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  • Skin Deep: Health, Wellness, and the Facade System

    Here we are, a full year after the initial COVID-19 surge rocked the United States. It’s hard to believe we’ve been living through the pandemic for a full year at this point; and yet it also feels like it’s been multiple years. We are beginning to see glimmers of hope on the horizon as more people..

  • 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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    Separating Direct From Diffuse

    <p>An Enclosure-Integrated, Daylighting, Tracking Solar Collector (EIDTSC) has been developed for market which integrates into a building’s…

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    End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design

    <p>In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building…

  • Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance featured image

    Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance

    <p>High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy…