Solar Gard Window Films Cut Carbon Emissions
Solar Gard architectural solar control window films, for residential and commercial applications, are the first building improvements product made in the U.S. to measure and report their carbon footprint and they are carbon negative¹.
On average they are carbon neutral within one year of installation. More efficient than low-e coatings at rejecting solar heat, Solar Gard window films are both carbon-effective and cost-effective, reducing a building’s carbon footprint more effectively and for less money than new windows. In fact:
- One square meter of a low-e wood window, the type with the smallest carbon footprint, has a carbon cost of 253 kilograms. The carbon cost of Solar Gard window film is less than one kilogram per square meter.²
- Solar Gard window film saves 1001 times more GHG emissions from entering the atmosphere than is used and/or created during its manufacture.
- Solar Gard window film installed between 2007 and 2008 saved 3.6 million tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere; this is equivalent to the carbon output of 16,350 American families (with four people).
Learn more about the steps BSF is taking to reduce carbon emissions globally:
¹According to EPD registrars www.climatedec.com and www.thegreenstandard.com
²2009 Buildings Energy Data Book, published by the U.S. Department of Energy
³ Global average; for regional variances please contact: Jami.wong@bekaert.com