May/June 2022

Cutting-edge solutions can retroactively harden glass and improve building safety and security. NGS offers a tiered approach to glazing security that can be customized based on budget and risk level.

Glazier sales stabilize as market instability remains.

Glass Magazine’s annual Top 50 Glaziers celebrates its 30th anniversary with this year’s report. That’s three decades of tracking the impressive evolution and growth of the U.S. glazing market. 

With a unique, glass-wrapped exterior, the Resch Expo is a visual highlight to the Lambeau Field Stadium District in Green Bay Wisconsin.

The 11-story, 370,000 square-foot City of Minneapolis Public Service Building includes both public service and office space, co-locating 1,300 city employees that were previously spread throughout six different downtown locations.

The Resorts World, a new luxury hotel and casino, stands out on the Las Vegas strip with an eye-catching exterior. Giroux Glass installed systems for several scopes of the project, including the exterior curtain wall and several portions of the glass interior.  

The National Glass Association Installing Committee volunteer members have developed numerous technical resources for glaziers, available for download in the NGA Store.

The addition of laminated glass production for any company is a major investment, so it is critical to ensure when purchasing equipment that it is designed to produce the products a company wishes to sell, while also being cost-effective to operate.

Statements about product capabilities and capacities have the potential to form legally binding contracts and warranties.

The past couple of years have been marked by severe supply chain problems. As business owners, we have to adapt to this situation. We must find ways to operate in this environment, overcome its challenges and grow our companies.

The projects featured demonstrate the wide ranging abilities of glass to protect people. 

A Q&A with Steven Albert, sales manager of the service and maintenance division for S. Albert Glass Co., a D.C.-area contract glazier, about Glazier’s Tool, an all-in-one app for the jobsite.