It can be expensive to keep your business or home at the perfect temperature. Maintaining the recommended temperature demands excessive cooling and heating or exceptional insulation.
A solution of HVAC equipment and energy-efficient, smart building technology will give you maximum comfort in the most extreme weather.
Contrary to popular belief, glass is an energy-maximising material for buildings. Windows are responsible for approximately 50 per cent of heat loss in buildings, but they are accountable for around 90 per cent of heat gain.
Glass opens our interiors to the great world around us, delivering views and light inside. For Tewkesbury double glazing, contact a reputable Tewkesbury double glazing company.
Low-E Glass
In the past, buildings were fitted with shades and blinds in an effort to reduce heat transmission. The addition of caulking and stripping were intended to block expensive air leaks. These methods worked well but meant windows were not aesthetically pleasing or used functionally. A better solution was invented: low emissivity, or low-E glass.
Coated with nanoparticles, low-E glass blocks undesirable light spectrum types, such as infrared, while visible light passes through. This technology enables architects to work with glass uninhibited, creating large, elegant expanses of glass as outer walls.
Ultra-modern and energy-efficient glass buildings are proving increasingly popular. Glass skyscrapers are now dominating city landscapes across the globe.
Contemporary custom-built homes are now adorned with large walls of low-E glass, built and designed with energy efficiency in mind.
ENERGY STAR Windows
Not only reserved for large-scale buildings, energy-efficient glass technology has expanded into our homes.
As building and homeowners look to replace their windows during a renovation project, ENERGY STAR qualified windows reduce energy bills by an average of 23 per cent. This can really accumulate over the buildings life and increase its resale value.
In addition to saving money, you can rest assured that your new energy-efficient windows are also lessening your carbon footprint on the environment.
The Future of Energy-Efficient Glass
So what does the future hold for glass technology? Dynamic glass has been hailed as the next phase in energy-efficient glass innovation. In addition to the introduction of advanced glazing techniques such as triple panes with vacuums or glasses between them, manufacturers will invent new ways to battle energy inefficiency.
