Best windows for hot climates
For decades, residential design across the southern and coastal regions of the United States followed a predictable, carbon-heavy template: build a house with lightweight framing, puncture it with standard builder-grade windows, and install a massive air conditioning unit to blast away the resulting heat. But as summer temperatures smash records year after year, this reliance on brute-force mechanical cooling is hitting a breaking point. The real weak link isn’t the efficiency of the HVAC compressor; it is the thermal sieve of the building envelope—specifically, the glass.
