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to the outside and natural world.
“This series hits thermal performance
values that no other similar window
has ever hit,” says Battistel. “It is stron-
ger than all of our other products, and
can be used in high rise applications
and larger spans. It’s easier to manu-
facture, without a significant rise in
cost. This series is manufactured with
materials free of hazardous and toxic
components, and is “Red List Free”
per the rigorous Living Building Chal-
lenge standard for building compo-
nents—similar to the other Cascadia
Series, which were the first window in
the world to be on that list.”
Cascadia Universal Series windows
and doors are also pending Pas-
sive House certification in Canada—a
threshold that only one-in-a-thousand
windows meet.
“These desirable characteristics have
never coexisted in a single product,”
