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• Viewpoint: James Bogdan
  PPG exec discusses LEED recycling and life cycle assessment criteria.
• Guide to estimating software
  Compiled and researched by the editors of Glass Magazine, this chart reviews the capabilities, requirements and costs of a variety of estimating
  programs.

Top news

• High performance building caucus hosts briefing on Building Star

Economic news

• 29 states add construction jobs between March and April
• Udall bill would help schools locate existing energy efficiency programs

Business news

• PPG provides ‘green’ glass, coatings for World Expo pavilions, Shanghai roads
• Unidym, Guardian Industries partner to develop and commercialize carbon coated glass products
• Pythagoras Solar to commercialize photovoltaic glass units
• Edgetech I.G. partners with S.I.L. Plastic for custom-engineered muntin clips

International news

• Report published on window markets in China
• Saint-Gobain Glass invests 6 million euros at Calarasi

Association news

• GANA to offer Building Star briefing video
• GANA sponsors presentation at NeoCon

People news

• Glaston appoints Tapio Engström as CFO

• The mental game
  By Bill Evans
  You’ve probably heard that “a 1000-mile journey begins with a single step.” This is true. Just as true is the fact that “the journey continues with a single step.” In previous blogs I stated that I am training to run 56 miles on my 56th birthday.
  
• From the fabricator
  By Max Perilstein
  For the most part very few people pick on the USGBC and the LEED program, but last week in a powerful Op-Ed in the New York Times, they were taken to task.

Edgetech I.G., Cambridge, Ohio, will feature the new Renovate technology with Super Spacer TriSeal from JE Berkowitz, Pedricktown, N.J., at the American Institute of Architects exhibition, June 10-12, in Miami. ... read more

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The 95,430-square-foot, four-story Cancer Center of Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, Fla., features a complex aluminum, glass and concrete ellipse that challenged glass and glazing companies. The egg-shaped structure is elevated so cars can pass underneath it, and features about 50,000 pounds of glass. 

Learn about the basics, the players, and the glass and systems involved with this GreatGlazing

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