Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0393731219, Hardcover)

A guide to essential window design issues, technologies, and applications for designers, specifiers, and builders. Designing facades and selecting windows in commercial buildings requires 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, and technical considerations that drive window design decisions in commercial buildings. 50 b/w photographs, 200 b/w line drawings.