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  • Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design

    • Paper by Prateek Jain, LEED · 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

  • Retrofit Options for Historic Facades

    • Paper by Carrie Davis, P.E., LEED Green Assoc. · George Kantrales, Ph.D. · Matt Barsotti · Andrew Schoenheit · Ty Vandergriff

    Building design criteria requires that government buildings be designed for a variety of extreme loads including blast, hurricane, and impact

  • 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

  • Thermal Analysis of Complex Glazing

    • Paper by Adrian Turcato · Chris Stutzki · Erik Olsen

    The use of bidirectional scattering distribution function incorporated in a transient systems simulation program, allows engineers to accurately

  • The Myth of Simplicity

    • Paper by Gerry Lang

    There were good why reasons early US Modernism first evolved in California– wide open sites with no constraints (physical or zoning), and effectively

  • Ballistic and Blast Integrated Design

    • Paper by James Hock, LEED AP BD+C · Marc Zobec · Alberto Franceschet · Guido Lori

    Increased security needs have led to a demand in enhanced curtain wall facade performance. In addition to thermal, acoustic, and structural

  • Facade with Innovation

    • Paper by YU Hui · JIN Shihui

    Shanshui City and Star Bund Center can be considered as representative projects of RFR Shanghai recently Both provide creative solutions for complex

  • Facade Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies

    • Paper by Isabelle Hens, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP

    Facades are increasingly being recognized as a major contributor to whole-building embodied carbon. While designers know how to reduce the embodied

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    Novel Thermal Break Solution

    • Paper by Yuzhen Steve Zhou, Technical Director - Warmframe Technology Corporation
    Thermal-break-blanket technology is a novel and high-performance thermal break solution for aluminum curtain walls. The thermal-break-blanket is…

  • Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes

    • Paper by Sridharan Gandhi · Andrew Tsay Jacobs, AIA, EIT, LEED AP BD+C · Karen Kensek, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope

  • Reglaze or Replace?

    • Paper by Angel Ayón, AIA, LEED AP · Laura Boynton, AIA, LEED AP

    Originally known as The Master Building, 310 Riverside Drive in Manhattan's Upper West Side is a 28-story tower completed in 1929 as an apartment

  • Evaluating The Environmental Performance Of Stick Curtain Wall Systems

    • Paper by Dima Othman, B.A.Ing., M.Eng., LEED AP Daniel Arztmann, Dipl.-Ing., M.Eng., EFN, FTI Professor for Façade Construction, Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen Lippe (TH-OWL) Head of Building Physics,
    The construction industry is one of the greatest sources of pollution, where 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions are attributed to…

  • Working With Big Data

    • Paper by Cristobal Correa

    Big data is having a noticeable impact on enclosure engineering design. With continuing advancements that liberate the geometrical form and the

  • Renewing Two Saarinen Icons

    • Paper by David N. Fixler, FAIA · Gary Tondorf-Dick, AIA, LEED AP · Katherine S. Wissink, PE · Matthew B. Bronski, PE

    Kresge Auditorium and the MIT Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1955, are both world renowned works of architecture and powerful symbols

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    Embodied Carbon Of Timber Unitized Curtain Wall

    • Paper by Isabelle Hens, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, EIT, Environmental Designer Sophie Pennetier, Associate Director - Special Projects Simon Schleicher, Associate Professor
    The building envelope is at the intersection of embodied and operational emissions. Curtain wall specifically could play an important role in…

  • Efficiency-Driven Facade Optimization

    • Paper by Earl Patrick · Jeffrey Vaglio

    As overall project schedules continue to contract and rising costs impact our design decisions, the importance of the design-assist phase for facades

  • Facades for High-Performance Workplaces

    • Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP, Assoc. DBIA

    How has the role of the façade evolved in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing fight to combat the climate change crisis? As companies grapple

  • Solid Surface Material for Facades

    • Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP

    Navigating the building code, while challenging in any respect, can be even trickier when considering the use of emerging materials on building