider explored various projects in which glass has pushed the limits of design in the past 15 years, such as the glass boxes at [more]
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