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  • 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…

  • Digital Lifecycle of Building Envelopes featured image

    Digital Lifecycle of Building Envelopes

    <p>“The digital transformation will change everything” – with this quote in mind a deep look into the current facade business will be given with a…

  • Laminated Security Glazing

    Glass is an essential component for any type of building. Its transparency enhances daylighting and provides occupants a view to the outside. Whether

  • Addressing Embodied Carbon

    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and

  • Facade Design Beyond Buildings

    <p>At the core of facade design is the concept of interdisciplinarity, a bridge between concept and materialization apt to relay a built form…

  • Envelope For Service featured image

    Envelope For Service

    <p>Envelope-for-Service (E4S) is a novel business model developed with the aim of converting the building façade from a traditionally traded good to…

  • City Development and Cladding Design featured image

    City Development and Cladding Design

    <p>High-rise buildings in growing cities could become more vulnerable to variations in wind flow due to the continuous changes in urban topology. The…

  • Facade & ESG

    <p>In 2023, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) inaugurated the first two global sustainability disclosure standards IFRS S1/S2…

  • Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon

    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to quantify the impact of building construction supply chains on the environment in terms of

  • Inside the Box featured image

    Inside the Box

    <p>The trend towards modular and unitized facades continues to grow in popularity due largely in part to the efficiencies gained in terms of cost and…

  • Structuring Skin featured image

    Structuring Skin

    <p>Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows…

  • Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework featured image

    Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework

    <p>Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme…

  • Parametric Facade Design featured image

    Parametric Facade Design

    <p>Parametric Design has become an invaluable tool for complex tasks like designing energy efficient buildings when joined to performance-based…

  • Reduce, Reuse, Reclad featured image

    Reduce, Reuse, Reclad

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

  • Behind the Surface

    <p>The architectural facade, like clothing for a building's form, serves as both an aesthetic expression and a protective veil, concealing the inner…

  • Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades

    <p>With the developments in production, industrial facilities lost their function and were abandoned over time. The most frequent and often the most…

  • Doubling Mies featured image

    Doubling Mies

    <p>Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw…