Papers

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  • BioFacades Classification

    • Paper by Mary Ben Bonham · Kyoung Hee Kim · Christiane M. Herr

    Coauthors: Mary Ben Bonham, Department of Architecture + Interior Design, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA [corresponding] [presenting at the

  • Consistency In Glass Design

    • Paper by Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP, Associate Professor Grace Dojan, Graduate Student
    Glass structural elements have become increasingly common to the point of ubiquity; however, there currently is no universally recognized and…

  • Efficiency-Driven Facade Optimization

    • Paper by Earl Patrick, Director of Design Jeffrey Vaglio, Executive VP, Enclos Tensile Structures (ETS)
    As overall project schedules continue to contract and rising costs impact our design decisions, the importance of the design-assist phase for facades…

  • Facade Design Beyond Buildings

    • Paper by Michele Andaloro · Enrica Oliva · Lucio Blandini

    At the core of facade design is the concept of interdisciplinarity, a bridge between concept and materialization apt to relay a built form

  • Wind-Borne Debris Impacts on Façades

    • Paper by Angela Mejorin, Ph.D., Researcher

    Climate change effects are causing an increase in extreme wind events’ frequency and severity, worldwide. Regions that previously were not prone to

  • Iconic Buildings

    • Paper by Xavier Ferrés Padró · Paula Martín Goñi

    The iconic building principal incentive is to be visually attractive or stand out, for this purpose three main features must be accomplished: have a

  • Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework

    • Paper by Fabio Favoino · Adèle Chalumeau · Audrey Aquaronne

    Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme events

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    Environmental Facade Perspective

    • Paper by Patricia Shaw, M Arch., MSc Facade Engineering, Facade Specialist
    Designing a sustainable rainscreen wall assembly has become an essential part of most new construction projects. Industry principles and energy codes…

  • Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Paulina Szpiech · Valerie Leon-Green · Shivanie Rambaran

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

  • 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

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    City Development and Cladding Design

    • Paper by Hadil Abdallah, Building Sciences Consultant Girma Bitsuamlak, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Wind Engineering at the University of Western Ontario Hamid Vossoughi, PE, P. ENG., Senior Principal
    High-rise buildings in growing cities could become more vulnerable to variations in wind flow due to the continuous changes in urban topology. The…
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    Catalytic Conversion

    • Paper by Damon Caldwell, Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator
    Nowadays, the power of images is seductive. Bold and complex facades often have an innovative appearance but superficial tectonic depth;…

  • Digital Enablement for Manufacturing

    • Paper by Melody Rees

    Architectural design freedom achieved on high-end projects currently costs over $1,000/sq. Ft. Building materials have long been relegated to plane

  • Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades

    • Paper by Bahar Basarir, PhD, PhD from Research Assistant to Assistant Professor Hatice Yasemin Cakir, Research Assistant
    With the developments in production, industrial facilities lost their function and were abandoned over time. The most frequent and often the most…

  • Modeling Megapanels

    • Paper by Elizabeth Bishop, AIA, LEED AP · Emily Green, NCARB, LEED GA · Lisa Podesto, PE

    Large format, steel-stud framed “megapanel” facades with rainscreen cladding create uniquely complicated requirements for digital documentation and

  • The Craft of Building Enclosures

    • Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP

    This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke façade

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    More Than a Facade

    • Paper by Edward Losch, PhD, PE, SE, RA Marc Maguire, PhD, Assistant Professor
    In 2014, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) as an accredited ANSI Standards…
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    Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes

    • Paper by Sridharan Gandhi, Andrew Tsay Jacobs, AIA, EIT, LEED AP BD+C, Karen Kensek, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C,
    Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope…

  • Working With Big Data

    • Paper by Cristobal Correa

    Big data is having a noticeable impact on enclosure engineering design. With continuing advancements that liberate the geometrical form and the

  • Silicone Spandrel Glass Opacifiers

    • Paper by Scott Norville · Samir Blanchet · George Torok · Kris Vockler · John Swanson · Chris Barry · Lawrence Carbary · Stephane Hoffman · Timothy Krytenberg · Chris Fronsoe

    Curtain wall design commonly uses insulating glass units for vision and spandrel glazing to provide better visual harmonization of building facade