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Episode 11: Embodied Carbon
Special guests Jennifer O'Connor from Athena Sustainable Materials Institute, Anthony Pak from Priopta, and Stacy Smedley from Skanska join us to discuss embodied carbon.
Special guests Jennifer O'Connor from Athena Sustainable Materials Institute, Anthony Pak from Priopta, and Stacy Smedley from Skanska join us to discuss embodied carbon.
The state-of-the-art of Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D printing, shows its prospective future in the
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
Incorporating a novel, transparent monolithic aerogel into insulated glass units (IGUs) for windows and building enclosures will provide the
Driven by an increasing demand for high thermal and acoustic performance, transparency, and low maintenance costs, a number of facade innovations
In 2023, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) inaugurated the first two global sustainability disclosure standards IFRS S1/S2 to
<p>The real estate market continues to demand “all glass” buildings often to the detriment of human comfort and thermal performance. For an office…
Designing a multi-functional building envelope as an architectural façade, environmental interface and solar collector is a multi-objective
Glass is a key component in building design. Benefits of utilizing Insulating Glass Units (IGUs) within a building facade are well understood,
Glass as a building material plays a very important role in modern architecture, determines our visual landscape, and fulfills practical functions
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.
The transformation of a dark and inhumane 1970s tilt-up concrete office building into a high performance, light-filled modern workplace was enabled
One of the most complex yet least understood areas where fire can spread is at the perimeter of a building. Fire can not only spread from
<p>An innovative lightweight ceramic precast composite panel is introduced in this paper that offers the unique benefits of prefabricated off-site…
Over the years, the industry has relied heavily on the increasing performance of low-e coatings to drive window U-factors (thermal transmittance)
Being part of the European Façade Network efn, an association of ten research and education entities throughout Europe, I would like to share my experiences of last year’s conferences and research activities with this brief contribution.
In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of