Today I am headed back to the East Coast from Vegas as the BEC is ending. Yup. I’m on the plane and my laptop battery doesn’t seem to want to hold a charge so this will be a short one. The low battery light is already on.
Monday—the first full day of the Building Envelop Contractor’s Conference (BEC) actually brought me hope. Russ Ebeid’s thought provoking presentation gave everyone in the room quite a bit to think about (see related story for more) and Bill Yanek detailed the excellent work he is leading for GANA in the energy arena. Bill is right that the glass industry has a target on its back. As deadly as a silent killer like carbon monoxide seeping into your lungs at night, the possibility of federally-mandated greenhouse gas emission control could choke, debilitate and ultimately kill our entire industry.
It was interesting that Bill mentioned the industry’s old “friends” at ASHRAE are developing regulations that are possibly anti-glass. This will sound familiar to anyone who has been around awhile. Shades of 90.1P—you know the let’s-get-rid-of-the-glass-so-we-can-keep-installing-inefficient-HVAC-systems regulations promulgated by ASHRAE 20 or so years ago.
This industry needs to come and stay together on this issue.
With so much bad news in the economy, it was nice to have a good news day. The BEC top ten list is always a hit and gave the crowd some deep chuckles ….I caught too with John Dwyer of Syracuse Glass. His company is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year …. Also talked with Craig Carson who recently patented a neat new product (more in the future pages of USGlass) that is working well in Colorado…saw Bob Lang of Billco, the busiest, hardest working retired guy in the industry…day two, though a long one, was a good.
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