I watched the crane lift one of the last units of unitized insulated glass curtain wall into the façade of the new Beaumont Hospital expansion in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The exclamation point on a lot of teamwork! Enclosing the building quickly through a unitized install meant many other parts of the project could leap forward […]

At Glass + Metal Craft, we’re particularly proud of our glass and metal guardrails and windscreens. Our customers often tell us they add that final touch that pulls a space together. Makes sense! We do them all in-house. Our Fulcrum Architectural Design Assist Division designs these systems to meet the architect’s vision. It then fully […]

The 151 North Franklin building in downtown Chicago is clad inside and out with a continuous feature wall of decorative, laminated glass. There’s no visible custom metal anywhere, and the sheer face of glass is spectacular! However, getting there required Glass + Metal Craft to venture out onto a proverbial limb. Which is why glazier […]

Walk about the chic Ballston Quarter – a $330 million redevelopment in Arlington, Virginia – and you’ll see first-hand how developers view the future of shopping malls. The venue flows inside to out to in, sweeping away the barriers that traditionally separate space. Service Glass Industries Inc. asked Glass + Metal Craft to add to […]

A recent conversation with a glazier partner convinced me that G+MC should offer field measurements – precise, on-site measurements for a planned architectural system – as part of our design assist portfolio. Traditionally, our design assist services included our deep dive into the project spec to help clarify specifications. Then there’s our engineering services, provided […]

Looking at the main entrance facade for the new Fulton State Hospital in Missouri, it screams quality glass. It’s all there: flatness, color consistency, and clarity. And, to get THERE, requires substantial innovation and effort. Glass + Metal Craft recently teamed with Guardian Glass, Sadev USA, and Central Missouri Glass to create the elaborate structural […]

I was in an office park on the east coast the other day and found myself walking through a stunning, brilliant atrium. Oversized sheets of point-supported glass rising several stories high. I thought to myself, what a space! Then, unfortunately, I walked through another. The glass was dirty, downright nasty in some areas, streaked from […]

  Anyone who has ever sketched the design of an atrium on the back of a napkin knows the impact of glass on space. Light … reflection … diffusion. All of it amazing to the senses. So I believe I’m not alone in saying, ‘the more glass the better’ – in larger and larger spans […]

There’s no better platform on which to build a successful business strategy than the voice of the customer. And the voices I heard last week visiting some of our top glazier partners affirmed something very important. That Glass + Metal Craft is offering a value proposition tightly aligned with a growing need in today’s building […]

I was in Las Vegas earlier this month attending the National Glass Association’s Building Envelope Contractor’s (BEC) Conference. During casual conversation, more than one glazier brought up concerns over meeting the challenges of installation liability. For one glazier, the discussion was about the size of the internal department required to assess risk. And even with […]