Panel Presentation and Discussion: Specs for Window Performance and Testing - Onsite and in the Lab

  • October 12, 2016
  • 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Norwood Hotel, 112 Marion St., Winnipeg

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In today’s world of rising concerns over increasingly turbulent weather conditions designing and creating climate resilient building envelopes with superior air quality, water tightness and structural ratings is becoming more important. 


FenMan has brought together a panel of experts to discuss some of the key considerations for ensuring an efficient building envelope, how to meet and verify performance requirements of a window replacement/installation in the building envelope and how to ensure coordination and successful cooperation between all parties involved. Each panelist will make a short presentation followed by a moderated Q&A session.  


Don't miss this opportunity to get your building envelope and testing questions answered by our panel of experts and find out how to win the building envelope climate fight!


 Program:  
 8:30 - 9:00 am  Registration and Networking Breakfast
 9:00 - 10:30 am  Panel
   
 Cost:  
 Members:   $30.00
 Non-members:  $60.00

For more information contact Nancy at info@fenestrationmanitoba.ca.

Panelists:

Gary Blad, Director Engineering, Loewen Windows

Since Joining Loewen in 2004, Gary has led the implementation of the Cyprium product, bifold door, double hung and many other product enhancements. 

During his career at Loewen, he has held several areas of responsibility including Facilities & Maintenance, Equipment Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering.   Currently, Gary holds the position of Director, Engineering overseeing both Product Development and Manufacturing Engineering as well as the research and development lab and all product testing.
Prior to joining Loewen, Gary’s experience included 5 yrs as a consulting engineer in the building science field for Trow Consulting Engineers and 10 yrs as the Engineering Manager at the Gentek Building Products vinyl window plant in London Ontario. 
Gary is a licensed professional engineer in the province of Manitoba and earned his B.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Guelph in Ontario. Gary has participated on several committees at AAMA, WDMA, CSA, and NFRC throughout his career and was the chair of the CSA A440 technical committee for 9 years. Gary also served 7 years as co chair of the NAFS hamonization and joint document management committees, developing and maintaining the current NAFS window, door and skylight standard for Canada and the United States. 


Bryan B
oyle, Director Regional Operations, Intertek-ATI
Bryan has over 17 years of experience as a building envelope consulting/commissioning consultant in commercial, industrial, institutional, multi-family residential and high-performance buildings in both new and retrofit construction. He has considerable experience in all aspects of building envelope commissioning including specification development, design review, on-site inspection and functional performance testing. 
For the last 5 years, Bryan has overseen the development of the product testing laboratory at the Intertek-ATI facility in Winnipeg, MB. He is knowledgeable in fenestration code compliance, and has extensive hands-on experience in product compliance testing and field verification.



Doug Sutherland, QCA Building Envelope Ltd.
Doug has over 27 years of experience in Quality Control and Quality Assurance in the construction industry including over 10 years in building envelope QA/QC, with extensive experience in field inspection, project management, test protocol development and material testing. Doug will provide real world insights into site testing based on his extensive experience.


John Wells, President, Crosier Kilgour and Partners

John Wells earned his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba in the field of Structural Engineering and is the current President of Crosier Kilgour and Partners, consulting structural engineers, and is a standing committee member for Part 5 of the National Building Code of Canada.  John practices in the field of materials and building science and is the structural engineer of record of many of the prominent building envelope remediation projects completed in Manitoba. John’s research interests include comparing the results of computer models with in-situ field performance through testing and instrumentation. 
 
Moderator:

Dan McInnis, Executive Director, Sustainable Building Manitoba

Dan had a 32-year career in the public sector including as Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for Climate Change and Environmental Protection for The Province of Manitoba. Dan will be the moderator for this session utilizing his experience and sense of humor to provide a forum for an informative discussion. Dan is currently Executive Director of Sustainable Building Manitoba.


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