Vinyl Windows for a Multi-Family Apartment Community in Burlington, NJ

Jefferson Apartment Group’s community in Burlington, New Jersey, covers 46 acres near Bromly Boulevard and Hancock Lane. It includes 20 townhome-style multi-family apartments, with a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments and townhomes. 

Pella Philadelphia supplied the windows for all the apartments. The goals were simple: better energy efficiency, a consistent color and style across the community and windows that would last. 

The buildings stand three and four stories tall. Gray and white lap siding cover most of the walls, with board-and-batten in the front gables and a stone base at ground level. Stacked balconies with black railings sit in recessed bays, and a timber canopy marks the main entry on one building. 

White windows run across every elevation, mostly in pairs and groups of three. None of the windows have grilles, which keeps the look clean and the same from one building to the next. 

The apartments use white Pella® 250 Series single-hung windows, many of them joined at the factory into two-wide pairs so each pair arrived on site ready to install as a single unit. The largest openings take that a step further with groups of three windows connected by structural mullions, which add strength where several windows meet. Because this was new construction, every window was built with a nailing fin that secures it directly to the building’s framing. Each window also has a half screen for fresh air, and some were ordered with tempered glass, a safety glass designed to break into small, less sharp pieces. On several of the two-wide pairs, only one of the two windows has tempered glass, so it’s used only where it’s needed. 

Each apartment entrance has a new fiberglass entry door with full-light glass, meaning the glass runs nearly the full height of the door to bring daylight into the space just inside. Twenty-four of these doors were installed across the buildings, along with twenty-four narrow picture windows that add more natural light without taking up much wall space. 

Security and safety also guided the choice of window hardware. Windows on the first floor, which are the easiest to reach from outside, have automatic locks that engage on their own when the window is closed, so there’s no need to remember to lock them. Windows on the upper floors use standard cam-action locks that pull the sashes together to help seal out drafts. The larger single-hung windows are also sized to meet typical egress requirements, giving residents a way out in an emergency. 

Every window uses insulating glass with an Advanced Low-E coating, a thin layer designed to reflect heat back toward its source. That helps keep warmth inside during the winter and the sun’s heat outside during the summer, which can make each apartment more comfortable to live in year-round. 

The windows are white vinyl inside and out, a material that doesn’t need to be painted or stained to stay protected. Using one color and one window style throughout also gives every building in the community the same clean, consistent look from the street.