Top 10 Green Building Product
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11/02/2008
Inline Fiberglass Ltd. is pleased to announce that Alpen Fiberglass Windows have just been recognized by BuildingGreen, Inc. and included in the list of 2007 Top-10 Green Building Products. Alpen Fiberglass Windows use pultruded fiberglass lineals and Window Systems by Inline Fiberglass Ltd.Chicago, IL, November 8, 2007—BuildingGreen, Inc., publisher of the GreenSpec(r) Directory and Environmental Building News(tm), today announced the 2007 Top-10 Green Building Products. This sixth annual award, announced at the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild Conference in Chicago, recognizes the most exciting products drawn from additions to the GreenSpec Directory and coverage in Environmental Building News. and will be installed at an Antarctic research station in 2008, have three suspended films (each with low-e coatings on both sides) and provide R-20 center-of-glass insulating value (unit R-value of 10, U-factor 0.10). What makes this products GREEN? · Building components that reduce heating and cooling loads LEED Credit relevance: · EA Prerequisite 2 — Minimum Energy Performance · EA Credit 1 — Optimize Energy Performance A longtime innovator in the window industry, Alpen Energy Group sets the bar for energy performance with its high-performance fiberglass windows. Alpen uses a combination of suspended low-emissivity (low-e) Heat Mirror films, low-e coatings on glass, low-iron glass to increase visible light transmittance, low-conductivity gas fill (including krypton and xenon), pultruded fiberglass frames insulated in vacuum silica aerogel packets, and low-conductivity glazing spacers to provide 1-3/8"-thick Alpenglass windows with a wide range of properties to meet different needs. Their highest performing windows, which were installed on north-facing walls at the Rocky Mountain Institute in 2007 The majority of the company’s products are used in projects in which different glazings are used for different wall orientations. Alpen provides windows for both commercial and residential applications