Everything Building Envelope

About Everything Building Envelope

Everything Building Envelope is a dedicated podcast forum for understanding the building envelope. Our podcast series discusses current trends and issues that contractors, developers, and building owners have to deal with related to pre and post-construction. Our series touches on various topics related to water infiltration, litigation, and construction methods related to the building envelope. Visit our website at https://www.everythingbuildingenvelope.com! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Paul Beers - GCI Consultants, LLC

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Mar 2016

Latest episode

9 May 2023

Latest episodes

78 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 May 2023

   Energy Conservation and Reducing Building Carbon Emissions

   About The Everything Building Envelope Podcast: Everything Building Envelope℠ is a dedicated podcast and video forum for understanding the building envelope. Our podcast series discusses current trends and issues that contractors, developers, and building owners have to deal with related to pre and post-construction. Our series touches on various topics related to water infiltration, litigation, and construction methods related to the building envelope. https://www.everythingbuildingenvelope.com (https://www.everythingbuildingenvelope.com/) *** Subscribe to the show (https://info.gciconsultants.com/subscribe-everything-building-envelope-podcast) and leave us a Review on iTunes! (https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/7045476/56419422-e90d-4866-a0d5-18b00cdbc2e6) Dan: Welcome, everyone, to our “Everything Building Envelope Podcast.” I am Dan Johnson, senior consultant for GCI Consultants, and I will be your host today. I am really excited today to have as our guest, Todd Frederick, who is the owner and CEO of FreMarq Innovations, which is a highly performance curtain wall company located in Central Wisconsin, that was established in 2016. Prior to that, his company was FM Enterprises, which was established in 1996. I believe we have an interesting topic today, which is all about how FreMarq's technology helps with energy conservation, dollar savings, and reduces a building's overall carbon footprint. So, Todd, let's start off by having you tell our audience a little bit about yourself and your area of expertise, and then we can jump right into our podcast. Todd: Great. Thank you, Dan. Well, I started in the curtain wall window industry in 1981, and I worked for a large window curtain wall manufacturer here in Central Wisconsin until '96, at which time I started my first company, FM Enterprises, which primarily we did a lot of storefront doors, custom fabrication, and gradually built into the curtain wall market. And that lasted until about 19-, or I'm sorry, 2010, at which time I decided I was gonna retire for a while, but that didn't last long. And in 2015, I decided it was time for someone to look at curtain wall framing systems, primarily to provide a high-performance thermal product. Up until that time, most people, architects, designers, would refer to the center of glass and really didn't take the account of the framing aspects into place. So, like I said, in 2015, I started to look at that. In 2016, I developed FreMarq Innovations, and that's what we do today is we look at framing. We provide highly thermal products to improve thermal performance of a building envelope and save money for building owners. Dan: Okay. Well, that's quite a history, and I know as we talked a little bit earlier, you and I had worked together, you know, in our former lives also, and I'm glad that we're able to talk again. So, I know you had talked about this a little bit. Why is it important to have a high-performing building envelope? Todd: Well, our research has found that buildings account for approximately 40% of all carbon emissions globally, which is a huge impact on our climate change. In addition, approximately $20 billion of energy leak out of commercial building windows each year, so both new and old windows, making this an economical issue for building owners. A high-performance envelope, which includes windows and curtain wall, will not only make a positive impact on our environment, but will also save money for building owners by reducing energy and maintenance costs, which I feel is a win-win for everybody. Dan: Yes. I do agree with you 100%, but kind of the old adage out there, you know, money is everything. So, how has the industry responded so far to high-performance products? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   10 Jan 2023

   GCI Services

   About The Everything Building Envelope Podcast: Everything Building Envelope℠ is a dedicated podcast and video forum for understanding the building envelope. Our podcast series discusses current trends and issues that contractors, developers and building owners have to deal with related to pre and post construction. Our series touches on various topics related to water infiltration, litigation and construction methods related to the building envelope. https://www.everythingbuildingenvelope.com (https://www.everythingbuildingenvelope.com/) *** Subscribe to the show (https://info.gciconsultants.com/subscribe-everything-building-envelope-podcast) and leave us a Review on ITunes! (https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/7045476/56419422-e90d-4866-a0d5-18b00cdbc2e6) hbspt.cta.load(7045476, '56419422-e90d-4866-a0d5-18b00cdbc2e6', {"region":"na1"}); Alfonso: Welcome, everyone, to our “Everything Building Envelope” podcast. I am Alfonso Alzamora, Vice President and Principal with GCI Consultants, and I will be your host today. I am really excited today to have as our guest one of our partners and engineers that I work with here at GCI, Jason Bondurant. Jason, since you are a repeat guest, let's just jump right into today's podcast. In this podcast, we will highlight our services and talk about the different types of projects that we are involved with, where we work, and whom we work with. For those who haven't worked with us in the past, GCI is a consulting and engineering firm that specializes in the exterior building envelope. The building envelope is the part of the building that separates the interior from the exterior. It includes the roofs, walls, windows, doors, and foundations. Our specialty services primarily include property condition assessments, forensic investigations, expert witness services for construction defects and first-party insurance claims, and quality assurance inspections and testing. So, Jason, let's dig into each of these services and discuss scenarios in which we help our clients. Jason: Yes. And I'm glad that we have the opportunity to discuss our services today, that following the tragic collapse of the Champlain Tower South in Surfside and the subsequent passing of the condominium safety bill in Florida, there's been a greater interest from building owners in hiring engineering firms to evaluate their buildings. One of the main concerns that owners typically have is with the envelopes of their buildings. The types of assessments that GCI performs is different from the typical 40-year structural and electrical recertification process. Instead, we offer a more specialized assessment of the building envelope systems. We focus on a variety of forensic procedures to evaluate the condition and performance of these various building envelope components. These evaluations are useful to building owners because they can provide them with an overview of the general condition of the building's walls, windows, roofing, and waterproofing systems, and they can be useful when planning for maintenance or repairs. I recently did a building envelope condition assessment at a high-end home in South Florida that's located directly on the ocean, and it was relatively a new construction. And the owner was experiencing some problems with their building. They were starting to have some problems with water intrusion around windows, and they started to see some cracks in the exterior stucco, and because of that, they were concerned about the overall condition of the building envelope and the construction of the home. So, they hired GCI to come and do a condition assessment of the full building. And our assessment on this particular project included the roof, the walls, windows, balconies, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   15 Dec 2022

   What Are Storm Shelters and What are The Requirements for a Storm Shelter?

   About The Everything Building Envelope Podcast: Everything Building Envelope℠ is a dedicated podcast and video forum for understanding the building envelope. Our podcast series discusses current trends and issues that contractors, developers and building owners have to deal with related to pre and post construction. Our series touches on various topics related to water infiltration, litigation and construction methods related to the building envelope. https://www.everythingbuildingenvelope.com (https://www.everythingbuildingenvelope.com/) *** Subscribe to the show (https://info.gciconsultants.com/subscribe-everything-building-envelope-podcast) and leave us a Review on ITunes! (https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/7045476/56419422-e90d-4866-a0d5-18b00cdbc2e6) hbspt.cta.load(7045476, '56419422-e90d-4866-a0d5-18b00cdbc2e6', {"region":"na1"}); Dan: Welcome everyone to our “Everything Building Envelope” podcast. I am Dan Johnson, the senior consultant for GCI Consultants, and I will be your host today. I'm excited to have as a guest, Jim Bell, the director of operations for the National Storm Shelter Association. Today, our topic is What Are Storm Shelters and What are The Requirements for a Storm Shelter? Let's start off by having you tell our audience a little bit about yourself, and then we'll jump into our podcast. Jim: Good morning, Dan, and nice to be here. I started out with wind codes after riding out Hurricane Andrew in South Florida. I was on the fringe of it, the county north of Dade County, and it affected us a lot. And going down and looking at the damage that following weekend, it was…it amazed me, and it lit a fire in me. And I got involved with the codes there and it kind of expanded and went on to the tornado codes, and I joined the National Storm Shelter Association, which at the time was outta Texas Tech with Dr. Kiesling. And I've since gotten very involved with the national codes and all about shelters. Dan: Okay. Jim, I know…you and I go back aways back to my storm shelter testing days. And so I know that you've just briefly been with NSSA. So, what is the NSSA and what does it serve the industry? Jim: Yes. Thanks. The NSSA is an organization started in 2000. It was really started after a series of severe tornadoes in the Lubbock area, near Texas Tech. And there was a professor of wind sciences at Texas Tech, Dr. Ernst Kiesling, who started up this organization to talk about how we can prevent loss of life in tornado events. And he is considered the grandfather of the aboveground tornado shelter, and they did a lot of studies. The NSSA was the group that put together the ICC 500, which is the building code in the International Building Code, which covers the United States for shelters, and then partnered with ICC who then took the code as an ICC standard. And the ICC 500 is NSSA/ICC 500 in the code, which covers how you build a safe room. Dan: I was just gonna say [inaudible 00:02:49] the NSSA is basically, it's like a trade association comprised of many different building officials and also shelter manufacturers, correct? Jim: Correct. We have a membership of industry professionals, architects, engineers. We also have producer members who produce, you know, pre-manufactured shelters for the home, site build shelters, and then the officials who actually build the community-type large shelters in schools and other types of buildings. We also work with building officials and emergency managers. And then the associations like FEMA and NOAA, and NIST are some of the other people that are members of NSSA. Dan: Okay. Yeah. I know that NSSA and ICC 500 goes from large structures down to residences. But for just kind single-family residents, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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