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Carbon Lean Facades
- Paper by Stefanie Schober · Jonce Walker, LEED AP, Certified Sustainable Building Advisor, and Fitwel Ambassador
With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based

March 19, 2020
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February 8–15, 2023

Passive House Revisited - 2 Part
Forum by Facade Tectonics Institute, Inc.
Facade Tectonics Forum: MONTERREY
- Event by Facade Tectonics Institute
May 08, 2023
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May 18, 2023

Facade Tectonics Forum: CHICAGO
- Chicago, United States
- 12:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
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Forum by Facade Tectonics Institute, Inc.
Mapping Advanced Facades
- Paper by David Russell Lehrer · Vito Lamberti
This paper describes the development of an interactive map that highlights case studies of advanced facade design strategies and technologies from

August 15, 2024
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

October 11, 2022
Facade performance in the absence of fossil fuel
- Article by Christian Cianfrone
July 13, 2021
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November 5, 2020

Facade Tectonics Forum: NYC
- 1:00pm - 5:00pm
FTI's half-day NYC Forum will take place virtually on Thursday, November 5, 2020, hosted by the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York. Join us for this year’s virtual event themed Pandemic Pantry: Digesting Covid-19 and Understanding the Lessons for Building and Facade Systems..

Forum by Facade Tectonics Institute, Inc.
Facade Engineering for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Paper by Mikkel K. Kragh,
What does the fourth industrial revolution mean to the design and engineering of facades of the future? We are experiencing a global technological…
March 23, 2020
Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements
- Paper by Uta Pottgiesser, Angel Ayón,
Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern…
March 23, 2020
The Great Spandrel Glass Debate
- Paper by Richard Green SE PE P.Eng CPEng IntPE APEC Engineer M.ASCE M.IEAust, Principal / Owner
As we change the rules of thermal performance for facades, we are changing the conditions the glass is subject to in shadow boxes and glazed spandrel…
September 2, 2024
Architectural Shape Optimization
- Paper by Patricia Edith Camporeale, PhD, Posdoc researcher
This paper explores the architectural shape optimization of typical housing typologies: slab and high-rise residential buildings to reduce primary…
February 24, 2020
Environmentally Responsible Wood Cladding
- Paper by Pratibha Chauhan, Workplace Strategist Doug Bergert, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Project Designer, Associate
This case study focuses on the solutions provided for the Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota. Our design team worked with the client to…
January 29, 2020
The ABCs of ZNE
- Event by Verdical Group
The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

November 25, 2020
The ABCs of ZNE
- Event by Verdical Group
The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

November 18, 2020
The ABCs of ZNE
- Event by Verdical Group
The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

November 11, 2020
The ABCs of ZNE
- Event by Verdical Group
The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

November 04, 2020
The ABCs of ZNE
- Event by Verdical Group
The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

October 28, 2020
The ABCs of ZNE
- Event by Verdical Group
The journey to a zero net energy (ZNE) future starts with renovating the current paradigm of building design. The way buildings are designed today needs a retrofit in thinking so new projects meet the challenges of the global climate crisis.

October 21, 2020
Predictive Modeling in an Automated Building Facade
- Paper by Troy Nolan Peters PhD, Associate Professor
Computer simulations of an automated dynamic facade in a passively heated and cooled building by using predictive modeling of short-term future…
March 15, 2020