Papers

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    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. Califor…

  • 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 ne…

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    Infinite Panel System

    • Paper by Mike Ryan, Director of Product Development Facades Division Brian Stern, Regional Energy Director Michael Adams, Senior Energy Analyst

    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

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

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

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    The Butterfly

    • Paper by Venelin Kokalov, Design Principal Shinobu Homma, Architect AIBC, AAA, MRAIC, Technical Principal Amirali Javidan, Associate Director Zhuoli Yang, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, Architect

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

  • 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 st…

  • Rammed Earth & Wildfire featured image

    Rammed Earth & Wildfire

    • Paper by Brittany Dhawan, AIA, Architect / Owner

    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. C…

  • Solid Surface Material for Facades featured image

    Solid Surface Material for Facades

    • Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP, Associate

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

  • Deconstructing the Window featured image

    Deconstructing the Window

    • Paper by Helen Sanders, Jörg Lenz, Petra Sommer,

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

  • Fire Safety in High Rise Exterior Facades

    • Paper by Angela M. Ogino

    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 floor-to-fl…

  • EUI of Building Clusters featured image

    EUI of Building Clusters

    • Paper by Srinivas M. Rao, AIA, AICP, LEED AP,

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

  • Lightning Protection as Building Envelope

    • Paper by Jennifer Morgan · Michael Chusid, RA FCSI CCS

    A building’s envelope mitigates the effects of meteorological phenomena – including lightning – upon the structure and its occupants and contents. Th…

  • Academic Wood Tower Choreography featured image

    Academic Wood Tower Choreography

    • Paper by John Peterson OAA FRAIC LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate, Director of Sustainable Design & Building Innovation Leland Dadson OAA CPHD, Project Architect, Mass Timber Specialist

    With an ever-growing interest in mid- and high-rise mass timber construction, this paper highlights the insights and lessons learned across global ma…

  • Subjective Perception and Objective Measurement

    • Paper by Caroline Lama · Antonio Luz · Ashley Reed

    Current glass industry standards provide clear tolerances for readily quantifiable physical properties to assist with the evaluation of visual qualit…

  • Ceramic Precast Composite Panels

    • Paper by Edward Rubio · Edward J. Rubio · Gregory Lucier, Ph.D. · Brian Moskow, PE · Sami H. Rizkalla, Ph.D., FACI, FASCE, FEIC, FCSCE, FIIFC, FPCI

    An innovative lightweight ceramic precast composite panel is introduced in this paper that offers the unique benefits of prefabricated off-site const…

  • Reduce, Reuse, Reclad featured image

    Reduce, Reuse, Reclad

    • Paper by Daniel Nauman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Senior Associate Jessica Santonastaso, Associate Jennifer Sze, RA, USGBC LEED AP, Principal and Director of Special Inspections

    Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered precious metal, is a practice of celebrating the life and history of an objec…

  • A Compact, Unitized Double Skin Facade featured image

    A Compact, Unitized Double Skin Facade

    • Paper by Alex Cox, LEED AP, James Hock, LEED AP BD+C, Laura Ziegler, Karin Lamberts,

    Driven by an increasing demand for high thermal and acoustic performance, transparency, and low maintenance costs, a number of facade innovations hav…

  • When Facades Kill featured image

    When Facades Kill

    • Paper by Terri Meyer Boake,

    The tragic fire of June 14, 2017 at the Grenfell Tower in London, England has brought to a very public global forum issues related to the impact of f…

  • Glazing Design By ASTM E 1300

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

    ASTM E 1300 “Standard Practice for Determining Load Resistance of Glass in Buildings” defines the load resistance of a glass construction as being th…