Papers

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  • Silicone Spandrel Glass Opacifiers featured image

    Silicone Spandrel Glass Opacifiers

    • Paper by Scott Norville, Samir Blanchet, George Torok, Kris Vockler, John Swanson, Chris Barry, Lawrence Carbary, Stephane Hoffman, Timothy Krytenberg, Chris Fronsoe,

    <p>Curtain wall design commonly uses insulating glass units for vision and spandrel glazing to provide better visual harmonization of building facade…

  • In Factory Commissioning

    • Paper by Robert Golda

    Factory inspection visits are vital, yet they unfortunately have a habit of being overlooked. The factory inspection process during the Building

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    Hydroformed Shading

    • Paper by Michelle Siu-Ching Lee, Architect Robert Matthew Noblett, Partner Roman Schieber, Associate Director

    <p>New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of…

  • Facade with Innovation featured image

    Facade with Innovation

    • Paper by YU Hui, Director JIN Shihui, Project Manager

    <p>Shanshui City and Star Bund Center can be considered as representative projects of RFR Shanghai recently Both provide creative solutions for…

  • Ballistic and Blast Integrated Design featured image

    Ballistic and Blast Integrated Design

    • Paper by James Hock, LEED AP BD+C, Marc Zobec, Alberto Franceschet, Guido Lori,

    <p>Increased security needs have led to a demand in enhanced curtain wall facade performance. In addition to thermal, acoustic, and structural…

  • Determination of Surface Flaw Parameters for Annealed and Fully Tempered Glass Exposed to NaCl

    • Paper by Nabhajit Goswami, PhD, Senior Facade Engineer Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP, Associate Professor Patrick Ferro, PhD, PE, MBA, Professor Stephen M Morse, PhD, PE, Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Affiliated Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering

    <p>The use of glass in the exterior facades provides greater light transmission into the building and improved views for occupants. Coastal areas in…

  • The Facade and Energy Codes featured image

    The Facade and Energy Codes

    • Paper by Elliot Glassman,

    <p>Ever-increasing performance requirements in the latest version of the energy codes are compelling project teams to consider the thermal…

  • Transitions Between Diverse Envelope Systems featured image

    Transitions Between Diverse Envelope Systems

    • Paper by Kristian Fosholt, LEED AP BD+C, Megan Koehler, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Andrew Tsay Jacobs, AIA, EIT, LEED AP BD+C,

    <p>The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California features an extremely diverse set of facade systems within…

  • Corrugated-geometry Copper and Glass Facade featured image

    Corrugated-geometry Copper and Glass Facade

    • Paper by Marko Tomsic, PE, Project Consultant John A. Jackson, AIA, Senior Project Manager

    <p>The subject of this case study is the design and construction of a custom corrugated-geometry facade featuring pre-patinated copper and glass for…

  • Preserving a Historic Facade featured image

    Preserving a Historic Facade

    • Paper by Maria Mohammed, S.E., Design Engineer John Fidler, RIBA, Intl Assoc AIA, FRICS, FSA, FRSA, FIIC, FAPT, President

    <p>Environmental and socio-economic benefits of sustainable preservation have become apparent most recently in the restoration of the historic former…

  • Rammed Earth & Wildfire

    • Paper by Brittany Dhawan, AIA

    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 challenge.

  • Efficiency-Driven Facade Optimization

    • Paper by Earl Patrick, Director of Design Jeffrey Vaglio, Executive VP, Enclos Tensile Structures (ETS)

    <p>As overall project schedules continue to contract and rising costs impact our design decisions, the importance of the design-assist phase for…

  • 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

  • The Thermal Blanket Concept featured image

    The Thermal Blanket Concept

    • Paper by Bharat Patel, PE, CEM, LEED AP, Michael Bulander, AIA, LEED AP,

    <p>This paper tells the story of a Double Skin Facade (DSF), where high performance and multi-disciplinary collaboration saves a library concept of…

  • Build Test Iterate Repeat featured image

    Build Test Iterate Repeat

    • Paper by Elizabeth L McCormick, RA, CPHC, LEED AP, Assistant Professor

    <p>The global increase in atmospheric temperature rise combined with the rapid growth of previously underdeveloped climate zones presents a growing…

  • Facade Mock-ups featured image

    Facade Mock-ups

    • Paper by Andy Lang, AScT, Principal / Facade Specialist

    <p>Curtain walls and window walls are typically specified to meet a variety of different performance and testing criteria, some of which can be quite…

  • Solar Reflection Mitigation featured image

    Solar Reflection Mitigation

    • Paper by Kais Al-Rawi, AIA, Associate

    <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…

  • Smart Colored Window Technology featured image

    Smart Colored Window Technology

    • Paper by Negar Heidari Matin, negar.matin@ou.edu Seyed Mojtaba Mirabedini, Visiting Professor at Eastern Michigan University Zhina Rashidzadeh, Ph.D. student at Gibbs College of Architecture

    <p>Traditional architecture can be a valuable source of inspiration for designers. Sustainable design concepts in traditional architecture have been…