In order to show the world a better commercial window retrofit solution and a much better window, for a limited time only Serious Energy is giving away a FREE pilot installation of iWindow (up to 250 square feet of glass – enough to upgrade an entire corner office or most conference rooms) to a lucky winner. To win with iWindow, just nominate a building and tell us why it really needs better windows on our new customer microsite -- www.iwantbetterwindows.com.

New York Stock Exchange Selects SeriousGlass for Energy-Saving Glass Retrofit

Sunnyvale, CA – October 3, 2011 - Serious Energy, Inc. today announced that its super-insulating SeriousGlass commercial glass has been installed in the New York Stock Exchange building, a designated National Historic Landmark. SeriousGlass was selected to modernize the 104-year-old building to reduce energy use while maximizing natural daylighting and improving year-round comfort. The SeriousGlass retrofit will increase the thermal performance by almost 60% and reduce solar heat gain by 40% compared to the original glass. Approved by the Landmark Preservation Commission, SeriousGlass enables state-of-the-art, high energy performance for the building without altering the aesthetics or integrity of the building’s historic exterior. The same SeriousGlass technology was utilized for the retrofit of all 6,514 windows of the Empire State Building as a critical part of its whole building energy efficiency retrofit project.

In an article heralding commercial building deep energy retrofits as the unsung and unseen heroes of global efforts to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, TIME magazine touts the Empire State Building’s energy retrofit as “one of the biggest success stories to date.” With a payback of less than three years and 38% annual energy reduction, building owner Tony Malkin has achieved his goal of making the Empire State Building a flagship project to prove that energy efficiency makes sense for the bottom line.

iWindow – our revolutionary new solution for commercial building window retrofits powered by SeriousGlass –is already a big success.  A pilot installation of iWindow in a Bellvue, WA office building produced immediate improvements in indoor comfort.  iWindow AL was installed over a typical single pane aluminum framing system.  Beyond improving thermal performance and indoor comfort, one of iWindow’s key benefits is the ease of installation – an iWindow panel can be installed in as little as 20 minutes and with minimal disruption to building occupants.  As you can see in the photo below, employees and go right on working while iWindow is being installed!

It’s one thing to tell you about how quickly and easily you can now retrofit commercial windows for energy savings and comfort, but we’d also like to show you! We recently installed the iWindow retrofit system in a few offices of a San Francisco Bay Area office building. The install happened during evening hours (so in the pictures below, you're seeing the reflection of the offices in the windows).

Last week Serious Energy's CTO, Brandon Tinianov, spoke with Connie Kwan from Triple Pundit about the importance of improving energy efficiency of our existing building stock and our innovative window retrofit solution for the Empire State Building.  Without wasting a single pane of glass, Serious Energy upgraded all 6,514 windows in the Empire State Building with SeriousGlass technology, improving the thermal performance of the windows by up to four times and contributing to whole building energy savings of 38%.

At GreenBuild, we announced a new line of energy efficient commercial glazing solutions (links to press release in PDF) through our partnership with YKK AP. Integrating YKK's enerGfacade aluminum fenestration systems with super-insulating SeriousGlass architectural glass gives architects, building owners, and designers a readily deployable, easy-t0-install solution for overall system U-factors as low as 0.17 and COG U-factors of 0.06. The system was on display in YKK's booth at GreenBuild - watch video below for some comments from YKK's booth including our window division head, Ian Sullivan, along with other YKK partners.

CW-Rated SeriousWindows™ feature highest thermal (up to R7) and structural ratings available

Sunnyvale, CA – June 9, 2010 – Serious Energy, nee Serious Materials, announced today it has launched a new line of extreme-energy-saving window products for the commercial building market. Heavy Commercial SeriousWindows Series are the first heavy commercial (CW) rated windows to deliver thermal performance of up to R-value 7.0 (U-value 0.14), over two times the thermal insulation of commonly specified aluminum thermally broken commercial windows (U-value 0.35).