Glass Day, Hooray!

As was mentioned in an earlier post, the exterior glass windows were one of the materials we have had some difficulty getting here in time to maintain the schedule. So the Bernards HQ Team feels like Christmas came early this year with the first arrival of the glass for the exterior windows. Hale Glass has been installing the aluminum window framing since Wednesday and, as promised, the glass truck pulled in this afternoon with the first shipment of glass.

Some of you GC-public works guys and gals may be scratching your heads wondering how the aluminum can be installed so quickly and how the glass could be here so soon when the frames were just installed. What, no field measuring you ask? Hale Glass field measures all the openings prior to receiving the aluminum in their shop, then inputs this information into a computer so that the material can be cut to length within a hundredth of an inch. They also are able to cut all the weep holes, slots, and notches with extreme precision using a C&C machine in their shop. All the material is either pre-assembled in the shop or the components are bundled in shrink wrap and clearly labeled so the field crew only has to assemble the pieces on-site. That's correct, no chop saws anywhere at the jobsite! At the same time the material is being fabricated in the shop, the glass sizes are already locked in and the order is scheduled for a just-in-time delivery a day or two behind the frames. Quite refreshing to work with a Glass Sub that has actually looked at the plans before arriving on site, wouldn't you agree Chuck Snyder?

I present the following shots as evidence that there is real honest-to-goodness glass on site. No photoshopping, I swear!

Hale trucks loaded with aluminum materials






















Aluminum windows installed at Business Development




















More window frames installed. Pure bliss! We sincerely could look at photos like these all day long. These are right up there with photos of a warm tropical beach, top of a mountain, or a sunset. It's been suggested that we get out of the trailer more often for some fresh air, although we're not sure why.





















And this afternoon............ THE GLASS!