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  • The Facade and Energy Codes featured image

    The Facade and Energy Codes

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

  • Integrated Energy Analysis featured image

    Integrated Energy Analysis

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

  • Fixed Edge Supports featured image

    Fixed Edge Supports

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

  • Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade featured image

    Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade

    <p>Architects today must explore alternative enclosure materials to meet evolving energy codes and embodied carbon regulations. Terra cotta has been…

  • Thermal Bridging and Building Facades featured image

    Thermal Bridging and Building Facades

    <p>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 featured image

    Environmental Facade Perspective

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

  • Designing with Photovoltaics featured image

    Designing with Photovoltaics

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

  • Infinite Panel System featured image

    Infinite Panel System

    <p>Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope…

  • Fire Safety Facade Design

    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

    <p>The technology of glass now allows glass to be fabricated in sizes and structural configurations not previously conceivable. The standards and…

  • The Butterfly

    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 featured image

    Facade Mock-ups

    <p>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 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…

  • Finally featured image

    Finally

    <p>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 featured image

    Solid Surface Material for Facades

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

  • Deconstructing the Window featured image

    Deconstructing the Window

    <p>Over the years, the industry has relied heavily on the increasing performance of low-e coatings to drive window U-factors (thermal transmittance)…

  • Fire Safety in High Rise Exterior Facades featured image

    Fire Safety in High Rise Exterior Facades

    <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…

  • EUI of Building Clusters

    Large master planned developments such as Battery Park City in Manhattan, Mission Bay in San Francisco, and Playa Vista in Los Angeles were built

  • Control Tower Glass Design featured image

    Control Tower Glass Design

    <p>ASTM published the first version of ASTM E2461-05: Standard Practice for Determining the Thickness of Glass in Airport Traffic Control Tower Cabs…

  • Balustrade Design Loads

    <p>A review of balustrade practices from around the world, and why practices in United States and countries using ICC code/ASCE 7 designs are failing…