Pella®
102 Main Street
Pella, IA 50219
Tel: (641) 621-1000
Toll-Free: (888) 628-8433
Fax: (641) 621-6457
E-mail: commercial@pella.com
Website: http://www.pellacommercial.com
At Pella Corporation, we’re ready for your every challenge. Pella Corporation
is a world leader in the manufacturing of premium windows and doors. Long recognized
in the window industry for its technology and innovation, the company holds more
than 100 product and design patents.
Founded more than 80 years ago as the Rolscreen Company, Pella Corporation
was most widely known for its “disappearing” window screen. Early
in its history, Pella established a sales and service network that now reaches
every principal city in the United States and stretches internationally. All Pella
products are manufactured in the United States—either at its 1.65 million-square-foot
plant in Pella, IA or in one of many other locations across the US.
Partnering with architects and general contractors.
Pella Corporation has demonstrated its strong commitment to the building industry
through the establishment of numerous programs to promote successful partnerships.
Protecting our natural resources. A significant part of manufacturing quality
wood windows and doors is having a respect for the materials used to create them.
That’s why Pella is committed to continually searching for better ways to
preserve and responsibly use these precious resources. From replenishing its wood
resources and recycling to funding local and national environmental programs,
it’s a stewardship Pella has proudly practiced since its beginning in 1925.
Through innovative production technologies, such as high tech laser scanning
and finger jointing, Pella ensures that the wood delivered to our plants is utilized
efficiently—down to the smallest scrap. What can’t be used in our
window and door products is recycled and used in products such as animal bedding.
As a result, we eliminate unnecessary waste.
Our highly qualified Pella Commercial architectural consultants are ready to provide full window and
door technical support to help you execute your project efficiently at every stage, from schematic
design to project closeout – on time and within budget requirements:
- Initial consultation
- Performance analysis
- Code compliance
- Budgets
- Design assistance and implementation
- Assistance with green building requirements and LEED® certification
- Custom product design
- Specifications, product mockups and samples
- CAD details and installation shop drawings
- Laboratory and field testing
- Field measurements
- Flexible installation options and/or on-site installation support
From the inception of your project, Pella architectural consultants can help you keep project costs
on track by providing detailed window and door budgets during the design development and working drawing
phases.
Pella Commercial offers design and specifying professionals Design Drawing and Shop Drawing programs
that specifically address each project’s level of complexity. Also, preliminary design drawings
are available during the design development and working drawing phases of the project. Complete with
recommended installation details, these drawings will reduce your research time and can be sent to
you in an electronic format so that they can easily be plugged into your working drawings.
Pella’s installation shop drawings provide a common document that communicates the design intent
of the architect/specifier to the builder, installer, Pella representative, order entry personnel and
delivery personnel.
Our shop drawings provide total installation solutions customized to the specific wall specifications
and detailed installation sections with flashing, sealant, reinforcing and attaching requirements.
If requested, Pella can also provide floor plan and building elevations to help locate the window at
the job site.
Pella matches the appropriate level of drawings to your project so that you receive the information
that best serves your needs.
Your Pella architectural consultant will also visit the project site to offer initial product selection
advice, determine time- and cost-effective installation methods, measure openings and provide replacement
or renovation assessments.
Your Pella architectural consultant will provide the information you need to write window and door
specifications that help eliminate additional costs resulting from redundancies and contradiction, which
often require addenda or change orders. Your consultant can help you make the specifications as competitive
or proprietary as you wish.
Go to www.pellacommercial.com for Computer-Aided Design [CAD] details in both .dwg and .dxf formats
and Pella guide specifications in the three-part Construction Specifications Institute [CSI] format.
Proprietary and PRODUCT MASTERSPEC™ versions of the specifications are available.
As an AIA/CES Registered Provider Charter Member since 1995, Pella Corporation is committed to developing
quality learning activities in accordance with AIA/CES and Health/Safety/Welfare (HSW) criteria. Since
1995, Pella consultants have presented more than 6,000 programs to over 53,000 architects. In 2006,
Pella was the first Registered Provider to receive the AIA’s highest five-star rating for its
continuing education programs.
Pella’s architectural consultants can present continuing education programs at your office,
or you can take one of four distance learning programs available at www.pellacommercial.com. We have
also partnered with many AIA and CSI components on programs at local, state, regional, and national
meetings and conventions.
Pella’s programs are typically one hour in length, so architects receive one Learning Unit and
one hour of Health/Safety/Welfare (HSW). Program length can be adjusted to fit other time frames as
well. Designers, specifiers and project architects benefit most from the content of these programs.
Please contact your local Pella architectural consultant for more information about these programs.
Over our 80 year history, Pella Corporation has established the most rigorous
and comprehensive quality assurance and testing program in the industry. We remain
the only manufacturer to incorporate online testing for air infiltration compliance
into the manufacturing process.
Our multimillion dollar testing laboratory is one of the largest and most extensive
in the industry. We are continually developing more sophisticated test equipment
and procedures to ensure that existing products and proposed modifications meet—and
surpass—industry performance standards.
- Xenon and UV Exposure. Simulates exposure to the sun or UV rays. After six
weeks products are checked for color fade, gloss loss, and material property changes.
- Acid Salt Fog Test. Tests corrosion resistance of painted aluminum, plated
steels and hardware using imitation acid rain or salt fog.
- Humidity Test. Exposes products to 100% relative humidity for four weeks.
Products are checked for paint adhesion, mold and mildew on wood.
- Ozone Test. Accelerates the oxidation process with four days of five-parts-per-million
ozone, high humidity and high temperatures. (Under these conditions, a rubber
band will crumble to dust after one day.) Products are checked for paint discoloration,
gloss loss and material property changes.
- Packaging Test. Tests packaging methods—products are dropped and vibrated
in order to simulate shipping. Products are checked for dents, cracks and loose
fasteners.
- Door Cycle Test. Cycles doors open/close lock/unlock 100,000 times. Doors
are checked for hinge wear and weather strip deterioration.
- Double Hung Cycle Test. Cycles double hung windows open/close lock/unlock
6,000 times. Windows are checked for jambliner and balance cord wear, and weather
strip deterioration.
- Casement Cycle Test. Cycles casement windows open/close lock/unlock 10,000
times. Windows are checked for hinge wear, weatherstrip deterioration and locking
forces.
- Tensile Tester. Tests for fastener strength and glue bond strength in tensile
and shear.
- Insulating Glass (IG) Accelerated Weather Test. Exposes IG to severe weather
conditions. Accelerates test so years of weathering can be accomplished in months.
- Thermal Stress Test. Tests the performance of windows and doors in temperatures
ranging from -40 degrees F to 160 degrees F.
- Frost-Point Test. Tests the frost point of IG (the point at which condensation
forms inside two panes of glass).
- Thermal Test. Tests condensation and frost resistance, and measures U-value.
U-value is the ability of the product to insulate—a lower U-value equates
to better insulation.
- Air-Water-Structural Test. Air component simulates a 25 mph wind and measures
the air leakage through the product. Water component simulates an 8 inch per hour
rain and a 30 to 60 mph wind (depending on the product), and tests for water leakage.
Structural component simulates an 80 to 200 mph wind in positive and negative
directions (depending on the product) and tests for structural failure.
- Severe Moisture Environment Test. Exposes windows and doors to high humidity,
high temperature, rain cycles and wind pressure.
- Hurricane Impact and Wind Load Test. Positive and negative pressure is cycled
to simulate the wind of a hurricane. Depending on the product type, tests may
vary according to code requirements.
- High-Speed Camera. Captures performance details during tests for hurricane
impact, structural performance and process checks. Can record an event at 1000
frames per second.
- Infrared Camera. Tests more than 65,000 different temperature points with
the world’s most sensitive commercially available camera (similar to the
type of detector used in Stinger missiles).
In addition to factory testing of Pella products, we work closely with specifying
professionals to design and conduct performance tests on unique products and configurations.
Our in-house testing can be monitored by Pella professionals, representatives
chosen by you, or independent laboratory engineers. We can also assist by coordinating
outside testing programs.
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