The Vertical Campus Facade
<p>Case study of the recently opened John A. Paulson Center for New York University in Manhattan reviews design solutions of façade depth and scale…
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Effective Facade Modularization
<p>Facade systems of various transparent and opaque materials and systems are increasingly becoming integrated components of modularized facade…
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Facades for High-Performance Workplaces
<p>How has the role of the façade evolved in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing fight to combat the climate change crisis? As companies…
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Efficiency-Driven Facade Optimization
<p>As overall project schedules continue to contract and rising costs impact our design decisions, the importance of the design-assist phase for…
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Embodied Carbon Of Timber Unitized Curtain Wall
<p>The building envelope is at the intersection of embodied and operational emissions. Curtain wall specifically could play an important role in…
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Highly Efficient Façades with Innovative Shading and Light Control
<p>The Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) on the Allston Campus is the largest new building at Harvard University in recent decades with a…
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A Burning Question Revisited
<p>In recent decades the use of unitized glazing systems has become increasingly common especially for high-rise construction. The opaque panels in…
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The Monash Woodside Building
<p>Today’s environmental challenges highlight the necessity of a holistic approach to façade design and construction, key to achieve the ambitious…
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Case Study: Kao Ho Hospital Development, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
<p>U-shaped annealed profiled glass, or U channel glass is used in both the interior and exterior glass façade for decades, as it has long and…
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The Craft of Building Enclosures
<p>This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke…
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Inside the Box
<p>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…
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Novel Thermal Break Solution
<p>Thermal-break-blanket technology is a novel and high-performance thermal break solution for aluminum curtain walls. The thermal-break-blanket is…
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Unitized Curtain Wall
<p>Unitized curtain wall has become ubiquitous in contemporary facade design and construction due to advantages associated with speed of erection,…
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Transitions Between Diverse Envelope Systems
<p>The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California features an extremely diverse set of facade systems within…
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Terracotta 1912 to 2018
<p>Center Three is a 100-year-old, one million square-foot building in Long Island City, New York that was constructed over the course of one year.…
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Structuring Skin
<p>Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows…
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Ballistic and Blast Integrated Design
<p>Increased security needs have led to a demand in enhanced curtain wall facade performance. In addition to thermal, acoustic, and structural…
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A Compact, Unitized Double Skin Facade
<p>Driven by an increasing demand for high thermal and acoustic performance, transparency, and low maintenance costs, a number of facade innovations…
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The Seismic Capability of Curtainwalls
<p>The testing of aluminum/glass curtainwalls for seismic capability, mainly inter-story drift, has been carried out on many curtainwalls over the…
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Execution Ways
<p>Business Insider has described San Francisco’s Chase Arena as setting “<em>a new standard for a sports arena in the US</em>”, and “<em>the…