Enhance your business’ curbside appeal with a modern, streamlined glass entryway. Whether you need one single door or need a complete structural makeover, you can count on Kern Glass to get the job done to your specifications. Our storefronts systems are constructed using aluminum and are designed to give the maximum satisfaction when it comes to the safety, durability and strength you require for your commercial glass storefront.

Curtainwall is the all-glass face of modern commercial architecture — and it’s the single most consequential decision on a building’s energy performance, daylight quality, acoustic comfort, and visual identity. Done right, a curtainwall reads as a continuous, weightless skin of glass; daylights the entire interior to the core of the floor plate; controls heat gain and loss to whatever performance target the project demands; and lasts 50+ years without leaking, fogging, or fading. Kern Glass designs, supplies, and installs both stick-built and unitized curtainwall systems for commercial, institutional, and high-end mixed-use projects across central and southern California.

When a project needs diffuse natural daylight without glare, hotspots, or unwanted heat gain — and wants it in a wall or roof panel that also delivers thermal performance, structural integrity, and a 20-year warranty — Kalwall translucent walls are the answer. Kern Glass is a factory-trained Kalwall installer with direct field experience on gymnasiums, schools, civic buildings, swimming pool enclosures, libraries, museums, manufacturing facilities, and full reroof retrofits.

Create greater aesthetic appeal to your business by adding a skylight. Natural light is the single biggest contributor to occupant satisfaction in any building. It improves mood, supports circadian rhythms, reduces electrical lighting load, and (per multiple research studies) measurably improves productivity and learning outcomes. For projects that need targeted daylight in specific locations — rather than full translucent wall systems — Kern Glass supplies and installs unit skylights, tubular daylighting devices, and custom architectural skylights.

A fire-rated opening is one of the highest-stakes elements in any commercial building — and one of the most commonly mis-specified, mis-installed, and mis-inspected. The entire glass + frame + hardware + gasketing + anchorage package must have been third-party tested as a complete unit and passed both UL and Intertek’s standards. Substituting a non-listed component anywhere in the assembly invalidates the rating — and what looked like a $200 cost savings on a single piece of glass becomes a red-tagged opening, a failed inspection, a rebuilt corridor, and an angry owner. Kern Glass supplies and installs listed fire-rated assemblies only, with full documentation, from SAFTI FIRST and Technical Glass Products (TGP) — the two manufacturers that lead the U.S. fire-rated glazing market.

A glass guardrail is the moment when a building shows off. Done well, it disappears — handing the entire view to whatever’s beyond it, dissolving the boundary between interior and exterior, between floor and air. Done poorly, it’s a wobbly, smudgy, conspicuously-bolted assembly that looks like a code-compliance afterthought and fails inspection on the first deflection test. The difference is engineering, hardware quality, glass specification, and field execution — all four. Kern Glass delivers all four.

Professional window film is one of the highest-leverage retrofit upgrades a commercial property can make. The same product that reduces ultraviolet transmission by 99% (saving fabric, artwork, merchandise, and inventory from sun-driven fading) can also reduce solar heat gain by 60–80% — measurable HVAC savings within the first cooling season — and reduce visible glare on monitors, signage, and merchandise by 50% or more. Kern Glass is an authorized installer of Madico Window Films — one of the premier commercial window film manufacturers in North America, with a complete product line covering solar control, decorative privacy, safety and security, and anti-graffiti applications.

Malfunctioning doors are a hazard. Kern Glass has got you covered! We offer repairs and adjustments for both commerical interior and exterior doors. Our skilled technicians will identify and fix the issue right away.