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Episode 13: Resilience
Special guests Gail Napell AIA LEED AP BD+C and Rives T. Taylor FAIA, LEED Fellow of Gensler join us to address engineering and design considerations for new construction, as well as the need for adaptability of existing buildings. This episode is co-hosted by Mic Patterson and Ted Kesik.
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Facade Tectonics Institute Delivers Fifth Regional Forum at Rice University
The Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI) hosted its fifth 2019 Regional Forum in the Material Matters series at Rice University. FTI is widely recognized for producing the leading technical events focused on buildings and urban habitat through the lens of the building skin.
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The Great Spandrel Glass Debate
<p>As we change the rules of thermal performance for facades, we are changing the conditions the glass is subject to in shadow boxes and glazed…
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Carbon Lean Facades
With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based
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Transformation as Movement
In 1888 the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin proposed the notion that the primary characteristic of baroque architecture is the illusion of movement.
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Thermal Bridging and Building Facades
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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Introducing the FTI Video Library
We are excited to announce the launch of our video library featuring a selection of past live event recordings now available, exclusively to FTI members. Our events bring international audiences together to explore industry issues, trends, and emerging technologies as they relate to buildings...
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Facade Tectonics Institute Announces Second World Congress
The Facade Tectonics Institute will convene its second World Congress on March 12-13, 2018, in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California. The theme of this year’s conference, “Skins on Campus: Bridging Industry and Academia in Pursuit of Better Buildings and Urban Habitat,” focuses on the
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The Facade Tectonics Institute announces Facades Week: LA!
Amidst a groundswell of both criticism and concern over the performance of the built environment the FTI has announced Facades Week: LA!, a weeklong series of events in Los Angeles celebrating the building skin as the lynchpin of resilience and sustainability in buildings and urban habitat.
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Addressing Embodied Carbon
<p>Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and…
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Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements
<p>Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern…
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Consistency In Glass Design
<p>Glass structural elements have become increasingly common to the point of ubiquity; however, there currently is no universally recognized and…
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Curb Your Carbon, Knave!
A question for architects and building industry: Can our cities be part of the solution to the challenges facing humanity, or are they intrinsically and inevitably a big part of the problem? To move beyond the latter demands nothing less than a fundamental shift in the way we think about buildings.
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Contextual Envelopes
Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to address
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The Monash Woodside Building
<p>Today’s environmental challenges highlight the necessity of a holistic approach to façade design and construction, key to achieve the ambitious…