October 17, 2024
The Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza Hotel
and Conference Centre, Calgary, AB
The Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza Hotel
and Conference Centre, Calgary, AB
Now in it’s 10th year, Top Glass hosts glazing contractors, glass fabricators, architects and façade designers for a one-day conference and vendor expo laser-focused on building with glass.
Admission and parking are free. See you at Top Glass!
WATCH: Glass Canada editor Pat Flannery tells you what to expect at Top Glass West
Director of Canadian and Technical Glass Operations for the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance
Fenestration Design Consultant at Layton Consulting
Senior building science specialist with Morrison Hershfield (now Stantec Consulting)
Technical director, Fenestration Canada
*Event schedule subject to change.
TOUR OF OLDCASTLE BUILDING ENVELOPE
Tour the Calgary location of one of the world’s largest architectural glazing fabricators, Oldcastle Building Envelope! Attendees will see architectural windows, curtainwall, entrances and storefront being manufactured and get all their questions answered by Oldcastle’s production experts. Space is limited so register today!
Show opens
Office to Residential Conversions: The challenge for glaziers
COVID has had at least one lasting effect on the architectural glass industry: a seemingly permanent reduction in demand for commercial real estate. Working from home is the new normal in dozens of industries that used to populate office towers, leaving building owners with vacancies that will take years of natural demand growth to fill. Rather than wait, some have decided to convert their commercial space into residential apartments and condominiums. Some of these don’t require changes to the facade but some do. In this presentation, hear from top expert George Torok of Morrison Hershfield, who has deep experience with the building engineering of these projects.
Emerging Technologies in Glass
Presenter: Amy Roberts, FGIA
Sometimes it feels like there’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to glass as a building material. But in fact, innovation is charging ahead in the architectural glass space creating exciting possibilities for the future – especially in the areas of thermal performance and embodied carbon. AmyRoberts, FGIA Director of Canadian and Technical Glass Operations, takes the stage at Top Glass West to tell us about:
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Lunch break
WHO PROFITS?: Lifting the burden of whole-building performance commissioning
Presenter: Anton Van Dyk, Layton Consulting
The world of low-carbon building construction is moving inexorably toward whole-building performance commissioning where projects will be evaluated and approved based on their overall carbon impact rather than the cobbled-together operational and embodied contributions of their individual parts. This means that, before they even generate a quote, glazing contractors have significant work to do to verify their products’ performance in a particular building detail. Worse, changes made to any other part of the building could send the glazier back to the drawing board to make upgrades or downgrades to their product in midstream. Anton Van Dyk of Layton Consulting has seen how this works to kick the can of performance verification down the chain to contractors and has some ideas for how this system could work better for all concerned.
SIZE SHOULDN’T MATTER, BUT IT DOES: New work to standardize thermal performance data for fenestration without defined assembly sizes
Presenter: Terry Adamson, technical director, Fenestration Canada
Establishing and certifying the thermal performance of a particular fenestration detail can be a thorn in the side of all concerned. Test data for units and mock-ups obtained at Model Size can be challenged when different sizes or designs are specified, necessitating new testing that adds cost and time to projects. Certified thermal results can be invalidated with size or design changes that can result in significantly different thermal performance. Industry stakeholders across the continent are looking at ways to model thermal performance across a range of detail sizes using software tools that can provide acceptable results for the specifiers. Fenestration Canada is part of those discussions. Terry Adamson, FenCan’s Technical Director will share with Top Glass West what to expect in the weeks and months ahead.
Special Group Rate:Â $129.00 for up to two plus applicable taxes
Group rate available for nights booked between October 16 – October 18, and subject to availability. Bookings must be made by no later than September 16 to qualify for Group rate. Book early to secure the nights you want, before they sell out!
Individuals may call 1-800-661-1464 and ask to book under the 2024 Western TopGlass Show block or via direct booking link:
