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Combustible Cladding
- Paper by Juliet Landler, Principal Engineer
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
Sustainable Silicone
- Paper by Jon Kimberlain, TS&D Scientist Adrienne Bowman-Grittini, Senior Technical Service and Development Specialist Stanley Yee, TS&D Scientist
Silicone materials have a long history in high performance building projects. Known for durability, they can reduce a building’s carbon footprint by…
January 24, 2020
Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls
- Paper by Brock DeSmit · Jessica Hong · Becher Eli Neme
Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017

March 17, 2020
Determination of Interlayer Structural Properties for Use in Laminated Glass Design
- Paper by Michael Härth, Dipl.-Ing. (FH), M.Sc., Dr.-Ing., Research Scientist Stephen J Bennison, B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D., Research Fellow Steven R Sauerbrunn, B.Sc., Ph.D., Thermal Analysis Engineer
We have seen rapid expansion in the last decade of laminated glass design using modern analytical and computational methods. Essential to the proper…
March 22, 2020
Hurricane-acoustic Glazing Barriers Using New Interlayer Technology
- Paper by Stephen J Bennison, B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D., Research Fellow Alejandro G Gonzalez, Sales and Marketing Charles Anthony Smith, Research Scientist Rebecca L Smith, Research Scientist Takuya Kobayashi, Research Scientist Toshiyuki Iguchi, Engineering Manager
In the last twenty years we have seen the development of polymer interlayers for laminated glass where the resin compositions have been optimized for…
March 22, 2020
Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades
- Paper by Amira Abdel-Rahman, Elnaz Tafrihi,
Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and…
March 14, 2018