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
<p>Facades and electric lighting systems are, for the most part, still considered as separate systems throughout the design, installation,…
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Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower
<p>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…
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Episode 06: 2020 World Congress Series | End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design
Dive deeper into the top papers from the 2020 World Congress! We invite you to tune in to the third episode of the series with Rebecca Hartwell, PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge, who will be speaking about her winning paper, "End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design."
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Net Zero Tower
John Neary describes a collaborative Advanced design Studio at City Tech that involved Permasteelisa, Skanska and Onyx Solar, with links to the published student works.
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Xilinx Case Study
<p>The transformation of a dark and inhumane 1970s tilt-up concrete office building into a high performance, light-filled modern workplace was…
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Orbit Tower
While most of high-rise buildings feature a core surrounded by a spatial frame defining the volume, one could envision a column-free plan where the
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Hydrophobic Stainless Steel Surfaces
<p>There is no doubting the longevity of stainless steel building facades. The Chrysler Building and numerous buildings that followed have stood the…
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Infinite Panel System
Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.
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End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design
In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building
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Sustainable Silicone
<p>Silicone materials have a long history in high performance building projects. Known for durability, they can reduce a building’s carbon footprint…
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Optimized Adaptive Re-Use
Contemporary building practice represents a disconnect between traditional manufacturing techniques, that favor straight runs and orthogonal
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Predictive Modeling in an Automated Building Facade
<p>Computer simulations of an automated dynamic facade in a passively heated and cooled building by using predictive modeling of short-term future…
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Carbon Lean Facades
<p>With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based…
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Passive House Facade Design and Construction
Buildings account for over 40% of global emissions (GlobalABC, 2018). Growing populations and higher standards of living are increasing pressure on
