State-of-the-Art Highly Insulating Window Frames - Research and Market Review

SINTEF Building and Infrastructure State-of-the-Art Highly Insulating Window Frames – Research and Market Review Arild Gustavsen, SINTEF Building and Infrastructure, Bjorn Petter Jelle, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Dariush Arasteh and Christian Kohler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Project report 6 – 2007 This work is supported by the Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Building Technology, U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 and by the Research Council of Norway within the research project MOT – «Modern Wood Window Frames with Surface Treatment» (In Norwegian: Moderne trevindu med overflate-behandling).

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