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Rise of the Consultant
This paper is a Case Study focused on Professional Services and will cover the past 25 years and the evolution of what is commonly referred to as the
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A circular approach to facade design
The built environment has a significant impact on our natural environment, depleting non-renewable resources, overwhelming landfill sites, and
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Facade and electric lighting integration
Facades and electric lighting systems are, for the most part, still considered as separate systems throughout the design, installation,
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Airflow Network Analysis and Control Strategy Design for Toronto High Rise
The development of a user-controllable natural ventilation scheme for a 12-story academic building in Toronto required the analysis of a complex
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A burning question
In recent decades the use of unitized glazing systems has become increasingly common especially for high-rise construction. The opaque panels in
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An Architect’s Perspective on Building Envelope Commissioning (BECx)
Designs for today’s building envelopes are more complex in design and construction as influenced by trends in new materials and manufacturing,
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Spandrel Glass Design
Currently, most spandrel glass in commercial curtain walls comprises insulating glass fabricated using an interior heat strengthened glass lite that
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The Aesthetics of Big Tech
The San Francisco Bay Area is synonymous with leading edge technology and innovation. Many of the biggest and wealthiest tech giants have huge
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Adaptive Building Envelope
Designing a multi-functional building envelope as an architectural façade, environmental interface and solar collector is a multi-objective… -
Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower
Few buildings are as iconic as Willis Tower. Generations have a collective memory of this building playing a role in their lives, but time had caught… -
Fabric-Formed Robotic Facades
The method proposed is derived from a parametric workflow that employs the precision of 6-axis robots and the flexibility of fabric to rapidly create… -
Stainless Steel 101
This paper presents a summary of the industry advances beyond T304 and T316 austenitic stainless steels. The greater availability of precipitation… -
When Facades Kill
The tragic fire of June 14, 2017 at the Grenfell Tower in London, England has brought to a very public global forum issues related to the impact of… -
Unitized Curtain Wall
Unitized curtain wall has become ubiquitous in contemporary facade design and construction due to advantages associated with speed of erection, lower… -
International Facade Education
Globalization in the construction industry has brought about new demands for buildings and construction projects, new demands that still need to take… -
Elliptical Ways
Construction projects almost invariably encounter a critical stage at the moment of handover between the designing and the executing party. At this… -
Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes
Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope… -
Verifying Thermal Performance
Architects specify curtain wall thermal performance criteria and usually identify simple modeling software, like THERM, to perform thermal analysis… -
Vertical Louvered Solar Control
Exterior shading devices, when typically used, are horizontal planes that are most effective at the south face of buildings in the northern…
