Papers

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  • Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade featured image

    Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade

    • Paper by Victoria Ereskina, Façade Design Professional John Neary, Sr. Façade Specialist

    Architects today must explore alternative enclosure materials to meet evolving energy codes and embodied carbon regulations. Terra cotta has been mos…

  • HydroSKIN

    • Paper by Christina Eisenbarth, M.Sc. · Walter Haase, Dr.-Ing. · Lucio Blandini, Prof. Dr.-Ing. M.Arch. · Werner Sobek, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c.

    Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces, and to therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate resil…

  • SSG and Seismic featured image

    SSG and Seismic

    • Paper by Jon Kimberlain, Senior Scientist Valerie Hayez, Senior Scientist Jie Feng, Research Scientist Mark Mirgon, R&D Technologist

    With the advent of more sophisticated analysis methods and the desire to optimize geometries of structural silicone joints in high performance design…

  • Passively Actuated Systems featured image

    Passively Actuated Systems

    • Paper by Manuel Benitez Ruiz, Student David Gerber, Associate Professor of Practice

    Kinetic or responsive facades have been developed to improve buildings' daylighting conditions while mitigating energy consumption. Still, these faca…

  • CR∆CKİNG THЄ C󉘳DЄ // DYN∆MİC L∆B F∆C∆DЄS featured image

    CR∆CKİNG THЄ C󉘳DЄ // DYN∆MİC L∆B F∆C∆DЄS

    • Paper by Amanda King, AIA, LEED AP BD&C, CPHC, Dayita Kumar, LEED GA, Associate Daniel Nauman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, CPHC, Senior Associate

    The real estate market continues to demand “all glass” buildings often to the detriment of human comfort and thermal performance. For an office build…

  • Reconfigurable Terracotta Facade

    • Paper by Jin Young Song · Dan Vrana · Jonathan Hopp · Shawn Murrey · Jiatao Wu · Jongmin Shim

    The traditional building facade as a permanent construction does not actively respond to the differing needs from varying weather conditions. Convent…

  • Towards Net Zero Enclosures

    • Paper by Jessica Santonastaso, AIA · Alan Estabrook, AIA

    As architects and designers we understand the urgency of addressing the building sector’s role in the ongoing environmental crisis. Architecture2030 …

  • Spandrel Glass Design

    • Paper by Scott H. Norville, P.E., Ph.D. · Christopher Barry, PE · Stephen M. Morse, P.E., Ph.D. M. FTI, M. ASCE

    Currently, most spandrel glass in commercial curtain walls comprises insulating glass fabricated using an interior heat strengthened glass lite that …

  • Fixed Edge Supports featured image

    Fixed Edge Supports

    • Paper by James G. Soules, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., P.Eng., SECB, F.SEI, F.ASCE, Visiting Scholar Stephen M. Morse, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, Assistant Professor Scott H. Norville, P.E., Ph.D., Professor

    Model building codes and standards in the United States use a probabilistic model to define glass load resistance (LR). In general, these model build…

  • Control Tower Glass Design featured image

    Control Tower Glass Design

    • Paper by Daniel McCormick, P.E., PMP, M.ASCE, Federal Aviation Administration Stephen M. Morse, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, Assistant Professor Scott H. Norville, Ph.D., P.E., F.FTI, F.ASTM, F.ASCE, Professor

    ASTM published the first version of ASTM E2461-05: Standard Practice for Determining the Thickness of Glass in Airport Traffic Control Tower Cabs in …

  • Sculptural Facades

    • Paper by Matthew A. Trimble · Matthew Culver

    In the vein of mass production, manufacturers leverage repeatable parts and modular construction in an effort to maximize quality control while drivi…

  • Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon featured image

    Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Paulina Szpiech, Associate - Facade Engineering Valerie Leon-Green, Facade Engineer Shivanie Rambaran, Graduate Energy Analyst

    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to quantify the impact of building construction supply chains on the environment in terms of measur…

  • Comparison of Historical Weathered Annealed Glass Failure Data to ASTM E1300

    • Paper by Nabhajit Goswami; Student, ngoswami@mtu.edu Stephen M Morse; Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Michigan Tech University, smmorse@mtu.edu

    Historical published weathered annealed failure data consisting of 13 samples were collected and glass failure prediction model surface flaw paramete…

  • Transparent Aerogel Window

    • Paper by Bryan Toton, ENV SP

    Incorporating a novel, transparent monolithic aerogel into insulated glass units (IGUs) for windows and building enclosures will provide the equivale…

  • The Carbon Footprint of Aluminum Fenestration featured image

    The Carbon Footprint of Aluminum Fenestration

    • Paper by Tom Bougher, Director of Applied Research Richard Braunstein, Vice President of R&D

    The historical focus on reducing the carbon footprint of a building has recently shifted to include more emphasis on embodied carbon, the carbon emit…

  • Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design featured image

    Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design

    • Paper by Prateek Jain, LEED, Senior Environmental Designer Isabelle Hens, LEED GA, WELL AP, EIT,

    In the last few years, the design community has embraced the challenge of reducing embodied carbon in buildings. Several tools are now available for …

  • Thermal Bridging and Building Facades featured image

    Thermal Bridging and Building Facades

    • Paper by Ivan Lee,

    Thermal bridging through building façades have been overlooked by designers and building energy codes and standards in the past, which has led to hig…

  • Insulating Glass Unit Gas Loss

    • Paper by Mark K. Schmidt, M.Eng., S.E. · Stephen M. Morse, PhD, P.E.

    Concerns over time-dependent argon permeation through the perimeter edge seals of insulating glass units (IGUs) led the authors to utilize two commer…

  • Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place featured image

    Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place

    • Paper by Alfonso Lopez P.E., Principal and CEO David Dunham P.E, Director of Business Development Diarmuid Kelleher P.E., S.E., Director of Engineering

    Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications, …