I know I’m speaking on behalf of everyone locally when I say how thrilled I am that Las Vegas is getting a hockey team! As head of the Giroux Glass, Inc. Operations team that worked on the glass in the T-Mobile Arena, we had some advance notice that for once, it wasn’t a huge gamble to say there was a good chance of seeing hockey in our desert city. We were simultaneously so eager and convinced it would happen. We got a call from MGM International in March of 2015 and immediately placed Giroux Glass on the waiting list for season [...]

“Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it . . . ”  Giroux Glass has made great strides in making safety an integral part of our operational plan, both in the field and in our office. We’ve done it to the extent that we can tout an impressive EMR of .61 in CA. and .77 in NV. This alone supports the fact that companies that put safety first can be the most successful. The PENTA Building Group held their 9th Annual Safety Kick-Off Meeting in Los Angeles on Wednesday, January 20th (attended by Nataline and Bob Burkhammer), and [...]

In case you’re looking for something fun and a little adventurous to do this summer, you may want to keep the Grand Canyon’s transparent, glass bridge – the Grand Canyon Skywalk – in mind for your vacationing pleasure. The scenic attraction turned eight this year, as March 28, 2015 marked the 8th anniversary of its grand opening. Flashback to twelve years ago, in the period from 2003 to 2007, when Giroux Glass proudly began installing the 83,000 pounds of glass used to build the bridge and make it the prominent attraction and engineering masterpiece that it is today. The Skywalk is a 70-foot, U-shaped, cantilevered system (a structure that projects horizontally into space, [...]