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  • United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum featured image

    United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum

    • Paper by Ilja Aljoskin PMP, Project Manager Lee Pepin, Director of Virtual Design & Construction Neil Meredith RA, Modeler
    Advanced fabrication processes combined with parametric 3D modeling give designers and architects the freedom and versatility to push the boundaries…
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    Stainless Steel 101

    • Paper by Michael Mulhern,
    This paper presents a summary of the industry advances beyond T304 and T316 austenitic stainless steels. The greater availability of precipitation…
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    Subjective Perception and Objective Measurement

    • Paper by Caroline Lama, Antonio Luz, Ashley Reed,
    Current glass industry standards provide clear tolerances for readily quantifiable physical properties to assist with the evaluation of visual…

  • Shade and Spectacle

    • Paper by Warren Techentin, FAIA, NCARB, LEED

    This paper will look at the different facades of the Elysian Fields apartment building designed by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] and

  • 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

  • The Monash Woodside Building

    • Paper by Alberto Sangiorgio · Andrew Cortese · Walter van der Linde

    Today’s environmental challenges highlight the necessity of a holistic approach to façade design and construction, key to achieve the ambitious 2030

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    Thinking About Facades

    • Paper by Marc Schiler, FASES, LC,
    There have been three decades of liberating developments in the application of descriptive geometry and freeform design methods, as well as the…

  • 3D thermal modelling of complex facades

    • Paper by Wout Parys, Partner at Physibel Piet Houthuys, Senior developer at Physibel
    Today’s building enclosures face ever greater demands regarding their thermal performance. In cold climates, the required total U-value of the façade…

  • Creating Transformational Geometry

    • Paper by Tom Peterson, System Designer Manager Austin Bensend, PE, SE, Director - Design Engineering
    Over the past two decades, the art of cold-forming glass has grown from an unknown approach to a widely accepted strategy for achieving an array of…
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    Unitized Curtain Wall

    • Paper by Brian Masuda, Kathleen Kulpa, Margaret Tyrpa,
    Unitized curtain wall has become ubiquitous in contemporary facade design and construction due to advantages associated with speed of erection, lower…

  • 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

  • Rethinking Building Skins

    • Paper by Eugenia Gasparri · Arianna Brambilla · Gabriele Lobaccaro · Francesco Goia · Annalisa Andaloro · Alberto Sangiorgio

    Building skins play a pivotal role in architecture. Other than the aesthetical and architectural aspects, facades are key to the climate performance,

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    Academic Wood Tower Choreography

    • Paper by John Peterson OAA FRAIC LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate, Director of Sustainable Design & Building Innovation Leland Dadson OAA CPHD, Project Architect, Mass Timber Specialist
    With an ever-growing interest in mid- and high-rise mass timber construction, this paper highlights the insights and lessons learned across global…

  • EUI of Building Clusters

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

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