" The windows are pretty enormous for a small building like this, aren't they?"

" Well, we wanted to get as much passive solar gain as we could from these south facing windows."

" Why that view is fabulous though, isn't it?"

" Isn't it nice?"

" So what kind of windows are these?"

" They are Thermotech windows. They're Canadian fiberglass window."

" So it's a fiberglass."

" They call is a pultrusion."

" It's pultruded."

" Yeah."

" Which is a little bit different than your normal vinyl or wood or aluminum windows."

" And you've got insulation inside there."

" That's right. The pultrusions all have a starter foam insulation in them."

" And what kind of, you know, what kind of other features do you get from this kind of window?-Well, this particular cross section shows some example of a triple-glazed window. In this application, we opted for cost reasons to go with a double blaze with 1 low E coating on it."

" Uh huh. And so, you've got the kind of situation here where I think expansion and contraction is pretty much at the same rate so you'd end up with a nice tight window, don't you?"

" That's correct. With 2 dissimilar materials like glass and fiberglass, the expansion coefficient is quite similar so that you may gain a tight window though all reasons."

" And that's important up here, isn't it?"

" Up here it's very important."

" The floor is pretty distinctive. What is it?"

" This is yellow birch flooring. It comes from a mill up in Maine. It's certified flooring."

" How come so many short pieces? Well, that's a part of the process. It's flooring that would normally be discarded because they are short. There's a lot of color, variation green, variations in it."

" So it's a savings in terms of the cost of the flooring?"

" That's correct. We're able to use the product that would normally be not used in simple flooring."

" It's got to be labor intensive to put all the flooring down?"

" It's very labor intensive."

" Yeah."