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When choosing system windows and doors, you should consider three factors. What are they specifically?

2022-03-04

When choosing system windows and doors, you should consider three factors. What are they specifically?

  The design and development costs of system windows and doors, brand value, and high-performance standards for materials such as steel and hardware—all these factors to some extent contribute to the “increased cost” of system windows and doors. As an integrated combination of high-performance systems, they are more complex than traditional energy-efficient windows and doors. Therefore, when selecting system windows and doors, three key factors should be taken into account. What exactly are these three factors?

  The brand selection for system windows must align with the property grade. When bidding for system windows, both brand and price should be taken into consideration.

  The same brand of system window manufacturer offers different product lines; the specific line should be selected based on marketing positioning and design requirements, and will be further refined and finalized by the system window manufacturer.

  As a critical and complex project, system window manufacturers must get involved early on to provide system solutions, thereby avoiding cost fluctuations later on.

  Are system windows and doors really expensive?

  1. As system windows and doors gain increasing market recognition and the market continues to expand, their overall costs are steadily declining. Currently, the basic price of system windows and doors on the market is around 1,000 yuan per square meter, while higher-quality system windows and doors cost over 2,000 to 3,000 yuan per square meter or more. In first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, real estate prices currently range from over 50,000 to 100,000 yuan per square meter. Adding just a few hundred yuan per square meter makes system windows and doors relatively affordable. Although system windows and doors are slightly more expensive than conventional ones, the additional cost per square meter represents only a tiny fraction of the overall housing price. To ensure rapid sales of residential properties, many real estate developers have the financial capacity to absorb this premium.

  2. Based on the combination of real estate policies—city-level and market-regulation measures—the state will, to a certain extent, rectify the real estate market, curb housing prices, and introduce a large number of affordable housing units, low-cost housing units, and restricted-use housing units to stabilize the market. If housing supply is not lacking, housing prices will fall, and property transactions will stagnate. As a result, real estate developers will have to focus on enhancing the quality and functionality of their properties to find selling points. Whoever can sell more residential products that truly delight consumers will enjoy great success.

  3. Architectural doors and windows are an important component of a building’s overall functionality and have received considerable attention from real estate developers. Enhancing the performance of doors and windows—and adopting high-performance system windows—will become one of the key selling points for real estate developers when marketing residential properties.

  Example of energy-saving system windows and doors:

  In Example 3360100, the two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment has window areas of around 30 square meters. The thermal insulation performance of system windows and doors is superior to that of conventional windows and doors.

  Let’s calculate the relevant data:

  Conditions:

  1. Generally, if you run the air conditioner in doors and windows every day, it consumes 30 kilowatt-hours of electricity.

  2. Using system windows and doors and running the air conditioner every day results in a power consumption of 25.

  3. Electricity cost calculated at 1 yuan per hour. System windows: 1,200 yuan per square meter; standard doors and windows: 800 yuan per square meter.

  Annual air conditioning operating cost: (30 ~ 25) × 365 × 1 = 1,825 Korean won.

  Difference in window and door costs: System window and door cost – Standard window and door cost = 30 × 1,200 – 30 × 800 = KRW 12,000.

  Therefore, the calculated lifespan is between 12,000 and 18,256.5 years! The typical design life of residential buildings is 50 years, yet we can recoup the extra cost of building windows in just six years. Moreover, system windows and doors can enhance a building’s energy efficiency for as long as 44 years!