Alpen is proud to announce that our WinSert high performance secondary window inserts have been recognized by the highly-regarded BuildingGreen as a Top 10 Product for 2022! 

Louisville, CO – BuildingGreen, a well-respected leading source of trusted and unbiased information among sustainable building professionals for over 35 years, annually recognizes the most innovative green building products transforming the industry. ALPEN HIGH PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS, INC., a longtime U.S. leader in high efficiency window technology across commercial and residential markets, announced today that the company has once again been recognized by this highly regarded publication for its newly patented secondary window insert, WinSert®, earning a spot on the Top 10 Products list for 2022.

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About the Award

The much-anticipated product winners are selected from thousands of innovative options available on the market each year—this year with a focus on products that fundamentally change building systems by conserving energy, water, and resources while reducing carbon emissions and their impacts. The BuildingGreen editors seek out products that significantly improve upon standard “business-as-usual” practices and provide elegant solutions to industry-wide problems.

“Alpen’s WinSert helps solve one of the building industry’s biggest challenges: how do we cost-effectively retrofit aging, poor-performing commercial windows?” said Brent Ehrlich, BuildingGreen‘s products and materials specialist. “The company’s lightweight ThinGlass technology can help create a high-performance window system without significantly altering the building’s looks or office workflow.”

Buildings are responsible for about 40% of energy waste and greenhouse gases in the United States, and many older buildings are still equipped with single-pane windows. This problem can be improved by replacing existing single-pane windows entirely, but that can be extremely expensive and disruptive. WinSert secondary window inserts provide an ultra-lightweight, custom retrofit solution to turn existing leaky, low-performing windows into air-tight, high-performing windows which improve the building envelope without the cost, time, and disruption required for window replacement.

Recently certified by the Attachments Energy Ratings Council (AERC), WinSert’s super-insulating, high-performance patented design performs up to 48% better than competing secondary window options, and many other retrofit solutions simply do not meet the comprehensive needs of the market. “There is a tremendous opportunity to reduce the energy usage of the built environment just by addressing the vast quantity of aging single-pane or otherwise low-performing windows,” said Brad Begin, CEO of Alpen High Performance Products. “We’ve paired our high-performance window expertise with our innovations in thin glass to develop WinSert as a cost-effective retrofit solution that allows building owners to upgrade commercial windows without the massive capital expenditures and business interruptions of window replacement.”

This marks Alpen’s THIRD recognition from BuildingGreen, one of only a select few to be recognized three times in the award’s twenty-year history.

Top 10 Product 2022 – WinSert secondary window inserts

Top 10 Product 2020 – ThinGlass Quad and ThinGlass Triple pane windows

Top 10 Product 2007 – Alpen’s fiberglass windows, now called the Zenith series, for being the highest performing windows ever manufactured for broad commercial availability.

“At Alpen, we take great pride in continuously pushing the envelope to bring new and innovative window technologies to market to improve the fenestration industry,” said Begin. “It’s safe to say that we are extremely honored to have been recognized by such a prestigious and highly regarded organization as BuildingGreen, not once, but three times in the last 15 years.”

WinSert info sheet            AERC performance data