Environmental Facade Perspective
<p>Designing a sustainable rainscreen wall assembly has become an essential part of most new construction projects. Industry principles and energy…
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Digital Lifecycle of Building Envelopes
<p>“The digital transformation will change everything” – with this quote in mind a deep look into the current facade business will be given with a…
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Laminated Security Glazing
<p>Glass is an essential component for any type of building. Its transparency enhances daylighting and provides occupants a view to the outside.…
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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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Facade Design Beyond Buildings
<p>At the core of facade design is the concept of interdisciplinarity, a bridge between concept and materialization apt to relay a built form…
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Establishing a Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Innovative Facade
<p>Life cycle assessment was introduced in the 1970s as an analytical tool to quantify the environmental impact of a product, process, or service.…
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Envelope For Service
<p>Envelope-for-Service (E4S) is a novel business model developed with the aim of converting the building façade from a traditionally traded good to…
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City Development and Cladding Design
<p>High-rise buildings in growing cities could become more vulnerable to variations in wind flow due to the continuous changes in urban topology. The…
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Facade & ESG
<p>In 2023, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) inaugurated the first two global sustainability disclosure standards IFRS S1/S2…
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Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to quantify the impact of building construction supply chains on the environment in terms of
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Inside the Box
<p>The trend towards modular and unitized facades continues to grow in popularity due largely in part to the efficiencies gained in terms of cost and…
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Structuring Skin
<p>Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows…
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Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework
<p>Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme…
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Parametric Facade Design
<p>Parametric Design has become an invaluable tool for complex tasks like designing energy efficient buildings when joined to performance-based…
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Reduce, Reuse, Reclad
Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered precious metal, is a practice of celebrating the life and history of an
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Behind the Surface
<p>The architectural facade, like clothing for a building's form, serves as both an aesthetic expression and a protective veil, concealing the inner…
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Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades
With the developments in production, industrial facilities lost their function and were abandoned over time. The most frequent and often the most
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Evaluating Additive Manufacturing for Metallic Facade Components
<p>The state-of-the-art of Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D printing, shows its prospective future in the…
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Doubling Mies
Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw
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New Course on Building Façade Design Developed at Oklahoma State University
A façade, which is also called a ‘secondary structural system’, typically separates the exterior from the interior of a building. In recent times,