Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency
With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing competing …
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Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study
Daylighting is a key strategy to energy efficiency and improved occupant comfort, health, and productivity in buildings. However, providing desired a…
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Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance
High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficie…
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Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms
Facade design is a key component of architectural expression, and increasingly a key design consideration due to growing importance of factors like: …
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Active and Energy Autonomous Window
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…
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Environmental Facade Perspective
Designing a sustainable rainscreen wall assembly has become an essential part of most new construction projects. Industry principles and energy codes…
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Passive House Facade Design and Construction
Buildings account for over 40% of global emissions (GlobalABC, 2018). Growing populations and higher standards of living are increasing pressure on t…
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Evaluating Additive Manufacturing for Metallic Facade Components
The state-of-the-art of Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D printing, shows its prospective future in the Architecture-Engineering-Con…
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Optimized Adaptive Re-Use
Contemporary building practice represents a disconnect between traditional manufacturing techniques, that favor straight runs and orthogonal geometri…
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Transparent Aerogel Window
Incorporating a novel, transparent monolithic aerogel into insulated glass units (IGUs) for windows and building enclosures will provide the equivale…
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Glass and Electromagnetic Eavesdropping Protection
Glass is a key component in building design. Benefits of utilizing Insulating Glass Units (IGUs) within a building facade are well understood, includ…
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Adaptable Glazing Shields
Today, about 40% of all buildings in the U.S. still have single-pane windows, and ~70% of the existing building stock is estimated to suffer from und…
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A Burning Question Revisited
In recent decades the use of unitized glazing systems has become increasingly common especially for high-rise construction. The opaque panels in unit…
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Fire Safety in High Rise Exterior Facades
One of the most complex yet least understood areas where fire can spread is at the perimeter of a building. Fire can not only spread from floor-to-fl…
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Addressing Embodied Carbon
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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Performance-based Facade Framework
Buildings have a considerable impact on the environment, and it is crucial to consider environmental and energy performance in building design. Build…
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Retrofit Options for Historic Facades
Building design criteria requires that government buildings be designed for a variety of extreme loads including blast, hurricane, and impact conditi…
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Envelope For Service
Envelope-for-Service (E4S) is a novel business model developed with the aim of converting the building façade from a traditionally traded good to a c…
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Sustainable Silicone
Silicone materials have a long history in high performance building projects. Known for durability, they can reduce a building’s carbon footprint by …
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The First Triple Certified Facade
Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific Re…