Windows Systems for High-Performance Buildings

John Carmody, Stephen Selkowitz, Eleanor Lee, and Darius Arasteh

Overview

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 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.

About the Author

John Carmody is an architect at the College of Architecture, University of Minnesota and lives in Minneapolis.

ISBN: 0-393-73121-9
June, 2003
356 pages; 50 photographs, 200 line drawings
Hardcover