At GWWO, the evaluation of the building envelope starts early in the design process. We believe that an interdisciplinary approach to design is inclusive of building systems and is essential to ...

Certain faulty beliefs surrounding building performance in warm, humid zones continue to persist in the design and construction industry - and the interaction between building envelopes and HVAC ...

Ozyegin University Building Envelope Design and Technology Lab is organizing an international conference on Resilience in Building Envelope Design and Technologies with tremendous speakers from ...

In the past, the detail design of a building envelope would have been the domain of the envelope package subcontractor, usually working for the main contractor. The subcontractor would have worked ...

David Baker Architects’s Blue Oak Landing was fully prefabricated, including the building’s Corten steel facade. (Bruce Damonte) Masonry is experiencing a resurgence following a precipitous decline in ...

In recent years, architects and fabricators in the field of facade design and construction have formed new collaborative relationships through the design assist model of contracting. Under design ...

As an alumna of Buro Happold and Thornton Tomasetti, engineer and architect Erleen Hatfield has worked on some of the most complex structures in the world. At Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, she ...

[The Sapa Building System technical essay, RIBA Awards 2012] More than the plan, more than the section, and even more than form, the envelope is central to how a building communicates, writes Felix ...

ACA's 9th International Design Competition 2022 with the theme, “Building Envelope”. The building facade has acted as a major factor in manifesting environmentally conducive spaces and improving ...

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center threw the safety of skyscrapers into the spotlight, but since then they have become taller and more ambitious. As part of our 9/11 anniversary series, ...