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  • Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process featured image

    Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process

    • Paper by Becher Neme, Michael Kilkelly,
    Today's evolving digital tools allow designers to be more creative in designing new forms and geometries. Adapting similar tools to the fabrication…

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    Facade Tectonics Forum: MINNEAPOLIS

    • Minneapolis, United States

    FTI touched down in Minneapolis to confront themes central to the ever-evolving facade: energy-efficiency and sustainability, digital technology, kinetic and dynamic components, and material evolution.

    Forum by Facade Tectonics Institute, Inc.

  • KEPCO+

    • Organization

  • United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum

    • Paper by Ilja Aljoskin PMP · Lee Pepin · Neil Meredith RA

    Advanced fabrication processes combined with parametric 3D modeling give designers and architects the freedom and versatility to push the boundaries

  • Prototyping with Ultra-Thin Glass featured image

    Prototyping with Ultra-Thin Glass

    • Paper by Sophie Pennetier, Associate Director - Specialty Design Josephine Stoddard, Master of Building Science, Structural and Environmental Analysis and Design Karen Kensek, Professor
    This paper proposes system concepts and fabrication methods for the use of ultra-thin glass in facades. It documents the team's research on…

  • Hydroformed Shading

    • Paper by Michelle Siu-Ching Lee · Robert Matthew Noblett · Roman Schieber

    New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of

  • The Craft of Building Enclosures featured image

    The Craft of Building Enclosures

    • Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Project Architect
    This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke façade…

  • Effective Facade Modularization

    • Paper by Kais Al-Rawi

    Facade systems of various transparent and opaque materials and systems are increasingly becoming integrated components of modularized facade

  • Working With Big Data featured image

    Working With Big Data

    • Paper by Cristobal Correa,
    Big data is having a noticeable impact on enclosure engineering design. With continuing advancements that liberate the geometrical form and the…
  • Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place featured image

    Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place

    • Paper by Alfonso Lopez P.E., Principal and CEO David Dunham P.E, Director of Business Development Diarmuid Kelleher P.E., S.E., Director of Engineering
    Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications,…

  • Call for Board Nominations

    • Announcement

    We invite members to submit nominations for a vacancy opening on our Board of Directors — we will consider applications for individuals working in material supplier, education, public interest, general contracting, building ownership/development, or fabrication spaces.

  • Localized Rigidification of PCM Envelopes

    • Paper by Elnaz Tafrihi

    This is an experimental and computational exploration of structural systems that transform between states of rigidity and flexibility. The goal is to

  • More Than a Facade featured image

    More Than a Facade

    • Paper by Edward Losch, PhD, PE, SE, RA Marc Maguire, PhD, Assistant Professor
    In 2014, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) as an accredited ANSI Standards…

  • 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

  • Unitized Cavity Wall Design and Implementation

    • Paper by Dan Bettenhausen, Ph.D., Director of Mechanical Engineering
    Double Skin Facades (DSF), constructed from individual aluminum framed curtain wall assemblies, provide a means of achieving acoustic and thermal…

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    Tech+ Harnessing Technology for Future Practice

    Rising complexity in project design and sustainability goals has catapulted digital tools to the forefront of the AEC industry.

    Industry Event by The Architect's Newspaper