The PAWS Windows Performance Working Group partners with stakeholders across the residential, commercial, new construction, and retrofit sectors. By engaging in regulatory and certification processes, the group both supports and creates market transformation opportunities for high-performance primary and attachment window products to achieve carbon reduction and net zero-energy building goals.
Strategic Goals
- Make PAWS stakeholders aware of primary and attachment window ratings, codes, and certification-related activity at the national and regional levels.
- Coordinate with PAWS partners and stakeholders to contribute industry expertise in response to ratings, codes, and certification proposals to accelerate the adoption of high-performance primary and attachment window products.
- Drive demand for high-performance primary and attachment window products by advocating for ratings, codes, and certifications to establish minimum performance criteria in support of achieving carbon reduction and net zero-energy building goals.
- Develop a go-to information resource for PAWS partners and supporters who are interested in contributing to the development of standards for primary and attachment window products.
Resources
A website providing home and building owners helping owners compare products and save money on windows, doors, and skylights.
An online database consumers can use to search the NFRC Certified Products Directory to find the right ENERGY STAR® certified windows for their home and climate zone.
Presentation at ACEEE Summer Study 2026 describing major innovations in the window industry over the past 100 years and showing analyses of several scenarios trading off triple-pane windows against other envelope measures to meet high-performance home targets in single-family and multifamily buildings.
National Technical Reference Manual (TRM) list for primary and storm windows, cellular shades, solar screens, and window films. This list highlights TRM’s for more than 20 states across the United States that include window calculations.
For more information, see the Resources page.
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