For commercial glazing contractors
Take on more work without adding overhead first.
GlazierIQ expands what glazing contractors can do: training, drafting, fabrication, and engineered products, plus the tools, materials, and people that go with the work.
- LearnGlazing is free.
- Land the job first. Add overhead later.
- One team, one point of contact.
- Based in Michigan. Working across the US and Canada.
Built on four things
Everything you’d otherwise build in-house.
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01 Training
Free courses for onboarding new hires and cross-training the crew you already have.
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02 Drafting
Overflow and specialty shop drawings and engineering, delivered under MP’s name.
How drafting works -
03 Fabrication
Doors, storefront, curtain wall, and overflow work on a quote that holds unless the scope changes.
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04 Engineered Products
Aluminum sliding doors engineered and supplied as a finished product, so you can say yes to the scope you’d otherwise pass on.
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Who is GlazierIQ
One team, four things, and the work that goes with them.
GlazierIQ expands what glazing contractors can do. It is built on training, drafting, fabrication, and engineered products, the four things a contractor would otherwise have to build, hire, or buy before taking on bigger or different work, and it adds the tools, materials, hiring, and manufacturer partners that go with the work. Through LearnGlazing, MP Drafting, WestMetal Fabrication, and Pinnacle Engineered Products, GlazierIQ can provide one service or bring several together to solve a project-specific problem, so a contractor can say yes to the job first and add overhead later, if ever.
Growth usually gets stuck on one of these.
Crew
New hires learn on your senior guys’ time, and your best installer keeps getting pulled off the job to train them.
Drafting
The job needs a system or engineering your drafter hasn’t done, or he’s backed up for weeks.
Shop
Doors, storefront, or curtain wall you can’t cut, notch, and assemble in time, with overtime and scrap eating the margin.
Scope
A sliding door package on the drawings that you’d normally no-bid or sub out.
01 Training. LearnGlazing
Hire and train without pulling your best guy off the job.
LearnGlazing is free training for onboarding new hires and cross-training the crew you already have. 47 courses, 100-plus hours, AIA, NACC, and AGMT approved continuing education, and it costs nothing. For hiring, we run a job board built for the glazing trade.
02 Drafting. MP Drafting
Shop drawings at whatever level the job calls for, with the engineering handled.
MP Drafting scales to the job. A quick draw when the budget or the schedule is tight, the typical detail most commercial work needs, or advanced detailing when the conditions get complicated. Curtain wall, storefront, and the systems your drafting bench hasn’t handled before. MP handles the engineering through its engineering partners and delivers it as one package with MP’s name on it. You deal with MP, not the engineer.
- Quick drawBasic system details, generic conditions, faster lead times.
- Typical detailAccurate surrounding conditions, matched fasteners, coordination dimensions, clear notes.
- Advanced detailingDesign assist, 3D isometrics, studies for complex conditions, your standards or templates.
03 Fabrication. WestMetal Fabrication
Doors, storefront, curtain wall, and overflow, on a quote that holds.
WestMetal Fabrication handles doors, storefront, curtain wall, and overflow work on a quote that holds unless the scope changes, so the cost is the cost. In-house fabrication is a variable cost: overtime, scrap, machine time, whoever’s available that week. On a quote, it’s a fixed one, as long as the scope holds.
04 Engineered Products. Pinnacle Engineered Products
Say yes to the scope you’d otherwise pass on.
Pinnacle Engineered Products engineers and supplies barn-style aluminum sliding doors as a finished product: engineered for smooth operation, durability, and a clean architectural look, and ready to install. When the drawings call for a sliding door package, you don’t have to source, engineer, and build it from scratch, or pass on the job.
Your drafter and your fabricator are already talking to each other.
Because it’s one team, you have one point of contact instead of five vendors, and the drawings are made to be fabricated, not just to get approved. Use one piece or all of them; most contractors start with whichever bottleneck is costing them work right now.
Your point of contact is Bob Baumann: 248.514.7067
How it works
Start with whichever bottleneck is costing you work right now.
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Tell us what’s slowing you down.
Training, drafting, fabrication, or engineered products. One form, one conversation, and the follow-up comes from the brand that fits.
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Bid with a known number.
LearnGlazing is free. Drafting, fabrication, and products are quoted per project, and the quote holds unless the scope changes.
03
Land the job first.
Send us the piece your shop can’t cover, and decide later whether that capacity is worth building in-house. Use one piece or all of them.
Built by people who do this work
The numbers and the names.
47
Free courses on LearnGlazing
100+
Hours of training
AIA, NACC, AGMT
Approved continuing education
MP Drafting project spotlights
- Redford Rec and Wellness Center
- Barnett Branch Library
- Creek View High School
- Vanderbilt University, Garland Hall
- Columbus Zoo
- OSU Campbell Hall
- Medina Valley High School
LearnGlazing on Google
5.0
112 Google reviews
From glaziers, project managers, estimators, and new hires who took the free courses.
Read the reviewsI have been in the trade for over 20 years, I have recently moved into the office and this course has helped teach our newest hires learn what we do.
Questions we get
Straight answers.
LearnGlazing is free. Drafting, fabrication, and products are quoted per project, and the quote holds unless the scope changes.
For the job that’s bigger than your shop today. Land it, send us the piece you can’t cover, and decide later whether that capacity is worth building in-house.
Good. We’re for when your drafter is buried, or the job needs a system or engineering they haven’t done. Overflow and specialty, not replacement.
MP Drafting manages the engineering through its engineering partners and delivers it as one package. It comes back with MP’s name on it. You deal with MP, not the engineer.
Yes. Pinnacle Engineered Products engineers and supplies barn-style aluminum sliding doors as a finished product. Send us the drawings.
Yes. One company, one team. LearnGlazing, MP Drafting, WestMetal Fabrication, and Pinnacle Engineered Products are all us, and GlazierIQ is the name that ties them together.
Yes, we can supply materials along with our drafting and fabrication services.
It’s free. It’s how people find us, and some of them need drawings, fabrication, or products later.
Michigan, and we work with contractors across the United States and Canada.
Tell us what’s slowing you down