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AIA Convention Opens to Launches of New Glazing, Fenestration Products

High-Performance Windows

DWM magazine has compiled a list of manufacturers who offer high-performance windows, to serve as a resource for both the industry and the end consumer.

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Door and Window Musings
By Tara Taffera

There always seems to be one key word or phrase that comes out of any event; you know, the word you hear the most when talking to exhibitors and attendees. At AIA it was thermal efficiency.
When describing the company’s new swing door, Miguel Chavez, Fleetwood Windows and Doors, said it introduced a new swing door [...]

Plavecsky’s Ponderings
By Jim Plavecsky

The National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC) is getting close to launching the Independent Verification Program (IVP), which means that beginning in 2013, all fenestration products listed in the Certified Products Directory (CDP) will be subject to what I refer to as a Real World Evaluation.
Real World Evaluation means the NRFC will go out into the [...]

Collins, the Trend Tracker
By Mike Collins

It seems that the key statistics affecting the building products industry waver between good news and bad news on a monthly basis. However, there is a growing sentiment that the industry is improving. A recent survey by Brooke Chase Associates underscored the improving outlook of industry participants ranging from building products manufacturers to distributors and [...]

Tyson’s Take
By Tyson Schwartz

How important is networking for your business and for yourself? Let me put it another way, if you are selling a window package to someone, are your chances better with someone who knows you or someone that is meeting you for the first time?
I have found over the years that networking is a real key [...]

Kevin Confidential
By Kevin Surace
Chairman and CEO, Serious Energy

While I never blog about company related items, I do think that the past two weeks have reminded us of something important. For us, two items: The FTC ruling about energy pledges and the Chicago plant news story. While I am not speaking for the company here, both of these subjects reminded me to discuss [...]

Distributor Insights
By Andy Nelson
Sales Manager, Lavelle Co.

All of us have “complained” to a coworker at one point or another and I’m certainly no exception as it sometimes helps cope with that helpless feeling of how do we deal with a stressful situation or person. When frustrations rise and there seems to be no safe place to release them, pulling a coworker [...]

Milanese Remodeling
By Mark Milanese
Owner, Milanese Remodeling Inc.

Hopefully your window dealers’ hard work is paying off right now. Good weather has let them install product. Their phones are ringing from yard signs, they’ve canvassed neighborhoods and done proximity mailing to create leads. Estimates are coming in over the phone and the Internet. They’ve sold more jobs, received deposits and ordered more windows. [...]