Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance
High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficie…
High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficie…
Driven by an increasing demand for high thermal and acoustic performance, transparency, and low maintenance costs, a number of facade innovations hav…
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This paper will look at the different facades of the Elysian Fields apartment building designed by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] and complet…
Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.…
In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building en…
The project represents a successful integration of a glass facade with the primary structure of the building. The choice of the building material is …
Urban noise pollution is a major environmental health problem. International organizations are making efforts to prevent health damage due to high le…
New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of hi…
Green Wall applications are growing in popularity around the world. Often thought of as a decorative element they provide much more than aesthetic ap…
Quickly exceeding new facade service life expectations for tall buildings imposed by increasing environmental, economic, and social pressures have cr…
The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on th…
Buildings account for over 40% of global emissions (GlobalABC, 2018). Growing populations and higher standards of living are increasing pressure on t…
Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific Re…
Photovoltaics (PV) have been utilized in buildings for decades, especially in Europe where legislative support has largely driven the market. With ne…
This paper explores the architectural shape optimization of typical housing typologies: slab and high-rise residential buildings to reduce primary en…
In this Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Richard Powers a series of fables is woven through a narrative populated by an expansive cast of unlikely characters, trees paramount among them; one a giant redwood named Mimas. Redwoods can live for thousands of years and grow to well over 300 feet tall.
Special guests Jennifer O'Connor from Athena Sustainable Materials Institute, Anthony Pak from Priopta, and Stacy Smedley from Skanska join us to discuss embodied carbon.
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."
Dive deeper into the top papers from the 2020 World Congress! We invite you to tune in to the first episode of the series with Stephen Katz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C who will be speaking about his winning paper, "The First Triple Certified Facade: Merging sustainability and Building well-being."