Fenestration Conversations Podcast
1) Episode #75: Reflections on a Career in Windows – Skip Maclean
Skip Maclean has retired from ODL, his last stop on a 53-year journey through the Canadian window and door manufacturing industry. Along the way he rose to the top, chairing innumerable committees, se...Show More
2) Episode #74: Principles of Marketing – Alison Simpson, Canadian Marketing Association
Our business is making things, not talking about them. So it’s no surprise that many of us struggle with the demands of promoting our businesses to potential clients and customers. Alison Simpson, pre...Show More
3) Episode #73: Two Numbers – Chris Magwood, RMI
Chris Magwood of the Rocky Mountain Institute joins the podcast to discuss the One Number approach to sustainable building regulation…and he has some objections. While a performance-based approach aim...Show More
4) Episode #72: One Number – Jonathon “JoMo” Layton, Layton Consulting
How would it be if all the databases and charts and spreadsheets and regulations and tiers defining whether our products comply with sustainable building laws just…went away? Replaced by one number: –...Show More
5) Episode #71: The next hot topic – Robin Urquhart, RDH Building Science
High-profile wildfires doing substantial property damage to urban areas in B.C. and Alberta have spurred NRCan to look at creating Canadian building standards for wildfire resistance. The consultation...Show More
6) Episode #70: It’s over – Adrian Edge, Fenestration Canada
FenCan codes and regulatory affairs direction, Adrian Edge, is back on to talk about the latest trade war developments and how they might impact the glazing and fenestration industries. Our sector avo...Show More
7) Episode #69 – Verifying VIG – David Cooper, VacuumGlass
David Cooper has been researching and developing vacuum insulating glass for over a decade and chairs multiple international standards committees that will define how it can be used, how its quality c...Show More
8) Episode #68: Threats and Opportunities - Adrian Edge, Fenestration Canada
FenCan’s director of government and regulatory affairs, Adrian Edge, joins to talk tariffs. What is the status? Are they gone or are they coming back in a month? Either way, what can we and our govern...Show More
9) Episode #67: Building Trust Online – Keith Daubmann, MY Architectural Glass
Keith Daubmann is an owner of MY Architectural Glass and MY Shower Door, a glass fabricator and custom glazing contractor serving southwestern Florida. What makes Daubmann unique is his thunderous pre...Show More
Episode #67: Building Trust Online – Keith Daubmann, MY Architectural Glass
1:12:45 | Dec 19th, 2024
10) Episode #66: Making EPDs is Worth It – Chris Guelpa, Cascadia Windows and Doors
Langley, B.C.,-based Cascadia has published its first environmental product declarations for its fibreglass fenestration systems and its happy it did. Marketing manager Chris Guelpa joined the Convers...Show More
Episode #66: Making EPDs is Worth It – Chris Guelpa, Cascadia Windows and Doors
1:00:25 | Nov 22nd, 2024