Window Systems for High-Performance Buildings

by John Carmody, Stephen Selkowitz, Eleanor S. Lee

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

400 pages, Hardcover

First published December 15, 2003