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Wayland Union Middle School: Wayland Michigan: Modeled after a "village" concept, Wayland Union Middle School was designed with the primary goal of creating a highly effective learning environment. In order to minimize janitorial maintenance and safety concerns, the design team specified windows with Pella's exclusive between-the-glass commercial blinds. The tilt-only window treatments have no room-side cords,...; Tags: Construction, Pella, window, wall, team, benefit, environment; Case studies
Yorkhill 'Ronald McDonald' Family House: A 24-bedroom, three-storey building, designed and built by Britspace Modular Building Systems provides much needed accommodation for parents of children at a Glasgow hospital. The steel modular design complemented traditional Glasgow architecture and included a curved frontage. The elevation also demonstrates the flexibility of the modular system to accommodate a...; Tags: Corus Group, Glasgow, accommodation, window; Case studies
Generac Helps Keep the Heat on: Ceralox's product is more than 99.9% pure, which is essential for the demanding requirements of making such diverse products as synthetic gems (clear sapphire and ruby), crystal watch faces, laser optic devices, computer chip substrates, synthetic hip joints, fluorescent and sodium lights, orbiting satellite windows, and bar code scanners. Ceralox...; Tags: Semiconductors, PRODUCTIVITY, Network technology, computer chip, laser, satellite, computer, chip, window; Case studies
Military Base Becomes Newest Community Along Chicago's North Shore: Since the early 1980s, military bases across the country have been decommissioned, leaving communities in fear of the potential economic impact. After the base was decommissioned in 1993, four developers joined forces to create the first new community along Chicago's North Shore in more than 100 years. As part of...; Tags: Construction, Chicago, window; Case studies
Marvin windows and Doors Case Study: Tuxedo Park Tuxedo Park, NY, USA: Overlooking Tuxedo Lake, this custom-designed home is as spectacular as its hill-top location. The house is actually constructed on the site of a previous home that burned to the ground in the 1920s. Wood windows were the perfect choice for this French Chateau-style house. And Marvin Windows and Doors were...; Tags: Construction, Middleware, Enterprise software, Marvin Windows and Doors, BEA Tuxedo, window; Case studies

Energy: The article describes about Heating & AC Systems. In order to provide the greatest amount of daylight penetration yet minimize solar heat gain, large windows were chosen?7 feet high (2.1 m) in a 9-foot (2.7 m) ceiling?as well as high visible-light transmission glass (0.40 and 0.66) with a good shading...; Tags: Construction, Telecom & Utilities, U.S. Department of Energy, natural gas, window, high-performance; Case studies
Marvin windows and Doors Case Study: Belli Residence Wadsworth, Illinois: Jim Belli is proud to follow his father's distinguished footsteps as an architect and visionary. The design for the second floor bedroom required windows that were up to 12 feet tall and made with a single sheet of glass. In addition, Belli's interior design demanded solid wood that could be...; Tags: Construction, Marvin Windows and Doors, interior design, window, wall; Case studies
Marvin windows and Doors Case Study: Sheraton Palace San Francisco, California, USA: The Sheraton Palace Hotel has been one of San Francisco's most beloved institutions. A 27-month restoration involved every effort to preserve the details of the original design of this hotel, including the replacement of 600 aging windows. Marvin Windows and Doors was chosen because of their extensive experience and their...; Tags: Construction, Marvin Windows and Doors, window; Case studies
Marvin windows and Doors Case Study: Oldenberg Brewery Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, USA: The Oldenberg Brewery combines new construction with the look of 19th-century industrial architecture. Its red brick exterior with limestone accents houses a working brewery, a festival hall, and a brewpub with two kitchens. When it was time to choose a window manufacturer, the architect went straight to Marvin Windows and...; Tags: Construction, brewery, Marvin Windows and Doors, window; Case studies
Marvin windows and Doors Case Study: Montgomery County Courthouse Hillsboro, Illinois, USA: The new structure at Montgomery County courthouse needed to blend with the historical surroundings. The county single-sourced Marvin because of their ability to provide custom clad wood windows in numerous unique sizes that fit the historical criteria of the project, yet still remained operable. Marvin equipped each of the two...; Tags: Construction, Marvin Windows and Doors, courthouse, window, wall; Case studies
Marvin windows and Doors Case Study: Magna International, Inc. Aurora, Ontario, Canada: Magna is an automobile parts manufacturer - one of the world's largest and most diversified automobile suppliers. To highlight its building's majestic design, Magna needed exceptional windows. The building owners chose pairs of Marvin's signature Case master windows crowned with Awning Transoms - all made with a special green-tinted glass....; Tags: Construction, Marvin Windows and Doors, window; Case studies
Fort Smith Public Schools-Fort Smith, Arkansas: Modernizing Older School Buildings With PACT: The Fort Smith School System has a stable enrollment and schools that date from 1908 to the 1980s. Many of the older schools have boiler heating systems and window air conditioners. The goal of this project was to bring contemporary standards of comfort and efficiency to school buildings. The project...; Tags: Construction, American Standard Inc., Arkansas, HVAC, window; Case studies
Marvin windows and Doors Case Study: Green Brier, Lincoln Park Chicago, Illinois: The Commodore and the Green Brier buildings in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago were both built in 1900 and have been condominiums since 1984. The hundred-year-old windows had never been replaced. With many of residents of this neighborhood and other preservationists developing a passion for maintaining the turn-of-the-century style...; Tags: Construction, Marvin Windows and Doors, window, team; Case studies
Great Bridge Middle School South: Chesapeake, Virginia: When Great Bridge Middle School South was ready for a complete building upgrade, one thing that was certainly considered was the added worth and cost of an air conditioning system. The purpose of the HVAC upgrade was to replace the original steam boiler system and the few window air conditioners...; Tags: Construction, Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium, HVAC, window; Case studies
Operable windows for Offices: This paper discusses the operable windows for offices. Most new office buildings have fixed windows. Most building designers avoid the use of operable windows because if windows are left open, the building HVAC system could experience an unduly high heating or cooling load. Furthermore, operable windows are more expensive than...; Tags: Construction, window, HVAC; White papers
Low-Conductivity window Frames: This article discusses about the low conductivity window frames. A window or curtain-wall framing system constructed from materials with low thermal conductivity in order to reduce heat loss. The use of low-conductivity window frames will reduce energy use in all types of buildings. Apartment buildings and commercial buildings with punched...; Tags: Construction, window, wall; White papers
Inert Gas window Fills: This paper encapsulates and gives information on inert gas window fills. Most windows have a sealed glazing unit: two or more lites of glass that are sealed around the perimeter to prevent the transfer of air and moisture through the window cavity. The gas which fills the inter-glazing cavity affects...; Tags: Construction, fill, window; White papers
Switchable Glazings: This paper discusses on Switchable glazing which basically have two states: colored and bleached. In the colored state, light and solar heat is reflected from the window, and in the bleached state, light and heat are transmitted through a window. The best known switchable glazing is photochromic glazing in which...; Tags: Construction, window; White papers
Cardinal Glass Case Study: Windrose: The most difficult regions to cool in the United States are the South and Gulf coast. These subtropical areas sport summer temperatures well into the 90's and a high relative humidity. This creates special requirements in thermal cooling of homes and buildings. If the building's air conditioner is oversized to...; Tags: Construction, fossil fuel, window; Case studies
Mr.Slim Takes to the Mat a window Unit at Maria's Picture Place in Historic Annapolis: More like a fine art gallery than a frame shop, Maria's Picture Place struggled for years with an ancient window air conditioning unit over the front door of her custom frame shop located in a 100-year-old former residence in historic Annapolis. That old unit was more than obnoxious; it was...; Tags: Construction, Mitsubishi Corp., window, wall, handheld, wireless; Case studies