Papers

18 results

  • Translation from Concept to Construction featured image

    Translation from Concept to Construction

    • Paper by Ryan Donaghy, AIA, Senior Associate, Enclosure Design Matthew Spahr, PE, Associate / Facade Engineer

    Fidelity between the built enclosure and early visualizations is rarely, if ever, an accident. When achieved, it comes as the result of persistent ef…

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    International Facade Education

    • Paper by James Doerfler, Uta Pottgiesser,

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

  • Slipping through the Cracks featured image

    Slipping through the Cracks

    • Paper by Jason Siwek P.E., Project Manager

    We construct building enclosures to keep the elements out, but sometimes air and water infiltrate the building envelope, causing several problems for…

  • Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon featured image

    Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Paulina Szpiech, Associate - Facade Engineering Valerie Leon-Green, Facade Engineer Shivanie Rambaran, Graduate Energy Analyst

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

  • Active and Energy Autonomous Window featured image

    Active and Energy Autonomous Window

    • Paper by Annalisa Andaloro, Leire Minguez Hilera, Stefano Avesani,

    Reducing GHG emissions related to energy use in buildings is a prominent obligation given their impact in terms of climate change. In this light, ene…

  • Facade Maintenance Access

    • Paper by Carmen Chun, MEng, P.Eng., LEED® AP · Leonard Pianalto MSc (Civil), P.Eng., LEED® AP, FEC

    Facades are an architectural feature and an integral part of the building enclosure. To ensure that the facades continue their function, they must be…

  • Saving Face featured image

    Saving Face

    • Paper by Xsusha CarlyAnn Flandro, FAIC, APT-RP, Architectural Conservator

    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…

  • The First Triple Certified Facade featured image

    The First Triple Certified Facade

    • Paper by Stephen Katz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate

    Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific Re…

  • Preserving a Historic Facade featured image

    Preserving a Historic Facade

    • Paper by Maria Mohammed, S.E., Design Engineer John Fidler, RIBA, Intl Assoc AIA, FRICS, FSA, FRSA, FIIC, FAPT, President

    Environmental and socio-economic benefits of sustainable preservation have become apparent most recently in the restoration of the historic former Ma…

  • Renewing Historic Facades featured image

    Renewing Historic Facades

    • Paper by Christine Reynolds, PE, Principal Hans Thummel, AIA, LEED AP BD+C,

    As the first phase of a $4 billion dollar, 180-acre, 60 building government preservation project in Washington DC, this case study reviews the envelo…

  • Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements featured image

    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…

  • Paul Rudolph's Christian Science Building featured image

    Paul Rudolph's Christian Science Building

    • Paper by Scott Murray,

    This paper presents new historical research on the concrete facade of an important but relatively unknown and now demolished building by the American…

  • Renewing Two Saarinen Icons featured image

    Renewing Two Saarinen Icons

    • Paper by David N. Fixler, FAIA, Gary Tondorf-Dick, AIA, LEED AP, Katherine S. Wissink, PE, Matthew B. Bronski, PE,

    Kresge Auditorium and the MIT Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1955, are both world renowned works of architecture and powerful symbols…

  • Architectural Ceramic Assemblies

    • Paper by Omar Khan · Bill Pottle · Mitchell Bring

    This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo (SUNY) a…

  • Put Your Sweater On! featured image

    Put Your Sweater On!

    • Paper by Eric Haas, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Adjunct Associate Professor

    During the particularly cold first months of 1977 President Jimmy Carter, in what some call “The Sweater Speech,” famously noted how much energy coul…

  • Contextualizing Glass and Carbon Impacts

    • Paper by Kayla Natividad, PhD, WELL AP, LEED Green Associate · Kyle Sword

    Climate change goals will require significant improvements in the way buildings are constructed and operated. Building reuse can combat climate chang…

  • Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades

    • Paper by Bahar Basarir, PhD · Hatice Yasemin Cakir

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

  • Mixed Reality in Facade Education featured image

    Mixed Reality in Facade Education

    • Paper by Phillip Anzalone AIA, Professor Amber Bartosh, RA LEED AP BD+C, Professor

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