Our best, most energy efficient windows are Serious Windows~

Saving Energy Means Saving Money

Not only does consuming less energy give the warm feeling about making a contribution to good environmental stewardship, it also gives you a good feeling each time you go to the bank. With energy costs climbing, highly effective windows installed in your business or home can quickly pay for themselves by decreasing your utility bills.
Serious Windows Products

Serious Windows are the most energy-efficient residential windows on today’s market. Homeowners could save many thousands of dollars over the length of their time in their homes.

Windows are the #1 source of cooling and heating energy loss in homes. Serious Windows can generate significant heating and cooling savings by significantly increasing the R-Value performance for energy-efficiency, which make them a brilliant home-improvement investment.

Our homes and offices- the environment that man built, are accountable for 52% of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide compared to only 9% for automobiles and light trucks.

We plan to cut that number by re-engineering common products that use or lose the most energy.

Energy-Saving Windows

Windows represent the single biggest opportunity for improvement. 39% of all emissions are tied to building operations, with 38% of that for cooling and heating. Up to 40 percent of that energy and cost literally goes out the window. The wasted energy results in over 250 million tons of emissions per year.

Today’s top quality, dual-pane commercial or residential windows are usually R-1 to R-3. This number is significantly lower than a typical R-13 wall.

Serious Windows deliver true, full frame window performance from R-5 to R-11. This performance is up to 4 times higher than top brands, and ENERGY STAR® requirements. The dramatic reduction in power bills provides fast payback.

Serious Windows in Action-

Serious Windows and The Empire State Building-

An Iconic Example of Energy Retrofit Viability

Today, one of the world’s most famous buildings is undergoing a major sustainability retrofit to become a leading example of economic and environmental revitalization. Built during the Great Depression, this American Icon, once designed to be the world’s tallest building, will become one of the most energy efficient commercial buildings in the United States. The skyscraper will be more energy efficient than 90% of all office buildings, using half the energy per square foot of an average building.

A sustainability team of experts have joined forces to retrofit the Empire State Building using an innovative design process and state-of-the-art tools with one key goal in mind: to determine the most cost-effective measures that produce the most impactful energy-saving results. This ground-breaking process is intended to serve as a model for other owners of existing multi-tenanted office buildings around the world.

Chosen as one of eight individual measures, Serious Materials will upgrade the 6,500 dual pane windows in the Empire State Building by reusing all existing glass and creating super-insulating glass units in a dedicated processing space located onsite in the building. The integrated energy efficiency upgrades are targeted to:

• Reduce energy use by 38%
• Save $4.4 million per year in energy costs
• Save 105,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide over the next 15 years, equivalent to the annual emissions of 17,500 cars.
  (Source: SolveClimate.com)
• Pay for themselves in 3 years