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Rise of the Consultant
<p>This paper is a Case Study focused on Professional Services and will cover the past 25 years and the evolution of what is commonly referred to as…
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A circular approach to facade design
<p>The built environment has a significant impact on our natural environment, depleting non-renewable resources, overwhelming landfill sites, and…
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Facade and electric lighting integration
<p>Facades and electric lighting systems are, for the most part, still considered as separate systems throughout the design, installation,…
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A burning question
<p>In recent decades the use of unitized glazing systems has become increasingly common especially for high-rise construction. The opaque panels in…
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Spandrel Glass Design
Currently, most spandrel glass in commercial curtain walls comprises insulating glass fabricated using an interior heat strengthened glass lite that
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The Aesthetics of Big Tech
<p>The San Francisco Bay Area is synonymous with leading edge technology and innovation. Many of the biggest and wealthiest tech giants have huge…
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Adaptive Building Envelope
Designing a multi-functional building envelope as an architectural façade, environmental interface and solar collector is a multi-objective
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Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower
<p>Few buildings are as iconic as Willis Tower. Generations have a collective memory of this building playing a role in their lives, but time had…
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Fabric-Formed Robotic Facades
<p>The method proposed is derived from a parametric workflow that employs the precision of 6-axis robots and the flexibility of fabric to rapidly…
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Stainless Steel 101
This paper presents a summary of the industry advances beyond T304 and T316 austenitic stainless steels. The greater availability of precipitation
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When Facades Kill
<p>The tragic fire of June 14, 2017 at the Grenfell Tower in London, England has brought to a very public global forum issues related to the impact…
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Unitized Curtain Wall
<p>Unitized curtain wall has become ubiquitous in contemporary facade design and construction due to advantages associated with speed of erection,…
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International Facade Education
<p>Globalization in the construction industry has brought about new demands for buildings and construction projects, new demands that still need to…
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Elliptical Ways
Construction projects almost invariably encounter a critical stage at the moment of handover between the designing and the executing party. At this
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Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes
Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope
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Verifying Thermal Performance
Architects specify curtain wall thermal performance criteria and usually identify simple modeling software, like THERM, to perform thermal analysis
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Vertical Louvered Solar Control
<p>Exterior shading devices, when typically used, are horizontal planes that are most effective at the south face of buildings in the northern…
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Vintage Vinyl
<p>Mid-century through 1980’s buildings with lock-strip or “zipper-gasket” glazing systems are an ever present part of the urban landscape in many…
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Working With Big Data
Big data is having a noticeable impact on enclosure engineering design. With continuing advancements that liberate the geometrical form and the
