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Facades for High-Performance Workplaces
- Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP, Assoc. DBIA, Senior Associate
How has the role of the façade evolved in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing fight to combat the climate change crisis? As companies grapple…
September 2, 2024
Mastery of Measurement
- Paper by Joshua Zabel
The conventional approach to specifying dimensional tolerances in architecture and construction is inadequate in the theater of premanufacturing

September 02, 2024
Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place
- Paper by Alfonso Lopez P.E., Principal and CEO David Dunham P.E, Director of Business Development Diarmuid Kelleher P.E., S.E., Director of Engineering
Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications,…
October 11, 2022
Finally
- Paper by Michael Mulhern
For over 60 years architects, engineers, and consultants have been specifying stainless steels for use in building skins and in some structural

October 11, 2022
The Craft of Building Enclosures
- Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Project Architect
This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke façade…
October 11, 2022
Elliptical Ways
- Paper by Gustav Fagerström · Lia Tramontini · Kelly Burkhart · Jianing Song · Sanjeev Tankha
Construction projects almost invariably encounter a critical stage at the moment of handover between the designing and the executing party. At this

March 14, 2018
Localized Rigidification of PCM Envelopes
- Paper by Elnaz Tafrihi,
This is an experimental and computational exploration of structural systems that transform between states of rigidity and flexibility. The goal is to…
March 14, 2018