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Let’s talk windows, doors and more. Fenestration Review editor Patrick Flannery welcomes influential executives, brainy experts and entertaining opinion leaders from across the country to get deep into the weeds of the issues facing our industry.

  1. Episode #77: A Way Up Instead of a Way Out - Eddy Atausi, Noble

    JAN 16

    Episode #77: A Way Up Instead of a Way Out - Eddy Atausi, Noble

    We're all looking for top engineering talent and the fenestration and glass industry has a lot to offer any technical person who enjoys innovation and experimentation. But our companies just aren't on most engineers' radar screens, making it important for us to be proactive in attracting and retaining talent. Eddy Atausi has made the unusual choice to learn as much as he can about fenestration and glass so he can bring his talent recruitment and development skills to us. He joins Pat Flannery to talk about what works in our market when it comes to getting the best people to make our products and processes.

    1h 3m
  2. Episode #76: The Future of Sustainable Glazing - Joe Menchefski, Better Buildings for Humans

    11/21/2025

    Episode #76: The Future of Sustainable Glazing - Joe Menchefski, Better Buildings for Humans

    On his podcast Better Buildings for Humans, Joe Menchefski explores ways to make our built spaces healthier and more liveable with top building science experts from around the world. As part of the team at Advanced Glazings, a Nova Scotia fabricator specializing in aerogel products, Menchefski has deep knowledge of innovative energy-efficient technologies. Who better to ask about the state of sustainable building today and what to expect in the years ahead? Tune in to hear two professional talkers go at it in this episode of Fenestration Conversations.

    59 min
  3. Episode #75: Reflections on a Career in Windows – Skip Maclean

    09/26/2025

    Episode #75: Reflections on a Career in Windows – Skip Maclean

    Skip Maclean has retired from ODL, his last stop on a 53-year journey through the Canadian window and door manufacturing industry. Along the way he rose to the top, chairing innumerable committees, serving as president of Fenestration Canada and being honoured with its 2019 C.P. Loewen award. He did it with humour, humility and intelligence, and counts many of today’s industry leaders as his proteges. Maclean joins the Conversation to share his memories and accumulated wisdom.

    1h 1m
  4. Episode #74: Principles of Marketing – Alison Simpson, Canadian Marketing Association

    09/08/2025

    Episode #74: Principles of Marketing – Alison Simpson, Canadian Marketing Association

    Our business is making things, not talking about them. So it’s no surprise that many of us struggle with the demands of promoting our businesses to potential clients and customers. Alison Simpson, president and CEO of the CMA, has been helping major corporations do just that throughout her career and she joins Pat Flannery for a lively conversation chock full of good advice. She also has details of an exciting program enabling small businesses to obtain government funds to hire digital marketing experts and to upskill their existing IT staff.

    49 min
  5. Episode #73: Two Numbers – Chris Magwood, RMI

    08/01/2025

    Episode #73: Two Numbers – Chris Magwood, RMI

    Chris Magwood of the Rocky Mountain Institute joins the podcast to discuss the One Number approach to sustainable building regulation…and he has some objections. While a performance-based approach aimed at regulating the whole-life carbon impact of a construction project should be our ultimate goal, Magwood feels the upfront impact of embodied carbon needs to be evaluated separately, but adjacent to, the long-term impact of operational carbon. Listen now to find out why, and for Magwood’s assessment of where we are in being able to do the carbon impact modelling we will need to meet the future sustainable building regulations under discussion today.

    1h 16m
  6. Episode #72: One Number – Jonathon “JoMo” Layton, Layton Consulting

    06/06/2025

    Episode #72: One Number – Jonathon “JoMo” Layton, Layton Consulting

    How would it be if all the databases and charts and spreadsheets and regulations and tiers defining whether our products comply with sustainable building laws just…went away? Replaced by one number: – the only number that matters – the amount of carbon dioxide emitted over a building’s lifetime as a result of its manufacture, construction, use and disposal. Partner at Layton Consulting, Jonathon “JoMo” Layton joins the podcast to chew over this radical idea and lend his expertise to the question of whether it could work and how it would affect us all.

    1h 13m
  7. Episode #71: The next hot topic – Robin Urquhart, RDH Building Science

    05/09/2025

    Episode #71: The next hot topic – Robin Urquhart, RDH Building Science

    High-profile wildfires doing substantial property damage to urban areas in B.C. and Alberta have spurred NRCan to look at creating Canadian building standards for wildfire resistance. The consultation process has just begun, but it seems likely that some day soon we may see new codes requiring resistant windows, doors and other components in wildfire-prone areas. What might these rules look like? How do we determine if a product is sufficiently resistant to external fires? And what is the science behind making frames and glass that resists fire and prevents heat transfer to the home interior? Robin Urquhart has worked on rebuilding communities destroyed by wildfires and joins the Conversation to share his deep knowledge of this topic.

    48 min
  8. Episode #70: It’s over – Adrian Edge, Fenestration Canada

    04/11/2025

    Episode #70: It’s over – Adrian Edge, Fenestration Canada

    FenCan codes and regulatory affairs direction, Adrian Edge, is back on to talk about the latest trade war developments and how they might impact the glazing and fenestration industries. Our sector avoided new tariffs on April 2, but the stunning measures announced by Trump against the rest of the world are crashing markets and have already, in the words of our prime minister, ended the free trade and partnership relationship we have enjoyed with the United States for decades. Edge talks about the possible ramifications of that, and about how you can still export to the U.S. tariff-free. Mark Carney clip courtesy Associated Press YouTube.

    36 min
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Let’s talk windows, doors and more. Fenestration Review editor Patrick Flannery welcomes influential executives, brainy experts and entertaining opinion leaders from across the country to get deep into the weeds of the issues facing our industry.

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    Fenestration Review
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
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