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  • Optimized Adaptive Re-Use featured image

    Optimized Adaptive Re-Use

    <p>Contemporary building practice represents a disconnect between traditional manufacturing techniques, that favor straight runs and orthogonal…

  • 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…

  • The Glass Failure Prediction Model

    ASTM E 1300 Standard Practice for Determining Load Resistance (LR) of Glass in Buildings defines the load resistance of a glass construction as being

  • Glazing Design By ASTM E 1300 featured image

    Glazing Design By ASTM E 1300

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

  • Glass Balustrade Design

    <p>Glass handrail design in the United States lags behind best practice in other parts of the world. There can be as much as a factor of four (4)…

  • Control Tower Glass Design

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

  • 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…

  • Thermal Stress Analysis in Glass

    <p>The use of glass in windows and curtain walls in residential as well as in commercial buildings needs to be designed very carefully. In addition…

  • Mapping Advanced Facades

    <p>This paper describes the development of an interactive map that highlights case studies of advanced facade design strategies and technologies from…

  • Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study featured image

    Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study

    <p>Daylighting is a key strategy to energy efficiency and improved occupant comfort, health, and productivity in buildings. However, providing…

  • Hybrid Timber featured image

    Hybrid Timber

    <p>This case study provides an overview of building hybrid curtain wall system and future opportunities for the use of timber. It will also review…

  • Stainless Steel 101 featured image

    Stainless Steel 101

    <p>This paper presents a summary of the industry advances beyond T304 and T316 austenitic stainless steels. The greater availability of precipitation…

  • Fit for the Future

    <p>Wearables protect us from climatic conditions, they provide privacy, comfort and they also reflect our style and personality. Building facades in…

  • The Butterfly featured image

    The Butterfly

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

  • Process of Repair Evaluation featured image

    Process of Repair Evaluation

    <p>As the building stock ages around the country and the consequences of design and/or construction that are deficient or lack resiliency become…

  • Lightning Protection as Building Envelope

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

  • International Facade Education featured image

    International Facade Education

    <p>Globalization in the construction industry has brought about new demands for buildings and construction projects, new demands that still need to…

  • 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…

  • Mixed Reality in Facade Education featured image

    Mixed Reality in Facade Education

    <p>Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design…