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Mar. 14--Some people don't do windows.
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DOE hopes to make energy-efficient windows more economical through volume purchases.
Energy efficiency in home improvement highlights the president’s agenda.
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Discover tactics that are guaranteed to work and won’t break the bank.
A selection of sustainable products, including ventilation fans, thin-film solar roofing, low-flow faucets, and energy monitoring.
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Majority of respondents believe they would benefit from a product-based green certification program for fenestration.
The way that door and window products qualify for tax credits has changed. Here's what you need to know.
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Heat Mirror inventor to manufacture its own brand of insulated glass.
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Window maker rehires 110 recently laid-off workers.
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President Obama signs stimulus plan into law, includes up to $1500 tax credit only for windows with .30 u-value or lower. All windows Cardinal Builders offer meet or exceed requirements to earn tax credit. Click here for more information.
Dominick Tringali Architects sets new standards for affordable, high-performance homes.
How to avoid the five most common errors builders make when it comes to energy, health, and resource efficiency.
In today's slow housing market, the one bright spot is decidedly green. Everywhere you look, green building is grabbing the attention of otherwise cautious home buyers.
The Department of Energy (DOE) is changing Energy Star criteria for windows by remapping climate zones and tightening requirements by region. The Energy Star label was designed to help consumers recognize efficient products. But, today, too many windows meet the requirements, and some regions have even stricter codes than Energy Star, the DOE says.
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Serious Materials, which recently acquired window innovator Alpen Energy Group, is tackling the wall’s most inefficient component with a new line of windows boasting unit R-values of 5 to 15. The company achieved this level, which is significantly higher than the R-2.5 to R-3 of a typical double-pane, low-E window, by reinventing the glass, the spacers, and the frame, says CEO Kevin Surace.
You can't gauge the truth of an opinion by the frequency of its repetition. Exhibit A: Builders' opinions concerning energy, insulation, heating, and cooling. A fair percentage of these beliefs — derived in part from product marketing, obsolete recommendations from "experts," and oft-repeated tales heard at lumberyards — prove upon examination to be half-truths or outright misconceptions. But like Whac-a-Mole pests, they just keep popping up.
The decision to specify energy-efficient windows in your new homes or remodeling projects is a relative no-brainer; in fact, they’ve long since passed mainstream status given energy codes, local requirements, and buyers’ awareness and demand for more efficient products. Energy Star–rated windows, which include low-E glazings and meet a certain energy-efficiency threshold, now make up more than half of the window market, according to the Department of Energy.
Today a working knowledge of daylighting needs to be part of every lighting designer's skill set. But in fact, Daylighting is a broad term that encompasses many methods and techniques. This article explains some of the fundamental principles of daylighting with windows and clerestories, aptly termed Sidelighting, along with a set of important strategies.
The pleasure afforded by a lovely view has always come at the expense of thermal efficiency, glare, and compromised security, a meager tradeoff for the many favorable attributes that windows afford. They frame scenes of the natural and manmade environment, and they let natural sunlight permeate our lives. But they also impose the need for elaborate draperies or blind systems to allow privacy, mitigate glare, and prevent heat from escaping in winter and getting trapped in summer.
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During its seven years as an ENERGY STAR partner, Parkersburg, W. Va.-based Simonton Windows has seen a 25 percent increase in requests for products meeting ENERGY STAR guidelines according to a recent company statement.