Facades, Building Envelopes and Systems
News
New study conducted by independent consulting firm quantifies return on investment for advanced low-e glazings
China Academy of Building Research and NorthGlass team up to hold working meeting of 'Standard for engineering consulting of building curtain wall'
The ‘workplace of the future’ building in Dubai selects SunGuard® solar control glass for glazed facade
Quality Assurance for structural application using a two-component silicone sealant. Quality assurance includes, catalyst inspection, mix ratio, dispensing equipment, butterfly test, snap-time test, and snake test.
Okalux facade enhances neuroscience research building at California Institute of Technology
The Vitruvian Honors & Awards program will be held virtually on September 14th and in person on September 19th, 2023.
Featuring an impressive terracotta design for shading, Solarban® 90 Starphire® glass curtainwall, and expansive glazed windows, the HSIB is designed to be both aesthetically pleasing and high-performing.
The most important meeting involving manufacturers and distributors of machines and components for the production of windows, doors, gates and facade systems.
The Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI) announced that registration for its second biennial Vitruvian Honors and Awards Program will open mid-January 2023.
Thanks to modernization by the architects Populous, The Barnes Center at The Arch offers the students of Syracuse University a variety of sports and wellness options.
Qingyuan Science and Technology Museum adopts all-super white SGP laminated composite insulating glass. The center of the venue is a huge glass sphere. The hyperbolic glass is made by Luoyang NorthGlass.
Guardian SunGuard® SuperNeutral (SN) 62/34 coated solar control glass was chosen for the glazed elements of the façade.
The Vodafone Campus in Düsseldorf, Germany, is a 'green building' clad with Guardian SunGuard® SuperNeutral™ 62/34.
GPD would like to end 'the 2022 Theme Park by GPD activities' by recognizing and sharing the content highlighted below, which was submitted for GPD 2021.
Full halls, reunion joy and commitment to climate protection
Articles
Fins are used as decorative (aesthetical enrichment of the facade), functional (sunshade) and structural (stiffening and load-bearing) elements of the facade.
Overview of Design Issues, Experimental Research, and Developments
The novel curtain wall is achieved by bonding a pultruded glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) frame to the glass producing a composite insulated glass unit (IGU).
This paper focuses on the fire safety aspects related to the use of fire PV panels and systems in building facades.
A study was made of the impact resistance of annealed, heat-strengthened, and fully tempered laminated glass using test panels.
Explosion events represent an extraordinary action for buildings and especially for the building envelope.
Dow has a strong commitment to sustainability and recently introduced the first externally PAS2060-verified carbon neutral silicones for façades.
The trend in modern architecture towards a steady optimisation of building envelopes is continuing. Beside its function as a design element, a façade also contributes to the building’s energy balance.
The present research study explores the seismic performance of single laminated glass panels with various point fixing solutions.
Within ongoing research at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, a set of real-scale insulating glass panels with embedded laminated point connections was tested.
This paper examines the visual performance of building facades that utilize windows with different photochromic-coated glass.
In the paper, strategies for reduced order modeling of glass panels subjected to soft-body impact are developed by means of dynamic substructuring.
