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BOMA 2025 International Conference & Expo
- Event by BOMA International, BUILDINGS.com
June 28, 2025
Stainless Steel 101
- Paper by Michael Mulhern
This paper presents a summary of the industry advances beyond T304 and T316 austenitic stainless steels. The greater availability of precipitation

March 14, 2018
The First Triple Certified Facade
- Paper by Stephen Katz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate
Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific…
January 22, 2020
New Course on Building Façade Design Developed at Oklahoma State University
- Paper by Bodhisatta Hajra, Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering John Phillips, PE,
A façade, which is also called a ‘secondary structural system’, typically separates the exterior from the interior of a building. In recent times,…
September 18, 2024
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…
March 14, 2018
Invert Auto-Shading
- Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Assistant Professor Doris Sung, Associate Professor
Allowing sufficient amount of natural light while avoiding excessive sunlight penetration is often hard to achieve with static facade systems due to…
March 15, 2020
Doubling Mies
- Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI, Associate Professor
Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw…
March 22, 2020
Shaping Skin
- Paper by John Neary AIA LEED AP NCARB, Sr. Associate
The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on…
March 21, 2020
BUILDING ENCLOSURE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
- Event by National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)
BEST6 - The Next Generation of Building Technology

March 18, 2024
Fit for the Future
- Paper by Julia Koerner-Al-Rawi
Wearables protect us from climatic conditions, they provide privacy, comfort and they also reflect our style and personality. Building facades in the

September 02, 2024
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June 20, 2024

Academic Performance: A Passive House Schools Symposium
- 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Industry Event by The Passive House Network
Sustainable Façades
- Paper by Dr. Thomas Henriksen · Jean-Marc Moulin Norsk · Dr. Jacopo Montali
Transposing innovation from government funded research to commercially viable solutions becomes ever more important when combined with the urgent

October 11, 2022
Combustible Cladding
- Paper by Juliet Landler
When it comes to the subject of building enclosure in Australia, one topic has eclipsed all others in recent years: combustible cladding. It has even

March 22, 2020
OpenFacadeControl
- Paper by Peter Grant, Technology Researcher II Tzu-Ching Su, Deputy Manager Luis Fernandes, Jordan Shackelford, Technology Researcher III Anand Prakash, Senior Scientific Engineering Associate Stephen Czarnecki, Software Developer Pei-Yu Yu, Deputy Division Director Feng-Yi Lin, Engineer
Automated facades are, for the most part, still considered as separate from other building systems throughout the design, installation,…
September 2, 2024
The Tectonics of Flimsiness
- Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI
Architecture has traditionally celebrated the joining of two building components or materials. Joinery serves as a key site for architectural

March 22, 2020
Predictive Modeling in an Automated Building Facade
- Paper by Troy Nolan Peters PhD
Computer simulations of an automated dynamic facade in a passively heated and cooled building by using predictive modeling of short-term future

March 15, 2020
Orientation Specific Solar Control
- Paper by Clifton Fordham, Assistant Professor
During the postwar era, and before the universal adoption of air-conditioning in the United States, leading architects participated in the design of…
March 11, 2020
Generative Design Tool
- Paper by Amir Hosseinzadeh Zarrabi, Mona Azarbayjani, Maryam Tavakoli,
The piezoelectric facade as a self-sustained technology can generate a considerable amount of energy by converting swaying motions (actuated by the…
March 14, 2018
Paul Rudolph's Christian Science Building
- Paper by Scott Murray,
This paper presents new historical research on the concrete facade of an important but relatively unknown and now demolished building by the American…
March 14, 2018
Form as Energy
- Paper by Matthew Fineout,
All too often, high-performance building envelopes are considered in terms of new materials and technologies that push specific systems to improve…
March 14, 2018