Papers

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  • Carbon Lean Facades featured image

    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…

  • 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…

  • Carbon-Dioxide-Inhaling Facade featured image

    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…

  • Shaping Skin featured image

    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…

  • 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…

  • Infinite Panel System featured image

    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…

  • End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design featured image

    End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design

    • Paper by Rebecca Hartwell, PhD Candidate Mauro Overend, Professor of Structural Design & Mechanics

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

  • Sustainable Silicone featured image

    Sustainable Silicone

    • Paper by Jon Kimberlain, TS&D Scientist Adrienne Bowman-Grittini, Senior Technical Service and Development Specialist Stanley Yee, TS&D Scientist

    <p>Silicone materials have a long history in high performance building projects. Known for durability, they can reduce a building’s carbon footprint…

  • Optimized Adaptive Re-Use featured image

    Optimized Adaptive Re-Use

    • Paper by Matthew Parker, Intern Architect John Souleles, Principal

    <p>Contemporary building practice represents a disconnect between traditional manufacturing techniques, that favor straight runs and orthogonal…

  • Predictive Modeling in an Automated Building Facade featured image

    Predictive Modeling in an Automated Building Facade

    • Paper by Troy Nolan Peters PhD, Associate Professor

    <p>Computer simulations of an automated dynamic facade in a passively heated and cooled building by using predictive modeling of short-term future…

  • Passive House Facade Design and Construction featured image

    Passive House Facade Design and Construction

    • Paper by Louis Koehl, AIA, CPHD, Project Architect

    <p>Buildings account for over 40% of global emissions (GlobalABC, 2018). Growing populations and higher standards of living are increasing pressure…

  • Facade and electric lighting integration

    • Paper

    <p>Facades and electric lighting systems are, for the most part, still considered as separate systems throughout the design, installation,…

  • Xilinx Case Study featured image

    Xilinx Case Study

    • Paper by Michael Martinez, LEED AP, Stet Sanborn, AIA, LEED AP, CPHC,

    <p>The transformation of a dark and inhumane 1970s tilt-up concrete office building into a high performance, light-filled modern workplace was…

  • Structuring Skin featured image

    Structuring Skin

    • Paper by John Neary,

    <p>Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows…

  • Orbit Tower featured image

    Orbit Tower

    • Paper by Enrica Oliva, Michele Andaloro, Werner Sobek,

    <p>While most of high-rise buildings feature a core surrounded by a spatial frame defining the volume, one could envision a column-free plan where…

  • Hydrophobic Stainless Steel Surfaces featured image

    Hydrophobic Stainless Steel Surfaces

    • Paper by Fred Deuschle, Jim Halliday, Mike McGuire,

    <p>There is no doubting the longevity of stainless steel building facades. The Chrysler Building and numerous buildings that followed have stood the…