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Hybrid Timber
- Paper by Stacey Hooper, AIA, LEED BD+C,
This case study provides an overview of building hybrid curtain wall system and future opportunities for the use of timber. It will also review the…
March 14, 2018
Carbon Lean Facades
- Paper by Stefanie Schober, Senior Project Director Jonce Walker, LEED AP, Certified Sustainable Building Advisor, and Fitwel Ambassador, Senior Associate
With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based…
March 19, 2020
Xilinx Case Study
- Paper by Michael Martinez, LEED AP, Stet Sanborn, AIA, LEED AP, CPHC,
The transformation of a dark and inhumane 1970s tilt-up concrete office building into a high performance, light-filled modern workplace was enabled…
March 14, 2018
Shaping Skin
- Paper by John Neary AIA LEED AP NCARB
The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on

March 21, 2020
Structural Skin
- Paper by John Neary, Sr. Façade Specialist
Many prominent, recent buildings feature forms suggesting structural surface while their enclosures are really non-load-bearing curtain wall. At the…
December 13, 2016