Jumeirah Village Triangle
The streets here run on a triangle rather than a grid, and the practical effect is that one house type ends up facing every point of the compass. Two identical villas a street apart want different glass: one takes low morning sun across an open plot, the other bakes from the middle of the afternoon until dusk, and the plan on paper says nothing about which is which. So the specification here is written from the bearing our surveyor records in each room, and an owner with several addresses gets a drawing per orientation instead of one for the lot. The district is low and wide, so there is nothing tall next door that is going to solve the problem for you.
- the bearing, not the plan what picks the glass
- one per orientation drawings issued
- nothing to borrow shade from neighbours
Why two identical houses behave differently
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All four
Directions a type faces
The same plan, turned round
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Recorded per room
Orientation
Written on the drawing, never assumed
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Face by face
Coating choice
West and north are not one decision
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Low and open
Surroundings
No tall neighbour casting afternoon shade
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Sun path first
Order of work
The worst room is done before the rest
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Durable EPDM seals
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Foamed thermal inserts
Foamed inserts fill the profile chambers and stop air circulating inside them, so less outside heat and street noise passes through the frame into the cooled room.
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Polyamide thermal breaks
Glass-filled polyamide thermal breaks up to 40 mm wide keep the outer and inner shells apart, so the frame holds its shape and its insulation through a UAE summer.
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Energy-efficient double glazing
Double glazing up to 60 mm thick puts a sealed gap of still air or gas between the hot street and the cooled room, so less heat crosses the glass into the room.
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How a JVT address is specified
- Bearing taken in every glazed room A surveyor comes out inside 48 hours
- Glass chosen elevation by elevation The hot face carries the harder coating
- One drawing issued per orientation Repeats grouped, differences kept apart
- Hardware picked for how often it is used Let property gets handles that take a beating
- Profiles cut in our own Dubai plant Three to five weeks once the drawing is signed
- Sashes set and tested before we leave Every leaf closed and opened in front of you
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Frequently asked questions
Almost always because the house is pointing a different way. The two plots were built from the same drawing, but on these streets that drawing gets rotated, so your living room can take the full weight of the afternoon while theirs sees it for an hour in the morning. Sun at the start of the day arrives low and leaves quickly; sun in the second half of the day arrives high, stays, and goes on heating the room through the evening because the walls have stored it. That is why we take a bearing in each room rather than reading the floor plan, and why the same window is not the right answer on both sides of one house.
No, and spreading it evenly is usually the worst way to spend the money. A solar-control unit earns its place on the elevations that actually take the sun; on a shaded face it buys you very little and slightly dims a room that was already dark. We would rather put the strong specification where it works and a plain unit where it does not, then show you on the drawing which window got which. If a room is borderline, the deciding question is when it is used — a bedroom that is empty all afternoon is not the same case as a living room.
It changes the hardware more than the glass. A window in a rented home is opened and shut by people who did not choose it and will not baby it, so handles, hinges and rollers are picked for that rather than for the lightest touch, and everything that wears is a part we can change later without taking the frame out. It also changes the paperwork: we keep the drawing, so when a sash is damaged in three years the replacement is made to the recorded size instead of starting with a fresh survey.
Start with the elevation that takes the afternoon and the rooms behind it, then work round. The gain is largest where the sun is strongest and the room is occupied at that hour, which in most of these houses means the upstairs bedrooms and whichever living space faces the worst direction. What we ask is that the colour, the profile and the sightlines are settled at the first phase, because a second phase a year later has to match the first one from the street, and matching is far easier when the decision was written down than when it is reconstructed from a photograph.
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