
Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place
Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications, …
Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications, …
Effective thickness is a simplified method for the structural evaluation of laminated glass section properties. The method consists of defining the e…
The stability of monolithic glass fins is reasonably well defined; as an elastic material it behaves in a similar manner to other elastic materials s…
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and build…
Model building codes and standards in the United States use a probabilistic model to define glass load resistance (LR). In general, these model build…
ASTM published the first version of ASTM E2461-05: Standard Practice for Determining the Thickness of Glass in Airport Traffic Control Tower Cabs in …
Historical published weathered annealed failure data consisting of 13 samples were collected and glass failure prediction model surface flaw paramete…
Concerns over time-dependent argon permeation through the perimeter edge seals of insulating glass units (IGUs) led the authors to utilize two commer…
The case study presented is a 195 meters tall office tower with a raised podium made of 16 meters full height glass panels (and smaller). The panels …
ASTM E 1300 Standard Practice for Determining Load Resistance (LR) of Glass in Buildings defines the load resistance of a glass construction as being…
ASTM E 1300 “Standard Practice for Determining Load Resistance of Glass in Buildings” defines the load resistance of a glass construction as being th…
Glass is a key component in building design. Benefits of utilizing Insulating Glass Units (IGUs) within a building facade are well understood, includ…
Steven Holl Architects designed two new buildings in the Museum District in Houston, Texas. Knippers Helbig is the facade consultant of both projects…
Laminated glass with standard PVB has long been used for safety and security due to its ability to adhere the broken glass fragments together. As the…
Structural glass is used in a range of building applications, and while the ASTM E1300 has recently been updated to provide a design method to accoun…
Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the geometries …