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Evaluating The Environmental Performance Of Stick Curtain Wall Systems
- Paper by Dima Othman, B.A.Ing., M.Eng., LEED AP Daniel Arztmann, Dipl.-Ing., M.Eng., EFN, FTI Professor for Façade Construction, Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen Lippe (TH-OWL) Head of Building Physics,
The construction industry is one of the greatest sources of pollution, where 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions are attributed to building…

October 11, 2022
Combustible Cladding
- Paper by Juliet Landler
When it comes to the subject of building enclosure in Australia, one topic has eclipsed all others in recent years: combustible cladding. It has even…

March 22, 2020
Unitized Curtain Wall
- Paper by Brian Masuda, Kathleen Kulpa, Margaret Tyrpa,
Unitized curtain wall has become ubiquitous in contemporary facade design and construction due to advantages associated with speed of erection, lower…

March 14, 2018
Adaptive Building Envelope
- Paper by Abolfazl Ganji Kheybari · Jochen Lam
Designing a multi-functional building envelope as an architectural façade, environmental interface and solar collector is a multi-objective explorati…

October 10, 2016