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Digital Enablement for Manufacturing
- Paper by Melody Rees, Director of Design
Architectural design freedom achieved on high-end projects currently costs over $1,000/sq. Ft. Building materials have long been relegated to plane s…

October 11, 2022
Execution Ways
- Paper by Viswanath Urala, P.E., Senior Engineer Prakash R. Desai, P.E., S.E., Senior Structural Engineer
Business Insider has described San Francisco’s Chase Arena as setting “a new standard for a sports arena in the US”, and “the state-of-the-art arena …

March 22, 2020
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
Translation from Concept to Construction
- Paper by Ryan Donaghy, AIA · Matthew Spahr, PE
Fidelity between the built enclosure and early visualizations is rarely, if ever, an accident. When achieved, it comes as the result of persistent ef…

March 15, 2020

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