Product Information Zoom Fit + – I< < > >I © 2011 USGlass Magazine. All rights reserved. No reproduction Contents Search Archives E-Mail Subscribe of any type without expressed written permission. inside: 1 Wtc report—Was Prismatic glass ever Viable? metal & glazing ® thethe magazinemagazine ofof recordrecord forfor architecturalarchitectural glassglass industryindustry leadersleaders Volume Volume 46,46, issueissue 99 octoBeroctoBer 2011 free subscriptions available at www.glass.com/ subcenter free fall Broken railings raise Questions about tempered glass also inside: the Fall USGlass Confidence Report largestlargest circulationcirculation ofof anyany glassglass magazinemagazine Product Information Zoom Fit + – I< < > >I © 2011 USGlass Magazine. All rights reserved. No reproduction Contents Search Archives E-Mail Subscribe of any type without expressed written permission. 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No reproduction Contents Search Archives E-Mail Subscribe of any type without expressed written permission. [october 2011] columns 6 Issue @ Hand 8 Buyer’s Block 10 GANA Perspectives 16 Guest Book features 72 The Business Some Good, Some Bad departments 28 The results of our first-ever confidence index show distinct differences across the country in glazing 4 Only Online backlog and economic improvement. 18 Company News 20 Codes & Regulations A Tale of Three Cities— 24 Energy & Environment And Lots of Broken Glass 26 Solar Watch 32 54 Showcase The consumer press has had a field day with multiple tempered glass railing breakages in Toronto, Seattle and 60 Newsmakers Austin, Texas. Glass suppliers have nervously watched 61 Minute With on, wondering how the negative publicity may affect 62 Reviews & Previews consumer interest in glass railings. 63 Up & Coming 64 Supplier’s Guide Special Investigative Report: 69 Classifieds 42 The 1 WTC Podium Wall 71 Advertising Index When the Port Authority announced it would not use prismatic glass on 1 World Trade Center’s podium wall, ••• the industry debated whether it was ever a viable alternative. Yet some companies say they could have on the cover supplied the prismatic glass for 1 WTC after all. A worker removes the tempered glass panels at the W Austin Hotel in Austin, Texas. After several lites fell from condo balconies in June, the hotel Special Section replaced all of its railings with Architects’ Guide to Glass laminated glass. Turn to page 52 Sing a Song of Glass: 32 for more. Glazing Shines in New Opera House Photo: Bailey Edwards, Stratus Properties USGlass, Metal and Glazing (ISSN 0041-7661), Reg. 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