PROGRAM TIMELINE

Glass Connections - Vancouver 2010- September 30, 2010

“Connecting technology and professionals in the glass and metal industry.”

Technical Sessions - Networking - Trade Show

Date: September 30, 2010
Location: Delta Hotel and Conference Centre, 4331 Dominion Street, Burnaby, BC

Glass Connections 2010 is a one-day session that will present the latest technologies for the glass and metal industry used to improve the productivity of glazing building envelopes.

Glass Connections 2010 is a highly focused educational and networking event for glaziers, architects, engineers, designers, spec writers, commercial construction contractors and building owners. Seminars will cover a wide range of industry specific topics including photovoltaic technology for the glass industry, heat treatment of glass, insulating glass and manufacturing, training and retaining young glazing apprentices and Building Code Energy Efficiencies.

In addition, the conference will host a Table Top Trade Show to give manufacturers and suppliers the opportunity to showcase their products, services and upcoming technologies. Sponsorship packages are also available.

Raise Your Window Performance to Meet Tomorrow’s New Levels
Christopher Barry - Director Technical Services, Pilkington NA Inc.

Minimum performance levels in Building Codes; ER, NFRC, ASHRAE and LEED rating levels; and consumer performance preferences are all being raised to new levels. 

We will show how adding a low emissivity coat, or coatings, always helps window thermal performance making it always more energy efficient.  How centre of glass thermal performance can now be so much better than the edge that attention must be paid to edge-of-glass spacers and window frame thermal properties to achieve desired improvements to the complete window.

Solar control requires evaluation to see if free, passive solar heat gain should be admitted or rejected.  As the thermal and solar control properties of a window are improved it becomes more important to check that the resulting thermal stresses are properly evaluated, using currently available tools, and that appropriate measures are taken to prevent glass breakage.

Harvesting Sunlight - Using Photovoltaics & Advanced Thermal Glazing Units to meet new Federal, Provincial & Municipal GREEN sustainable designs
John Carpenter - President, Clearstream International Products / Schott Okalux Architectural Glass

The Canadian Glass Association member specialists will receive up to date glazing techniques that capture and manage solar energy:

• BIPV Glass Units - Building Integrated Photovoltaics, taking advantage of provincial net metering opportunities;

• Advanced Thermal Glazing Units - Cooling, Heating and Illumination controls for occupant comfort and reduced energy loads;

• Sophisticated Light Directed Glazing Units – Glass units built according to the building’s latitude and longitude coordinates;

• Forward-Thinking Digitized Glazing – Precise image transfer over large glass surfaces, without silk screening.

• New Developments – Switchable Glass: Opaque to Clear/ clear to Opaque for privacy controls; Invisible Ultra Violet Pattern Glass: reduce/eliminate bird collisions.

The High Cost of Losing People How to Recruit and Retain Top Talent
Corey Maedel MBA, PCC, CEC, CHRP - CEO, Jouta Performance Group Inc.

In today’s labour market the reality of the labour shortage has some companies taking proactive steps to ensure their current practices position them to attract and retain top talent. Are you being proactive? Are you positioning your company for success?  

This session is intended to provide you with a nuts and bolts view of how to attract and retain top talent!  You will take away practical tools that you can implement right away.

Durability of Insulating Glass Units
Margaret Webb - Executive Director, Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance

The first energy saving glass technology was the double-pane insulating glass unit.  Patented by Thomas Stetson in 1865 in the USA, it wasn’t until the 1930s that it became commercially available in Europe and North America.  Problems with durability of the perimeter hermetic seal arose, leading to considerable international effort beginning in the 1950s to develop test methods and improve seal technology.  The introduction of argon gas fill in the 1980s added another level of complexity.  Margaret Webb will discuss current state-of-the art of the IGMA seal durability programs.

Energy Efficiency for Windows, Glazing & Doors, BC’s Market Transformation Approach
Andrew Pape Salmon - Director, Energy Efficiency Branch, BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources

This session outlines government, utility and private sector standards and measures to improve the energy efficiency of windows and glazing systems for new and existing buildings in British Columbia.  It provides a policy and market overview, with some limited technical information.
It presents requirements for such products under the BC Energy Efficiency Act, effective March 2009 and January 2011, depending on building and product type. 

In addition, the BC Building Code requires compliance with the ASHRAE 90.1 (2004) standard for new high-rise and large building construction, effective since 2008.  The presentation highlights the efforts made to harmonize equipment regulations (Energy Efficiency Act) with building code requirements (ASHRAE 90.1).

The presentation summarizes some of the typical technical characteristics of products that are compliant with the regulated standards in BC, along with estimated energy savings for new and existing homes and new multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs).  Savings are based on computer modelling studies conducted for new and existing MURBs in British Columbia.