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Detailing High-Performance Facades: Strategy, Specifications, and Advanced Cladding Materials
Today’s high-performance facade standards require the deft balancing of aesthetics, technical detailing, and the demands of the client and local building regulations. This workshop will discuss both material and technical solutions to meet those standards. Experts will be on hand to lead tutorials on the most recent innovations in rainscreen cladding, sealant solutions, and much more. Attendees will leave with a greater knowledge of material applications at the cutting-edge of energy performance and code compliance, all while learning of attractive solutions for clients and end users.
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10AM - 11AM
- Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
- Provider: Northern Facades
- Presenter: Bilal Khan
Reaching towards Net Zero energy ready buildings is becoming a popular topic in todays climate changing world. Energy efficiency has expanded towards exterior wall assemblies where effects of thermal bridging are considered and thermally broken sub-framing systems are becoming the new norm. This course will identify and compare various cladding attachment methods on the market. Learn how to determine the appropriate clip for your project and how to compare effective thermal resistance required to achieve projects targeted R – Value.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how the use of thermal clips will impact thermal bridging on various exterior wall assembly applications
- Identify types of clips currently on the market
- Learn how to calculate the number of clips required on your project by identifying structural forces involved to determine clip spacing
- Gain insight on how the NFPA 285 fire code applies to thermal clips
11AM - 12PM
- Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
- Provider: Tremco
- Presenter: Marcy Tyler
Just like a jacket can protect you from the elements, the building façade is intended to do the same for the inner structure of your building. How will this jacket of protection work against wind driven drain, protecting the occupants and materials from the outside temperature differentials? Like a fire fighter’s coat, will it also provide fire resistance? This course will walk through the different building components that make up the enclosure and evaluate them for their resistivity to wind, water and fire. We’ll examine the ways the building components, combined as a system, can contribute to energy efficiency and resiliency.
Learning Objectives
- Wind: Describe the assembly components and how they can be evaluated for wind resistance.
- Water: Identify the ways wind and system selection and installation can affect the ability of the assembly to protect against water infiltration.
- Fire: Compare technology and assembly components; explain how these systems contribute to fire resistance and how they can be evaluated.
- Energy Efficiency & Resiliency: Evaluate regional needs, and identify the best approach to achieve the desired energy efficiency and resiliency goals of the project.
12PM - 1PM
- Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
- Provider: Kalwall
- Presenter: Mike Crowder
Topics discussed include daylighting strategies available through the integration of structural sandwich panels, energy conservation, enhancements, options, form and aesthetics. The many benefits to health, productivity, safety and sustainable design will be discussed, as well as specialty applications including explosion venting, blast resistance, OSHA fall through protection and hurricane resistance.
Learning Objectives
- Effective and versatile Daylighting strategies and techniques.
- Special performance options and benefits.
- Applications for sustainable design.
- Diffused daylighting for security, health and safety and inviting interior spaces.
1PM - 2PM
- Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
- Provider: MG McGrath
- Presenter: Ryan Rademacher
In many buildings, there is room for error afforded to most building trades in terms of construction tolerances. Façade trades require much, much tighter tolerances in their fabrication and installation. No matter how complex or straightforward your building, the joints that marry the façade to the rest of the construction, and their varying tolerances, can be problematic. Through the lenses of multiple case studies, we will discuss real-world problems, processes, and solutions specific to delivering a high performing facade.
Learning Objectives
- 3D model based delivery process from design through fabrication and installation
- Industry standards and allowable tolerances for facades and adjacent structure
- Pitfalls of building structure being out of tolerance
- What can architects do to plan for a weather tight enclosure syste
2PM - 3PM
- Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
- Provider: Engineered Assemblies
- Presenter: Jeff Ker
Looking at the facade industry today and for the future, there is a progression toward lightweight/low-mass solutions. Over the last decade, more of these solutions are being employed with success, both in function and form. While largely developed in Europe, these solutions have either made the transition to the North American environment seamlessly or with small augmentations in the assembly design. These contemporary and future-friendly facade solutions of both skin and substructure have best practices to follow, and through this, promise good performance with long lifespans. This presentation will addresses some key success factors to follow in addition to the five most common preventable mistakes, as it applies to the aforementioned future-friendly facades.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the impact of environmental forces on facades.
- Learn impact of coefficient of expansion/contraction on substructure & Facade material.
- Learn methods for detailing of proper substructure & deflection limits
- Understand the need for high standards in shop drawings.
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