Delivering high levels of architectural glazing performance
Canada’s Vitrum Glass Group is the first company to earn Guardian Select Elite Fabrication certification for architectural glass fabricators in the USA and Canada.
This status has been achieved thanks to the fabrication specialist’s advanced capabilities and quality standards.
State-of-the-art processing equipment, practices and measuring devices help Vitrum Glass meet the Elite optical quality specification, a specification from Guardian Glass that requires stringent specification targets and processing controls are in place to help achieve the highest level of optical qualities of glass on a project.
Vitrum, which tempers more than 10 million ft2 of glass and fabricates 600,000 sealed units annually, also recently added capacity to expand its project capabilities.
This includes a 175,000ft2 manufacturing building adjacent to the original 1996 facility in Langley, which comes on the heels of a 65,000ft2 fabrication site north of Calgary.
The Southport office complex (illustrated; image: Benjamin Benschneider Photography) is an example of the successful projects completed by Vitrum and Guardian Glass.
Designed by ZGF Architects, the three office buildings are the standouts in a mixed use complex on Lake Washington in Renton, Washington. Vitrum, Guardian and independent Glazier Connection member Walters & Wolf worked together to secure the project, which boasts 105,000ft2 of Guardian SunGuard SNX 62/27 coating on clear glass and 89,000ft2 of spandrel glass.
