The awards ceremony and Hall of Fame Banquet will be held in Chicago on Sept. 29 in conjunction with GRAPH EXPO, and featured in Printing Impressions magazine.

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“Innovative and aesthetically pleasing, these frameless acoustic islands provide an alternative acoustic solution for rooms where suspended ceilings are not suitable. They can be used as part of a retrofit or to create a cloud-like design feature.”

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“Now, antimicrobial protection can be specified for high-touch, architectural metal products’ exterior and interior surfaces, such as hand rails, doors, windows, curtainwall, entrances, light shelves, panels and column covers.”

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70% PVDF coatings available in a breadth of colors and formulations, including solar reflective

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Standards existed for extruders or window manufacturers when working with the paint process, but there was no AAMA standard for in-process quality control when painting was being done at outside contractors.

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This report discusses the determination of design wind loads on curtain walls and other building cladding systems. The document originally was published in 1985, when Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel (BLWT) testing was a relatively new field, and limited information was available on its methods and uses.

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ForceFront medium stile entrance doors also were tested with 34000 Series storefront to provide a complete impact-resistant system.

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To participate in the online contest, follow AAMA on Twitter (@AAMAInfo) or search for the contest hashtag, #RUsmarter; join the association’s LinkedIn group; and each day of GlassBuild America (Sept. 9-11) in booth #2315, AAMA will be hosting the game show, Are You Smarter than a FenestrationMaster™.

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Document sets requirements for materials, testing and performance

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“This is a major victory,” praised AAMA’s certification manager, Rich Rinka. He explained, “Without MHCC’s blessing, there would be no changing from the currently recognized standards.”

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