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  • Window in Wall: Back to the Future

    • Paper by Thomas Auer · Ata Chokhachian

    In order to get to a carbon neutral building stock – which is e.g. required by the EU Carbon roadmap by 2050 – our efforts need to be smart and

  • 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

  • Determination of Surface Flaw Parameters for Annealed and Fully Tempered Glass Exposed to NaCl

    • Paper by Nabhajit Goswami, PhD, Senior Facade Engineer Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP, Associate Professor Patrick Ferro, PhD, PE, MBA, Professor Stephen M Morse, PhD, PE, Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Affiliated Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
    The use of glass in the exterior facades provides greater light transmission into the building and improved views for occupants. Coastal areas in…

  • Design Considerations

    • Paper by Stephen M. Morse, Ph.D. · Kayla Natividad, Ph.D. · H. Scott Norville, P.E., Ph.D.

    Window glass design using ASTM E 1300 entails determining glass thickness(es) and types so that the window glass construction load resistance

  • Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework

    • Paper by Fabio Favoino · Adèle Chalumeau · Audrey Aquaronne

    Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme events

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    Deconstructing the Window

    • Paper by Helen Sanders, Jörg Lenz, Petra Sommer,
    Over the years, the industry has relied heavily on the increasing performance of low-e coatings to drive window U-factors (thermal transmittance)…

  • Adaptive Facades

    • Paper by Walter Haase · Werner Sobek · Enrica Oliva · Michele Andaloro

    Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the geometries

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    Silicone Spandrel Glass Opacifiers

    • Paper by Scott Norville, Samir Blanchet, George Torok, Kris Vockler, John Swanson, Chris Barry, Lawrence Carbary, Stephane Hoffman, Timothy Krytenberg, Chris Fronsoe,
    Curtain wall design commonly uses insulating glass units for vision and spandrel glazing to provide better visual harmonization of building facade…
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    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…

  • Condensation Study of Windows

    • Paper by Ajla Aksamija · Suncica Milosevic · Helen Sanders · Alexandra Blakeslee

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

  • 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.

  • Tectonism and Responsible Urban Futures

    We at Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design group (ZHACODE) explore the relevance of this resource-effective, experience-rich design and construction paradigm to both large institutional projects with complex geometry and mass-customisation, repeated unit projects with assembly complexities.