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  • Designing Structural Laminated Glass

    Laminated glass with standard PVB has long been used for safety and security due to its ability to adhere the broken glass fragments together. As the

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    Design Digital Recipes

    <p>Precision in digital workflow is necessary to deliver facade projects where there is a high design aesthetic or structural performance…

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    Design Considerations

    <p>Window glass design using ASTM E 1300 entails determining glass thickness(es) and types so that the window glass construction load resistance…

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    Deconstructing the Window

    <p>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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    DC Water Headquarters Case Study

    <p>Facades must be responsive to a myriad of qualities and influences ranging from urban impact and aesthetic character to numerous performance…

  • Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study featured image

    Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study

    <p>Daylighting is a key strategy to energy efficiency and improved occupant comfort, health, and productivity in buildings. However, providing…

  • Curved Forming Panel Facades

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

  • Coupling Facade and Structure

    Traditional approach for engineering the facade is building an isolated analysis model. However, it inhibits a dynamic design process where

  • Controlling Anisotropy in Heat Treated Glass featured image

    Controlling Anisotropy in Heat Treated Glass

    <p>Anisotropy is also known as Brewster marks, quench marks, strain pattern, leopard spots, Iridescence, etc. Although anisotropy is inevitable when…

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    Contextual Envelopes

    <p>Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to…

  • Challenges of Tall Iconic Building Retrofit

    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

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    Ceramic Precast Composite Panels

    <p>An innovative lightweight ceramic precast composite panel is introduced in this paper that offers the unique benefits of prefabricated off-site…

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    Blast Performance of TSSA

    <p>Architectural preferences for commercial building continue towards increased transparency resulting in large lites of glass with minimal visual…

  • Ballistic and Blast Integrated Design featured image

    Ballistic and Blast Integrated Design

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

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    Architectural Ceramic Assemblies

    <p>This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo…

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    Anisotropic Effects in Architectural Glass

    <p>Iridescence effects, quench marks, leopard marks… The names given to optical anisotropy in toughened and heat-strengthened glass are diverse and…