Mastery of Measurement
The conventional approach to specifying dimensional tolerances in architecture and construction is inadequate in the theater of premanufacturing
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Managing Solar Reflections from the Building Envelope
Understanding how a building will reflect sunlight has gone from a rare requirement to a key consideration during the planning permission process in… -
Academic Wood Tower Choreography
With an ever-growing interest in mid- and high-rise mass timber construction, this paper highlights the insights and lessons learned across global
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Addressing Embodied Carbon
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and
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Terracotta 1912 to 2018
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… -
Steel As A Curtain Wall Framing Material
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… -
Design and Energy Analysis
Integration and interoperability between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling (BEM) tools pose major challenges for the… -
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Onsite Testing Demonstration at School of Medicine, University of Utah
Forum by Facade Tectonics Institute, Inc.
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Glass in GSA Buildings
Embodied carbon in buildings is a key factor in building decarbonization and while it is generally small compared to operational carbon, the… -
Building by Numbers
This paper outlines the successful implementation of digital workflows between the design team composed of Architect, Structural Engineer and Project
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Building Scale Mock-up
Until recently, Google has occupied buildings that were designed for others and modified the interiors to suit its needs. Many of the improvements
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Direct Sun and Occupant Comfort
Direct sun on the body is a known potential cause of thermal discomfort for occupants, yet most thermal comfort simulations do not capture its
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Towards Net Zero Enclosures
As architects and designers we understand the urgency of addressing the building sector’s role in the ongoing environmental crisis. Architecture2030… -
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PowerSKIN Conference
The next PowerSKIN Conference will be held virtually in Munich on April 9th. The focus of the 2021 conference deals with the question of whether simplicity and robustness are in contradiction to good performance or whether they even complement each other: Simplicity vs. Performance?
Industry Event by TU Delft
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Attention to Overheating in Curtainwall Buildings
Several years ago, Technoform and the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) researched the thermal performance of different aluminum… -
Insulating Glass Unit Gas Loss
Concerns over time-dependent argon permeation through the perimeter edge seals of insulating glass units (IGUs) led the authors to utilize two
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Fire Safety and Code Challenges for Mass Timber in Curtain Wall Systems
With the desire for more sustainable construction and reduced embodied energy, mass timber is being explored for building structures. For medium and
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Orbit Tower
While most of high-rise buildings feature a core surrounded by a spatial frame defining the volume, one could envision a column-free plan where the
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CR∆CKİNG THЄ CDЄ // DYN∆MİC L∆B F∆C∆DЄS
The real estate market continues to demand “all glass” buildings often to the detriment of human comfort and thermal performance. For an office