Papers

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  • Slipping through the Cracks featured image

    Slipping through the Cracks

    • Paper by Jason Siwek P.E., Project Manager
    We construct building enclosures to keep the elements out, but sometimes air and water infiltrate the building envelope, causing several problems for…
  • The Evolution of AEC Professional Silos featured image

    The Evolution of AEC Professional Silos

    • Paper by David Olsen, AIA, Senior Associate Megan Leon, P.E., Design Engineer Christopher Chiuchiolo, LEED AP, Project Manager Andrea Bono, P.E., LEED AP BD+C, Senior Consulting Engineer – Building Technology Nick Rustia, P.E., Facilities Development, Project Manager Diane T Sands, MLIS, MFA, MS-GIST, Librarian
    Healthcare projects in northern California require specialized knowledge to navigate regulation, technological advancements, and project execution…

  • Comparison of Historical Weathered Annealed Glass Failure Data to ASTM E1300

    • Paper by Nabhajit Goswami; Student, ngoswami@mtu.edu Stephen M Morse; Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Michigan Tech University, smmorse@mtu.edu
    Historical published weathered annealed failure data consisting of 13 samples were collected and glass failure prediction model surface flaw…
  • Parametric Louver System featured image

    Parametric Louver System

    • Paper by Noah Kelly, AIA, NCARB, Project Architect Brittney Holmes, AIA Associate, Designer
    The Parametric Louver System is a customized tool that expedites several design iterations while embedding multiple design parameters. The ambition…

  • Mastery of Measurement

    • Paper by Joshua Zabel,
    The conventional approach to specifying dimensional tolerances in architecture and construction is inadequate in the theater of premanufacturing…

  • Retroreflective Coating for Window Blinds

    • Paper by Luca Papaiz · Lars Oliver Grobe · Giuseppe De Michele

    Solar shading devices are required to find a trade-off between conflicting requirements: Protection from excessive solar gains and glare, daylight

  • Managing Solar Reflections from the Building Envelope featured image

    Managing Solar Reflections from the Building Envelope

    • Paper by Ryan Danks, B.A.Sc., P.Eng., Senior Engineer Joel Good, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., Principal
    Understanding how a building will reflect sunlight has gone from a rare requirement to a key consideration during the planning permission process in…

  • Developments in Gridshell Design

    • Paper by Cristobal Correa P.E. · Craig Schwitter P.E.

    In 1959 Heinz Isler challenged the world of concrete shell design by proposing a series of shapes for shells that were very different from what most

  • Academic Wood Tower Choreography featured image

    Academic Wood Tower Choreography

    • Paper by John Peterson OAA FRAIC LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate, Director of Sustainable Design & Building Innovation Leland Dadson OAA CPHD, Project Architect, Mass Timber Specialist
    With an ever-growing interest in mid- and high-rise mass timber construction, this paper highlights the insights and lessons learned across global…
  • Addressing Embodied Carbon featured image

    Addressing Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Helen Sanders, PhD, General Manager Adam Nizich, Senior Consulting Engineer
    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and…

  • Laminated Security Glazing

    • Paper by Vaughn Schauss,
    Glass is an essential component for any type of building. Its transparency enhances daylighting and provides occupants a view to the outside. Whether…
  • Terracotta 1912 to 2018 featured image

    Terracotta 1912 to 2018

    • Paper by Carol Loewenson, FAIA, LEED AP, Stephen Dietz, AIA, LEED AP,
    Center Three is a 100-year-old, one million square-foot building in Long Island City, New York that was constructed over the course of one year. It…

  • Autonomous or Appropriate

    • Paper by Katrin Terstegen

    This paper examines two profoundly different design approaches: one, herein called ‘autonomous’, where the building’s design is governed by internal

  • Finally

    • Paper by Michael Mulhern

    For over 60 years architects, engineers, and consultants have been specifying stainless steels for use in building skins and in some structural

  • Steel As A Curtain Wall Framing Material

    • Paper by Charles Knickerbocker

    This paper will explore steel forming methods other than cold drawn or hot rolled processes, and how they allow steel to be utilized as the primary

  • The Tectonics of Flimsiness featured image

    The Tectonics of Flimsiness

    • Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI, Associate Professor
    Architecture has traditionally celebrated the joining of two building components or materials. Joinery serves as a key site for architectural…

  • Design and Energy Analysis

    • Paper by Mahsa Farid Mohajer · Ajla Aksamija

    Integration and interoperability between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling (BEM) tools pose major challenges for the

  • Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place

    • Paper by Alfonso Lopez P.E. · David Dunham P.E · Diarmuid Kelleher P.E., S.E.

    Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications,

  • Blurred Edges

    • Paper by Elizabeth L. McCormick AIA, WELL AP, LEED AP, CPHC

    Sealed indoor environments have created artificial, homogeneous ecosystems that sever ties between humans and the natural world. This paper