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  • A Structural Glass Design Manual

    Other than limited special cases, there is a lack of standards providing guidance on the design of structural glass. This has resulted in an ad-hoc

  • Reglaze or Replace?

    Originally known as The Master Building, 310 Riverside Drive in Manhattan's Upper West Side is a 28-story tower completed in 1929 as an apartment

  • Advanced Simulation for Thermal Stress Assessment

    In recent years, the desire for increased performance, transparency and visual flatness of glazing elements in curtain walls has generated renewed

  • Blast Performance

    Designing for blast performance for glazing units can be very complex. The test methods for evaluating performance include subjecting units to actual

  • Insulating Glass Unit Gas Loss

    Concerns over time-dependent argon permeation through the perimeter edge seals of insulating glass units (IGUs) led the authors to utilize two

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    Transparent Aerogel Window

    <p>Incorporating a novel, transparent monolithic aerogel into insulated glass units (IGUs) for windows and building enclosures will provide the…

  • Control Tower Glass Design

    ASTM published the first version of ASTM E2461-05: Standard Practice for Determining the Thickness of Glass in Airport Traffic Control Tower Cabs in

  • Fixed Edge Supports

    Model building codes and standards in the United States use a probabilistic model to define glass load resistance (LR). In general, these model

  • Spandrel Glass Design

    Currently, most spandrel glass in commercial curtain walls comprises insulating glass fabricated using an interior heat strengthened glass lite that

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    Modelling Perimeter Heating Demand

    <p>Thermal discomfort can occur in perimeter zones due to radiant heat loss from the occupant to a poorly insulated exterior wall. It is valuable for…

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    Addressing Embodied Carbon

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

  • Contextualizing Glass and Carbon Impacts

    <p>Climate change goals will require significant improvements in the way buildings are constructed and operated. Building reuse can combat climate…

  • Advances in Effective Thickness

    Effective thickness is a simplified method for the structural evaluation of laminated glass section properties. The method consists of defining the

  • The Myth of Simplicity

    There were good why reasons early US Modernism first evolved in California– wide open sites with no constraints (physical or zoning), and effectively

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    Vintage Vinyl

    <p>Mid-century through 1980’s buildings with lock-strip or “zipper-gasket” glazing systems are an ever present part of the urban landscape in many…

  • Thermal Analysis of Complex Glazing

    The use of bidirectional scattering distribution function incorporated in a transient systems simulation program, allows engineers to accurately

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    Silicone Spandrel Glass Opacifiers

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

  • Designing Structural Laminated Glass

    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

  • Design Considerations

    Window glass design using ASTM E 1300 entails determining glass thickness(es) and types so that the window glass construction load resistance