Spandrel Glass Design Currently, most spandrel glass in commercial curtain walls comprises insulating glass fabricated using an interior heat strengthened glass lite that September 13, 2024
FTI DIALOGUES: Pushing Change Article by Valerie Block, FTI Board of Directors Pushing Change: R&D Innovation Processes in Construction Building Products, the second installment of the FTI Dialogues: Suppliers & Contractors Series, took place virtually on Friday, March 26th. March 26, 2021
Transitions Between Diverse Envelope Systems Paper by Kristian Fosholt, LEED AP BD+C · Megan Koehler, AIA, LEED AP BD+C · Andrew Tsay Jacobs, AIA, EIT, LEED AP BD+C The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California features an extremely diverse set of facade systems within one March 14, 2018
Designing Structural Laminated Glass Paper by Vaughn Schauss Laminated glass with standard PVB has long been used for safety and security due to its ability to adhere the broken glass fragments together. As the March 14, 2018
Ballistic and Blast Integrated Design Paper by James Hock, LEED AP BD+C · Marc Zobec · Alberto Franceschet · Guido Lori Increased security needs have led to a demand in enhanced curtain wall facade performance. In addition to thermal, acoustic, and structural March 14, 2018
Determination of Interlayer Structural Properties for Use in Laminated Glass Design Paper by Michael Härth, Dipl.-Ing. (FH), M.Sc., Dr.-Ing. · Stephen J Bennison, B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D. · Steven R Sauerbrunn, B.Sc., Ph.D. We have seen rapid expansion in the last decade of laminated glass design using modern analytical and computational methods. Essential to the proper March 22, 2020
Hurricane-acoustic Glazing Barriers Using New Interlayer Technology Paper by Stephen J Bennison, B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D. · Alejandro G Gonzalez · Charles Anthony Smith · Rebecca L Smith · Takuya Kobayashi · Toshiyuki Iguchi In the last twenty years we have seen the development of polymer interlayers for laminated glass where the resin compositions have been optimized for March 22, 2020