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Structural Silicone Glazing
- Paper by Jon Kimberlain, Senior Scientist Yvonne Diaz, Senior Research Specialist Andrew Dunlap, Principal Adrienne Bowman-Grittini, Technical Service & Development Leader
The recent 50 year anniversary of the first use of silicone sealant in a 4-sided structural silicone glazing application marks a sustainable and…
October 11, 2022
Finally
- Paper by Michael Mulhern,
For over 60 years architects, engineers, and consultants have been specifying stainless steels for use in building skins and in some structural…
October 11, 2022
Design Principles For Museum Daylight Systems
- Paper by Edgar Stach, PhD, Professor, Director Michael Esposito, Senior Building Analyst
This research unlocks the relationship between space, structure and light in nine unique museums developed by architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano uses…
October 11, 2022
Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades
- Paper by Bahar Basarir, PhD, PhD from Research Assistant to Assistant Professor Hatice Yasemin Cakir, Research Assistant
With the developments in production, industrial facilities lost their function and were abandoned over time. The most frequent and often the most…
October 11, 2022
Case Study: Kao Ho Hospital Development, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Paper by Jerry Ma, jerry.t.ma@dow.com Jason JS Lin, Project Manager
U-shaped annealed profiled glass, or U channel glass is used in both the interior and exterior glass façade for decades, as it has long and durable…
October 11, 2022
ETFE Membrane Envelope Strategies
- Paper by Audrey L Worden, ISSF, Principal + Founding Partner Kihong R. Ku, DDes, Associate Professor, Design Technology and Architectural Innovation, Adaptive Envelopes Alexander G. Worden, RA NCARB, Principal + Founding Partner
Airflow within the cavity of double-skin facades is a key component of adaptive building envelopes which change thermophysical properties to meet…
October 11, 2022
Rethinking Building Skins
- Paper by Eugenia Gasparri, Lecturer in Architectural Technologies Arianna Brambilla, Senior Lecturer in Architecture Gabriele Lobaccaro, Associate Professor in Solar Design and Building Performance Simulation Francesco Goia, Professor of Building Physics Annalisa Andaloro, Senior Researcher Alberto Sangiorgio, Principal Façade Engineer
Building skins play a pivotal role in architecture. Other than the aesthetical and architectural aspects, facades are key to the climate performance,…
October 11, 2022
Modeling Megapanels
- Paper by Elizabeth Bishop, AIA, LEED AP, Creative Design Director Emily Green, NCARB, LEED GA, Associate Lisa Podesto, PE, Timber & Innovations Specialist
Large format, steel-stud framed “megapanel” facades with rainscreen cladding create uniquely complicated requirements for digital documentation and…
October 11, 2022
Facade Technology in Educational Methodology
- Paper by Roger Schroeder, Lecturer Joseph A. Ebert, Professor
With facades becoming increasingly more complex, and performance a key objective, expertise becomes an important component of successful design…
October 11, 2022
Laminated Security Glazing
- Paper by Vaughn Schauss,
Glass is an essential component for any type of building. Its transparency enhances daylighting and provides occupants a view to the outside. Whether…
October 11, 2022
Adaptive Building Envelope
- Paper by Abolfazl Ganji Kheybari, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Jochen Lam,
Designing a multi-functional building envelope as an architectural façade, environmental interface and solar collector is a multi-objective…
October 10, 2016
Addressing Embodied Carbon
- Paper by Helen Sanders, PhD, General Manager Adam Nizich, Senior Consulting Engineer
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and…
October 11, 2022
Artwork Becomes Facadework: A Collaboration with Olafur Eliasson
- Paper by Stephen Katz, Technical Director
What is the difference between artwork and facadework? How can artwork be integrated into building façades? What are the possibilities when a façade…
October 11, 2022
Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower
- Paper by Stephen Katz, Technical Director
Few buildings are as iconic as Willis Tower. Generations of Chicagoans have a collective memory of this building playing a role in their entire…
October 11, 2022
Contextualizing Glass and Carbon Impacts
- Paper by Kayla Natividad, PhD, WELL AP, LEED Green Associate, Architectural Technical Service Engineer Kyle Sword, Manager Business Development
Climate change goals will require significant improvements in the way buildings are constructed and operated. Building reuse can combat climate…
October 11, 2022
Advances in Laminated Glass Engineering
- Paper by Richard Green PE (WA, NY, TX, CO, OR, MT), M.IEAUST CPEng, NER(Aus), APEC Engineer, IntPE(Aus), RBP(Vic), Principal - Owner
The stability of monolithic glass fins is reasonably well defined; as an elastic material it behaves in a similar manner to other elastic materials…
October 11, 2022
The Craft of Building Enclosures
- Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Project Architect
This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke façade…
October 11, 2022
Condensation Study of Windows
- Paper by Ajla Aksamija, Professor and Chair Suncica Milosevic, PhD Student Helen Sanders, General Manager Alexandra Blakeslee, Innovation & Projects
This paper discusses a simulation study of different window systems, where heat transfer simulations were performed to investigate thermal…
October 11, 2022
Advances in Effective Thickness
- Paper by Adam J Nizich, P.E., Senior Consulting Engineer Andrea M. La Greca, P.E., Consulting Engineer Laura Galuppi, PhD, Assistant Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics
Effective thickness is a simplified method for the structural evaluation of laminated glass section properties. The method consists of defining the…
October 11, 2022
Facing Density
- Paper by Wendy Cox,
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs projects a world population growth of over three billion over our current, nearly eight…
December 1, 2022