Papers

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  • Printed Facades?

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

    While additive manufacturing (AM) offers unprecedented freedom of design and a remarkable potential for material efficiency and lightweight

  • Embodied Carbon Of Timber Unitized Curtain Wall

    • Paper by Isabelle Hens, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, EIT · Sophie Pennetier · Simon Schleicher

    The building envelope is at the intersection of embodied and operational emissions. Curtain wall specifically could play an important role in

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    Highly Efficient Façades with Innovative Shading and Light Control

    • Paper by Klaus Reuschle, Project Director Robert Matthew Noblett, Partner Michelle Siu-Ching Lee, Roman Schieber, Associate Director ppa.

    <p>The Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) on the Allston Campus is the largest new building at Harvard University in recent decades with a…

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    Go Big or Go Home!

    • Paper by Patrick Loughran, FAIA, PE, LEED AP, Richard Barrett, AIA, Senior Associate

    <p>This paper will focus on the design and detailing of large-format glass enclosures intended to maximize transparency using state-of-the-art…

  • Green Façade/Roofs Design Tool featured image

    Green Façade/Roofs Design Tool

    • Paper by Abolfazl Ganji Kheybari, Researcher and Building Physics Expert Morteza Kasravi, Computer Scientist

    <p>Climate change and related thermal issues, draw attention to the impact of green facades and roofs on energy savings and thermal comfort. Besides,…

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    A Burning Question Revisited

    • Paper by Stéphane Pierre Hoffman, shofffman@morrisonhershfield.com

    <p>In recent decades the use of unitized glazing systems has become increasingly common especially for high-rise construction. The opaque panels in…

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    Environmental Facade Perspective

    • Paper by Patricia Shaw, M Arch., MSc Facade Engineering, Facade Specialist

    <p>Designing a sustainable rainscreen wall assembly has become an essential part of most new construction projects. Industry principles and energy…

  • Facade Maintenance Access

    • Paper by Carmen Chun, MEng, P.Eng., LEED® AP · Leonard Pianalto MSc (Civil), P.Eng., LEED® AP, FEC

    Facades are an architectural feature and an integral part of the building enclosure. To ensure that the facades continue their function, they must be

  • Smart Colored Window Technology

    • Paper by Negar Heidari Matin · Seyed Mojtaba Mirabedini · Zhina Rashidzadeh

    Traditional architecture can be a valuable source of inspiration for designers. Sustainable design concepts in traditional architecture have been

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    The Facade and Energy Codes

    • Paper by Elliot Glassman,

    <p>Ever-increasing performance requirements in the latest version of the energy codes are compelling project teams to consider the thermal…

  • Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place

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

    Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications,

  • Insulating Glass Unit Gas Loss

    • Paper by Mark K. Schmidt, M.Eng., S.E., Principal and Unit Manager Stephen M. Morse, PhD, P.E., Assistant Professor

    <p>Concerns over time-dependent argon permeation through the perimeter edge seals of insulating glass units (IGUs) led the authors to utilize two…

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    Thermal Bridging and Building Facades

    • Paper by Ivan Lee,

    <p>Thermal bridging through building façades have been overlooked by designers and building energy codes and standards in the past, which has led to…

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    Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design

    • Paper by Prateek Jain, LEED, Senior Environmental Designer Isabelle Hens, LEED GA, WELL AP, EIT,

    <p>In the last few years, the design community has embraced the challenge of reducing embodied carbon in buildings. Several tools are now available…

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    The Carbon Footprint of Aluminum Fenestration

    • Paper by Tom Bougher, Director of Applied Research Richard Braunstein, Vice President of R&D

    <p>The historical focus on reducing the carbon footprint of a building has recently shifted to include more emphasis on embodied carbon, the carbon…

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    Transparent Aerogel Window

    • Paper by Bryan Toton, ENV SP, CEO

    <p>Incorporating a novel, transparent monolithic aerogel into insulated glass units (IGUs) for windows and building enclosures will provide the…

  • Comparison of Historical Weathered Annealed Glass Failure Data to ASTM E1300

    • Paper by Nabhajit Goswami; Student, ngoswami@mtu.edu Stephen M Morse; Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Michigan Tech University, smmorse@mtu.edu

    <p>Historical published weathered annealed failure data consisting of 13 samples were collected and glass failure prediction model surface flaw…

  • Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Paulina Szpiech · Valerie Leon-Green · Shivanie Rambaran

    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to quantify the impact of building construction supply chains on the environment in terms of