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Building Enclosure announces our 2025 Leadership Award winner. In an era where climate change, energy efficiency, and resiliency dominate the built environment conversation, few professionals embody the intersection of technical expertise, sustainability, and leadership like Stevan Vinci.

Biophilic elements can be incorporated in higher education designs in a number of ways.

Joanna Giovanoli, Senior Marketing Manager for the Infrastructure and Wire & Cable markets at Dow, joins us to chat about the strategy behind high-performance building enclosures, and the advanced materials hidden within our walls, floors and foundations.

A closer look at infiltration in building enclosure performance. Infiltration can have a major impact on building energy use and indoor air quality (IAQ) by allowing unconditioned and unfiltered air to penetrate a thermal enclosure. 

In today’s architecture, daylight isn’t just a design preference—it’s a vital component of human-centric, energy-efficient buildings.

The standard performance requirements for curtain wall systems should not be compromised in favor of high thermal performance. This article outlines the testing and evaluation process.

Understanding these coefficients is crucial for assessing the climate impact attributable to the various fuel sources utilized in a building. 

Structural steel may not be the first material that comes to mind when picturing gingerbread façades or timber-framed lofts, yet it is increasingly the material that allows those architectural treasures to survive and even thrive in modern use.

The massive renovation kicked off with the installation of 44 skylights, measuring 30-inches by 120-inches, on a 65,000-square-foot pre-engineered metal building.