Sophia Salah is a Senior Project Manager in Simpson Gumpertz & Heger’s (SGH) Building Technology group. She manages building enclosure consulting projects ranging from waterproofing investigation and rehabilitation to new design and construction of building enclosure systems. She works with many building enclosure systems, including plazas, exterior wall systems, curtain wall systems, windows, roofing, and foundation waterproofing. She can be reached at sbsalah@sgh.com.
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.
The envelope backstop was introduced by policymakers to limit how far building enclosure thermal performance can stray from the envelope prescriptive requirements.
