Specifies recommended methods of construction, glazing, installation, protection and maintenance for windows, sliding doors, adjustable glass louvres, shopfronts, and window walls with framing elements of one piece, but not curtain walls using stacked or spliced framing systems, manufactured from any materials and installed vertically in external walls of all classes of buildings.

First published as part of Int 318-1951. AS CA53 first published 1970. Int 318 revised and redesignated AS O53-1972. AS O53-1972 revised and redesignated AS 1540-1974. AS CA53 revised and redesignated AS 2048-1977. AS 2147 first published 1978. Part of AS 1540-1974 and the whole of AS 2147-1978 and AS 2048-1977 revised, amalgamated and redesignated AS 2047.2-1996.