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  • Thermal Performance of Closed Cavity Facades featured image

    Thermal Performance of Closed Cavity Facades

    • Paper by Andrea Zani, Project Engineer Carmelo Guido Galante, Senior Project Engineer Lisa Rammig, Senior Associate

    <p>Closed cavity facades (CCF), a configuration of Double Skin Facade (DSF), consists of a double-glazed unit on the inner layer and single glazing…

  • Verifying Thermal Performance

    • Paper by Matthew Herman · Mark Walsh

    Architects specify curtain wall thermal performance criteria and usually identify simple modeling software, like THERM, to perform thermal analysis

  • The Great Spandrel Glass Debate

    • Paper by Richard Green SE PE P.Eng CPEng IntPE APEC Engineer M.ASCE M.IEAust

    As we change the rules of thermal performance for facades, we are changing the conditions the glass is subject to in shadow boxes and glazed spandrel

  • The Performative Double-Skin

    • Paper by Jeffrey Abramson, AIA, LEED AP · Alejandra Menchaca, PhD, LEED AP, WELL AP

    Double-Skin Facades (DSF) are well-known to boost the thermal performance of a façade: they can provide extra insulation in the wintertime and lower

  • 3D thermal modelling of complex facades

    • Paper by Wout Parys · Piet Houthuys

    Today’s building enclosures face ever greater demands regarding their thermal performance. In cold climates, the required total U-value of the façade

  • Attention to Overheating in Curtainwall Buildings

    • Paper by Yuzhen Zhou NFRC CS, LEED AP

    Several years ago, Technoform and the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) researched the thermal performance of different aluminum

  • Condensation Study of Windows featured image

    Condensation Study of Windows

    • Paper by Ajla Aksamija, Professor and Chair Suncica Milosevic, PhD Student Helen Sanders, General Manager Alexandra Blakeslee, Innovation & Projects

    <p>This paper discusses a simulation study of different window systems, where heat transfer simulations were performed to investigate thermal…

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    Transparent Aerogel Window

    • Paper by Bryan Toton, ENV SP, CEO

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

  • The Facade and Energy Codes

    • Paper by Elliot Glassman

    Ever-increasing performance requirements in the latest version of the energy codes are compelling project teams to consider the thermal performance

  • Unitized Cavity Wall Design and Implementation

    • Paper by Dan Bettenhausen, Ph.D., Director of Mechanical Engineering

    <p>Double Skin Facades (DSF), constructed from individual aluminum framed curtain wall assemblies, provide a means of achieving acoustic and thermal…

  • CR∆CKİNG THЄ C󉘳DЄ // DYN∆MİC L∆B F∆C∆DЄS

    • Paper by Amanda King, AIA, LEED AP BD&C, CPHC · Dayita Kumar, LEED GA · Daniel Nauman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, CPHC

    The real estate market continues to demand “all glass” buildings often to the detriment of human comfort and thermal performance. For an office

  • Facade Expansion Joint Systems

    • Paper by Kevin W. Smith, PE, CWI

    As awareness around the seismic performance of buildings grows, it is becoming increasingly necessary to integrate seismic expansion joint cover

  • Thermal Bridging and Building Facades

    • Paper by Ivan Lee

    Thermal bridging through building façades have been overlooked by designers and building energy codes and standards in the past, which has led to

  • Spandrel Thermal Simulation Techniques

    • Paper by Ivan Lee · Edlyn Garcia La Torre · Shahima Rahmatipour

    Glazed wall systems, such as curtain walls and window walls, are one of the most commonly used façade systems in modern buildings in North America.

  • Renewing Historic Facades

    • Paper by Christine Reynolds, PE · Hans Thummel, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    As the first phase of a $4 billion dollar, 180-acre, 60 building government preservation project in Washington DC, this case study reviews the

  • Towards Net Zero Enclosures

    • Paper by Jessica Santonastaso, AIA · Alan Estabrook, AIA

    As architects and designers we understand the urgency of addressing the building sector’s role in the ongoing environmental crisis. Architecture2030

  • The Carbon Footprint of Aluminum Fenestration

    • Paper by Tom Bougher · Richard Braunstein

    The historical focus on reducing the carbon footprint of a building has recently shifted to include more emphasis on embodied carbon, the carbon

  • The Vertical Campus Facade

    • Paper by Mayine Yu, AIA · Cooper Schilling, AIA, LEED AP BD+C · Jessica Young, RA

    Case study of the recently opened John A. Paulson Center for New York University in Manhattan reviews design solutions of façade depth and scale to