The building envelope, the barrier between the interior and exterior environments, plays a central role in enhancing energy efficiency, occupant comfort, and overall building performance. In both ...

The primary goal of this research was to minimise the energy consumed by heating and cooling loads in residential buildings in a sub-humid Mediterranean climate zone. This was achieved by optimising ...

Rising demands for energy efficiency, technical functionality, and interior comfort in buildings necessitate the development of more efficient building envelope constructions. The building envelope ...

The art of building a building envelope The building envelope is an essential part of a building structure that protects occupants from exterior environmental impacts including sun, rain, snow, wind ...

Turnable corner - Maison CL - Benoît Lloze architecte & Alexandre Hordé Architectes - Florent Jalon Photographie. Image Courtesy of Vitrocsa When we talk about the building envelope, we often make the ...

The ‘Building Envelope’ Campus provides you with the necessary knowledge to make intelligent decisions when it comes to choosing your building's systems. A building needs a high performance “envelope” ...

A new sandwich-structured composite has been developed from the surface layers of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) and the interlayer of polylactic acid and cellulose microfibers. The biodegradable ...