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  • The Vertical Campus Facade

    • Paper by Mayine Yu, AIA, Principal | Davis Brody Bond / Page Cooper Schilling, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal | KieranTimberlake Jessica Young, RA, Principal
    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…

  • Skin Deep: Health, Wellness, and the Facade System

    Here we are, a full year after the initial COVID-19 surge rocked the United States. It’s hard to believe we’ve been living through the pandemic for a full year at this point; and yet it also feels like it’s been multiple years. We are beginning to see glimmers of hope on the horizon as more people..

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    Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance

    • Paper by Brian Fraumeni, Associate, Project Designer Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C, Sustainability Strategist Adam Moqrane, Intern
    High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy…
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    Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework

    • Paper by Fabio Favoino, Department of energy Adèle Chalumeau, Facade engineer Audrey Aquaronne, Facade engineer
    Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme events…

  • Event Passed

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    GPD Glass Performance Days Finland

    • Tampere, Finland

    The Glass Performance Days (GPD) event in 2022 will celebrate its 29th year of service to the glass industry.

    Industry Event by Glass Performance Days

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    Thermoelectric Facades

    • Paper by Ajla Aksamija, PhD, LEED AP BD+C, CDT, Associate Professor Zlatan Aksamija, PhD, Associate Professor Mahsa Farid Mohajer, Ph.D. Candidate & Teaching Assistant Meenakshi Upadhyaya, PhD Student Guy Vigneau,
    This article discusses design, prototype development and a simulation study of novel types of facade systems, which integrate thermoelectric (TE)…
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    Lightning Protection as Building Envelope

    • Paper by Jennifer Morgan, Michael Chusid, RA FCSI CCS,
    A building’s envelope mitigates the effects of meteorological phenomena – including lightning – upon the structure and its occupants and contents.…
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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…
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    Unitized Curtain Wall

    • Paper by Brian Masuda, Kathleen Kulpa, Margaret Tyrpa,
    Unitized curtain wall has become ubiquitous in contemporary facade design and construction due to advantages associated with speed of erection, lower…

  • Realizing Bespoke Structural Glass Facades

    • Paper by Ned Kirschbaum, FAIA, CCCA, LEED AP · Peter Koukos · Alfonso Lopez, P.E.

    In the very earliest stages of a design, an architect imagines a unique glazed facade form and wonders, “Is this possible?” and “What will it cost?”

  • 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

  • Facade Tectonics Forum: NYC

    FTI's half-day NYC Forum will take place virtually on Thursday, November 5, 2020, hosted by the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York. Join us for this year’s virtual event themed Pandemic Pantry: Digesting Covid-19 and Understanding the Lessons for Building and Facade Systems..

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    Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design

    • Paper by Prateek Jain, LEED, Senior Environmental Designer Isabelle Hens, LEED GA, WELL AP, EIT,
    In the last few years, the design community has embraced the challenge of reducing embodied carbon in buildings. Several tools are now available for…
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    VR For Daylight

    • Paper by Kelly Burkhart, Enclosure Technical Designer Caris Frazier-Baker, Technical Artist for Virtual Reality Sanjeev Tankha, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Director of Enclosure Engineering
    Daylighting is often an important component of architectural design and heavily influenced by a building’s facade and enclosure systems. Unlike many…

  • New Challenges – New Facades!

    Being part of the European Façade Network efn, an association of ten research and education entities throughout Europe, I would like to share my experiences of last year’s conferences and research activities with this brief contribution.