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  • Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency

    • Paper by Berardo Matalucci PhD · Edward Palka AIA LEED AP BD+C · Jennifer Siqueira LEED AP · Jenny Lin · Coles Jennings PE, BEMP, LEED AP BD+C · Alex Chapin · Sameer Kumar AIA · Nadine Bergen AIA LEED AP · Christopher Sharples AIA

    With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing competing

  • Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study

    • Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Ph.D. · Helena Zambrano, AIA

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

  • High-Performance Building Facades

    • Event by University of Massachusetts Amherst

    For architects, designers, engineers, manufacturers, consultants, and owners' representatives interested in methods for designing high-performance facades.

  • Integrated Building Control System

    • Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Ph.D. · Keith Graeber, PE · Andrew Harper, PE · Michael Siminovitch, Ph.D.

    Integrated management of commercial lighting, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems is considered as one of the most promising 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…

  • Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms

    • Paper by Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP · Neil Katz, AIA

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

  • 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,

  • Environmental Facade Perspective

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

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

  • The ABCs of ZNE

    • Event by Verdical Group

    The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

  • The ABCs of ZNE

    • Event by Verdical Group

    The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

  • The ABCs of ZNE

    • Event by Verdical Group

    The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

  • The ABCs of ZNE

    • Event by Verdical Group

    The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

  • The ABCs of ZNE

    • Event by Verdical Group

    The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

  • The ABCs of ZNE

    • Event by Verdical Group

    The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

  • Introducing FacadeRetrofit.org

    • Press Release

    Los Angeles, CA – July 16, 2015 - While most of the green building dialog focuses on new construction, many have recognized that the fastest and most effective way to improve energy efficiency of the building sector is by remedying our existing building stock.

  • Facade Tectonics Forum: Simulation vs. Reality

    The gap between simulated and actual energy performance has hobbled progress towards important carbon reduction goals in buildings and urban habitat. This summit advocates the need for improved energy modeling and the development of best practices, with emphasis on the building façade.

  • Passive House Facade Design and Construction

    • Paper by Louis Koehl, AIA, CPHD

    Buildings account for over 40% of global emissions (GlobalABC, 2018). Growing populations and higher standards of living are increasing pressure on

  • Optimized Adaptive Re-Use

    • Paper by Matthew Parker · John Souleles

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