Air, Light and Efficiency Showing Influence of Sash Types and Building Design . Work benches on the assembling floor in the Delco Building. The stationary glasspanuls under the counterbalanced sash help to minimize shadows on the floors. Equaltop and bottom ventilating openings are assured by the type of ^ash used. Walls are property—windoiis are an investment. AIR. LIGHT AND EFFICIENCY be bcjth Top-IIghted and top-ventilared. On pages iS and 19 this15 taken up in detail, !Mean\vhile let us look at a multiple-ston. building which. L>:>c:r-r . ._ - -^ ot the cer.:ra! bays on the taird noo
Air, Light and Efficiency Showing Influence of Sash Types and Building Design . Work benches on the assembling floor in the Delco Building. The stationary glasspanuls under the counterbalanced sash help to minimize shadows on the floors. Equaltop and bottom ventilating openings are assured by the type of ^ash used. Walls are property—windoiis are an investment. AIR. LIGHT AND EFFICIENCY be bcjth Top-IIghted and top-ventilared. On pages iS and 19 this15 taken up in detail, !Mean\vhile let us look at a multiple-ston. building which. L>:>c:r-r . ._ - -^ ot the cer.:ra! bays on the taird noor ot rhe Delco Building. L>x:=^:i^ .^iiCs ano :. :.:nfn-the Ugh: :-:~ rhe ade windows carries well cowards thecenter. happih- illustrates possible means of getting around seeming restric-tions on ^\-idth and ceiling height. The Delco Building The latest building of the Dayton Engineering makers of rhe Delco starting, lighting and ignirion systems, wasto be located on a lot allowing a buildins: width of SS feet. Sevenstories were desired. To keep down the total height, it was desirable 8 Make air and light work for you DAVID L U P T O N S SONS COMPANY to use i2-foot instead of 14-foot ceilings. Yet how were the centralbays to be lighted? The answer was found in stationary glass panels, placed underthe lower sash and extending to within 15 inches of the floor. Theseadded about 20 inches to the height of the glass area, and, by bring-ing the light admitted close to the floor, minimized the tendencyto pr
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