Commercial Glazier in Las Vegas

Call (702) 382 1400 to request a free estimate, or visit our contact page to send drawings and specs. We work out of 2825 E Fremont St in Las Vegas and have been on the same block since 1953. NV Contractor License #0004490A, C 8 Glass and Glazing.

A commercial glazier installs, replaces, and repairs the glass systems on commercial buildings. That covers storefronts, curtain walls, automatic doors, glass railings, fire rated assemblies, and shower partitions in offices, retail, medical, and hospitality. Silver State Glass has run this work out of Fremont Street in Las Vegas for 73 years. Most of our work is bid spec or design assist with GCs and architects across Clark County.

What a commercial glazier actually does

Residential glaziers swap dual pane windows and install shower doors. A commercial glazier is a different animal. The scope is wider, the systems are heavier, and the code load is real. On a single Las Vegas project we might field measure a 38 foot curtain wall, fabricate a fire rated lobby vestibule, install an aluminum storefront with low e tempered lites, hang a 12 foot frameless glass railing on a mezzanine, and tie everything back to the building structural steel.

The trade splits roughly into four buckets. New construction glazing is the bid spec work that comes off architect drawings. Tenant improvement work is the retrofit side where we pull old aluminum out of a 1970s strip center and replace it with code compliant Kawneer or YKK systems. Service work covers daily breakage, board ups, and emergency calls. Maintenance contracts cover the ongoing window cleaning, hardware adjustment, and seal replacement on portfolios that own multiple buildings. We run all four. That mix is rare in Las Vegas.

For GCs and property owners reading this who are vetting a glazing sub, the questions to ask are pretty short. Can the shop run a full curtain wall package, including takeoff, shop drawings, and field install. Does the shop carry an unlimited bid limit on the Nevada license. Is the C 8 classification current with the NSCB. How fast can they respond to a broken storefront at 2 AM. Those four answers tell you whether you are talking to a commercial outfit or a residential shop that does occasional commercial work.

Why a real commercial glazier matters on a Vegas job

Las Vegas is a brutal glazing market. Summer wall temperatures on a south facing storefront can hit 160 degrees. Monsoon wind events spike to 75 mph in August. Dust loading on horizontal mullions is constant. Glass that performs fine in Reno or San Diego fails inside two years on the Strip if the spec is wrong. A commercial glazier who has been pulling permits in this valley for decades knows which low e coating combinations actually hit code without baking the tenants in the afternoon, and which aluminum extrusions warp under the thermal cycle.

The code stack is also stricter than most clients realize. We pull permits against the 2018 IBC, the 2018 IECC with Nevada amendments, ASTM E330 for wind pressure, ASTM E331 for water penetration, and ANSI Z97.1 for safety glazing. Doors in path of egress need panic hardware. Glass in hazardous locations needs to be tempered or laminated. Spandrel panels need fire safing where they cross floor lines. A spec that misses any of these gets red lined at permit, which costs the GC weeks. We catch this at the takeoff stage. That alone has saved jobs we did not even win the bid on.

The other reason real commercial experience matters is logistics. A casino retrofit can mean working 11 PM to 5 AM through occupied gaming floors. A medical office build out needs a clean job site every morning before patients return. A retail tenant turn might give us 7 days from demo to grand opening. If the glazier cannot run that kind of schedule, the GC eats the delay. Our shop has been built around that pace since the 1990s, when we started doing turnaround work for the hotel groups on Las Vegas Boulevard.

How Silver State Glass approaches a commercial project

Most of our jobs follow the same five step arc. Takeoff and bid first. We read the drawings, do a quantity takeoff on every glass system, request shop pricing from Vitro, Guardian, or Cardinal depending on the spec, price the aluminum from Kawneer, YKK, EFCO, or Oldcastle, and submit a hard number with line item clarity. No vague allowances.

Step two is shop drawings and engineering. If the spec calls for a curtain wall, we produce stamped engineering for the wind load, anchorage, and structural silicone where needed. We coordinate the embed locations with the structural steel sub so the anchors land in concrete or steel, not in drywall. This is where most low bid glazing shops fail. They quote cheap, then come back during install asking for adders because the anchorage was not figured.

Step three is fabrication and procurement. Glass lead time in 2026 still runs 4 to 8 weeks for low e insulating units, longer for laminated safety glass and fire rated lites. We order early off the approved submittals. Aluminum is cut and finished at our 2825 E Fremont fabrication shop. We anodize or paint kynar in house when the spec calls for it.

Step four is field install. Our journeymen run a two person crew minimum for storefront, three to four for curtain wall with the swing stage or scissor lift. We carry our own boom equipment and do not rent unless the project demands a specialty reach. Every install gets a punch walk with the GC before signoff.

Step five is closeout and warranty. We hand over O and M manuals, hardware adjustment notes, shop drawing record sets, and a written warranty on labor and glazing. Manufacturer warranties pass through. We make a one year warranty walk a standard part of the contract because half the issues that surface on a new build show up in months 6 to 12.

For owners building a portfolio of properties in Clark County, we also write maintenance contracts. Quarterly inspections of door hardware, glazing seals, weatherstripping, and balance adjustments on sliding systems. That kind of contract is cheap relative to a single broken curtain wall lite at 2 AM, and it catches a lot of slow leaks before they become drywall problems.

Project types and applications

Most weeks our shop is running a mix of these categories at the same time.

Storefront and tenant improvement. Aluminum storefront systems are the workhorse of every retail strip, restaurant, medical office, and ground floor commercial space in Las Vegas. We field measure, fabricate, and install Kawneer 451T, YKK YES 45, and EFCO 403 systems most often. Replacements on legacy 1970s and 1980s frames are common in older retail centers on Charleston, Sahara, and Eastern.

Curtain wall and window wall. Mid rise office, hospitality, and medical buildings use stick built or unitized curtain wall systems for the building envelope. We bid both. Stick built is more flexible for smaller buildings. Unitized cuts schedule on high rise. We have run curtain wall up to 5 stories on local projects, and we know which engineers stamp in Nevada quickly.

Automatic and entrance doors. Sliding automatic doors, swing operators, revolving entrances, and ICU break out doors for hospitals. We install and service Stanley, Horton, and Record systems. Our service techs are AAADM certified for the annual inspection requirement. See our automatic doors page for more on this work.

Glass walls, partitions, and railings. Office buildouts increasingly want demountable glass partition systems for conference rooms and executive offices. We install Modernfold, NanaWall, and CRL systems. Frameless glass railings on mezzanines, stairs, and balconies are a growing category. Details on the partition work live on our glass walls page.

Specialty glazing. Fire rated assemblies for stairwells and lobbies, hurricane impact glass for casino vestibules, blast resistant systems for federal tenant spaces, and acoustic laminated glass for medical and law office suites. The specialty work is where margin lives for a commercial shop and where a residential glazier will not even pick up the phone.

Emergency board up and repair. Broken storefront at 11 PM on a Saturday. Vandalized casino entry on a holiday weekend. We run 24 hour service for commercial accounts and can be on site inside 90 minutes most of the time. Full details on response coverage are at our emergency glass repair page.

For the full company profile, project gallery, and credential set, see our Las Vegas glass company overview.

Credentials, license, and bid limit

NV Contractor License #0004490A under the C 8 Glass and Glazing classification. The license has been current with the Nevada State Contractors Board for the full run of the company. We carry an unlimited monetary bid limit, which means we can bid the full value of a project rather than splitting it among multiple subs. For most commercial GCs in Las Vegas, that bid limit is the threshold question on whether a glazing sub even gets a phone call back.

Insurance and bonding are kept current with the Nevada SCB compliance requirements and we issue COIs to GCs in 24 hours. Aaron Lyman is the qualified individual on the CMS and trade exams. Tera Hooiman is the President of record and Eric Hooiman is Treasurer. Ownership has changed hands a few times across the 73 year run, but the shop and the trade work have stayed continuous out of the same Fremont Street block since 1953. That kind of continuity is rare in the Las Vegas trades, where most glazing competitors are 10 to 20 years old at the most.

Materials and systems we run most often

On the aluminum side, the workhorse storefront brands in our shop are Kawneer, YKK AP, EFCO, and Oldcastle Building Envelope. Curtain wall is usually Kawneer 1600 Wall System, YKK YHC 300, or EFCO 5600. Doors are Kawneer 350, 500, and 560 heavy traffic series. For glass, Vitro Solarban 60 and Solarban 70XL are the low e workhorses for Las Vegas heat loads. Guardian SunGuard and Cardinal LoE 366 also see regular spec calls. Laminated safety glass for hazardous locations and impact spec is usually Saflex PVB or DuPont SentryGlas interlayer. Tempered glass is locally heat treated through valley fabricators. For coverage on energy spec, see our notes on energy efficient glazing on the commercial side.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a glazier and a glass company in Las Vegas?

A glazier is the licensed tradesperson who measures, fabricates, and installs the glass and the framing system. A glass company is the business entity that employs glaziers. In Nevada, the C 8 classification on the contractor license covers glass and glazing work. Silver State Glass holds NV Contractor License #0004490A and has run a full crew of journeymen glaziers and apprentices since 1953.

How much does a commercial storefront installation cost in Las Vegas?

Pricing depends on system, glass spec, opening size, and finish. As a rough order of magnitude, a basic aluminum storefront with clear tempered glass runs roughly $80 to $130 per square foot installed. Low e insulated systems with custom finishes run $140 to $220 per square foot. Curtain wall on a mid rise runs higher again. Final pricing comes from a takeoff against drawings. Call (702) 382 1400 and we can scope a real number off a plan set.

Does Silver State Glass do emergency commercial glass repair after hours?

Yes. We run 24 hour emergency service for commercial customers across Clark County. Our shop hours are Monday through Friday 7:30 AM to 4 PM, but the after hours line forwards to a tech on call. For a broken storefront, board up, or vandalized entrance, expect a response inside 90 minutes for most Las Vegas, Henderson, and North Las Vegas addresses.

What areas do you serve in Las Vegas?

Our commercial service area covers Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Summerlin, Paradise, Enterprise, Spring Valley, Boulder City, and Green Valley. We bid jobs anywhere in Clark County core, roughly a 35 mile radius from our Fremont Street shop.

Ready to talk to a real commercial glazier

Call (702) 382 1400 to discuss your project, or send drawings to our bids team through the contact page. We answer the phone with a real estimator, not a call center. NV Contractor License #0004490A, C 8 Glass and Glazing, unlimited bid limit. Family run since 1953 out of 2825 E Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV 89104.