Papers

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  • Integrated Building Control System

    • Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Design, Associate Director of California Lighting Technology Center Keith Graeber, PE, Director of Engineering Andrew Harper, PE, R&D Engineer IV Michael Siminovitch, Ph.D., Director of California Lighting Technology Center
    Integrated management of commercial lighting, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems is considered as one of the most promising building…

  • Multi-domain Assessment of a Kinetic Facade

    • Paper by Kunyo Luo · Karen Kensek, LEED AP BD+C, DPACSA · Marc Schiler, FASES

    An assessment workflow was created to simulate and evaluate the performance of a kinetic facade in an interior space. It includes parameters of

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    Put Your Sweater On!

    • Paper by Eric Haas, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Adjunct Associate Professor
    During the particularly cold first months of 1977 President Jimmy Carter, in what some call “The Sweater Speech,” famously noted how much energy…
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    When Facades Kill

    • Paper by Terri Meyer Boake,
    The tragic fire of June 14, 2017 at the Grenfell Tower in London, England has brought to a very public global forum issues related to the impact of…
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    Fire Safety and Code Challenges for Mass Timber in Curtain Wall Systems

    • Paper by David Barber, Principal John Neary, Senior Associate, Senior Facade Specialist Mic Patterson PhD LEED AP+, Ambassador of Innovation & Collaboration
    With the desire for more sustainable construction and reduced embodied energy, mass timber is being explored for building structures. For medium and…

  • The Double Skin Facade

    • Paper by Lee A. Fithian, AIA, AICP, NCARB, LEED AP

    The largest source of air pollution in North America is the atmospheric boundary layer of a city caused by its urban canyons with pollutants produced

  • Carbon-Dioxide-Inhaling Facade

    • Paper by Prof. Dr. Timo Schmidt · Carmen Herrmann · Dr. Michael Lakatos · Daniel Zabicki · Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wahl · Kai Scherer

    3.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria created the foundation for life on Earth by producing the oxygen basis for our atmosphere. Should we once again

  • 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

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    Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade

    • Paper by Victoria Ereskina, Façade Design Professional John Neary, Sr. Façade Specialist
    Architects today must explore alternative enclosure materials to meet evolving energy codes and embodied carbon regulations. Terra cotta has been…
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    Challenges of Tall Iconic Building Retrofit

    • Paper by Hamid Vossoughi, P.E., P. Eng.,
    Change happens, for better or for worse, to all living and physical matter. In order to thrive and achieve longevity, we constantly need to adapt to…
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    Separating Direct From Diffuse

    • Paper by Nick Novelli, PhD, Robert Gordon, Igor Varfolomeev,
    An Enclosure-Integrated, Daylighting, Tracking Solar Collector (EIDTSC) has been developed for market which integrates into a building’s fenestration…
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    Rethinking Building Skins

    • Paper by Eugenia Gasparri, Lecturer in Architectural Technologies Arianna Brambilla, Senior Lecturer in Architecture Gabriele Lobaccaro, Associate Professor in Solar Design and Building Performance Simulation Francesco Goia, Professor of Building Physics Annalisa Andaloro, Senior Researcher Alberto Sangiorgio, Principal Façade Engineer
    Building skins play a pivotal role in architecture. Other than the aesthetical and architectural aspects, facades are key to the climate performance,…
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    Invert Auto-Shading

    • Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Assistant Professor Doris Sung, Associate Professor
    Allowing sufficient amount of natural light while avoiding excessive sunlight penetration is often hard to achieve with static facade systems due to…
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    Shaping Skin

    • Paper by John Neary AIA LEED AP NCARB, Sr. Associate
    The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on…