Why Trainor Glass?
Our Design and Estimating staff have many years of experience assisting design teams with value engineering options. Members of our staff also have excess of 20 years assisting architects with the development of contract documentation including architectural drawings and specifications. We take a risk management approach which includes quality control procedures established jointly during our past experiences with curtain wall consultants.
For these services and other Trainor Glass services, contact your local Trainor Glass sales representative or our National Estimating office to discuss your design ideas.
Design Assist
Trainor Glass provides expert advice and design services when your projects require them.
Design Assist is an approach merging our glazing contractor experiences, technical expertise, knowledge, and team approach with a project design team to develop a project façade. This collaboration is based on a Cost Plus/GMP approach to the selection of a Glazing Contractor.
Benefits to Owner / Developer / Contractor / Architect include:
- Early establishments of design criteria
- Determine wind loads
- Coordinate performance requirements with AAMA/ASTM testing standards
- Properly size curtain wall and/or window wall system depth
- Define building dynamics and movements that have impact on wall design
- Develop anchor connection details to building structure
- Define glass performance options with minimum and maximum fabrication capabilities
- Determine thermal and acoustical requirements impacting system design
- Accurate and ongoing costing of the defined designed criteria throughout the process. Early and continual collaboration on cost during the design phase enables informed decisions throughout the design process while reducing project costs.
- Allows coordination of hardware requirements and proper selection.
- Coordination of site logistical approach can be achieved.
- Approach helps avoid constructability issues.
- Address curtain wall detail interfacing with other substrates. Details can be coordinated allowing the exterior curtain wall and other substrates act as a complete façade.
- Drastically reduces project schedule. Trainor Glass is driven by maintaining a rigid schedule.
Best information system available in our industry:
- Project costing hits screens as costs occur.
- Detailed costing is made available online for monitoring as costs incur.
- Simplified auditing and administration processes.
- Historic cost database for budgeting.
- Accounting System - we are audited.
- Open information approach to projects.
Trainor Glass has built a reputation for integrity with Building Owners, Architects, General Contractors, Suppliers and Subs.
DRAFTING SEVICES
Our drafting services provide support to all of our manufacturing facilities across the country. All personnel are highly trained on AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks, and ACIST. We have the capability to provide shop drawings, glass sizing, metal cut lists, material take-offs, assistance and back-up in all project management areas. Our idrafting capabilities allow for faster turnaround and more efficient processing of shop drawings, which in turn allow us to keep projects on schedule.
