What to look for in window insulation: a clear view of heat loss through glazing tells the difference between true insulating products and mere window treatments

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Window insulation is a key energy-saving tool, as well as providing noise-reduction, light control, weatherization, and privacy. Buyers should consider efficiency, appearance, ease of operation and storage, durability, maintenance and safety problems. Exterior shades or shutters, insulators between the glazings, and interior shades or shutters are the main types.

Lumber and other building materials, Usage, Equipment and supplies, Housing, Dwellings, Windows, Thermal insulation, Insulation (Heat)

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Designs for worship: everywhere we looked in our national survey, we found congregations turning to solar architecture for symbolic and practical reasons

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Sensitivity to community-leadership and stewardship roles has encouraged solar church design. Solar is easier in new buildings rather than retrofits. Proper zoning is important, with the sanctuary used far less than office space. Conservation and passive solar are cheaper than active solar.

Religious organizations, Case studies, Solar heating, Churches, Church buildings, Missions (Religion), Missions, Solar design, Passive, Passive solar design

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A design team's success with computers: from cost estimating to solar design, computers mean profitability for Milburn-Sparn

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Ski Milburn and Stephen Sparn's success in using computer-aided design in multi-family, Victorian renovation, and single-family housing and in Grand Junction energy-efficient shopping mall (Solarus Square). Use of polystyrene-steel-wire-mesh Solarcrete in house construction outlined.

Innovations, Finance, Design and construction, Architects, Computer aided design, Colorado, Shopping centers, Design, Homes and haunts, Boulder, Colorado, computer-aided design, Milburn, Ski, Sparn, Stephen, Troy, Bruce, Kauffman, Earl, family, Milburn-Sparn Energy Architects Inc.

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