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Form Follows Well-Being
- Paper by David Bjelland M.Sc., Research Assistant Prof. Dr. sc. hum. MArch Dipl.-Ing. Timo Schmidt, Professor
Recent planning recognizes a growing demand for buildings that provide higher levels of occupant well-being. Often, well-being in buildings is…
October 11, 2022
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
Episode 05: 2020 World Congress Series | Put Your Sweater On!
- Podcast by Eric Haas, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C
Dive deeper into the top papers from the 2020 World Congress! We invite you to tune in to the second episode of the series with Eric Haas, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal at DSH // Architecture, who will be speaking about his winning paper, "Put Your Sweater On! A Case for Low Performance."

July 16, 2020
Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency
- Paper by Berardo Matalucci PhD, Director, Environmental Design Edward Palka AIA LEED AP BD+C, Designer Jennifer Siqueira LEED AP, Associate Jenny Lin, Associate Coles Jennings PE, BEMP, LEED AP BD+C, Sr. Energy and Sustainability Engineer Alex Chapin, Energy Engineer II Sameer Kumar AIA, Director, Enclosure Design Nadine Bergen AIA LEED AP, Project Director Christopher Sharples AIA, Principal
With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing competing…
March 19, 2020
Circadian Daylight Performance of the Electrochromic Glazing
- Paper by Ahoo Malekafzali. PhD.
Electrochromic windows introduced to building market as a smart glare control solution to provide visual comfort for building occupant. EC glazing

March 15, 2020
U-Factor Matters in Hot Climates
- Paper by Helen Sanders, PhD
It is commonly thought that fenestration U-factor is not a key determinant in the performance of facades in hot climates, and generally the focus of

January 27, 2020
Thermal Performance of Closed Cavity Facades
- Paper by Andrea Zani · Carmelo Guido Galante · Lisa Rammig
Closed cavity facades (CCF), a configuration of Double Skin Facade (DSF), consists of a double-glazed unit on the inner layer and single glazing on

January 22, 2020
A Study on the Impact of Hospital Facade Opening Focusing Outdoor Exposure on Waiting Room Experience
- Paper by Iftekhar Rahman, Associate Professor
The paper will try to study the impact of window opening on waiting room experience of patients in an eye hospital along with their attendants. As…
March 21, 2020
Put Your Sweater On!
- Paper by Eric Haas, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
During the particularly cold first months of 1977 President Jimmy Carter, in what some call “The Sweater Speech,” famously noted how much energy

January 22, 2020