Energy and environmental life-cycle analysis of advanced windows

Pw Griffiths, Pc Eames, Sng Lo and B Norton

Renewable Energy, 1996, vol. 8, issue 1, 219-222

Abstract: The environmental consequences of options for the manufacture, application, disposal, reuse and recycling, applicable to the full range of currently conceived advanced window systems, are discussed. Advanced window systems may incorporate, singly and in various combinations: evacuated contiguously-sealed glazing, electrochromics, thermochromics, photochromics, aerogels, xerogels, inert gas filled double glazings, low infra-red emittance coatings, diffractive daylight deflectors, holographic daylight deflectors refractive daylight deflectors, toughened glass.

Keywords: life-cycle analysis; advanced windows; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(96)88850-1

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