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Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance
- Paper by Brian Fraumeni, Associate, Project Designer Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C, Sustainability Strategist Adam Moqrane, Intern
High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy…
May 22, 2020
Connecting Composites to Sustainability: Probabilistic LCA, Industrialized Construction, and Digital Twinning
- Article by Michael D. Lepech
Material flows of the fossil fuel industry, from exploration and extraction to distribution and combustion, are massive on a global scale. In 2019, the world produced approximately 80 million barrels of crude oil per day, with most being used as a feedstock for combustible fuels.

March 29, 2022
Growing Myceliated Facades
- Paper by Thibaut Houette, M. Arch., Integrated Bioscience PhD student Brian Foresi, Biomedical Sciences (BS/MD) student Christopher Maurer, AIA, NCARB, Founder and Principal Architect Dr. Petra Gruber, Assoc. Prof.
Today's sustainability in architecture takes into consideration the complete life cycle of buildings and their components, from resource harvesting…
March 15, 2020
Facade & ESG
- Paper by Vikki Lew,
In 2023, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) inaugurated the first two global sustainability disclosure standards IFRS S1/S2 to…
September 2, 2024
HydroSKIN
- Paper by Christina Eisenbarth, M.Sc. · Walter Haase, Dr.-Ing. · Lucio Blandini, Prof. Dr.-Ing. M.Arch. · Werner Sobek, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c.
Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces, and to therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate

October 11, 2022
The Monash Woodside Building
- Paper by Alberto Sangiorgio, Principal Façade Engineer Andrew Cortese, Managing Partner and Design Director - Sydney Office Walter van der Linde, Lead Engineer, Buildings Mechanical
Today’s environmental challenges highlight the necessity of a holistic approach to façade design and construction, key to achieve the ambitious 2030…
October 11, 2022
Sustainable simplicity and the future of exterior wall for research and education buildings
- Paper by Carl Knutson · Andrei Koshelev
Today, there is a shift towards sustainable simplicity in facades, embracing material innovations and thermal design strategies for long-term

December 03, 2024
The First Triple Certified Facade
- Paper by Stephen Katz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate
Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific…
January 22, 2020
Why SKINS?
- Article by Mic Patterson, PhD LEED AP+, Editor, SKINS
Here’s the thing about the building SKIN: It is utterly unique in the built environment in separating the interior and exterior environments, balancing attributes of both appearance and performance in the process. It’s the gateway to resilience and sustainability goals in urban habitats.

June 27, 2020
The Facade Tectonics Institute announces Facades Week: LA!
- Announcement
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.

September 19, 2019
Environmentally Responsible Wood Cladding
- Paper by Pratibha Chauhan, Workplace Strategist Doug Bergert, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Project Designer, Associate
This case study focuses on the solutions provided for the Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota. Our design team worked with the client to…
January 29, 2020
Evaluating Additive Manufacturing for Metallic Facade Components
- Paper by Natasa Mrazovic, M. Arch. Eng., M.C.E., Martin Fischer,
The state-of-the-art of Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D printing, shows its prospective future in the…
March 14, 2018
Episode 04: 2020 World Congress Series | The First Triple Certified Facade
- Podcast by Stephen Katz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Dive deeper into the top papers from the 2020 World Congress! We invite you to tune in to the first episode of the series with Stephen Katz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C who will be speaking about his winning paper, "The First Triple Certified Facade: Merging sustainability and Building well-being."

July 09, 2020