Items Tagged with 'building envelope design'

Over the next five years, prefabricated building systems are expected to grow from a $91.25B market to $130B worldwide. While this substantial growth is often attributed to prefabrication schedule and quality advantages, it is also driven by its ability to deliver meaningful sustainability benefits.

For most of LEED's history, systematic field testing of air leakage was optional – something advanced teams did voluntarily, not something the rating system demanded.

The case for air barriers in healthy building design rests on thinking about the envelope as a system rather than a collection of individual layers.

Illinois has already recorded more tornadoes in 2026 than in any previous year on record, underscoring the need for architects, engineers, developers and building owners to rethink how structures are designed to withstand increasingly severe weather events.

Chinook Building Envelope Services introduced Envelope 360, a building assessment service that combines roofing, wall and waterproofing evaluations into a single report.

IMPs fold insulation, structure and finish into a single component to meet those competing demands and support the increase in industrial building construction activity.

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.