Date: 17 July 2025
The Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) has updated a specification providing a quality assurance and diagnostic field water penetration check for fenestration products. , Quality Assurance and Diagnostic Water Leakage Field Check of Installed Storefronts, Curtain Walls and Sloped Glazing Systems, an FGIA document, is now available for purchase in the FGIA online store. This document was last updated in 2009.
鈥淭he purpose of AAMA 501.2 is to provide a quality assurance and diagnostic field water penetration procedure for fixed fenestration products,鈥 said Dan Johnson (), a leader of the FGIA Methods of Test for Exterior Walls Update Task Group. 鈥淎AMA 501.2 provides a method to check non-operable fenestration products and their installation during construction for water penetration resistance under controllable, reproducible, and appropriate conditions. The revised AAMA 501.2 adds clarity to the fenestration products included and excluded in the field check procedure.鈥
This field check procedure is intended to evaluate those joints, gaskets and sealant details in the fenestration product which are designed to remain permanently closed and watertight and are not sealed using weatherstrip or weatherseals.
, as well as other documents available from FGIA, may be purchased from the online store at the discounted member rate of $25 or the non-member price of $70.
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