,
Inc. is an international supplier of products and services that make
buildings more energy efficient. They offer a cloud based software
system that allows customers to continuously maintain, optimize, and
control the energy performance of a building.
Their QuietRock soundproofing
drywall and solutions provide reliable, low cost code-compliant walls
for hospitals, government, schools, and multi-family projects.
Their plants in Boulder and Niwot combine to make
SeriousGlass and SeriousWindows products.
Together they produce a unique window that achieves triple pane
efficiency from two panes of glass and a suspended film.
SERIOUS ENERGY
upgraded the 6,514 dual pane windows in the Empire State Building by
reusing all the existing glass and creating super-insulating glass
units.
At the University of Colorado,
Visual Arts Center,
SERIOUS ENERGY worked with
OZ Architects to
configure super-insulating, directionally tuned windows and glass to
drive a cost-effective design that eliminated the need for perimeter
heating.
Our tour begins at the Boulder glass plant, where
the insulating glass units are assembled. In order to fully appreciate
what it takes to make the suspended film insulating glass units from
huge sheets of glass, we must see the plant in operation; hence the
early start time, because the plant is not running a second shift.
After the glass plant tour, we will travel to the
window plant in Niwot where the insulating glass units are built into
super-insulating windows.
This is also a “can’t miss” tour for anyone
interested in improving the energy efficiency of his or her own home or
their place of business.
