Nobody commissioned these. Nobody hired me to build them.
The dealers using our quoting software sell real products, and every single one of those products comes with an engineering spec sheet, a design-pressure (DP) rating, maximum dimension thresholds, and a Miami-Dade NOA or Florida Product Approval record.
That engineering information exists. It is legally public. But it is usually buried across 100-page manufacturer PDFs, clunky county search portals, or binders sitting back in the dealership's conference room.
When a field sales rep or estimator is standing in a customer's driveway or measuring a rough opening on a 2nd-story balcony, they don't have time to download a 40MB PDF on two bars of LTE and hunt through index tables. They need an answer right now: Can this single-hung meet +80/-90 at 53" x 76" with low-e impact glass? What is the approval number?
So I built two dedicated web hubs to make looking that up instant on any phone or tablet.
The ES Windows Product Hub
Built for teams specifying and quoting ES Windows lines across residential and commercial impact projects:
- The full catalog, instantly searchable: All 151 products from the official product catalog, filterable by frame depth, frame type (aluminum/thermal break), max size, max design pressure, glass configuration, and market segment.
- Approvals one tap away: Over 165 direct approval links pointing to official Miami-Dade County NOA and floridabuilding.org state approval records.
- Side-by-side product comparisons: Compare frame sightlines, DP ratings, and water resistance parameters across lines before writing the order.
- AI Spec Assistant: Natural language spec lookups that answer questions like "What is the max width for an ES-EL200 single hung at +70 PSF?" in seconds.
The CWS Product Spec Hub
The same engineering utility tailored for Custom Window Systems (CWS) vinyl and aluminum impact product lines. Every window and door family, frame condition, and HVHZ approval link curated into one fast, lightweight interface designed for field speed.
Keeping Specs Current With AI
Manufacturers update their catalogs. When revised product guides come out, specs shift, new lines launch, and obsolete models get superseded.
The hub has to match manufacturer documentation row for row:
- New products ingested and categorized immediately.
- Updated design pressures and dimensional boundaries checked.
- Discontinued products flagged explicitly rather than silently deleted, preventing contractors from specifying discontinued units on long-lead projects.
- Every approval URL audited to ensure NOA links never lead to dead 404 pages.
I use AI coding agents to perform the tedious extraction and diffing against the manufacturer's published PDFs, guided by a strict rule: Never invent specs or NOA numbers. If the source PDF is ambiguous or contradictory, flag it for human verification.
Why Put This on the EWD Website?
These hubs aren't paid software products. We don't charge dealers to access them.
They represent what we believe fenestration technology should be: tools that eliminate guesswork, protect the dealer from engineering errors, and empower the person in the field to close deals accurately without calling the office back for permission.