Papers

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  • End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design featured image

    End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design

    • Paper by Rebecca Hartwell, PhD Candidate Mauro Overend, Professor of Structural Design & Mechanics

    In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building en…

  • Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes

    • Paper by Sridharan Gandhi · Andrew Tsay Jacobs, AIA, EIT, LEED AP BD+C · Karen Kensek, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope wil…

  • Performance-based Facade Framework

    • Paper by Mahsa Minaei · Ajla Aksamija

    Buildings have a considerable impact on the environment, and it is crucial to consider environmental and energy performance in building design. Build…

  • Fire Safety and Code Challenges for Mass Timber in Curtain Wall Systems featured image

    Fire Safety and Code Challenges for Mass Timber in Curtain Wall Systems

    • Paper by David Barber, Principal John Neary, Senior Associate, Senior Facade Specialist Mic Patterson PhD LEED AP+, Ambassador of Innovation & Collaboration

    With the desire for more sustainable construction and reduced embodied energy, mass timber is being explored for building structures. For medium and …

  • Green Façade/Roofs Design Tool featured image

    Green Façade/Roofs Design Tool

    • Paper by Abolfazl Ganji Kheybari, Researcher and Building Physics Expert Morteza Kasravi, Computer Scientist

    Climate change and related thermal issues, draw attention to the impact of green facades and roofs on energy savings and thermal comfort. Besides, by…

  • Environmental Facade Perspective featured image

    Environmental Facade Perspective

    • Paper by Patricia Shaw, M Arch., MSc Facade Engineering, Facade Specialist

    Designing a sustainable rainscreen wall assembly has become an essential part of most new construction projects. Industry principles and energy codes…

  • Architectural Shape Optimization

    • Paper by Patricia Edith Camporeale, PhD

    This paper explores the architectural shape optimization of typical housing typologies: slab and high-rise residential buildings to reduce primary en…

  • Evaluating The Environmental Performance Of Stick Curtain Wall Systems

    • Paper by Dima Othman, B.A.Ing., M.Eng., LEED AP Daniel Arztmann, Dipl.-Ing., M.Eng., EFN, FTI Professor for Façade Construction, Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen Lippe (TH-OWL) Head of Building Physics,

    The construction industry is one of the greatest sources of pollution, where 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions are attributed to building…

  • Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance featured image

    Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance

    • Paper by Brian Fraumeni, Associate, Project Designer Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C, Sustainability Strategist Adam Moqrane, Intern

    High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficie…

  • Terra Cotta Skins featured image

    Terra Cotta Skins

    • Paper by Laura B. Garofalo, Assistant Professor

    This paper will address the potential of ornamental architectural terracotta surfaces to mitigate the effects of climate fluctuations that will creat…

  • Sustainable Silicone

    • Paper by Jon Kimberlain · Adrienne Bowman-Grittini · Stanley Yee

    Silicone materials have a long history in high performance building projects. Known for durability, they can reduce a building’s carbon footprint by …

  • Designing with Photovoltaics featured image

    Designing with Photovoltaics

    • Paper by Wayne Walker, Associate, Project Architect Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C, Sustainability Strategist Sam Crawford, Intern

    Photovoltaics (PV) have been utilized in buildings for decades, especially in Europe where legislative support has largely driven the market. With ne…

  • Exo-Skins

    • Paper by Nick Braaksma · Malini Srivastava, AIA · Chad Ulven

    Cost-effective, sustainable, self-actuating, thermally-responsive, bio-composite exo-skins that act like shields or cloaks for existing buildings cou…

  • 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…

  • Infinite Panel System featured image

    Infinite Panel System

    • Paper by Mike Ryan, Director of Product Development Facades Division Brian Stern, Regional Energy Director Michael Adams, Senior Energy Analyst

    Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.…

  • Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms featured image

    Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms

    • Paper by Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP, Assistant Professor Neil Katz, AIA, Associate

    Facade design is a key component of architectural expression, and increasingly a key design consideration due to growing importance of factors like: …

  • Reconfigurable Terracotta Facade featured image

    Reconfigurable Terracotta Facade

    • Paper by Jin Young Song, Associate Professor Dan Vrana, Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the SMART Factory Jonathan Hopp, Assistant Professor, Alfred University Shawn Murrey, Senior Kiln Specialist, Alfred University Jiatao Wu, Graduate student Jongmin Shim, Associate Professor

    The traditional building facade as a permanent construction does not actively respond to the differing needs from varying weather conditions. Convent…

  • The Butterfly featured image

    The Butterfly

    • Paper by Venelin Kokalov, Design Principal Shinobu Homma, Architect AIBC, AAA, MRAIC, Technical Principal Amirali Javidan, Associate Director Zhuoli Yang, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, Architect

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

  • Multi-domain Assessment of a Kinetic Facade featured image

    Multi-domain Assessment of a Kinetic Facade

    • Paper by Kunyo Luo, Master of Building Science Karen Kensek, LEED AP BD+C, DPACSA, Professor of Practice Marc Schiler, FASES, Professor

    An assessment workflow was created to simulate and evaluate the performance of a kinetic facade in an interior space. It includes parameters of energ…