Speaker Series: Designing with Glazed Brick for Style and Performance
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Aesthetics and Performance Capabilities of Glazed and Surface Coated Brick Products
The durability of clay brick and the beauty of ceramic glazes have been combined for millennia to provide accents, highlights and entire facades of many iconic buildings of distinction and prominence. Today, brick coated with glazes and engobes continue to provide and extend the palette of brick colors and textures beyond the traditional, and provide the almost unlimited variety in aesthetics that designers expect. Many designers have yet to fully discover or understand the design capabilities, material characteristics and installation methods that provide superior performance in a wide variety of building applications from subways and schools to prisons and palaces.
HSW Justification:
This program incudes information related to: 1) the physical properties required by ASTM and building codes for brick 2) building code requirements for masonry veneer 3) industry recommended detailing that enhances resiliency and promotes health and safety by ensuring that water is managed properly and
Learning Objective 1:
Compare physical property requirements and characteristics of ASTM standards for glazed and surface coated brick.
Learning Objective 2:
Identify applications that are enhanced by the benefits of glazed and surface coated brick, as well applications for which they may be inappropriate.
Learning Objective 3:
Apply design, specification and installation best practices that promote optimal appearance and durability performance of glazed and surface coated brick.
Learning Objective 4:
Discuss enhanced water management strategies that are unique to glazed brick assemblies
About the speaker:
Chris Metz - Distributor Sales Manager
Chris has years of experience growing sales, developing national accounts and driving architectural promotion of ceramic glazed brick, structural glazed tile, glazed thin brick and ceramic wall tile. His previous employment experience includes working in his family’s concrete block business, Joseph Metz and Son, as the General/Sales Manager. In his current capacity, Chris drives business with our distributor partners by promoting and selling the full line of Glen-Gery products and services to architects, developers, builders, general contractors, mason contractors, and remodelers in the territory. Chris has a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from the University of Wisconsin and has strong customer relationships in the Illinois market.
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Organizer Glen-Gery
Organizer of Speaker Series: Designing with Glazed Brick for Style and Performance
Glen-Gery, part of Brickworks Limited of Australia, is a premier brand and award-winning manufacturer of brick and stone products, and a distributor of in-house manufactured and globally sourced exterior/interior building products. Through expansive manufacturing and sales facilities, and a dealer network across North America, the company offers a broad product portfolio, when and where needed, to meet the growing demands of the building industry. Founded in 1890, Glen-Gery is headquartered in Wyomissing, Pa. www.glengery.com