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Teaching Facades
- Paper by Alex Terzich,
As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a dee…

March 14, 2018
Execution Ways
- Paper by Viswanath Urala, P.E., Senior Engineer Prakash R. Desai, P.E., S.E., Senior Structural Engineer
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 …

March 22, 2020
Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements
- Paper by Uta Pottgiesser, Angel Ayón,
Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern arch…

March 23, 2020
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…

March 14, 2018
Seismic Design of Jumbo Glass Structures
- Paper by Alfonso E. Lopez, P.E., CEO David Dunham, P.E., Director of Business Development
The design of structural glass systems continues to evolve with the parallel development of new manufacturing technology. Improvements in the manufac…

March 15, 2020
Challenges of Tall Iconic Building Retrofit
- Paper by Hamid Vossoughi, P.E., P. Eng.
Change happens, for better or for worse, to all living and physical matter. In order to thrive and achieve longevity, we constantly need to adapt to …

March 14, 2018