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  • Interstitial condensation risk assessment

    The development of methods to predict and control moisture accumulation in building envelopes has always been a key element in building science.

  • Infinite Panel System

    Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.

  • Creating Transformational Geometry

    Over the past two decades, the art of cold-forming glass has grown from an unknown approach to a widely accepted strategy for achieving an array of

  • Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements

    Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern

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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…

  • Contextualizing Glass and Carbon Impacts

    <p>Climate change goals will require significant improvements in the way buildings are constructed and operated. Building reuse can combat climate…

  • Addressing Embodied Carbon

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

  • The Versatile Envelope Garden

    Facades play an integral role in defining the experience of modern life. As rising populations gravitate from rural to urban communities, they bring

  • The Myth of Simplicity

    There were good why reasons early US Modernism first evolved in California– wide open sites with no constraints (physical or zoning), and effectively

  • Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls

    Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017

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    Passively Actuated Systems

    <p>Kinetic or responsive facades have been developed to improve buildings' daylighting conditions while mitigating energy consumption. Still, these…

  • In Factory Commissioning

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

  • Blast Performance of TSSA

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

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    ETFE Membrane Envelope Strategies

    <p>Airflow within the cavity of double-skin facades is a key component of adaptive building envelopes which change thermophysical properties to meet…

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    Multi Layer Facades

    <p>The history of high performance facades and glazing has been a tale of attempting to manage the conflicting requirements of, on one hand inviting…

  • Cities under Climate Threat - Philadelphia, Rome and Venice

    The impacts of climate change, driven by increasing extreme temperature, sea-level rise, and heavy precipitations, interact and play an essential