Sustainable Retrofit Strategies for an Existing Laboratory Building
This paper analyzes sustainable retrofit strategies for an existing research laboratory building, located in a cold climate. This facility is compose…
This paper analyzes sustainable retrofit strategies for an existing research laboratory building, located in a cold climate. This facility is compose…
3.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria created the foundation for life on Earth by producing the oxygen basis for our atmosphere. Should we once again …
The trend towards modular and unitized facades continues to grow in popularity due largely in part to the efficiencies gained in terms of cost and ti…
It was a challenging design problem: supply a sustainable material for roofing, soffit and fascia panels that would perform in close proximity to the…
For over 60 years architects, engineers, and consultants have been specifying stainless steels for use in building skins and in some structural appli…
The paper will try to study the impact of window opening on waiting room experience of patients in an eye hospital along with their attendants. As di…
Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces, and to therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate resil…
In the last twenty years we have seen the development of polymer interlayers for laminated glass where the resin compositions have been optimized for…
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs projects a world population growth of over three billion over our current, nearly eight …
Transposing innovation from government funded research to commercially viable solutions becomes ever more important when combined with the urgent nee…
There were good why reasons early US Modernism first evolved in California– wide open sites with no constraints (physical or zoning), and effectively…
Dynamic architectural lighting in urban areas is a key element in creating attractive nighttime icons in addition to potentially generating advertise…
Nowadays the construction industry is characterised by high multifunctional and complex buildings with innovative facade systems. Unlike a simple pre…
Due to material and technological advancement during the last century, transparency has become a prominent trend in contemporary architecture. Howeve…
Historical published weathered annealed failure data consisting of 13 samples were collected and glass failure prediction model surface flaw paramete…
Today's sustainability in architecture takes into consideration the complete life cycle of buildings and their components, from resource harvesting a…
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and build…
The prominence of climatically responsive building facades through the use of kinetics has proliferated in recent years due to a concern for the redu…
With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing competing …
A novel shading device for facade application was developed by combining innovative geometry elements (twisting cylinders) with a smart use of shape-…