Establishing a Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Innovative Facade
Life cycle assessment was introduced in the 1970s as an analytical tool to quantify the environmental impact of a product, process, or service.
Life cycle assessment was introduced in the 1970s as an analytical tool to quantify the environmental impact of a product, process, or service.
The design of complex, high-performance facades involves balancing attention towards principles of material selection, thermal and moisture
<p>Facades must be responsive to a myriad of qualities and influences ranging from urban impact and aesthetic character to numerous performance…
Daylighting is a key strategy to energy efficiency and improved occupant comfort, health, and productivity in buildings. However, providing desired
Daylighting & Solar Glare control, which affect both the energy consumption of the building as well as the comfort of the occupants, become
Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the geometries
The research is structured around complex optical effects of undulated glass and coatings that exhibit high reflectivity, especially at higher
<p>Glass by nature is a reflective material, and it is well-known and documented that issues of glare can occur due to solar reflection. This…
<p>With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing…
<p>Electrochromic windows introduced to building market as a smart glare control solution to provide visual comfort for building occupant. EC glazing…
High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy
Daylighting is often an important component of architectural design and heavily influenced by a building’s facade and enclosure systems. Unlike many
New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of
The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on
<p>Understanding how a building will reflect sunlight has gone from a rare requirement to a key consideration during the planning permission process…
Photovoltaics (PV) have been utilized in buildings for decades, especially in Europe where legislative support has largely driven the market. With
<p>An assessment workflow was created to simulate and evaluate the performance of a kinetic facade in an interior space. It includes parameters of…
Allowing sufficient amount of natural light while avoiding excessive sunlight penetration is often hard to achieve with static facade systems due to
Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and