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  • The Facade and Energy Codes featured image

    The Facade and Energy Codes

    • Paper by Elliot Glassman,

    <p>Ever-increasing performance requirements in the latest version of the energy codes are compelling project teams to consider the thermal…

  • Integrated Energy Analysis

    • Paper by Greg Verabian · Saurabh Shrestha · Laure Michelon

    Energy codes across the country are progressively getting stricter and increasing the threshold for a baseline building’s energy performance.

  • Fixed Edge Supports

    • Paper by James G. Soules, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., P.Eng., SECB, F.SEI, F.ASCE · Stephen M. Morse, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE · Scott H. Norville, P.E., Ph.D.

    Model building codes and standards in the United States use a probabilistic model to define glass load resistance (LR). In general, these model

  • Thermal Bridging and Building Facades

    • Paper by Ivan Lee

    Thermal bridging through building façades have been overlooked by designers and building energy codes and standards in the past, which has led to

  • Environmental Facade Perspective

    • Paper by Patricia Shaw, M Arch., MSc Facade Engineering

    Designing a sustainable rainscreen wall assembly has become an essential part of most new construction projects. Industry principles and energy codes

  • Designing with Photovoltaics

    • Paper by Wayne Walker · Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C · Sam Crawford

    Photovoltaics (PV) have been utilized in buildings for decades, especially in Europe where legislative support has largely driven the market. With

  • Infinite Panel System

    • Paper by Mike Ryan · Brian Stern · Michael Adams

    Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.

  • Fire Safety Facade Design featured image

    Fire Safety Facade Design

    • Paper by Rigone Paolo, Mazzucchelli Enrico Sergio, De la Fuente Ceja Blanca Judith,

    <p>Nowadays the construction industry is characterised by high multifunctional and complex buildings with innovative facade systems. Unlike a simple…

  • The Scope of the Structural Glass Design Manual

    • Paper by Richard Green SE PE P.Eng CPEng · Andrew Crosby P.Eng LEED® AP BD+C · Terrence McDonnell SE SECB PE P.Eng

    The technology of glass now allows glass to be fabricated in sizes and structural configurations not previously conceivable. The standards and codes

  • The Butterfly

    • Paper by Venelin Kokalov · Shinobu Homma, Architect AIBC, AAA, MRAIC · Amirali Javidan · Zhuoli Yang, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C

    Providing a unique and integral cladding/envelope solution suited for high-rise buildings has been an inherent challenge for this building typology

  • Facade Mock-ups

    • Paper by Andy Lang, AScT

    Curtain walls and window walls are typically specified to meet a variety of different performance and testing criteria, some of which can be quite

  • Rammed Earth & Wildfire

    • Paper by Brittany Dhawan, AIA

    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 challenge.

  • Finally

    • Paper by Michael Mulhern

    For over 60 years architects, engineers, and consultants have been specifying stainless steels for use in building skins and in some structural

  • 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