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  • Seismic Design of Jumbo Glass Structures

    • Paper by Alfonso E. Lopez, P.E. · David Dunham, P.E.

    The design of structural glass systems continues to evolve with the parallel development of new manufacturing technology. Improvements in the

  • Terracotta 1912 to 2018

    • Paper by Carol Loewenson, FAIA, LEED AP · Stephen Dietz, AIA, LEED AP

    Center Three is a 100-year-old, one million square-foot building in Long Island City, New York that was constructed over the course of one year. It

  • Innovations with Glass

    • Paper by Jens Schneider · S. Müller-Braun · T. Peters · M. Schuster

    Glass has become a popular building material that is used not only for windows but also as a load-bearing material. New dimensions of glass panes in

  • Designing with Photovoltaics

    • Paper by Wayne Walker · Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C · Sam Crawford

    Photovoltaics (PV) have been utilized in buildings for decades, especially in Europe where legislative support has largely driven the market. With

  • Mastery of Measurement

    • Paper by Joshua Zabel

    The conventional approach to specifying dimensional tolerances in architecture and construction is inadequate in the theater of premanufacturing

  • All-Glass Bearing Facades

    • Paper by Erwin ten Brincke

    The Green Village at the TU Delft is a living lab for sustainable innovations. The Co Creation Centre (CCC) will be their new meeting center (13.5 x

  • Addressing climate change through façade design - Vaclav Hasik

    • Article by Vaclav Hasik

    There is a growing awareness and interest in understanding the carbon footprint of material manufacturing, opening doors to new opportunities in facade design and manufacturing innovation. There are steps and decisions we can make today to help fight climate change.

  • Doubling Mies

    • Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI

    Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw

  • Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades

    • Paper by Amira Abdel-Rahman · Elnaz Tafrihi

    Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and

  • The Seismic Capability of Curtainwalls

    • Paper by Peter Lalas MIEAust CPEng NER APEC Engineer IntPE(Aus)

    The testing of aluminum/glass curtainwalls for seismic capability, mainly inter-story drift, has been carried out on many curtainwalls over the last

  • Towards Net Zero Enclosures

    • Paper by Jessica Santonastaso, AIA · Alan Estabrook, AIA

    As architects and designers we understand the urgency of addressing the building sector’s role in the ongoing environmental crisis. Architecture2030

  • Printed Facades? Cases of Additive Manufacturing in the Building Envelope

    • Article by Philipp L. Rosendahl · Chris Borg Costanzi · Philipp A. Chhadeh · Robert Akerboom · Benedikt Waldschmitt · Alexander Wolf · Marvin Kehl · Ulrich Knaack

    This paper, written by a team at the Technical University at Darmstadt, uses examples of 3D printed structural glass, reinforced thin-sheet façade panels, and nesting bricks that can be integrated directly into facades to support work successful industrial applications.

  • Integrated Energy Analysis

    • Paper by Greg Verabian · Saurabh Shrestha · Laure Michelon

    Energy codes across the country are progressively getting stricter and increasing the threshold for a baseline building’s energy performance.

  • Solid Surface Material for Facades

    • Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP

    Navigating the building code, while challenging in any respect, can be even trickier when considering the use of emerging materials on building