Papers

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  • Environmental Facade Perspective

    • Paper by Patricia Shaw, M Arch., MSc Facade Engineering

    Designing a sustainable rainscreen wall assembly has become an essential part of most new construction projects. Industry principles and energy codes

  • Digital Lifecycle of Building Envelopes

    “The digital transformation will change everything” – with this quote in mind a deep look into the current facade business will be given with a

  • Laminated Security Glazing

    • Paper by Vaughn Schauss

    Glass is an essential component for any type of building. Its transparency enhances daylighting and provides occupants a view to the outside. Whether

  • Addressing Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Helen Sanders, PhD · Adam Nizich

    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and

  • Facade Design Beyond Buildings

    • Paper by Michele Andaloro · Enrica Oliva · Lucio Blandini

    At the core of facade design is the concept of interdisciplinarity, a bridge between concept and materialization apt to relay a built form

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    Envelope For Service

    • Paper by Annalisa Andaloro, Miren Juaristi, Stefano Avesani, Giulia Santoro, Matteo Orlandi,
    Envelope-for-Service (E4S) is a novel business model developed with the aim of converting the building façade from a traditionally traded good to a…
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    City Development and Cladding Design

    • Paper by Hadil Abdallah, Building Sciences Consultant Girma Bitsuamlak, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Wind Engineering at the University of Western Ontario Hamid Vossoughi, PE, P. ENG., Senior Principal
    High-rise buildings in growing cities could become more vulnerable to variations in wind flow due to the continuous changes in urban topology. The…

  • Facade & ESG

    • Paper by Vikki Lew,
    In 2023, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) inaugurated the first two global sustainability disclosure standards IFRS S1/S2 to…

  • Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Paulina Szpiech · Valerie Leon-Green · Shivanie Rambaran

    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to quantify the impact of building construction supply chains on the environment in terms of

  • Inside the Box

    • Paper by Michael Plewacki

    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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    Structuring Skin

    • Paper by John Neary,
    Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows flexibility…

  • Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework

    • Paper by Fabio Favoino · Adèle Chalumeau · Audrey Aquaronne

    Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme events

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    Parametric Facade Design

    • Paper by Patricia E. Camporeale, María del Pilar Mercader Moyano,
    Parametric Design has become an invaluable tool for complex tasks like designing energy efficient buildings when joined to performance-based…
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    Reduce, Reuse, Reclad

    • Paper by Daniel Nauman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Senior Associate Jessica Santonastaso, Associate Jennifer Sze, RA, USGBC LEED AP, Principal and Director of Special Inspections
    Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered precious metal, is a practice of celebrating the life and history of an…

  • Behind the Surface

    • Paper by Damon Caldwell,
    The architectural facade, like clothing for a building's form, serves as both an aesthetic expression and a protective veil, concealing the inner…

  • Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades

    • Paper by Bahar Basarir, PhD · Hatice Yasemin Cakir

    With the developments in production, industrial facilities lost their function and were abandoned over time. The most frequent and often the most

  • Doubling Mies

    • Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI

    Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw