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July 26, 2006
The basics: 37-story, 1.25-million-square-foot Hyatt Regency Denver Convention Center Hotel; $355 million; opened December 2005. The players: Architects, Klipp, Denver, Brennan Beer Gorman Architects, New York City, Harold Massop Associates, Denver; general contractor, Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Greeley, Colo.; window systems, Wausau Window and Wall Systems, Wausau, Wis.; contract glazier...
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July 19, 2006
Out of 55 people who attended a recent job fair at Craftsman Fabricated Glass Inc. in Houston, managers only found 11 they would consider for hire. Only eight candidates of the 11 passed the drug test; and the remaining candidates all failed background checks, says Bob Lawrence, president...
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July 19, 2006
The basics: Bellevue, Wash.’s tallest building, 1 Lincoln Tower, 42-story, hotel and condominium tower, part of the $500 million Lincoln Square retail complex; opened fall 2005. The players: Architect, Sclater Partners Architects, Seattle, Mithun Architects+Designers+Planners, Seattle, James KM Cheng Architects, Vancouver, B.C.; general contractor, Baugh Construction Co., now part of...
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July 12, 2006
The basics: Davenport, Iowa, glass and steel skybridge; $7.4 million; 50 feet high, spanning about 600 feet; completed June 2005. The players: Architects, Holabird & Root, Chicago, and Neumann Monson Architects, Iowa City; general contractor, Russell Construction Co., Davenport, Iowa; contract glazier, East Moline Glass Co., East Moline, Ill.; glass fabricators, Oldcastle Glass,...
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July 5, 2006
The nation’s green building trend continues to drive demand for high-performance glass despite rising prices, architects say...
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July 5, 2006
The basics: Perspectives Charter School, an angular-shaped, 30,500-square-foot, $4.5 million complex of glass and metal in Chicago, to be replicated in eight schools through 2010. The players: Architect, Perkins+Will, Chicago; general contractor, Levine Construction Inc., Deerfield, Ill.; curtain-wall supplier, Wausau Window and Wall Systems, Wausau, Wis.; glass fabricators, Pdc Glass...
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July 1, 2006
The curved façade of solar modules that greets visitors to the $25 million Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim, Calif., represents a growing trend in architecture, says Tom Mifflin, engineer for Wausau Window and Wall Systems in Wausau, Wis.“The trend in [building-integrated photovoltaics] and the solar industry in general are just growing phenomenally,” Mifflin says....
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July 1, 2006
The architecture of the new building for the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Structural Biology Research Center in Buffalo, N.Y., expresses one overriding idea: openness.“We wanted to take the mystery out of our science,” explains Jane F. Griffin, principal research scientist at the institute. “We were very interested in having a very open building so people in the...
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July 1, 2006
Shopping for a new cutting table? There are many options to consider. Click here (23KB, Adobe Acrobat) for a collection of features for many brands sold in the United States. Equipment manufacturers, if your brand of cutting table isn’t shown, please write Jane Holtje at janeh@glass.org, and have your information added to the chart.
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Simple device helps to determine the correct side
July 1, 2006
Window installation has become more difficult because glaziers must ensure proper orientation of low-emissivity coatings.While fabricators have various means of determining low-e orientation during the manufacturing of insulating glass units, glaziers’ few conventional methods for on-site verification have proven ineffective, until the advent of portable detectors. With these devices,...