What is the proper way to represent a door which happens to have glass? According to 90.1, doors that are more than one-half glass are considered fenestration. So in a program like HAP, should all of the doors with more than 50% glass area be entered as windows or do you still enter them as doors with a U-value for the opaque portion, plus a separate U-value and shading coefficient for the glazed portion? If the glass area is less than 50% of the door area, is the glazing U-value and shading coefficient governed by different minimum requirements than if the glass area was more than 50% of the door area? Let's say you have a 21 sqft metal frame entrance door with a small 1.3 sqft sight glass in it. Would the glass portion requirements be dictated by "Metal framing (entrance doors)" under Fenestration in Tables 5 of 90.1? Would the rest of the door be dictated by Opaque Doors "Swinging" then? What if the glass area in that example was more like 18 sqft of the door? Would it be treated any differently?
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