Facade Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies
<p>Facades are increasingly being recognized as a major contributor to whole-building embodied carbon. While designers know how to reduce the…
<p>Facades are increasingly being recognized as a major contributor to whole-building embodied carbon. While designers know how to reduce the…
Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern
The state-of-the-art of Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D printing, shows its prospective future in the
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
The real estate market continues to demand “all glass” buildings often to the detriment of human comfort and thermal performance. For an office
This case study provides an overview of building hybrid curtain wall system and future opportunities for the use of timber. It will also review the
<p>Building design criteria requires that government buildings be designed for a variety of extreme loads including blast, hurricane, and impact…
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.
Today, about 40% of all buildings in the U.S. still have single-pane windows, and ~70% of the existing building stock is estimated to suffer from
The Utah State Capitol North Building, currently under construction, features 80,000 SF of classically designed cubic granite detailing, including
<p>One of the most complex yet least understood areas where fire can spread is at the perimeter of a building. Fire can not only spread from…
Building envelopes are not only an immediately visible part of the building, they have also become a major factor both for cost and performance of
The traditional building facade as a permanent construction does not actively respond to the differing needs from varying weather conditions.
The development of methods to predict and control moisture accumulation in building envelopes has always been a key element in building science.
The SCALP device is designed to measure the residual compressive surface stress of glass. As the SCALP does not rely on the birefringence properties
Finishing of custom-fabricated architectural façade components represents one of the most significant components to their cost. Manually driven
Life cycle assessment was introduced in the 1970s as an analytical tool to quantify the environmental impact of a product, process, or service.
During the postwar era, and before the universal adoption of air-conditioning in the United States, leading architects participated in the design of
The Green Village at the TU Delft is a living lab for sustainable innovations. The Co Creation Centre (CCC) will be their new meeting center (13.5 x