Articles Tagged with ''building envelope design''

Building acoustics are a crucial design concern for all projects. Strategies for ensuring a sonically comfortable environment extend from the building’s exterior to deep within its interior, and often elements of these strategies must work together.

Materials installed behind the 225-foot museum tower’s impressive granite façade include 130,000 square feet of continuous insulation.

Registration for the 2026 IIBEC Building Enclosure Symposium (BES) is now open! Join more than 300 building enclosure professionals for an engaging, in-person experience focused on the latest advancements, challenges, and solutions shaping our industry.

Gale Associates, Inc. announced the opening of its new Rhode Island office at The Foundry in Providence, a nationally recognized historic landmark and one of the city’s most distinctive commercial campuses.

By hitching their wagon to the horse of Standard 90.1, LEED-related hard costs are rising and becoming increasingly misaligned with low-margin project cost models based largely on minimum energy standards within the project’s regulatory context.

Simpson Gumpertz & Heger announced the strategic expansion of the firm’s building enclosure consulting services in Atlanta, GA, and the Southeastern United States.

Polyisocyanurate (polyiso) roof insulation stands as one of the most widely used insulation products for low-slope commercial roofing systems.

As healthcare design responds to climate pressures, aging infrastructure, and increasingly complex renovation cycles, the industry must move beyond fragmented specification toward integrated, continuous envelope design.

Huntsman Building Solutions (HBS) announced UL certification has been obtained for W-Wall^™, the fire-rated load-bearing assembly utilized as a wall solution between attached multifamily and townhome units. 

Students pursuing architecture and construction careers can apply for SOPREMA scholarships by May 31.