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Window Systems for High-Performance Buildings

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Window Systems for High-Performance Buildings is a comprehensive handbook that addresses the complexities of window and faΓ§ade design for commercial buildings. It offers essential guidance on glazing selection alongside detailed performance data, focusing on energy efficiency, interior environment quality, technical aspects, and life-cycle cost factors that influence window design choices.
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A guide to essential window design issues, technologies, and applications for designers, specifiers, and builders.

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The challenge in designing facades and selecting windows in commercial buildings is balancing many issues and criteria. This fact-packed handbook outlines the basics of glazing selection and provides critical information and performance data on the energy efficiency, interior environment, technical, and life-cycle-cost considerations that drive window design decisions in commercial buildings.

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ISBN: 9780393731217

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 April 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Illustration: 50 photographs, 200 line drawings

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 287.0mm

Weight: 1523g

Pages: 400

About the Author

John Carmody, professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Building Research, University of Minnesota, has coauthored ten books, including Window Systems for High Performance Buildings. Stephen Selkowitz, who holds degrees in physics and environmental design, directs Windows and Daylight Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dariush Arasteh, who holds degrees in mechanical and civil engineering, is a staff scientist in the Windows and Daylighting Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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