Papers

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  • CR∆CKİNG THЄ C󉘳DЄ // DYN∆MİC L∆B F∆C∆DЄS

    • Paper by Amanda King, AIA, LEED AP BD&C, CPHC · Dayita Kumar, LEED GA · Daniel Nauman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, CPHC

    The real estate market continues to demand “all glass” buildings often to the detriment of human comfort and thermal performance. For an office

  • Solar Reflection Mitigation

    • Paper by Kais Al-Rawi, AIA

    Glass by nature is a reflective material, and it is well-known and documented that issues of glare can occur due to solar reflection. This phenomenon

  • OpenFacadeControl

    • Paper by Peter Grant, Technology Researcher II Tzu-Ching Su, Deputy Manager Luis Fernandes, Jordan Shackelford, Technology Researcher III Anand Prakash, Senior Scientific Engineering Associate Stephen Czarnecki, Software Developer Pei-Yu Yu, Deputy Division Director Feng-Yi Lin, Engineer

    <p>Automated facades are, for the most part, still considered as separate from other building systems throughout the design, installation,…

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    Optimized Adaptive Re-Use

    • Paper by Matthew Parker, Intern Architect John Souleles, Principal

    <p>Contemporary building practice represents a disconnect between traditional manufacturing techniques, that favor straight runs and orthogonal…

  • Impact Of Thermal Bridges On The Energy Response Of A Building

    • Paper by Ilaria Sebastiani · Riccardo Pinotti · Stefano Avesani · Simone D’Amore · Stefano Pampanin

    The European building stock is mainly constituted by highly energy demanding buildings. The only way to a more sustainable and decarbonized building

  • Facade & ESG

    • Paper by Vikki Lew,

    <p>In 2023, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) inaugurated the first two global sustainability disclosure standards IFRS S1/S2…

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    Build Test Iterate Repeat

    • Paper by Elizabeth L McCormick, RA, CPHC, LEED AP, Assistant Professor

    <p>The global increase in atmospheric temperature rise combined with the rapid growth of previously underdeveloped climate zones presents a growing…

  • Hurricane-acoustic Glazing Barriers Using New Interlayer Technology featured image

    Hurricane-acoustic Glazing Barriers Using New Interlayer Technology

    • Paper by Stephen J Bennison, B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D., Research Fellow Alejandro G Gonzalez, Sales and Marketing Charles Anthony Smith, Research Scientist Rebecca L Smith, Research Scientist Takuya Kobayashi, Research Scientist Toshiyuki Iguchi, Engineering Manager

    <p>In the last twenty years we have seen the development of polymer interlayers for laminated glass where the resin compositions have been optimized…

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    Invert Auto-Shading

    • Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Assistant Professor Doris Sung, Associate Professor

    <p>Allowing sufficient amount of natural light while avoiding excessive sunlight penetration is often hard to achieve with static facade systems due…

  • Contextualizing Glass and Carbon Impacts

    • Paper by Kayla Natividad, PhD, WELL AP, LEED Green Associate, Architectural Technical Service Engineer Kyle Sword, Manager Business Development

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

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    Vintage Vinyl

    • Paper by Michael S. Plewacki,

    <p>Mid-century through 1980’s buildings with lock-strip or “zipper-gasket” glazing systems are an ever present part of the urban landscape in many…

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    Thermal Analysis of Complex Glazing

    • Paper by Adrian Turcato, Chris Stutzki, Erik Olsen,

    <p>The use of bidirectional scattering distribution function incorporated in a transient systems simulation program, allows engineers to accurately…

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    The Carapace Pavilion

    • Paper by Douglas Noble, PhD, FAIA, Associate Dean Karen M. Kensek, DPACSA, Professor of Practice in Architecture

    <p>The Carapace Pavilion is a university-based, design-build, full-scale custom prototype for a possible replacement of the standard precast concrete…

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    Thinking About Facades

    • Paper by Marc Schiler, FASES, LC,

    <p>There have been three decades of liberating developments in the application of descriptive geometry and freeform design methods, as well as the…

  • Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades

    • Paper by Bahar Basarir, PhD, PhD from Research Assistant to Assistant Professor Hatice Yasemin Cakir, Research Assistant

    <p>With the developments in production, industrial facilities lost their function and were abandoned over time. The most frequent and often the most…

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    EUI of Building Clusters

    • Paper by Srinivas M. Rao, AIA, AICP, LEED AP,

    <p>Large master planned developments such as Battery Park City in Manhattan, Mission Bay in San Francisco, and Playa Vista in Los Angeles were built…

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    The Butterfly

    • Paper by Venelin Kokalov, Design Principal Shinobu Homma, Architect AIBC, AAA, MRAIC, Technical Principal Amirali Javidan, Associate Director Zhuoli Yang, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, Architect

    <p>Providing a unique and integral cladding/envelope solution suited for high-rise buildings has been an inherent challenge for this building…