Papers

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  • 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

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    Deconstructing the Window

    • Paper by Helen Sanders, Jörg Lenz, Petra Sommer,
    Over the years, the industry has relied heavily on the increasing performance of low-e coatings to drive window U-factors (thermal transmittance)…
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    CR∆CKİNG THЄ C󉘳DЄ // DYN∆MİC L∆B F∆C∆DЄS

    • Paper by Amanda King, AIA, LEED AP BD&C, CPHC, Dayita Kumar, LEED GA, Associate Daniel Nauman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, CPHC, Senior Associate
    The real estate market continues to demand “all glass” buildings often to the detriment of human comfort and thermal performance. For an office…

  • 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

  • Finally

    • Paper by Michael Mulhern

    For over 60 years architects, engineers, and consultants have been specifying stainless steels for use in building skins and in some structural

  • Recent Adaptive Textile Façade Systems

    • Paper by Lucio Blandini, Director, Full Professor Moon-Young Jeong, Doctoral Researcher Michael Voigt, Doctoral Researcher, IKTD, University of Stuttgart Jonathan Lopez, Doctoral Researcher Hannah Schürmann, Doctoral Researcher Arina Cazan, Research Assistant Hannah Raisch, Student Daniel Roth, Head of Research Group Methodical Product Development, IKTD, University of Stuttgart Maria Matheou, Junior Professor
    Adaptive facade systems are a promising approach to achieve a dynamic response to varying weather conditions and user demands. The interdisciplinary…
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    Structural Silicone Glazing

    • Paper by Jon Kimberlain, Senior Scientist Yvonne Diaz, Senior Research Specialist Andrew Dunlap, Principal Adrienne Bowman-Grittini, Technical Service & Development Leader
    The recent 50 year anniversary of the first use of silicone sealant in a 4-sided structural silicone glazing application marks a sustainable and…
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    DC Water Headquarters Case Study

    • Paper by Sven Shockey, Leland Curtis, David Fersh,
    Facades must be responsive to a myriad of qualities and influences ranging from urban impact and aesthetic character to numerous performance…

  • The Facade and Energy Codes

    • Paper by Elliot Glassman

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

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

  • Curved Forming Panel Facades

    • Paper by Roger Schroeder

    The performative and visual aspects of curved forming/bending thin “formable” planar materials is explored. Early tests for deflection indicate that

  • Advanced Simulation for Thermal Stress Assessment

    • Paper by Andrea Zani, Building Physics and Sustainability Leader Jamie Reyes, Senior Building Physics Engineer Guido Lori, R&D Project Manager Jacob Hanke, Senior Structural Engineer Giacomo Zangiacomi, Building Physics Leader
    In recent years, the desire for increased performance, transparency and visual flatness of glazing elements in curtain walls has generated renewed…

  • Integrated Energy Analysis

    • Paper by Greg Verabian · Saurabh Shrestha · Laure Michelon

    Energy codes across the country are progressively getting stricter and increasing the threshold for a baseline building’s energy performance.

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    Verifying Thermal Performance

    • Paper by Matthew Herman, Mark Walsh,
    Architects specify curtain wall thermal performance criteria and usually identify simple modeling software, like THERM, to perform thermal analysis…
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    Exo-Skins

    • Paper by Nick Braaksma, Malini Srivastava, AIA, Chad Ulven,
    Cost-effective, sustainable, self-actuating, thermally-responsive, bio-composite exo-skins that act like shields or cloaks for existing buildings…
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    Novel Thermal Break Solution

    • Paper by Yuzhen Steve Zhou, Technical Director - Warmframe Technology Corporation
    Thermal-break-blanket technology is a novel and high-performance thermal break solution for aluminum curtain walls. The thermal-break-blanket is…
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    Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes

    • Paper by Sridharan Gandhi, Andrew Tsay Jacobs, AIA, EIT, LEED AP BD+C, Karen Kensek, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C,
    Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope…

  • Differentiated Building Skin

    • Paper by James Warton

    The Los Angeles Stadium’s doubly curved skin is composed of over 35,000 unique triangular panels covering 296,502 square feet of surface area. The

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    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…

  • Facing Density

    • Paper by Wendy Cox,
    The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs projects a world population growth of over three billion over our current, nearly eight…