With unmatched thermal performance and custom solar control, SeriousGlass helps reduce heating and cooling loads for buildings across climate zones, resulting in reduced energy consumption and savings on utility bills.

• SeriousGlass products maintain interior glass temperatures closer to interior air temperatures, allowing thermostat setpoint adjustments to minimize peak heating and cooling loads
• SeriousGlass’ advanced glazing system is customized and optimized based on your building’s unique characteristics to maximize savings
• According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 25% to 35% of energy wasted in buildings today is due to inefficient windows. Products powered by SeriousGlass can play a significant role in eliminating wasted energy and lowering energy costs

The Morristown Municipal Parking Authority (Morristown, New Jersey) realized Serious savings by reducing heating and cooling loads. In winter, super-insulating SeriousWindows windows enabled the building’s thermostats to be set up to 5 degrees lower than in a building with standard double or triple glazing.

SeriousGlass systems optimize the performance of the whole window for the maximum overall comfort of building occupants.

• SeriousGlass units achieve warmer interior glass temperatures in winter (and cooler in summer), which makes sitting and working near windows enjoyable
• SeriousGlass offers a full range of low to high solar heat gain packages, allowing for customized solar tuning based on building orientation to maximize thermal performance and guarantee occupant comfort
• The combination of excellent thermal performance, optimal solar control, high visible light transmission, 99.5% protection from UV, exceptional condensation resistance and comfortable interior glass temperatures make SeriousWindows products ideal solutions for any climate zone

The iWindow commercial retrofit system, installed in a Washington office building, created instant improvements in indoor comfort by raising the interior glass temperature by 10°F on a cold winter day.

Maximum daylight in the office environment has been proven to improve health and productivity. With SeriousGlass excellent thermal performance comes with no compromises on natural daylighting.

• Studies show that increased exposure to natural daylight reduces fatigue, improves sleep quality, increases productivity in the workplace, encourages positive moods, increases alertness and improves visual performance.
• SeriousGlass glazing products maximize daylighting by ensuring high transmittance of visible light through the glass while maximizing thermal performance of windows so that heating and cooling considerations do not decrease the use of windows in building design
• By achieving outstanding thermal performance without a third pane of glass, SeriousGlass avoids structural limitations imposed by a triple-pane approach

The Denver Zoo used SeriousGlass to create a glass canopy over a “tropical jungle” to maximize condensation resistance and thermal performance while maintaining extremely high light transmission for plant growth.

SeriousGlass units with suspended film systems eliminate the excess weight of a third pane of glass giving architects the freedom to design spaces with more glass.

• Lighter-weight glazing units remove the additional structural concerns that can be involved in a triple-pane design approach
• SeriousGlass glazing products also increase the life of the glass unit and hardware by removing the extra weight that can result in unnecessary wear and tear
• The customized solar control, with a full range of low to high solar heat gain packages, combined with 99.5% UV blockage allows architects to use large expanses of glass even in sensitive buildings like the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

The Virginia Air and Space Museum was able to maximize glass and daylight while maintaining solar control by customizing the solar heat gain in different parts of the building with SeriousGlass.