If there is any good news this quarter for the glass curtain-wall and window-wall sector, it is only that things probably can’t get much worse. That’s what glazing contractors, owners and architects are saying this spring as prices for glass-wall systems continue to tank.
Per square foot, window-wall and curtain-wall prices are down as much as 10% over already low prices at this time last spring, say glaziers across the country. “They stink,” says Anthony Callas, preconstruction manager at Lake Forest, Calif.-based Heinaman Contract Glazing Inc., about the current prices for standard window wall and curtain wall.