Papers

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  • Edge Lighting Glazing with Hidden Fixtures featured image

    Edge Lighting Glazing with Hidden Fixtures

    • Paper by Dave McCarroll, Dan Weinreber, Lei Fu,

    Dynamic architectural lighting in urban areas is a key element in creating attractive nighttime icons in addition to potentially generating advertise…

  • Multi Layer Facades

    • Paper by Robert Moisy

    The history of high performance facades and glazing has been a tale of attempting to manage the conflicting requirements of, on one hand inviting con…

  • Addressing Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Helen Sanders, PhD · Adam Nizich

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

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    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    • Paper by Roman Schieber, Thorsten Helbig,

    Steven Holl Architects designed two new buildings in the Museum District in Houston, Texas. Knippers Helbig is the facade consultant of both projects…

  • Prefab Facades – from Prototype to Product?

    • Paper by Lisa Rammig · Andrea Zani · Tim Murphy

    Building envelopes are not only an immediately visible part of the building, they have also become a major factor both for cost and performance of th…