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  • Evaluating The Environmental Performance Of Stick Curtain Wall Systems

    <p>The construction industry is one of the greatest sources of pollution, where 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions are attributed to…

  • Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design featured image

    Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design

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

  • The Carbon Footprint of Aluminum Fenestration featured image

    The Carbon Footprint of Aluminum Fenestration

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

  • Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon featured image

    Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon

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

  • Towards Net Zero Enclosures

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

  • Addressing Embodied Carbon

    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and

  • Carbon Lean Facades

    With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based

  • Shaping Skin

    The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on