City View Glass provides aluminum curtain walls and exterior glass for Thornhill Mercedes-Benz Canadian Design and Construction Report special feature Kitchener-based City View Glass Inc. has applied its ex- pertise to the successful completion of the new Thornhill Mercedes-Benz dealership. Established in 2013 and based on two decades worth of industry experience, City View Glass specializes in com- mercial glass but also lends its proficiency to high-end res- idential projects. President Bill Martin says the Thornhill project require- ments were fairly straightforward, but extensive. City View Glass provided all of the aluminum curtain wall and glass for the building exterior. He says the curtain wall was made to custom lengths to span the full 30 ft. height in one piece. “The aluminium framing was then loaded with steel to achieve OBC (On- tario Building Code) required wind loading.” The lower glass on the exterior he says, is a low iron product that allows maximum visibility. Interior work con- sisted of 19 heavy glass office walls and doors made from floor-to-ceiling glass. Martin says handling the glass and aluminum proved to be the biggest challenge and required a crane and four men to handle the heavy framing. Noting that the company understands all projects re- quire teamwork, Martin says employees approach each project with this intent, hoping to achieve best results for the client. “We had to make a couple of adjustments in this case from the original design, such as adding extra vertical mullions to reduce the glass size, which in turn, created cost savings.” Over the past two years City View Glass has completed multiple LA Fitness clubs, several Sobeys and Longo’s gro- cery stores, a Home Depot, Muskoka cottages (custom showers, indoor/outdoor glass railings) and numerous other projects throughout the GTA, Waterloo-Wellington Region and across the province. He says he is pleased to have been part of the Mer- cedes-Benz project, one of the company’s largest to date. For more information, visit www.cityviewglass.com. City View Glass is proud to be working with FCML on the Thornhill Mercedes-Benz project. Commercial Industrial Architectural 41 Shoemaker Street unit 6. Kitchener ON N2E 3G9 TEL: 519 893 0777 FAX: 519 893 0776 www.cityviewglass.com 52 – July-August 2015 — The Canadian Design and Construction Report