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Structural Skin
- Paper by John Neary, Sr. Façade Specialist
Many prominent, recent buildings feature forms suggesting structural surface while their enclosures are really non-load-bearing curtain wall. At the…
December 13, 2016
Facade Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies
- Paper by Isabelle Hens, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, Senior Environmental Designer
Facades are increasingly being recognized as a major contributor to whole-building embodied carbon. While designers know how to reduce the embodied…
August 23, 2024
Embodied Carbon Of Timber Unitized Curtain Wall
- Paper by Isabelle Hens, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, EIT, Environmental Designer Sophie Pennetier, Associate Director - Special Projects Simon Schleicher, Associate Professor
The building envelope is at the intersection of embodied and operational emissions. Curtain wall specifically could play an important role in…
October 11, 2022
Highly Efficient Façades with Innovative Shading and Light Control
- Paper by Klaus Reuschle, Project Director Robert Matthew Noblett, Partner Michelle Siu-Ching Lee, Roman Schieber, Associate Director ppa.
The Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) on the Allston Campus is the largest new building at Harvard University in recent decades with a footprint…
October 11, 2022
The Myth of Simplicity
- Paper by Gerry Lang,
There were good why reasons early US Modernism first evolved in California– wide open sites with no constraints (physical or zoning), and effectively…
October 11, 2022
Specifying Commercial Aluminum Finishes
- Paper by Ben Mitchell, MBA,
Many factors will influence coating selection, but to achieve the desired performance level for a given situation, coatings must be specified based…
March 14, 2018
Corrugated-geometry Copper and Glass Facade
- Paper by Marko Tomsic, PE · John A. Jackson, AIA
The subject of this case study is the design and construction of a custom corrugated-geometry facade featuring pre-patinated copper and glass for an

March 20, 2020
Doubling Mies
- Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI, Associate Professor
Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw…
March 22, 2020