Register now and book your hotel for NGA Glass Conference: Chicago, taking place July 18-20, 2022.
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Event Information
Event Registration
Spouse registration rate: $275
* Early-bird rates ended June 2.
Schedule (Subject to Change)
Use this opportunity to reacquaint yourself with your NGA peers! Short programming will take place to welcome newcomers and outline what to expect for the week.
Sponsored by Dow
Technical segments meeting include:
- Overall Committee Business update
- Glazing Manual update
- NGA Glossary of Architectural Glass & Glazing
- NGA Glass Conference Planning task group
- Tempering
- ASTM C14 Update
- Best Practices for Heat Soaking GTP update
- New Technology for Glass Stress (alternate to center punch test method)
- Ceramic Enamel update
- Presentation: Edge Grinding
- Fire-Rated Glazing
- Challenges Faced by Fire-Rated Glazing GTP
- New Idea Brainstorm: butt-glazed systems; windstorm; security; decorative; limitations in design of deluge sprinkler systems and building code implications
- Mirror
- Mirror Design Guide
- Mirror Design Guide
- Installing Committee Update
- Specifications task group
- Frameless Shower Enclosures Installation task group
Enjoy a light happy hour immediately following the conclusion of the Fabricating Committee meeting.
Sponsored by Walker Glass Co., Ltd.
Presentation: Industry Trends + Top 50 Glazier Highlights, presented by Katy Devlin, Glass Magazine associate publisher
Technical Segments meeting include:
- Energy
- EPDs and ASHRAE 189.1 GWP task group activity
- PCR updates
- Daylighting AIA presentation development
- Thermal Bridging Considerations at Interface Conditions AIA presentation development
- Health and Wellness Benefits webpage resources review
- Industry Collaboration Updates
- IGCC/SGCC
- ANSI Z97.1
- FGIA
- NFRC
- ASA
- NCCER
- IWCA
- Guide to Architectural Glass for Professional Window Cleaners
- NIBS
- Insulating
- ASTM Frost Point Testing update
- Secondary Sealants in IGUs
- Compatibility Testing...Related to the Performance of PIB in IGUs (with FGIA)
- Guidelines for User of Capillary Tubes (with FGIA)
- Large Glass (with FGIA)
- Bent IGUs
- Guidelines for the Appearance of IGU Edges GTP update
- Performance Improvements in IGUs GTP update
Presentation: Backstops Explained
What exactly are backstops and why do you need to know about them? Hear from a panel of industry experts and consultants as they take a deep dive on the types of building envelope backstops, where they're being used and why; and, the positive elements and challenges they bring to the glass and glazing industry.
Join your peers for off-site tours of the labs and testing facilities at Wiss, Janney, Elstner (WJE) and UL.
Join for a Taste of Chicago reception featuring Chicago dogs, pizza and a special beer tasting from local Ravinia Brewing Co.
This activity is open for sponsorship! Learn more about sponsoring the reception.
Presenation: Technical & Codes Update, by the NGA advocacy and technical staff
Agenda items include:
- Discussion Recap: Physiological Impacts of Light on Human Health & the Implications of Glazing
- Legislative Bill Tracking / Build Back Better Program update
- Planning for future Glass & Glazing Advocacy Days, potential new advocacy initiatives and legislator outreach
- The EPA and the the future of architectural glass recycling
- School safety legislation
Agenda items include:
- Buy Clean CA Act update
- Health Product Declarations
- Coated Glass AIA presentation update
- Presentation: EC3 (embodied carbon in construction calculator) tool update
Presentation: The Glazing Industry's Impact on Active Shooter Standards
Technical Segments meeting include:
- Protective Glazing
- School Security Update
- Proper Cleaning Procedures for Protective Glazing
- Bird Friendly AIA presentation development
- School Security AIA presentation development
- Laminating
- Laminated Deflection Tables
- Emergency Egress Through Laminated Glazing Materials GTP update
- Use of Laminated Glass in Glass Railing Systems GTP update
- Laminated Glazing Reference Manual
- Decorative
- Decorative Glazing Manual (target publication in 2023)
- Benefits of Decorative Glass in Daylighting Applications GTP - seeking volunteers
- Defining an Industry Acceptable Color Variance GTP update
- LEED White Paper - Decorative update
A meeting of the Glazing Industry Code Committee will take place; open to GICC members only.
Includes breakfast beginning at 7:30 am.
Book Your Stay
NGA Group Rate: $154/night + tax
Group rate no longer guaranteed after June 27
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