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  • Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes featured image

    Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes

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

  • Cities under Climate Threat - Philadelphia, Rome and Venice

    <p>The impacts of climate change, driven by increasing extreme temperature, sea-level rise, and heavy precipitations, interact and play an essential…

  • U-Factor Matters in Hot Climates featured image

    U-Factor Matters in Hot Climates

    <p>It is commonly thought that fenestration U-factor is not a key determinant in the performance of facades in hot climates, and generally the focus…

  • European Facade Networks featured image

    European Facade Networks

    <p>The European climate and energy targets for 2020 demand significant improvement of the energy performance of buildings since one third of the…

  • Green Façade/Roofs Design Tool

    Climate change and related thermal issues, draw attention to the impact of green facades and roofs on energy savings and thermal comfort. Besides, by

  • Contextualizing Glass and Carbon Impacts

    <p>Climate change goals will require significant improvements in the way buildings are constructed and operated. Building reuse can combat climate…

  • Wind-Borne Debris Impacts on Façades

    <p>Climate change effects are causing an increase in extreme wind events’ frequency and severity, worldwide. Regions that previously were not prone…

  • Rammed Earth & Wildfire featured image

    Rammed Earth & Wildfire

    <p>California is set to be drier and more drought prone with climate change. Wildfire and the subsequent loss of life and housing is a huge…

  • Dynamic Shading Device

    <p>Responsive shading systems can dynamically improve indoor environmental conditions based on outdoor climate variations. Among the technologies,…

  • Terra Cotta Skins

    This paper will address the potential of ornamental architectural terracotta surfaces to mitigate the effects of climate fluctuations that will

  • 3D thermal modelling of complex facades

    <p>Today’s building enclosures face ever greater demands regarding their thermal performance. In cold climates, the required total U-value of the…

  • Build Test Iterate Repeat

    The global increase in atmospheric temperature rise combined with the rapid growth of previously underdeveloped climate zones presents a growing need

  • HydroSKIN featured image

    HydroSKIN

    <p>Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces, and to therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate…

  • Rethinking Building Skins featured image

    Rethinking Building Skins

    <p>Building skins play a pivotal role in architecture. Other than the aesthetical and architectural aspects, facades are key to the climate…

  • Active and Energy Autonomous Window

    Reducing GHG emissions related to energy use in buildings is a prominent obligation given their impact in terms of climate change. In this light,

  • Performance of Compact, Closed Cavity, Double-skin Curtain Wall featured image

    Performance of Compact, Closed Cavity, Double-skin Curtain Wall

    <p>A proposed design for a compact, closed cavity, double-skin curtain wall system in the Marine climate of the West Coast raises questions of…

  • Sustainable Façades

    Transposing innovation from government funded research to commercially viable solutions becomes ever more important when combined with the urgent

  • Facades for High-Performance Workplaces

    <p>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…

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    Shadow Box Design

    <p>Shadow boxes are commonly used in curtain wall construction, but can be problematic if not designed and detailed correctly and appropriately for…