Developers take over, Heritage crushed

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There are architectural recycing companies all over the country. I suppose letting them have first dibs on demolition is too hard?

Interesting little snippet I came across recently. Apparently wood framed windows (with double glazing) are more energy efficient because wood doesn't conduct heat or cold the way aluminium does...

From our experience aluminium joinery manufacturers here in New Zealand are pretty much oblivious to 'thermally broken' double glazed products. There's limited point in having two sheets of glass with a air/gas barrier between them when they are mounted in aluminium frames that are contiguous inside to out. The reason is probably because our climate here is so benign that the resulting lack of insulative efficiency largely goes unnoticed, and so long as the house spec's get a ticket from the paper pushers in the local Council's building inspectors' office all is good.