Papers

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  • North Capitol Building Case Study

    • Paper by Jeremy Simmonds, Project Manager at KEPCO+ Bruce Knaphus, President
    The Utah State Capitol North Building, currently under construction, features 80,000 SF of classically designed cubic granite detailing, including…

  • BioFacades Classification

    • Paper by Mary Ben Bonham, Kyoung Hee Kim, Professor, Director of IDRL | Founder of EcoClosure Christiane M. Herr, Professor at the School of Design, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen
    Coauthors: Mary Ben Bonham, Department of Architecture + Interior Design, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA [corresponding] [presenting at the…

  • Structural Skin

    • Paper by John Neary, Sr. Façade Specialist
    Many prominent, recent buildings feature forms suggesting structural surface while their enclosures are really non-load-bearing curtain wall. At the…

  • Design of Facade and Overhead All-Glass Structures in Building Renovations

    • Paper by Alfonso E. Lopez, P.E., Principal & CEO David Dunham, P.E., Director of Business Development Andrew Duncan, Pre-Construction Design Consultant
    The contemporary renovation of historic buildings often includes all-glass structures that allow architects to preserve the original building design…

  • Cities under Climate Threat - Philadelphia, Rome and Venice

    • Paper by Edgar Stach, Dr., Ing, AIA/IA, Professor Shreya Kanther, Ph.D Candidate Alexis Manfre, Student
    The impacts of climate change, driven by increasing extreme temperature, sea-level rise, and heavy precipitations, interact and play an essential…

  • The Great Spandrel Glass Debate

    • Paper by Richard Green SE PE P.Eng CPEng IntPE APEC Engineer M.ASCE M.IEAust, Principal / Owner
    As we change the rules of thermal performance for facades, we are changing the conditions the glass is subject to in shadow boxes and glazed spandrel…

  • Balustrade Design Loads

    • Paper by Richard Green, SE, PE, P.Eng, CPEng, IntPE, APEC Engineer, M.ASCE M.IEAust, Founding Principal Andrew Crosby PEng, Principal Terrence McDonnell, Associate Principal
    A review of balustrade practices from around the world, and why practices in United States and countries using ICC code/ASCE 7 designs are failing to…

  • Glass in GSA Buildings

    • Paper by Georgia Scalfano

    Embodied carbon in buildings is a key factor in building decarbonization and while it is generally small compared to operational carbon, the

  • Consistency In Glass Design

    • Paper by Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP, Associate Professor Grace Dojan, Graduate Student
    Glass structural elements have become increasingly common to the point of ubiquity; however, there currently is no universally recognized and…

  • A Structural Glass Design Manual

    • Paper by Richard Green PE SE P.Eng CPEng IntPE(Aust) APEC Engineer, Principal / Owner Terrence McDonnell S.E., P.E., P.Eng., SECB, Principal Andrew Crosby BASc, P.Eng., LEED® AP BD+C, Principal
    Other than limited special cases, there is a lack of standards providing guidance on the design of structural glass. This has resulted in an ad-hoc…

  • Glass Balustrade Design

    • Paper by Richard Green, PE, SE, P.Eng, CPEng IntPE(Aust), APEC Engineer · Andrew Crosby, PEng · Terrence McDonnell S.E., P.E., P.Eng., SECB

    Glass handrail design in the United States lags behind best practice in other parts of the world. There can be as much as a factor of four (4)

  • The Scope of the Structural Glass Design Manual

    • Paper by Richard Green SE PE P.Eng CPEng, Principal / Owner Andrew Crosby P.Eng LEED® AP BD+C, Principal Terrence McDonnell SE SECB PE P.Eng, Principal
    The technology of glass now allows glass to be fabricated in sizes and structural configurations not previously conceivable. The standards and codes…

  • The Vertical Campus Facade

    • Paper by Mayine Yu, AIA · Cooper Schilling, AIA, LEED AP BD+C · Jessica Young, RA

    Case study of the recently opened John A. Paulson Center for New York University in Manhattan reviews design solutions of façade depth and scale to

  • Facade & ESG

    • Paper by Vikki Lew

    In 2023, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) inaugurated the first two global sustainability disclosure standards IFRS S1/S2 to

  • Creating Transformational Geometry

    • Paper by Tom Peterson, System Designer Manager Austin Bensend, PE, SE, Director - Design Engineering
    Over the past two decades, the art of cold-forming glass has grown from an unknown approach to a widely accepted strategy for achieving an array of…

  • Fit for the Future

    • Paper by Julia Koerner-Al-Rawi

    Wearables protect us from climatic conditions, they provide privacy, comfort and they also reflect our style and personality. Building facades in the

  • OpenFacadeControl

    • Paper by Peter Grant, Technology Researcher II Tzu-Ching Su, Deputy Manager Luis Fernandes, Jordan Shackelford, Technology Researcher III Anand Prakash, Senior Scientific Engineering Associate Stephen Czarnecki, Software Developer Pei-Yu Yu, Deputy Division Director Feng-Yi Lin, Engineer
    Automated facades are, for the most part, still considered as separate from other building systems throughout the design, installation,…

  • Reglaze or Replace?

    • Paper by Angel Ayón, AIA, LEED AP · Laura Boynton, AIA, LEED AP

    Originally known as The Master Building, 310 Riverside Drive in Manhattan's Upper West Side is a 28-story tower completed in 1929 as an apartment