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  • EVA Interlayers in Hardened Facades

    <p>Explosions can result in very high loads of extremely short durations. Protective design to mitigate the effects of blast loading requires façade…

  • Facades for High-Performance Workplaces

    <p>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…

  • Investigating Heat Development in Shadow Box Façade Systems

    <p>The prevalence of fully glazed facades in modern office buildings has been steadily increasing, primarily driven by architects' focus on aesthetic…

  • Integrated Building Control System

    Integrated management of commercial lighting, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems is considered as one of the most promising building

  • A Burning Question Revisited

    In recent decades the use of unitized glazing systems has become increasingly common especially for high-rise construction. The opaque panels in

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    SSG and Seismic

    <p>With the advent of more sophisticated analysis methods and the desire to optimize geometries of structural silicone joints in high performance…

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    The Craft of Building Enclosures

    <p>This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke…

  • More Than a Facade

    In 2014, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) as an accredited ANSI Standards

  • Inside the Box

    The trend towards modular and unitized facades continues to grow in popularity due largely in part to the efficiencies gained in terms of cost and

  • Transitions Between Diverse Envelope Systems

    The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California features an extremely diverse set of facade systems within one

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    Specifying Commercial Aluminum Finishes

    <p>Many factors will influence coating selection, but to achieve the desired performance level for a given situation, coatings must be specified…

  • Hardened Facades Effects on Structural Systems

    To ensure the safety of U.S diplomatic personnel overseas, the U.S Department of State (DoS) has developed facade retrofits capable of resisting high

  • Fully Tempered Glass in Spandrel Applications

    Recent years have seen an increase in the use of insulated glazing units (IGUs) in spandrel applications to visually blend the appearance between the

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    Combustible Cladding

    <p>When it comes to the subject of building enclosure in Australia, one topic has eclipsed all others in recent years: combustible cladding. It has…

  • Facade Mock-ups

    Curtain walls and window walls are typically specified to meet a variety of different performance and testing criteria, some of which can be quite

  • The Seismic Capability of Curtainwalls

    The testing of aluminum/glass curtainwalls for seismic capability, mainly inter-story drift, has been carried out on many curtainwalls over the last

  • United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum

    Advanced fabrication processes combined with parametric 3D modeling give designers and architects the freedom and versatility to push the boundaries

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    Hydroformed Shading

    <p>New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of…

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    Build Test Iterate Repeat

    <p>The global increase in atmospheric temperature rise combined with the rapid growth of previously underdeveloped climate zones presents a growing…