Inspector Gadget
Registered User
Greetings fellow denizens of the thawing north.
Our office is dealing with a fascinating matter of a glass installer using DOT/automotive safety glass in guards, which isn't allowed prescriptively by Code. The installer and the supplier - a member of a nation-wide chain of familiar name - states that the kind of glass we want (CAN/CGSB 12.1 standard or its ANSI Z97.1 equivalent) is rare/doesn't exist/hasn't been used in years and that the other stuff (ANSI Z26.1 auto glass) has "been used for years" and is "accepted everywhere" but here, because we're that sort of mean/evil folk, I guess.
Have any of you folks elsewhere had a similar problem? Asking for a friend.
FYI, we've basically told the responsible party to either (a) replace with glass that is Code-compliant prescriptively, (b) replace with some other code-compliant assembly or (c) provide us an Alternative Solutions proposal.
We can find no statements of equivalence anywhere, incl. the CCMC database.
Our office is dealing with a fascinating matter of a glass installer using DOT/automotive safety glass in guards, which isn't allowed prescriptively by Code. The installer and the supplier - a member of a nation-wide chain of familiar name - states that the kind of glass we want (CAN/CGSB 12.1 standard or its ANSI Z97.1 equivalent) is rare/doesn't exist/hasn't been used in years and that the other stuff (ANSI Z26.1 auto glass) has "been used for years" and is "accepted everywhere" but here, because we're that sort of mean/evil folk, I guess.
Have any of you folks elsewhere had a similar problem? Asking for a friend.
FYI, we've basically told the responsible party to either (a) replace with glass that is Code-compliant prescriptively, (b) replace with some other code-compliant assembly or (c) provide us an Alternative Solutions proposal.
We can find no statements of equivalence anywhere, incl. the CCMC database.