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  • Put Your Sweater On!

    • Paper by Eric Haas, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    During the particularly cold first months of 1977 President Jimmy Carter, in what some call “The Sweater Speech,” famously noted how much energy

  • Design Principles For Museum Daylight Systems

    • Paper by Edgar Stach, PhD · Michael Esposito

    This research unlocks the relationship between space, structure and light in nine unique museums developed by architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano uses

  • Remembering Peter Rice

    What does an engineer do? An engineer imagines. What are your sources of inspiration? Mic Patterson remembers Peter Rice and discusses his enduring legacy.

  • Infinite Panel System

    • Paper by Mike Ryan · Brian Stern · Michael Adams

    Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.

  • 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

  • Edge Lighting Glazing with Hidden Fixtures

    • Paper by Dave McCarroll · Dan Weinreber · Lei Fu

    Dynamic architectural lighting in urban areas is a key element in creating attractive nighttime icons in addition to potentially generating

  • Process of Repair Evaluation

    • Paper by Linda Fu, RA, LEED AP · Christopher Morgan, P.E.

    As the building stock ages around the country and the consequences of design and/or construction that are deficient or lack resiliency become

  • 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