Unlock the power of your personal brand on LinkedIn. People trust individuals more than company brands, making your personal presence on LinkedIn a key asset. According to Forbes, CEOs with a strong personal brand increase their company value by 11% over CEOs with no personal brand. This workshop empowers glass and fenestration industry leaders to harness LinkedIn's vast network. With the right strategies, your profile can become a hub for opportunities, showcasing your expertise and connecting with valuable industry players. Stefanie breaks down easy strategies to get started capitalizing on these tools and building your brand with just a few hours a week. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to gain traction with the free resource LinkedIn provides.

Rick Dunn discusses opportunities for the window industry to join other industries in participating with national programs testing and promoting energy efficient products, leveraging IRA dollars in the process. He also debunks myths about window impacts on envelope UA and shares a case study highlighting how low-income builders like Habitat for Humanity are using triple pane windows to outperform green builders by achieving higher energy performance at lower construction costs.

High-performance fenestration is critical to achieving net zero energy buildings, yet designing and building with such glazing is nowhere close to business-as-usual in the U.S. This presentation explores whether we have a technology innovation problem or a market deployment problem. It lays out the current state-of-the-art fenestration technologies available and explores the barriers to market adoption that arise from the current energy codes and the design-bid-build project delivery process. Presented by Helen Sanders, Ph.D., General Manager, Technoform North America.

Performance requirements for the built environment are changing with an increased focus on sustainability, resilience and affordability and the efficient delivery of buildings. Key building components like fenestration play a significant role in decarbonization and present opportunities to advance the use of off-site construction. This session will explore the basis for these changes and how the fenestration industry is impacted and can impact the outcomes. Presented by Ryan Colker, Vice President, Innovation, International Code Council

Nicholas Clements, Ph.D., and Madison Likins-White share information their work with The Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST) Center.

Ratnesh Tiwari, Ph.D., Asst. Research Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland.

Julian Wang, Ph.D., Dr. Eng., Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, Penn State University.

From air and water infiltration to occupant comfort and thermal controls, commercial building performance begins with the envelope. Problems at material interfaces, curtainwall complexities, and struggles with installer competency along with a lack of quality systems at point of installation, increases opportunities for failures and defects in glazing projects. This presentation will provide insight from an industry perspective to address how a well thought out and implemented quality systems approach can raise the glazing industry to a higher standard of performance. Using examples of best practices as well as project examples, this will offer attendees a fresh approach to ensure quality glazing installations and building envelopes that look and perform as intended.

Watch this NFRC Sustainability Network webinar to gain insight into the demand for green homes and discuss the impact on the demand for energy-efficient window and door products. Representatives from the National Association of Realtors, the National Association of Home Builders, and Home Innovation Research Labs will share insights and information from the industry about the preferences and trends related to energy efficiency upgrades, including fenestration products.

Experts from DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office - No-cost Efficiency and Sustainability Tools and Resources give an overview of technical assistance opportunities covering efficiency, sustainability, and competitiveness.

All solutions are needed for a low carbon future, from building code requirements to design adjustments. Aluminum is one of the most carbon-intensive materials in a building, but it is used in smaller quantities. Glazing’s embodied carbon depends highly on the manufacturing process; therefore, designers are looking to balance the carbon impact of the window to wall ratio and asking manufacturers for lower carbon materials.

Whether your company is newly certified, or you are new to a position, this webinar will familiarize you with the program and all of the opportunities.

This webinar helps those who have never been through the NFRC balloting process.