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  Carbon Lean Facades

  • Paper by Stefanie Schober, Senior Project Director Jonce Walker, LEED AP, Certified Sustainable Building Advisor, and Fitwel Ambassador, Senior Associate

  <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…

  March 19, 2020

• Carbon-Neutral High-Rise Envelope Nexus

  • Paper by Thomas Spiegelhalter, Principal

  <p>The pathway to carbon-neutrality, as urged during the COP 21 in Paris, and the repeated goal for resilient buildings and urban habitats, winds…

  December 16, 2019
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  Carbon-Dioxide-Inhaling Facade

  • Paper by Prof. Dr. Timo Schmidt, Professor for facade technology and design Carmen Herrmann, Student Dr. Michael Lakatos, Professor Daniel Zabicki, Scientific Employee Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wahl, Professor Kai Scherer, PhD Student

  <p>3.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria created the foundation for life on Earth by producing the oxygen basis for our atmosphere. Should we once…

  March 15, 2020
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  Episode 11: Embodied Carbon

  • Podcast by Anthony Pak · Jennifer O'Connor

  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.

  December 03, 2020
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  Material Matters: Embodied Carbon Considerations Impacting Design Practices for Facade Systems, Buildings, and Urban Habitat

  • Article by Mic Patterson, PhD, LEED AP BD+C, Ambassador of Innovation and Collaboration

  Awareness of embodied carbon impacts is surging like hurricane-driven floodwaters and altering the landscape of everything in its path. What are the implications for buildings, the facade system and urban habitat? FTI is taking this on with its 2019 Forum series.

  October 29, 2018
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  Shaping Skin

  • Paper by John Neary AIA LEED AP NCARB, Sr. Associate

  <p>The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on…

  March 21, 2020

• A circular approach to facade design

  • Paper

  <p>The built environment has a significant impact on our natural environment, depleting non-renewable resources, overwhelming landfill sites, and…

  September 11, 2024
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  Tree Magic - The Overstory

  • Article by Valerie Block

  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.

  February 25, 2021
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  Episode 09: Ted Kesik on SKINS

  • Podcast by Ted Kesik, PhD

  Special guest Ted Kesik, PhD, Professor of Building Science at the University of Toronto, joins us to discuss everything from digital workflows and durability to embodied carbon and resilience.

  October 21, 2020
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  Infinite Panel System

  • Paper by Mike Ryan, Director of Product Development Facades Division Brian Stern, Regional Energy Director Michael Adams, Senior Energy Analyst

  <p>Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope…

  March 15, 2020