To fabricate architectural glass that meets its performance specification and installs without rework, through controlled tolerances and verified glass makeups.
Who We Are
GERARD PARICHE processes architectural and specialty glass: cutting, seaming, edge grinding and polishing, drilling, notching and shaping, thermal tempering, heat strengthening, heat soak testing, lamination with structural and acoustic interlayers, insulated glass unit fabrication with warm edge spacers and inert gas fill, and ceramic frit printing for spandrel and decorative applications. We work with clear, tinted, low iron, acid etched, mirrored and coated glass including soft and hard coat low emissivity and solar control products, and we supply fire rated and security glazing where projects require it.
Contractors and architects around use GERARD PARICHE because facade glass is specified against performance targets and installed against tolerances, and both have to be met. A unit that satisfies the thermal calculation but arrives with inconsistent dimensions costs the glazing crew hours per lite. A coating specified on visible light transmittance alone may miss solar heat gain targets badly. We review the specification, confirm the glass makeup against the performance required, produce shop drawings, fabricate to controlled tolerances, heat soak test where appropriate and deliver in the sequence the installation program needs.
Track Record
Projects & Case Studies
Curtain WallInsulated units with solar control coating were fabricated to verified performance targets, heat soak tested given the facade height, labeled by elevation and delivered in the glazing sequence. Field breakage and dimensional rework were both negligible.
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Spandrel GlassCeramic frit printed spandrel panels were colour matched to the vision glass appearance from the exterior, with durability suited to the exposure. Consistency across the facade was maintained across several delivery phases.
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Acoustic GlazingInterlayer and glass thickness combinations were selected against measured noise conditions rather than thickness alone. The installed glazing met the acoustic target that the originally specified makeup would have missed.
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Structural GlassIonoplast laminated glass with polished exposed edges and precise drilled fixings was fabricated to shop drawings coordinated with the structural fixings. Post-breakage retention requirements were satisfied by the interlayer selection.
View DetailsOur Mission
To reduce field breakage and callbacks, through heat soak testing, proper edge quality and delivery sequencing that protects glass until it is installed.
Compliance
Coating surface orientation is checked at every processing stage.
Send it to GERARD PARICHE and we will confirm the makeup achieves your thermal, solar and acoustic targets before fabrication.
Facade glass has to satisfy thermal, solar and acoustic performance alongside structural and safety requirements. We help specify coatings, cavity gas and interlayers to hit the actual targets.
Our Process
We examine the glass specification against the thermal, solar, acoustic, safety and structural requirements, confirm the makeup achieves them, and raise conflicts before fabrication.
Shop drawings are produced and coordinated with framing dimensions, with hole and notch positions, edge treatments and labeling schedules confirmed for your approval.
Cutting, edgework, tempering, heat soak testing, lamination and unit assembly are completed with dimensional and quality inspection, including flatness and seal integrity checks.
Glass is labeled by elevation and opening, protectively packaged on stillages and delivered in the sequence your glazing program requires, with site support available.
Our Services
Soft and hard coat low emissivity, solar control and reflective coated products selected against visible light transmittance, solar heat gain coefficient, thermal transmittance and exterior appearance. Performance targets frequently conflict, and the trade-offs should be made deliberately.
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Heat soak testing of tempered glass to identify and eliminate lites containing nickel sulfide inclusions before installation. Spontaneous breakage years after glazing is expensive and dangerous on tall or inaccessible facades, and heat soak testing is the only practical defense.
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Double and triple glazed units with warm edge spacers, inert gas fill, controlled desiccant and dual seal construction, built with coating placement correct for the performance targeted. Which cavity surface carries the coating changes the thermal and solar result significantly.
Request a QuoteTempering to safety glazing requirements and heat strengthening where higher strength is needed without full tempering fragmentation behavior, with flatness and roller wave controlled. Distortion and roller wave are quality characteristics rather than inevitable, and they are visible on a completed facade.
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Lamination with polyvinyl butyral, ionoplast and acoustic interlayers for safety, security, acoustic performance, structural glazing and post-breakage retention, including multi-ply and colored interlayer constructions. Interlayer choice determines structural behavior and sound reduction far more than thickness alone.
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Shop drawing production, dimensional coordination with framing, labeling by elevation and opening, protective packaging, stillage supply and delivery sequenced to the glazing program. Glass delivered out of sequence occupies site space and accumulates damage while it waits.
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Straight and shape cutting, seaming, arrised, ground, flat polished and pencil polished edges, drilling, notching, countersinking and cutouts. Edge quality is a structural matter in tempered and laminated glass, since edge damage initiates the breakage that gets blamed on handling weeks later.
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Ceramic frit printed spandrel and vision glass, silicone opacifiers, back painted glass, acid etched and patterned products, and digitally printed designs, with colour matching and durability suited to exterior exposure where applicable.
Request a QuoteProjects & Case Studies
Curtain WallInsulated units with solar control coating were fabricated to verified performance targets, heat soak tested given the facade height, labeled by elevation and delivered in the glazing sequence. Field breakage and dimensional rework were both negligible.
View DetailsSpandrel GlassCeramic frit printed spandrel panels were colour matched to the vision glass appearance from the exterior, with durability suited to the exposure. Consistency across the facade was maintained across several delivery phases.
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Acoustic GlazingInterlayer and glass thickness combinations were selected against measured noise conditions rather than thickness alone. The installed glazing met the acoustic target that the originally specified makeup would have missed.
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Structural GlassIonoplast laminated glass with polished exposed edges and precise drilled fixings was fabricated to shop drawings coordinated with the structural fixings. Post-breakage retention requirements were satisfied by the interlayer selection.
View DetailsSend it to GERARD PARICHE and we will confirm the makeup achieves your thermal, solar and acoustic targets before fabrication.
Spontaneous breakage in tempered glass comes from nickel sulfide inclusions. Heat soak testing removes suspect lites in our plant, which matters considerably on inaccessible facades.
Projects & Case Studies
Insulated units with solar control coating were fabricated to verified performance targets, heat soak tested given the facade height, labeled by elevation and delivered in the glazing sequence. Field breakage and dimensional rework were both negligible.
Ceramic frit printed spandrel panels were colour matched to the vision glass appearance from the exterior, with durability suited to the exposure. Consistency across the facade was maintained across several delivery phases.
Interlayer and glass thickness combinations were selected against measured noise conditions rather than thickness alone. The installed glazing met the acoustic target that the originally specified makeup would have missed.
Ionoplast laminated glass with polished exposed edges and precise drilled fixings was fabricated to shop drawings coordinated with the structural fixings. Post-breakage retention requirements were satisfied by the interlayer selection.
Our Advantages
Nickel sulfide suspect lites are removed in our plant rather than failing years later on an inaccessible facade.
Which surface carries the coating is confirmed against the performance calculation, since getting it wrong changes the result substantially.
Glass is labeled by elevation and opening and delivered when the crew needs it, not stacked on site accumulating damage.
Dimensional control is tight and consistent, which removes the per-lite improvisation that slows an installation program down.
We check the glass build against the actual thermal, solar and acoustic requirements rather than accepting a specification at face value.
Edgework is controlled because edge damage initiates breakage that is always attributed to handling rather than to fabrication.
Racks are built and labeled by elevation to your glazing sequence, so crews unload what they need next rather than sorting a yard.
Edge work is finished to the grade the application needs, because a poor edge is where tempered and laminated glass eventually starts failing.
Insulated unit buildups are cross-checked against the thermal and solar numbers in the specification before the order goes into production.
Track Record
Client Feedback
Delivery sequenced by elevation changed how our crews worked. No stacks of glass waiting weeks, and the damage rate dropped with it.
They flagged that our acoustic specification would not reach the target and proposed an interlayer change. The completed building met the requirement.
Consistent dimensions across thousands of lites. Our glaziers stopped shimming and started installing.
Send it to GERARD PARICHE and we will confirm the makeup achieves your thermal, solar and acoustic targets before fabrication.
Site breakage replacements are expedited ahead of scheduled work.
Questions & Answers
Considerably. Coating position within an insulated unit changes thermal transmittance, solar heat gain and sometimes appearance. We confirm placement against the performance calculation, because a correctly specified coating on the wrong surface will not deliver the numbers the design relied on.
Through protective packaging on stillages, labeling by elevation and opening, and delivery sequenced to the glazing program. Glass that sits on site waiting for its elevation accumulates damage and occupies space, so sequencing is part of the service rather than a logistics afterthought.
Not necessarily. Acoustic performance depends on asymmetric glass thicknesses, cavity width and particularly the interlayer type. Acoustic interlayers achieve results that simply adding thickness does not, and the specification should reflect that rather than assuming mass alone.
Either. We produce shop drawings and coordinate them with framing dimensions, hole positions and edge treatments, or we fabricate to drawings you supply after reviewing them for dimensional and fabrication feasibility.
It is a controlled heating process that causes lites containing nickel sulfide inclusions to break in the plant rather than spontaneously years after installation. It is strongly advisable on tall, overhead or inaccessible facades, where a spontaneous breakage is both dangerous and extremely costly to replace.
Roller wave and overall bow are introduced during the tempering process. They are quality characteristics that can be controlled rather than unavoidable consequences, and they become very visible on a large reflective facade, which is why we monitor flatness.
Site breakage replacements are expedited ahead of scheduled work.
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Site breakage replacements are expedited ahead of scheduled work.
Projects & Case Studies
Curtain WallInsulated units with solar control coating were fabricated to verified performance targets, heat soak tested given the facade height, labeled by elevation and delivered in the glazing sequence. Field breakage and dimensional rework were both negligible.
View DetailsSpandrel GlassCeramic frit printed spandrel panels were colour matched to the vision glass appearance from the exterior, with durability suited to the exposure. Consistency across the facade was maintained across several delivery phases.
View DetailsAcoustic GlazingInterlayer and glass thickness combinations were selected against measured noise conditions rather than thickness alone. The installed glazing met the acoustic target that the originally specified makeup would have missed.
View DetailsStructural GlassIonoplast laminated glass with polished exposed edges and precise drilled fixings was fabricated to shop drawings coordinated with the structural fixings. Post-breakage retention requirements were satisfied by the interlayer selection.
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Shop Drawings
From a single shower screen to a curtain wall package, with shop drawings, edge quality, drilled and notched preparation and delivery sequenced to the installation program.
Projects & Case Studies
Curtain WallInsulated units with solar control coating were fabricated to verified performance targets, heat soak tested given the facade height, labeled by elevation and delivered in the glazing sequence. Field breakage and dimensional rework were both negligible.
View DetailsSpandrel GlassCeramic frit printed spandrel panels were colour matched to the vision glass appearance from the exterior, with durability suited to the exposure. Consistency across the facade was maintained across several delivery phases.
View DetailsAcoustic GlazingInterlayer and glass thickness combinations were selected against measured noise conditions rather than thickness alone. The installed glazing met the acoustic target that the originally specified makeup would have missed.
View DetailsStructural GlassIonoplast laminated glass with polished exposed edges and precise drilled fixings was fabricated to shop drawings coordinated with the structural fixings. Post-breakage retention requirements were satisfied by the interlayer selection.
View DetailsOur Advantages
Nickel sulfide suspect lites are removed in our plant rather than failing years later on an inaccessible facade.
Which surface carries the coating is confirmed against the performance calculation, since getting it wrong changes the result substantially.
Glass is labeled by elevation and opening and delivered when the crew needs it, not stacked on site accumulating damage.
Dimensional control is tight and consistent, which removes the per-lite improvisation that slows an installation program down.
We check the glass build against the actual thermal, solar and acoustic requirements rather than accepting a specification at face value.
Edgework is controlled because edge damage initiates breakage that is always attributed to handling rather than to fabrication.
Racks are built and labeled by elevation to your glazing sequence, so crews unload what they need next rather than sorting a yard.
Edge work is finished to the grade the application needs, because a poor edge is where tempered and laminated glass eventually starts failing.
Insulated unit buildups are cross-checked against the thermal and solar numbers in the specification before the order goes into production.
Our Services
Soft and hard coat low emissivity, solar control and reflective coated products selected against visible light transmittance, solar heat gain coefficient, thermal transmittance and exterior appearance. Performa
View DetailsHeat soak testing of tempered glass to identify and eliminate lites containing nickel sulfide inclusions before installation. Spontaneous breakage years after glazing is expensive and dangerous on tall or inacc
View DetailsDouble and triple glazed units with warm edge spacers, inert gas fill, controlled desiccant and dual seal construction, built with coating placement correct for the performance targeted. Which cavity surface ca
View DetailsTempering to safety glazing requirements and heat strengthening where higher strength is needed without full tempering fragmentation behavior, with flatness and roller wave controlled. Distortion and roller wav
View DetailsLamination with polyvinyl butyral, ionoplast and acoustic interlayers for safety, security, acoustic performance, structural glazing and post-breakage retention, including multi-ply and colored interlayer const
View DetailsShop drawing production, dimensional coordination with framing, labeling by elevation and opening, protective packaging, stillage supply and delivery sequenced to the glazing program. Glass delivered out of seq
View DetailsClient Feedback
Delivery sequenced by elevation changed how our crews worked. No stacks of glass waiting weeks, and the damage rate dropped with it.
They flagged that our acoustic specification would not reach the target and proposed an interlayer change. The completed building met the requirement.
Consistent dimensions across thousands of lites. Our glaziers stopped shimming and started installing.
Track Record
Send it to GERARD PARICHE and we will confirm the makeup achieves your thermal, solar and acoustic targets before fabrication.