This past week a very cool microsite was released featuring
a ton of content from GlassBuild America.
The site has 12 Express Learning presentations on it along with videos
from the floor and forums. The Glazing
Executive Forum video includes the economic forecast piece as well as state of
the industry and 25 years of Top 50 Glaziers.
Plus this site has the keynote address from Cam Marston too. This really is an incredible treasure of
information and insight. So if you were
at the show but couldn’t see everything, you can now catch it and if the
weather kept you away, now you can see some of what you missed. Check it out!
Elsewhere…
-- As if we don’t have enough to worry about with supply and
logistics comes an article on a shortage of sand. Unreal.
We’ll have to monitor this one because this could affect glass making on
global basis.
-- While I was off from blogging last week the industry had a
great addition… Lindsay and Dustin Price welcomed baby Alex Olivia to the
world. A beautiful baby girl born to
seriously awesome parents! I am so happy
for Lindsay and Dustin and wish them the best… enjoy it all now you two, blink
and Alex will be off to college.
-- I was able to attend the Glass + Metal Symposium and while
there I was taken aback (positively) by a video played by Jeff Rigot of
Viracon. It was a very well done piece
talking about glass usage and the Viracon employee used throughout the video
was none other than Cameron Scripture! I
have been telling people forever that Cameron has movie star good looks and
obviously the producers of the video agreed!
I really now can say I knew him before he went “Hollywood.”
-- The latest Dodge Momentum Index was down again last month,
which continues a mini negative trend on that metric. The analysts are not ready to call this a
downturn in the marketplace but it does bear watching. The market right now does have some soft
spots to it for sure. I am very curious
to see if this gets revised up or where next month comes in as traditionally
October in many parts of the US is a very big month with a lot of focus on getting
jobs going before the days of winter snow arrive.
-- I think any time I see a link on the new Apple Campus and it
shows glass I am all in. This one is onethat stopped me in my tracks. Love
seeing the way glass is used here and throughout.
-- I did see the sad news of David Stark passing away. I had a few interactions with David as he was
developing products in the Vacuum IG world.
He surely brought and an amazing energy and passion to that space and
his efforts and insights will be missed.
-- Last this week… Two new mixed-use skyscrapers are coming toMiami. So a question to my friends down
there- have we reached the point of massive saturation? I am stunned that these places can go up and
units sold. The architecture and glass
will be pretty cool on the one described and shown in this story.
LINKS of the WEEK
As a road warrior I must say I am impressed… and I also will
say I have never seen anything like this!
Who was Mr. Monopoly behind the Equifax guys during Senate
hearings. This was good! And by the way is Equifax a mess or what?
Can someone explain to me how a family could forget a 3 year
old in a maze and not call til the next morning? Gotta be more to this…
VIDEO of the WEEK
It is always awesome to hear from Steve Bouchard of Glass
Distributors… and this time he sent me a great link for the video of the
week! It’s an older video but it holds
up well as the Manning brothers are hilarious…
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