Buro Happold Façade Engineering

Instruments

• Understanding First Principals and Enabling Technologies – Materials, Manufacturing Methods, Math.

• Tools – NFRC tools – push to expand into the 3rd and 4th dimension – (time)

• Expand the data sets and performance criteria to include embodied energy, embodied carbon, and recyclability

Enabling Technologies– as ancient as they are new

Shelter

Thermodynamics

Agriculture

Water access

Textiles

Analytics

More analysis & More data does not necessarily mean better design. The right analysis, the right data, at the right time can mean lower risk and more innovation. Creative problem solving cannot be measured – it is non linear. It is sporadic. It requires talent and talent is hard to measure, it tends to be experiential meaning it is the experience of experience

Analytics

thermal control

high cost complexity

apperance of immateriality

daylight

ventilation

openings

view through/transparency

sustainability

aesthetic/architectural appearance

high quality

new technology

architectural form

complexity

vs transparency

vs standardization

vs strength

vs glare/solar control

vs noise pollution/security/weather tightness

vs weather tightness

vs insulation capability

vs cost control

vs manufacturability/ structural behavior

vs cost

vs risk

vs access & maintenance

vs fast installation

resolution of conflicts

Customization

Component

Mass production

Mass Costumization

Performance?

Interactions

•  Integrated Project Delivery? Performance contracts?

•  Multidiscipline vs Interdisipline

•  Regulation enforcement – The sitck

•  Knowledge Clumps •  – Education = acceleration

What is Façade Engineering?

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cladding/ curtain wall consultant façade engineer

What is Façade Engineering?

Materials

Cladding Systems

Manufacturing Process Limits

Systems Interfaces

Contractors

Ventilation Solar Gain Control

Thermal Insulation

Glare Control

Architectural Design

Weather Performance

Building Physics

Structural Design

Acoustic Design

Fire Safety

Budget Costing

Glazing Safety

Supply Chain Issues

Maintenance Strategy

Buildability

Durability

Sustainability

Security

Daylighting

Integrated Technologies

Adaptive Shading

Integrated Lighting

Media façades

Renewable Energy

Drawings

Models

Specifications

Interactions

• We can do it!

• We are all in this together (weather we like it or not)