Towards Net Zero Enclosures
As architects and designers we understand the urgency of addressing the building sector’s role in the ongoing environmental crisis. Architecture2030…
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Episode 09: Ted Kesik on SKINS
Special guest Ted Kesik, PhD, Professor of Building Science at the University of Toronto, joins us to discuss everything from digital workflows and durability to embodied carbon and resilience.
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Deep green skins: Façade assembly design for adaptive capacity, durability, and disassembly
The façade system is a potent potential lever for bringing transformative change to buildings and urban habitat in the pursuit of carbon reduction and net zero carbon goals. Nothing in architecture combines attributes of appearance and performance as does the building façade.
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No timid steps: Be bold and generous!
...the design and construction industries are notoriously resistant to change, putting them on a collision course with the many cities, states, and provinces that are moving ahead of national standards in keeping with declared intentions to dramatically cut their carbon emissions this decade.
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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.… -
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Sustainable Façades
Transposing innovation from government funded research to commercially viable solutions becomes ever more important when combined with the urgent
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Prefab Facades – from Prototype to Product?
Building envelopes are not only an immediately visible part of the building, they have also become a major factor both for cost and performance of
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Positive impact: A strategic plan for building retrofit implementation
Hamid Vossoughi talks facade retrofits: the importance of and how to
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Environmental Facade Perspective
Designing a sustainable rainscreen wall assembly has become an essential part of most new construction projects. Industry principles and energy codes… -
Xilinx Case Study
The transformation of a dark and inhumane 1970s tilt-up concrete office building into a high performance, light-filled modern workplace was enabled
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Net Zero Tower
John Neary describes a collaborative Advanced design Studio at City Tech that involved Permasteelisa, Skanska and Onyx Solar, with links to the published student works.
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End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design
In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building
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Tree Magic - The Overstory
In this Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Richard Powers a series of fables is woven through a narrative populated by an expansive cast of unlikely characters, trees paramount among them; one a giant redwood named Mimas. Redwoods can live for thousands of years and grow to well over 300 feet tall.