The House of Commons Conservation Project

We recently completed a two year conservation of the stained glass windows in the Canadian Parliament’s House of Commons.

Client
Canadian Parliament

Year
01/01/2015

The House of Commons conservation project included:

Cleaning and re-leading of existing windows

Integrating replacement glass, made with carefully-matched handmade glass painted with kiln fired vitreous enamel

Repairing glass using museum quality epoxies and back-plated non-glare glass

Providing before, during and after documentation of the entire scope of work

Alberta

Restoring the House of Commons windows

In order to maintain the look of the Chamber during the months it took to conserve the panels, TG manufactured and installed photographic facsimiles:

10mm thick replacement panels were made with digitally printed, kiln-fired ceramic frit on low iron, tempered glass

These were laminated onto low-iron acid-etched glass diffuser panels

The panels were installed into the stone reglets with custom laser-welded steel framing members and custom extruded lead/antimony/tin alloy glazing channels.

The East House of Commons Clerestory Windows - British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario

Saskatchewan

Removing the House of Commons Clerestory facsimiles

Manitoba

Ontario