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Skin Deep: Health, Wellness, and the Facade System
- Article by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP, SKINS Content Editor
Here we are, a full year after the initial COVID-19 surge rocked the United States. It’s hard to believe we’ve been living through the pandemic for a full year at this point; and yet it also feels like it’s been multiple years. We are beginning to see glimmers of hope on the horizon as more people..

March 30, 2021
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.

March 14, 2018
Rammed Earth & Wildfire
- Paper by Brittany Dhawan, AIA, Architect / Owner
<p>California is set to be drier and more drought prone with climate change. Wildfire and the subsequent loss of life and housing is a huge…

March 19, 2020