Window Systems for High-Performance Buildings (Hardcover)

Stephen Selkowitz

ISBN 10: 0393731219 / ISBN 13: 9780393731217

Published by WW Norton & Co, New York, 2004

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Hardcover. 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. A guide to essential window design issues, technologies, and applications for designers, specifiers, and builders. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Window Systems for High-Performance Buildings (Hardcover)
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393731219
• ISBN 13: 9780393731217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A guide to essential window design issues, technologies, and applications for designers, specifiers, and builders.

The challenge in designing facades and selecting windows in commercial buildings is balancing many issues and criteria. This fact-packed guide 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. 50 photographs, 200 line drawings

About the Authors

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.