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The Truth About UA and C Values: Why Catalog Numbers Don’t Always Tell the Whole Story of Your Custom Home in Japan
When embarking on the exciting journey of building a custom home in Japan, you will likely spend hours poring over housing catalogs and builder websites. Among the beautiful photos of living rooms and kitchens, you will inevitably encounter a series of technical-sounding metrics: UA value, C value, and perhaps Q value. Builders often proudly display these numbers—for instance, "Industry-leading UA value of 0.35!" or "Exceptional C value of 0.5!" It is entirely natural to ass

Dwell Japan
Mar 37 min read
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