Search

285 results

  • Facade Expansion Joint Systems featured image

    Facade Expansion Joint Systems

    • Paper by Kevin W. Smith, PE, CWI, Engineering Manager
    As awareness around the seismic performance of buildings grows, it is becoming increasingly necessary to integrate seismic expansion joint cover…

  • Sustainable Silicone

    • Paper by Jon Kimberlain · Adrienne Bowman-Grittini · Stanley Yee

    Silicone materials have a long history in high performance building projects. Known for durability, they can reduce a building’s carbon footprint by

  • The Graduate Building Science program at USC is outstanding. Join us!

    • Article by Douglas E. Noble, PhD, FAIA, Director of the Chase L. Leavitt Graduate Building Science Program, Chair of the Ph.D. Program and Co-Founder of the CLIPPER Lab School of Architecture

    Performance attributes are gradually eclipsing those of appearance as people-centric and zero-impact design comes to dominate practices of buildings and urban habitat. Doug Noble has a message for those interested in preparing for a leadership role in the emerging future of the built environment.

  • 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…

  • Facade Technology in Educational Methodology

    • Paper by Roger Schroeder · Joseph A. Ebert

    With facades becoming increasingly more complex, and performance a key objective, expertise becomes an important component of successful design

  • Advanced Simulation for Thermal Stress Assessment

    • Paper by Andrea Zani · Jamie Reyes · Guido Lori · Jacob Hanke · Giacomo Zangiacomi

    In recent years, the desire for increased performance, transparency and visual flatness of glazing elements in curtain walls has generated renewed

  • Novel Thermal Break Solution

    • Paper by Yuzhen Steve Zhou

    Thermal-break-blanket technology is a novel and high-performance thermal break solution for aluminum curtain walls. The thermal-break-blanket is

  • Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes featured image

    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…

  • Teaching Facades

    • Paper by Alex Terzich

    As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a

  • The Craft of Building Enclosures

    • Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP

    This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke façade

  • 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)

  • The Performative Double-Skin

    • Paper by Jeffrey Abramson, AIA, LEED AP · Alejandra Menchaca, PhD, LEED AP, WELL AP

    Double-Skin Facades (DSF) are well-known to boost the thermal performance of a façade: they can provide extra insulation in the wintertime and lower

  • Specifying Commercial Aluminum Finishes

    • Paper by Ben Mitchell, MBA

    Many factors will influence coating selection, but to achieve the desired performance level for a given situation, coatings must be specified based

  • Historical Evolution of Responsive Facades

    • Paper by Negar Heidari Matin, Ph.D. Candidate, LEED GA · Ali Eydgahi, Ph.D. · Shimming Shyu, Ph.D., RA, LEED AP BD+C · Payam H. Matin, Ph.D.

    Responsive facade system is considered a major component of high-performance building envelope that is capable of responding to environmental stimuli

  • A Compact, Unitized Double Skin Facade

    • Paper by Alex Cox, LEED AP · James Hock, LEED AP BD+C · Laura Ziegler · Karin Lamberts

    Driven by an increasing demand for high thermal and acoustic performance, transparency, and low maintenance costs, a number of facade innovations

  • 3D thermal modelling of complex facades

    • Paper by Wout Parys · Piet Houthuys

    Today’s building enclosures face ever greater demands regarding their thermal performance. In cold climates, the required total U-value of the façade

  • European Facade Networks featured image

    European Facade Networks

    • Paper by Ulrich Knaack, Uta Pottgiesser, Tillmann Klein, Andreas Luible, Siebe Bakker,
    The European climate and energy targets for 2020 demand significant improvement of the energy performance of buildings since one third of the…