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Combustible Cladding
- Paper by Juliet Landler
When it comes to the subject of building enclosure in Australia, one topic has eclipsed all others in recent years: combustible cladding. It has even

March 22, 2020
Sustainable Silicone
- Paper by Jon Kimberlain · Adrienne Bowman-Grittini · Stanley Yee
Silicone materials have a long history in high performance building projects. Known for durability, they can reduce a building’s carbon footprint by

January 24, 2020
Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls
- Paper by Brock DeSmit, Partner Jessica Hong, Lead Designer Becher Eli Neme, Principal, Founder
<p>Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017…

March 17, 2020
Determination of Interlayer Structural Properties for Use in Laminated Glass Design
- Paper by Michael Härth, Dipl.-Ing. (FH), M.Sc., Dr.-Ing., Research Scientist Stephen J Bennison, B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D., Research Fellow Steven R Sauerbrunn, B.Sc., Ph.D., Thermal Analysis Engineer
<p>We have seen rapid expansion in the last decade of laminated glass design using modern analytical and computational methods. Essential to the…

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
Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades
- Paper by Amira Abdel-Rahman, Elnaz Tafrihi,
<p>Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and…

March 14, 2018

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