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Energy efficient windows
In a cold country a window is asked to hold warmth in. Here it is asked to do the opposite — keep the afternoon out of the room so the air conditioning stops fighting the glass all day. Two parts of the window settle that: a polyamide thermal break that interrupts the path heat takes through the metal, and a coated unit that turns solar energy back at the outer pane. Which coating belongs on which wall is a question about the elevation, not about the window.
- polyamide bar thermal break
- coated outer pane solar control
- per elevation how it is specified
Aluminium glazing for villas, terraces, pergolas and pool houses
Sliding, with thermal break
For a terrace that becomes part of the cooled house: the leaves run on stainless carriages, the thermal break keeps the heat out, and the opening stays wide.
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Folding, with thermal break
The whole elevation folds into a stack at one side, so a living room opens fully onto the garden in the cooler months and closes against the heat in summer.
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Hinged, with thermal break
Hinged doors and windows for an air-conditioned majlis or pool house: easy to air on a mild evening, sealed on three contours the rest of the time. Needs room to open.
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Sliding, without thermal break
A slim profile for a terrace or pergola that is not cooled: the leaves run in tracks and take no room when open, and the space is shielded from wind, dust and sand.
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Hinged, without thermal break
For a large covered terrace or a pool enclosure that is not air-conditioned: hinged leaves close it against wind and sand and open fully on a calm day.
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How a low-heat-gain window is put together
- Orientation recorded wall by wall West and south are specified apart
- Glazing unit chosen for each elevation A single coating for the house is waste
- Thermal break confirmed in the profile Not every aluminium system carries one
- Seal line closed around the sash A draught undoes good glass
- Made in our own Dubai factory Units glazed to the approved drawing
- Fitted, sealed and adjusted Seal compression checked after fitting
What carries the heat, and what stops it
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Thermal break
Profile
Polyamide bar interrupts the metal
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Low-emissivity
Coating
Sits on the outer pane
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Warm edge
Spacer
Less heat through the unit's edge
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Air or inert gas
Cavity
Sealed between the panes
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Reveal or louvre
Shading
Beats any coating on a west wall
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Width and height: 300–6000 mm. Not sure? Clear the fields — we’ll measure at the free survey.
Width under 300 mm — check that it is in millimetres.
Width over 6000 mm — we’ll confirm it at the survey.
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Height over 6000 mm — we’ll confirm it at the survey.
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The honest downside
What an energy efficient window will not fix
The coatings that turn solar heat back also take some daylight with them. A strong solar-control unit makes a room dimmer and can tint the view, and on a north wall or under a deep overhang, going further than the code minimum buys little. Metal-oxide coatings can also weaken the mobile signal indoors.
Appearance is the other limit. A pane that reads dark or mirrored from outside may not be allowed by a tower's or a community's facade rules, so the strongest glass may not be on the table.
If the frames are sound, already have a thermal break and the heat comes through one elevation, a solar-control film or new units on that wall alone is often the more sensible spend. A full energy-efficient window is the right answer where the frames have no thermal break, the seals have gone and several walls are taking the sun.
Consider instead
Window tinting for buildings, not cars
Frequently asked questions
Bare aluminium conducts heat readily, which is exactly why the profile is not bare: a polyamide bar runs the length of it and separates the outside half from the inside half, so the metal no longer carries the afternoon into the room. With that break in place the argument moves to the glass, which is where most of the heat arrives anyway — a full pane against a narrow strip of frame. The two materials end up close on the frame and identical on the glass, and aluminium keeps the slimmer sightline and holds a heavy sash without sagging.
Because the sun does not treat the elevations alike — but every one of them first has to meet the Dubai Building Code 2021 minimum for glass (Table E.5, K.13 for villas), with no exemption for north. Above that minimum, orientation decides. A north-facing window here is mostly daylight; a west-facing one takes the low afternoon sun straight on, at the hour when the wall behind it is already warm. Putting the west unit everywhere costs more than it saves and darkens rooms that never needed it, while stopping at the code minimum on the west leaves the worst wall under-defended. We record the orientation during the survey and price the elevations separately.
They change how hard the cooling has to work, which is the part of that bill you can influence. How much depends on things outside the window — how much glass the building has, how it is shaded, how the thermostat is set and how the family lives — so we will not put a percentage on it and you should distrust anyone who does. What we can say is where the heat gets in: through the glass first, then through an untreated frame, then through the gaps around a window that was fitted badly.
Sometimes. If the frames are sound and the beading allows it, the unit can be taken out and a coated one glazed in — a repair rather than a replacement, and it lifts the glass without touching the profile. It will not help if the frame has no thermal break, if the gaskets have gone hard, or if the sash no longer pulls onto the frame, because then the window is letting heat in at the joints and new glass does nothing about that.
Related pages
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- Bay windows
- Casement windows
- Corner windows
- Custom shapes
- Double-panel windows
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