Respect for the environment

Replacing your windows? It is good for the environment.

When oil, its by-products and any other organic material burn they produce carbon dioxide, a gas generating a layer in the atmosphere which prevents the dispersion of the infrared rays.
As a result, as everyone could note, our planet’s climate is changing and turning warmer and warmer: this problem causes environmental catastrophes and puts many animals’ and plants’ life at stake.
To avoid this situation, as a result of the scientists’ warnings, in 1997 the governments of the majority of the States in the world adopted the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement through which countries were required to reduce CO2 emissions. Italy also fulfilled this engagement and so, it started to plan some interventions to reduce oil consumption and gas emissions.
After estimating that in our country about 40% of all emissions is due to the heating and cooling of the buildings, the government started to think of a new way to construct buildings in order to disperse less heat in the winter and make them easier to cool in the summer and reduce, in this way, the waste of the necessary energy.
These directions came into force thanks to the legislative decree 192/2005 which dictates specific restrictions for the construction of new buildings.

As to the new buildings the new 2008 Financial bill (law 244 of 2007) has become still more restrictive: in fact, it dictates that you have to file an Energy Certificate to the commune before starting the construction of the building to obtain the licence.
Before, the decree ruled that you had to ask for the licence when works were over. Moreover, the decree 311/06 rules that existing buildings must have the Energy Certificate to make the transfer of real estate effective according to the following dates: from 1st July 2007 for buildings with an area of more than 1000 sqm, from 1st July 2008 for buildings with an area of less than 1000 sqm. From 1st July 2009 for single property units, provided that they are entire buildings.
Replacing your old frames with insulating frames, like Palomba® wood-aluminium frames, allows you to considerably reduce not only your heating costs but also CO2 emissions.
So, replacing your windows means doing good to the environment.