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Fenestration Challenges
The May SKINS newsletter focuses on fenestration, that is – windows, curtainwall, storefront, glazed doors and skylights. There are very few structures that are built without these elements, not just because they are so crucial for occupant health and well-being.
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Reflections on Views
Lisa Heschong, a keynote speaker at the Facade Tectonics Institute’s World Congress in October, is a strong proponent for the importance of daylighting and views in all types of buildings, including this excerpt from her recent book, Visual Design in Architecture: Daylight, Vision, and View.
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Connecting Composites to Sustainability: Probabilistic LCA, Industrialized Construction, and Digital Twinning
Material flows of the fossil fuel industry, from exploration and extraction to distribution and combustion, are massive on a global scale. In 2019, the world produced approximately 80 million barrels of crude oil per day, with most being used as a feedstock for combustible fuels.
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Thermal and Fire Characteristics of FRP Composites for Architectural Applications
The advantages and challenges for FRP in architectural applications as discussed in our 2015 paper are still very much true today. As the advantages of FRP are discussed comprehensively elsewhere in this issue of SKINS, I will focus my comments on FRP fire behavior.
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Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) - Call for Papers
The Editorial Board of Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) would like to share its current Call for Papers and invite contributions for the upcoming TECTONICS issue. Submissions may choose to address the focus area identified in this call for papers.
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Emissions Limits Critical to Climate Initiatives
There have been 26 Conferences on Climate Change sponsored by the United Nations. The most recent conference, COP 26, was held in 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. With 200 countries in attendance, all eyes were set on achieving the goal of limiting the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Facade Tectonics Institute Recognizes Industry Leaders with the Vitruvian Honors & Awards
In this first 2022 issue of SKINS, we pause to look back on 2021 through our most-read stories of the year, which we’ve recycled here in case you missed them. The very first thing we see is the inaugural Vitruvian Honors & Awards (VH&A) program conducted virtually. It was a spectacular event!
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50% of New York Build’s conference program is represented by female speakers, a first-ever for any construction show in the US!
There are also 11 exciting networking events including Women in Construction and Diversity in Construction with entertainment, music, celebrity guests, and more. NY Build is proud to announce that this year’s show will have a 50/50 split of men and women presenters, a first-ever for any U.S show!
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Behind the Facade: FTI Voices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Like many businesses and institutions, we at FTI have been wrestling with challenges of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), what it means to us, how to realize these important aspirations in the Institute.
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High Performance: Who Benefits?
I recently started studying Sustainable Environmental Systems at Pratt Institute. One of my classes focused on climate change and its social effects across the world. I started to connect the dots backward and question the impact of our work in facades and fenestration on our local communities.
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Tactics to Expand Diversity and Inclusion in the Workforce: Mentoring and Apprentice Programs
I remember taking a career test when I was in middle school. The outcome? I had a supposed interest in becoming a forest ranger. This seemed odd to me--in that I lived in a large metropolitan city and had never been in a forest.
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Celebrating Diversity in Architecture
Prior to the summer of 2020 many people and organizations in the architecture/design industry spent time calling attention to the lack of diversity. While we are aware it affects many industries, I can only write and speak with accuracy to what happens in the industry I work in.
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Bridging the Gap Between the Facade Industry and Diversity
This newsletter is different from what you usually expect from SKINS. We are talking about human connection, communication, language, and broadening our understanding of how we move through the world and evolve with the new information we receive. How do these aspects relate to the AECO Industry?
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Diversity and Team Building
How can we be more equitable and inclusive and provide greater opportunities and create an ethos of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace? I offer a few thoughts for consideration.
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Crucial Conversations of Diversity & Inclusion
In architecture, the façade is often the defining aspect of a building’s appearance, establishing the building’s public persona. From an engineering perspective, the façade is an assembly of building components with a critical impact on a range of performative metrics.
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The Passive House Network - Fenestration Focus
The Passive House Standard has driven a global shift in the performance expectations of what a fenestration system can and should provide, and as demand grows is transforming fenestration manufacturing from Ireland to China.
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2022 Glass and Glazing Forum
One Glassy Event Comin’ Right Up…
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Facade Tectonics Forum: NYC
The topic of the Forum is Carbon Crisis: Leveraging the Façade System for Carbon Reduction in Buildings
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