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.
Working Group Resources
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.
PAWS is pleased to spotlight a recent episode of the ASHRAE Journal Podcast that brings together three leading voices in commercial building performance: Robert Hart, P.E. (Berkeley Lab), Jamie Kono, P.E. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), and Laura Van Rietema, P.E. (Taylor Engineers). Their conversation, titled “Windows of Opportunity: Commercial Building Efficiency Upgrades,” explores the transformative […]