Papers

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  • Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design

    • Paper by Prateek Jain, LEED · 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

  • The Carbon Footprint of Aluminum Fenestration

    • Paper by Tom Bougher · Richard Braunstein

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

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    Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon

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

    <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

    • 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

  • Addressing Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Helen Sanders, PhD · Adam Nizich

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

  • Shaping Skin

    • Paper by John Neary AIA LEED AP NCARB

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

  • Carbon Lean Facades

    • Paper by Stefanie Schober · Jonce Walker, LEED AP, Certified Sustainable Building Advisor, and Fitwel Ambassador

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