Energy efficient windows will make your home more comfortable, dramatically reduce your energy costs and help to create a brighter, cleaner and healthier environment.In addition to this they lower HVAC costs and helps in increasing light inside your home.Also these windows prevent furniture and carpet colour fading.
2. “ Energy efficiency is a way of managing and
restraining the growth in energy consumption.
Something is more energy efficient if it delivers
more services for the same energy input, or the
same services for less energy input.”
Energy Efficiency - An Overview
4. A Guide to Energy Efficient
Windows
Energy efficient windows will
make your home more
comfortable, dramatically reduce
your energy costs and help to
create a brighter, cleaner and
healthier environment.
All properties lose heat through
their windows. But energy-
efficient glazing keeps your home
warmer and quieter.
5. Can Energy Efficient Windows be
the right choice for your Home?
With increasing concern about the forecasts for
colder winter this year, many of the US people are
worried about the sorring cost of energy bills.
If you are a homeowner and worried about the rising
cost of the heating bills and interested in exploring
ways to ensure that your energy bill should stay on
track, energy efficient windows can be major factor
in your home that could help you do just that.
8. Design Considerations
New window products and
technologies have changed
the performance of windows
in a radical way.
Issues such as climate,
orientation, shading, and
window area all effect the
energy performance, but
human factor issues such as
access to fresh air, daylight,
and natural views impact the
comfort of a home.
9. Measuring Performance
Heat flows through window in three ways:
Conduction
Convention
Radiation
Three energy performance characteristics of
windows are:
Insulating value.
Heat gain from solar radiation.
Infiltration.
10. Technologies
The overall performance of any window is
determined by the complete window assembly.
Smart windows automatically respond to the climate
of the place.The optical properties are achieved
through electromagnetic glazings.
The energy performance of a window with advanced
glazings can transform energy liability of the
buildings to energy assets resulting in longer-term
environmental benefits due to reduced energy
consumption.
11. How to choose Right windows for
your home?
Factors to check for:
Low-e-glass
Gas is filled between double panes of glass
Ensure that no metal is used
UPVC and composite frames are used
Check energy rating of your window which
measures energy saving efficiency.