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Fit for the Future
- Paper by Julia Koerner-Al-Rawi, Associate Adjunct Professor, Director of Summer Programs, Department of Architecture and Urban Design
Wearables protect us from climatic conditions, they provide privacy, comfort and they also reflect our style and personality. Building facades in the…
September 2, 2024
Reglaze or Replace?
- Paper by Angel Ayón, AIA, LEED AP, Principal Laura Boynton, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Associate
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…
September 2, 2024
Impact Of Thermal Bridges On The Energy Response Of A Building
- Paper by Ilaria Sebastiani, Institute for Renewable Energy Riccardo Pinotti, Institute for Renewable Energy Stefano Avesani, Institute for Renewable Energy Simone D’Amore, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering Stefano Pampanin, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering
The European building stock is mainly constituted by highly energy demanding buildings. The only way to a more sustainable and decarbonized building…
October 11, 2022
Sustainable Retrofit Strategies for an Existing Laboratory Building
- Paper by Suncica Milosevic, PhD Student Ajla Aksamija, Professor and Chair
This paper analyzes sustainable retrofit strategies for an existing research laboratory building, located in a cold climate. This facility is…
October 11, 2022
Passively Actuated Systems
- Paper by Manuel Benitez Ruiz, Student David Gerber, Associate Professor of Practice
Kinetic or responsive facades have been developed to improve buildings' daylighting conditions while mitigating energy consumption. Still, these…
October 11, 2022
Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades
- Paper by Bahar Basarir, PhD, PhD from Research Assistant to Assistant Professor Hatice Yasemin Cakir, Research Assistant
With the developments in production, industrial facilities lost their function and were abandoned over time. The most frequent and often the most…
October 11, 2022
Xilinx Case Study
- Paper by Michael Martinez, LEED AP, Stet Sanborn, AIA, LEED AP, CPHC,
The transformation of a dark and inhumane 1970s tilt-up concrete office building into a high performance, light-filled modern workplace was enabled…
March 14, 2018
Seismic Movements
- Paper by Gijs Libourel, Daniel Segraves,
A common building upgrade to add value to existing commercial real estate is the renewal of the entrance lobby. The lobby facade is replaced to give…
March 14, 2018
Retrofit Options for Historic Facades
- Paper by Carrie Davis, P.E., LEED Green Assoc., George Kantrales, Ph.D., Matt Barsotti, Andrew Schoenheit, Ty Vandergriff,
Building design criteria requires that government buildings be designed for a variety of extreme loads including blast, hurricane, and impact…
March 14, 2018
Challenges of Tall Iconic Building Retrofit
- Paper by Hamid Vossoughi, P.E., P. Eng.,
Change happens, for better or for worse, to all living and physical matter. In order to thrive and achieve longevity, we constantly need to adapt to…
March 14, 2018
Adaptable Glazing Shields
- Paper by Anas Al Kassas,
Today, about 40% of all buildings in the U.S. still have single-pane windows, and ~70% of the existing building stock is estimated to suffer from…
March 14, 2018
Slipping through the Cracks
- Paper by Jason Siwek P.E., Project Manager
We construct building enclosures to keep the elements out, but sometimes air and water infiltrate the building envelope, causing several problems for…
March 22, 2020
The Evolution of AEC Professional Silos
- Paper by David Olsen, AIA, Senior Associate Megan Leon, P.E., Design Engineer Christopher Chiuchiolo, LEED AP, Project Manager Andrea Bono, P.E., LEED AP BD+C, Senior Consulting Engineer – Building Technology Nick Rustia, P.E., Facilities Development, Project Manager Diane T Sands, MLIS, MFA, MS-GIST, Librarian
Healthcare projects in northern California require specialized knowledge to navigate regulation, technological advancements, and project execution…
January 27, 2020
Detailing For Distance
- Paper by Daniel Kelso
Quickly exceeding new facade service life expectations for tall buildings imposed by increasing environmental, economic, and social pressures have

March 19, 2020
Doubling Mies
- Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI, Associate Professor
Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw…
March 22, 2020
Preserving a Historic Facade
- Paper by Maria Mohammed, S.E., Design Engineer John Fidler, RIBA, Intl Assoc AIA, FRICS, FSA, FRSA, FIIC, FAPT, President
Environmental and socio-economic benefits of sustainable preservation have become apparent most recently in the restoration of the historic former…
March 15, 2020