Papers

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  • Duplex Stainless Steel Cladding featured image

    Duplex Stainless Steel Cladding

    • Paper by Fred Deuschle, Director of Engineering & Quality Jim Halliday, Director of Business Development

    It was a challenging design problem: supply a sustainable material for roofing, soffit and fascia panels that would perform in close proximity to the…

  • Lightning Protection as Building Envelope

    • Paper by Jennifer Morgan · Michael Chusid, RA FCSI CCS

    A building’s envelope mitigates the effects of meteorological phenomena – including lightning – upon the structure and its occupants and contents. Th…

  • Hurricane-acoustic Glazing Barriers Using New Interlayer Technology featured image

    Hurricane-acoustic Glazing Barriers Using New Interlayer Technology

    • Paper by Stephen J Bennison, B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D., Research Fellow Alejandro G Gonzalez, Sales and Marketing Charles Anthony Smith, Research Scientist Rebecca L Smith, Research Scientist Takuya Kobayashi, Research Scientist Toshiyuki Iguchi, Engineering Manager

    In the last twenty years we have seen the development of polymer interlayers for laminated glass where the resin compositions have been optimized for…

  • Finally

    • Paper by Michael Mulhern

    For over 60 years architects, engineers, and consultants have been specifying stainless steels for use in building skins and in some structural appli…

  • Specifying Commercial Aluminum Finishes featured image

    Specifying Commercial Aluminum Finishes

    • Paper by Ben Mitchell, MBA,

    Many factors will influence coating selection, but to achieve the desired performance level for a given situation, coatings must be specified based u…

  • Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework

    • Paper by Fabio Favoino · Adèle Chalumeau · Audrey Aquaronne

    Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme events …

  • HydroSKIN featured image

    HydroSKIN

    • Paper by Christina Eisenbarth, M.Sc., Research Associate Walter Haase, Dr.-Ing., Managing Director of CRC1244, Head of Working Groups Lucio Blandini, Prof. Dr.-Ing. M.Arch., Professor and Head of the Institute Werner Sobek, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c., Senior Professor

    Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces, and to therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate resil…

  • Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements featured image

    Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements

    • Paper by Uta Pottgiesser, Angel Ayón,

    Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern arch…

  • Facing Density

    • Paper by Wendy Cox,

    The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs projects a world population growth of over three billion over our current, nearly eight …

  • Condensation Study of Windows

    • Paper by Ajla Aksamija · Suncica Milosevic · Helen Sanders · Alexandra Blakeslee

    This paper discusses a simulation study of different window systems, where heat transfer simulations were performed to investigate thermal performanc…

  • Shadow Box Design

    • Paper by Mark Walsh

    Shadow boxes are commonly used in curtain wall construction, but can be problematic if not designed and detailed correctly and appropriately for the …

  • Verifying Thermal Performance

    • Paper by Matthew Herman · Mark Walsh

    Architects specify curtain wall thermal performance criteria and usually identify simple modeling software, like THERM, to perform thermal analysis t…