Article: Landmark wheel plant gets a facelift with historic replacement windows.(Albert Kahn Associates Inc.)(Brief article)

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When owner/developer H-Inc. decided to convert the historic 325,000-sf W.K. Prudden Co. motor wheel manufacturing plant in Lansing, Mich., into loft apartments, the company knew fixing the building's drafty, inefficient exterior windows was a must. The challenge for the developer and project architect Albert Kahn Associates, Detroit, was finding a window system that would match the original steel-framed fenestration while providing improved energy efficiency and daylighting performance.

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