Drawdown: Paul Hawken Gets Real with Climate Change
Drawdown is an inspiring new effort to manage atmospheric carbon and the resulting climate impacts. This brief reveiw discusses the book, the movement, and the potential.
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Saving Face
In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of wa…
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GlassCon Global VE-Glass Virtual-EX
GlassCon Global® and USGlass magazine have joined together to produce a new ground-breaking virtual event servicing the architectural glass, metal and fenestration industries, GlassCon Global VE-Glass Virtual-EX.
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Face Time: Introducing the Facade Tectonics Institute
There is history to this new enterprise. Facade Tectonics started as a series of invited roundtable discussions at the University of Southern California School of Architecture in 2007 as a strategic response to the escalating importance and complexity of building facade technology. These roundtable
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Execution Ways
Business Insider has described San Francisco’s Chase Arena as setting “a new standard for a sports arena in the US”, and “the state-of-the-art arena …
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BuildingNY 2021
High Performance Façades: Delivering Better Thermal, Safety, and Acoustical Performance, Presented by the Facade Tectonics Institute
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Carbon Lean Facades
With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based pro…
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Sustainababble: Moving beyond talk and taking action!
Well, here we are well into the new year, for better or worse only time will tell. It seems that adversity fails to slow the clock; I don’t know about all of you, but certainly for me and others I’ve talked with time continues to flow at speed, perhaps even accelerating.
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Form as Energy
All too often, high-performance building envelopes are considered in terms of new materials and technologies that push specific systems to improve en…
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Environmental Facade Perspective
Designing a sustainable rainscreen wall assembly has become an essential part of most new construction projects. Industry principles and energy codes…
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8th International Buildings Physics Conference 2021
IBPC 2021 unites researchers, practitioners, educators and students from the construction sector worldwide. The conference will be held online!
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Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process
Today's evolving digital tools allow designers to be more creative in designing new forms and geometries. Adapting similar tools to the fabrication a…
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Introducing FacadeRetrofit.org
Los Angeles, CA – July 16, 2015 - While most of the green building dialog focuses on new construction, many have recognized that the fastest and most effective way to improve energy efficiency of the building sector is by remedying our existing building stock.
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Jurors Select Winning Redesigns of 200 Park Avenue Facade
Metals in Construction magazine and the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York named six winning teams for its 2016 Design Challenge yesterday at the Times Center in New York City. “Reimagine a New York City Icon” challenged designers and engineers to reclad 200 Park Avenue in New York.
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glasstec VIRTUAL
glasstec is the world's leading trade fair for the glass industry with 1,276 exhibitors from 50 countries. The spectrum is unique. In 2020, pioneering innovations, products and developments await you here as well. Be part of it!
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Seismic Design of Jumbo Glass Structures
The design of structural glass systems continues to evolve with the parallel development of new manufacturing technology. Improvements in the manufac…
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Terracotta 1912 to 2018
Center Three is a 100-year-old, one million square-foot building in Long Island City, New York that was constructed over the course of one year. It w…
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Highly Efficient Façades with Innovative Shading and Light Control
The Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) on the Allston Campus is the largest new building at Harvard University in recent decades with a footprint …
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Innovations with Glass
Glass has become a popular building material that is used not only for windows but also as a load-bearing material. New dimensions of glass panes in …