As corporate commitments to sustainability initiatives continue to gain momentum across the globe, there’s a growing focus on energy conservation. As a result, design professionals face the challenge of meeting increasingly stringent standards to support energy-efficient building construction and operations. 

To meet this pressing responsibility, more architects and designers are looking to the building envelope. As the physical and thermal barrier between external environments and internal conditioned spaces, the building envelope has a very close relationship with energy transfer and consumption. In application, it “plays a key role in determining levels of comfort, natural lighting, ventilation, and how much energy is required to heat and cool a building,” reports the Better Buildings U.S. Department of Energy.