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  • Simplicity is Deceiving

    • Paper by Giovanni De Mari, BSc(Hons) MScEng Ing CEng MICE · Kerry Hegedus, architect (WA, AZ)

    The case study presented is a 195 meters tall office tower with a raised podium made of 16 meters full height glass panels (and smaller). The panels

  • Carbon crisis: The embodied carbon challenge

    • Article by Andrew Himes

    The focus of this issue of SKINS is on embodied carbon -- the carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions associated with materials and construction processes throughout the whole lifecycle of a building or infrastructure.

  • Thermal Stress Analysis in Glass

    • Paper by Michael Elstner · Michaela Poláková · Steffen Schäfer

    The use of glass in windows and curtain walls in residential as well as in commercial buildings needs to be designed very carefully. In addition to

  • Impact Of Thermal Bridges On The Energy Response Of A Building

    • Paper by Ilaria Sebastiani · Riccardo Pinotti · Stefano Avesani · Simone D’Amore · Stefano Pampanin

    The European building stock is mainly constituted by highly energy demanding buildings. The only way to a more sustainable and decarbonized building

  • No timid steps: Be bold and generous!

    ...the design and construction industries are notoriously resistant to change, putting them on a collision course with the many cities, states, and provinces that are moving ahead of national standards in keeping with declared intentions to dramatically cut their carbon emissions this decade.

  • Build Test Iterate Repeat

    • Paper by Elizabeth L McCormick, RA, CPHC, LEED AP

    The global increase in atmospheric temperature rise combined with the rapid growth of previously underdeveloped climate zones presents a growing need

  • PowerSkin Conference 2022

    • Event by European Facade Network

    The PowerSkin Conference aims to address the role of building skins to accomplish a carbon neutral building stock.

  • Curb Your Carbon, Knave!

    A question for architects and building industry: Can our cities be part of the solution to the challenges facing humanity, or are they intrinsically and inevitably a big part of the problem? To move beyond the latter demands nothing less than a fundamental shift in the way we think about buildings.

  • Heat-Treated Glass

    • Paper by Reece Poth · Conner Claus

    What was once an accepted reality in heat-treated exterior glass, optical disturbances in glass are under increasing scrutiny by developers,

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    Transformation as Movement

    • Paper by Vytenis Gureckas,
    In 1888 the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin proposed the notion that the primary characteristic of baroque architecture is the illusion of movement.…

  • 3rd Annual ACAW Ceramic Workshop 2018 Recap

    2018 teams included; Morphosis, SHoP Architects, Sasaki/Studio NYL, University at Buffalo, AECOM, and Radical Matter. The ACAWorkshop is an outstanding model of industry-academia partnership aimed at the ongoing education of students and practitioners alike.

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    Reduce, Reuse, Reclad

    • Paper by Daniel Nauman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Senior Associate Jessica Santonastaso, Associate Jennifer Sze, RA, USGBC LEED AP, Principal and Director of Special Inspections
    Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered precious metal, is a practice of celebrating the life and history of an…

  • Integration of Structural Glass in Historic Religious Buildings

    • Article by Karine Charlebois, Associate

    St. Patrick’s Cathedral’s Lady Chapel glass wall and the Trinity Church glazed canopy demonstrate that structural glass can be a great solution to improve the functionality of a historic building without competing with its original fabric.

  • Balustrade Design Loads

    • Paper by Richard Green, SE, PE, P.Eng, CPEng, IntPE, APEC Engineer, M.ASCE M.IEAust, Founding Principal Andrew Crosby PEng, Principal Terrence McDonnell, Associate Principal
    A review of balustrade practices from around the world, and why practices in United States and countries using ICC code/ASCE 7 designs are failing to…
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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…

  • Execution Ways

    • Paper by Viswanath Urala, P.E. · Prakash R. Desai, P.E., S.E.

    Business Insider has described San Francisco’s Chase Arena as setting “a new standard for a sports arena in the US”, and “the state-of-the-art arena

  • 2019 Request for Research concept Briefs

    • Announcement

    The FTI Research Committee is requesting Research Concept Briefs describing a team and approach for evaluating industry needs and challenges surrounding four key topic areas in which FTI has identified a need to accelerate innovation. The proposed research will clearly identify knowledge gaps and ba

  • United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum

    • Paper by Ilja Aljoskin PMP · Lee Pepin · Neil Meredith RA

    Advanced fabrication processes combined with parametric 3D modeling give designers and architects the freedom and versatility to push the boundaries