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Form // Kineum Tower, Gothenburg, Sweden The Kineum façade design is inspired by Gothenburg’s history as an historical seaport with its crisscross structure resembling both a fisherman’s net and the modern crane trusses transporting goods in the harbor.

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Energy Standards & Solutions // A First Look at Meeting IECC 2024

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More than 10,000 hours invested by experts and 800 committee hours to date, the International Code Council is close to releasing its IECC commercial code update.

by Barbara Horwitz-Bennett

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Future-Friendly Data Centers Gensler designed the new data center at the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, in Memphis, to meet the ever-changing needs of medicine and data.

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The Trends Changing Data Center Design A summary of the trends, challenges and factors influencing the design and location of data center projects.

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Hello, 2024. One year closer…

Remember when 2030 seemed as if it was a lifetime away and 2050 didn’t sound real?

Well, we have officially entered 2024, a scant six years from the oft cited deadline for Architecture 2030—where all new buildings and major renovations are hoped to have achieved zero carbon. Although the date may seem daunting, the progress being made is real. In this issue, we’ll take a look at some of the new products, new design approaches, and new rules that keep advancing the industry toward this important architectural initiative.

Let’s begin with an exploration of the latest iteration of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) 2024. While it has yet to make its official release, Barbara Horwitz-Bennett interviewed several professionals who had knowledge on the notable new items this version would contain. Onsite renewable energy production and onsite energy storage requirements are two of the additions garnering a lot of attention, as is the code’s firsttime recognition of thermal bridges, which can wreak havoc on a building in several important ways. Get a sneak peek at IECC 2024 on page 28.

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Data centers are big business right now. Need proof?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) just announced its plan to invest $35 billion to build new data centers across Virginia and, according to several reports, architectural firms across the nation are seeing a surge in their data center-related projects. Jana Madsen talked with architects from Gensler and HDR about some of the key trends they’re seeing with regard to artificial intelligence (AI), increasing density, new cooling technology, and the move of these projects to the suburbs, and how these factors

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“Larger steps in stringency will need to be made in the 2027 and 2030 IECC versions to achieve an envelope performance that supports both net-zero performance and needed resilience/passive survivability performance.”

Have you ever heard of the U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles (USGBC-LA) Net Zero Accelerator? It is a nonprofit dedicated to furthering the goal (and probability) of a net-zero future, and the speed with which we get there, by helping innovative technologies get a foothold, and a fanbase, in the market. Turn to page 12 to see several of the products offering architects real solutions they can use today to help achieve net zero tomorrow.

Contributing Editors Vilma Barr Jana Madsen Heather Ronaldson

are influencing the design of these spaces. Enter an interesting discussion about data center design on page 20.

BIPV-integrated facades. An EV charging app that alerts waitlisted drivers when a space is available. A self-shading window filled with biophilic, thermo-bimetal pieces. Direct-tochip liquid cooling. If any of these terms or technologies are unfamiliar, they are explained within the pages of this issue.

The future is here.

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 Decarbonization 101 (1 LU/HSW)  Exploring Design Trends for K-12 Applications (1 LU/HSW)  Flexible Offices: Key to Retaining Talent and Optimizing Space for a New Work Era (1 LU)  Lessons in Renovation and Adaptive Reuse (1 LU/HSW)  Telehealth to Metaverse: The Bold Future of Healthcare Design (1 LU/HSW)

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The Beauty & Benefits of Biophilic Design in the Built Environment Biophilic design is a hot trend in design, but what is it and how can building professionals incorporate these strategies for the benefits of occupants?

This eHandbook offers best practices for applying biophilic design in the built environment.

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Net Zero Accelerator

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Accelerating to Net Zero The U. S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles (usgbc-la), an independent nonprofit, is not just a community of green building and sustainability professionals; it is an organization trying to further the goal (and probability) of a net-zero future. Balancing the amount of greenhouse gas produced and removed in the built environment is ambitious, and not at all possible without innovative materials, systems, and technology.

Enter usgbc-la’s Net Zero Accelerator. Colin Mangham, the program’s director, explains how it is making an impact.

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As an organization, usgbc-la’s mission is really to accelerate sustainability in Southern California and create a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable region for all. We are home to the only Net Zero Accelerator in the world focused on zero energy, carbon, water, and waste in the built environment. We take the technologies that exist today and help them scale with the goal to achieve a net zero, or perhaps even a net positive, future. We select companies that we believe are going to help us get there faster. We focus on tangible pilot projects, ones that harness the collective expertise and diversity within our community of sustainability practitioners, green builders, and other stakeholders.

For our member companies, we play a vital role in helping them de-risk, stress-test, refine, and sometimes pivot their innovations with the overarching goal being to prepare them for scaled adoption. Alternatively, for those already making strides in other geographical markets, we assist them in seamlessly piloting their solutions into large portfolios within the Los Angeles area, validating success with data and expanding their client opportunities. This is our program’s fifth year. We have supported 90 companies and have been tracking about 40 pilots since 2019.

BIPV-INTEGRATED FAÇADES Mitrex is leading a solar energy revolution, aiming to turn every sunlit surface into a beacon of sustainable power. The building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems offer the opportunity to create net-positive façades that set new standards in eco-friendly construction and actively offset energy usage from the grid. Mitrex Solar Façades lessen the overall carbon footprint associated with grid energy consumption. This approach represents a significant stride towards a greener, more sustainable built environment.

Mitrex, Solar Façades mitrex.com

STORMWATER MANAGEMENT

Colin Mangham, program director of usgbc-la’s Net Zero Accelerator. He is co-founder and COO of Morpho Energy.

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AquiPor’s permeable concrete technology is capable of managing large volumes of stormwater to help mitigate stormwater runoff pollution and urban flooding in the built environment. Featuring sub-micron porosity, the material filters stormwater runoff without clogging, removing debris and particulate pollutants. Made with reclaimed industrial by-products and without Portland cement, they have an inherently low CO2 footprint.

AquiPor, Advanced Porous Concrete Technology aquipor.com

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The companies and products featured here are among USGBC-LA’s Net Zero Accelerator cohorts.

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We’re an accelerator, not an incubator so the companies we work with are growth-stage, meaning they already have a product or service that’s in market or otherwise ready to be commercialized. This supports our approach for quick deployment and scaling.

WATER MONITORING Saya’s water monitoring and leak detection enables multi-unit residences to bill individual water users, even when there is only one utility-owned water meter servicing the building. Additionally, the meter’s precision and cloud-based algorithms that monitor water use are effective in alerting users to small water leaks, such as slab leaks and pipe ruptures, and can even automatically shut off water. Saya’s technology can be employed during construction for leak management and, once the building is occupied, can be used for sub-metering, leak management, and conservation.

Saya Life, Water Monitoring and Leak Detection saya.life

We focus on two things: 1) storytelling relevant and actionable to our region and 2) market and pilot project development and case studies.

Despite our bias, the data underscores that Los Angeles is among the premier proving-ground markets for proptech and cleantech. The city’s highly public, tech-forward, and media-rich environment provides an ideal backdrop for showcasing success stories. Additionally, the support of favorable regulatory policies and a strong environmental stance contributes to the appeal.

—Jana Madsen, contributing writer

SUSTAINABLE WOOD

LOW-CARBON CEMENT Carbon Upcycling’s enhanced cement-like material, known as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), replaces the main carbon-intensive ingredient in cement and reduces its emissions by up to 60%. Concrete with the new low-carbon cement maintains its color while demonstrating exceptional strength and durability.

The enhanced SCMs are made from leftover materials like steel slag or clay processed through the company’s technology, which turns the materials into vessels to permanently capture CO2.

Carbon Upcycling, Enhanced SCMs carbonupcycling.com

Rizome bamboo products—structural members and panel products—are made from giant bamboo species that have a tensile strength that rivals steel and compressive strength that is better than standard concrete. Its large diameter provides an extra thick material and versatility required for the construction industry. Its strength and flexibility make it an ideal building material in disaster-prone areas, holding up to seismic activity and high winds. Beyond its aesthetic appeal and strength, bamboo fights climate change by drawing 10 times more carbon out of the atmosphere than trees.

Rizome, The Miracle Timber rizomebamboo.com

BIOAGGREGATE CEMENT Down to Earth (DTE) Materials has pioneered a patented technology, Clearwash, to transform agricultural and forestry waste into bioaggregates for mixing into cement products. This process sterilizes the fiber, increases its porosity, removes sugars that inhibit cement hydration, and shapes the fibers to flow within existing concrete manufacturing equipment. These fibers can be deployed in a variety of cement applications including aggregates for pavers, CMU, insulating blocks, plaster, etc.

Bioaggregates act as a biogenic carbon sink and can displace up to 45% of sand aggregate by volume.

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The companies and products featured here are among USGBCLA’s Net Zero Accelerator cohorts.

SELF-SHADING SYSTEM By preserving and upcycling the existing glazing system, approximately 70% fewer materials are used vs. window replacements, eliminating the cost of demolition and disposal of useful materials into landfills.

RENEWABLE GLAZING INOVUES is pioneering a unique platform for renewable, upcyclable glass facades.

It can upgrade existing glazing to the latest sustainability and comfort standards for as low as 10% of the cost of replacement. It can also make windows and facades easily upgradeable. INOVUES’ patented non-invasive glazing retrofit systems achieve three to 10 times thermal performance improvement and up to 40% energy and carbon savings. They are compatible with all glass types, including the latest smart and photovoltaic technologies.

INOVUES, Glass Retrofit Solutions inovues.com

TBM Designs’ InVert self-shading window system takes no energy to save energy, using biophilic thermo-bimetal pieces sealed inside a standard doublepaned window cavity, reflecting heat away from the building, reducing air conditioning use, energy demand, greenhouse gas emissions, and costs by up to 35%. InVert provides occupants with an outside view and allows significant daylighting and a full-color spectrum through the window, even when actively shading, which maximizes human wellness.

Architects, developers, and designers can now specify this smart product for retrofits or new commercial and multifamily building projects.

TBM Designs, InVert tbm-designs.com

SUSTAINABLE INSULATION

Miru smart windows (eWindows) offer a game-changing solution for reducing global carbon emissions. eWindows electronically tint to control sunlight and solar heat, resulting in reduced energy consumption, lower carbon emissions, and significant cost savings for building owners. These smart windows eliminate the need for blinds, allowing you to enjoy a pleasant view, regardless of season, time of day, country, or climate—enhancing the well-being of occupants. Miru eWindows are color neutral, switch uniformly, and increase building energy efficiency by 20%.

HempWool is a plant-based, high-performing building insulation product, appropriate for anywhere in a structure’s thermal envelope, including walls, floors, ceilings, attics, and partition walls. It is a one-to-one replacement for conventional insulation materials like fiberglass, mineral wool, and spray foam. Made of 90% natural fiber (industrial hemp), HempWool has no VOCs and toxins, making it a safe alternative to traditional insulation. It’s also vapor permeable and hygroscopic, making it mold-resistant.

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Blue, More Blue, and a Touch of Peach

Benjamin Moore presents a warm, bolder, darker hue with Blue Nova.

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Each year, paint manufacturers enlist their color experts to study trends in culture, fashion, technology, and lifestyle to find the color that best reflects the overall mood of the year. Typically, these separate endeavors result in Colors of the Year that reach across the spectrum and provide a broader palette to represent the next 365 days.

This year the vast majority of leading companies arrived within the same color category. Capturing feelings of the sky and the sea, inspiration, and renewal, 2024’s banner colors are different shades of blue.

Sherwin-Williams landed in the light blue range with its Upward Color of the Year. Described as a breezy and blissful shade, the intention is to evoke one’s ever-present sense of peace found when slowing down and taking a look up at the sky. “It brings to life that carefree, sunny day energy that elicits a notion of contentment and peace. With this color, we invite our consumers to take a pause and infuse a new sense of ease and possibility into their spaces—one that doesn’t overwhelm, but rather establishes meditation and tranquility,” stated SherwinWilliams’s Director of Color Marketing Sue Wadden.

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A drop darker, but still light blue, C2 Paint’s 2024 Color of the Year, Thermal has a similar story. Described as a pale, yet punchy blue, Thermal draws inspiration from the sky and blue hues in nature to help restore our equilibrium. Beyond aesthetics, C2 Paint’s Director of Marketing Tia Clarida sees Thermal as a call to

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action. “It compels us to incorporate sustainability into our design choices, fostering a sense of environmental responsibility and awareness not just as an ideal, but as a way of life.”

Sherwin-Williams’ Upward color draws inspiration from nature, particularly the sky, and in taking a moment to gaze up.

sherwin-williams.com C2 Paint’s 2024 Color of the Year, Thermal has a similar story. Described as a pale, yet punchy blue.

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The 2024 Colors of the Year are largely blue with a couple exceptions like PANTONE’S Peach Fuzz.

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Moving another slight notch down the color spectrum, Valspar acknowledges blue as a “plucked-from-nature hue” that shows no signs of slowing down. Drawing from the color’s calming, meditative nature, the company selected Renew Blue. “Renew Blue elevates the everyday mood, encourages self-expression, and evokes a feeling of balance and calm, with a twist of unique spontaneity,” said Valspar Director of Color Marketing Sue Kim. The company encourages designers to tap the color’s potential to nourish selfcare and personal well-being.

Bordering on violet, Benjamin Moore presents its bold Blue Nova as its Color of the Year. Borrowing its name from the creation of a new star in space, the shade intends to spark adventure and expand one’s horizons. “Blue Nova is an alluring mid-tone that balances depth and intrigue with classic appeal and reassurance,” said Andrea Magno, color marketing and development director, Benjamin Moore.

This year’s colors echo similar sentiments of reflecting and recharging as depicted here with Valspar’s Renew Blue.

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Completely breaking stride with its blue companions was pantone’s unique take on the 2024 color trends and its Color of the Year: Peach Fuzz. Nestled between pink and orange, on the other side of the color spectrum, it’s interesting to note that Peach Fuzz is described as evoking some of the same emotions as the others. According to pantone, “Peach Fuzz inspires belonging, recalibration, and an opportunity for nurturing, conjuring up an air of calm, offering us a space to be, feel, and heal and to flourish from.” In tapping the velvet, furry texture of a peach, the hue lends a sense of tactility, comfort, and cocooned warmth to any space it is found.

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CARBON EMISSIONS

A good place to start is by getting an accurate snapshot of carbon emissions levels.

“You must always measure energy use first and then set your strategy,” Roxane Spears said. “We spent a couple of years measuring everything.

When we measured, we looked at what our current production was and also added in percent increases in production every year, so we could account for the higher emissions. That measurement to me is really key so you know where you are and where you are going.”

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Tarkett’s VP of Sustainability Talks Goals and Misconceptions Four years ago, Roxane Spears became Tarkett’s vice president of sustainability in North America. Her goal with the Paris-based company is simple: to help Tarkett lower its carbon emissions by 30% by 2030.

Inspired by the Paris Agreement’s call for net zero emissions by 2050, Tarkett’s commitment to reducing its carbon footprint is a holistic—and realistic—approach. “We don’t try to do everything— we focus on what we can impact. That’s driven a lot of what we do and was our starting point—and then we increase from there,” said Spears.

As a fourth generation and family-owned business, lowering the carbon footprint is more than an industry trend. It is simply the right thing to do. Tarkett started recycling its commercial flooring materials more than 30 years ago when sustainability was a relatively new concept in the industry. “Sustainability has always been a part of the DNA,” said Spears.

Flooring Can Make a Difference As a permanently installed, high-volume product, the flooring on a project is of particular relevance to creating a healthy and sustainable interior space.

According to Spears, the flooring industry, in general, is well-suited to reduce its carbon footprint because of how its products are made. Flooring products can be manufactured with layers—from the backing to the fiber—with recycled or bio-based content.

Incorporating these materials are some of the easiest ways to lower a product’s carbon emissions.

Addressing Misconceptions in Sustainability As an industry veteran, Spears has encountered many misconceptions in the world of sustainability.

One is that if a product is carbon neutral, it will contribute toward a healthy built environment, but

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one quality does not necessarily indicate the other.

“For a product to be carbon neutral, you have to measure its environmental impact. That is where EPDs come into play,” said Spears. EPDs take comprehensive, third party-verified life cycle assessments (LCAs), which quantify the environmental impacts that arise from material inputs and outputs, over a product’s entire life cycle, and turn them into a standardized label.

As companies make a real and meaningful effort to reduce carbon emissions, support from the design community can go a long way. “If we support companies with good behavior, that shifts everything.”

“An EPD doesn’t tell you the health impact of a product,” said Spears. “You need different certifications to really understand what that product is about. You could create a low carbon footprint product if you didn’t have to look at the ingredients.

You might find a material that cuts a product’s carbon footprint in half but may contain heavy metals or asbestos.”

EPDs don’t report on the ingredients or the hazards of a material’s ingredients. Protecting indoor air quality by limiting the presence of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other harmful chemicals that off gas is an important step in achieving healthy interiors. Material transparency plays a role in this, as architects must know the ingredients in a product, to ensure the potentially harmful substances have been avoided.

Designers must research a material’s Health Product Declaration (HPD) to verify that a product will contribute toward a healthy environment. An HPD contains a standardized, accurate and consistent reporting of a product’s contents as well as the associated health information for the product as it is used in the built environment. Design teams can also request certification from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America or the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.

Another misconception is that it’s nearly impossible to get a product to net zero. For corporations trying to get to carbon neutral, or beyond, the biggest impact is looking at the supply chain and manufacturing and measuring its carbon impact.

“We have a linoleum that is carbon negative. This is possible because the materials we use are very high bio-based and the facility produces its own energy.

With that combination, we are able to have a carbon negative product,” said Spears.

Anticipating 2050 Spears, who consults often with Tarkett’s Chief Sustainability and Innovation Officer, Arnaud Marquis, says the company sets goals every three years to reduce carbon emissions, since 2050 is almost 30 years away. “By that date, most of us employed today will no longer work at Tarkett. But [our] feeling is, if you are setting a goal for 2050, and nobody is going to be here, then what are they going to do to get it done?” said Spears. The company must already be working toward that future goal.

Roxane Spears is the Vice President of Sustainability at Tarkett North America.

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Architects from Gensler and HDR explore how AI, new cooling tech, and the surging business of data centers is impacting their design.

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DATA CENTER

NEXTDC Merlot 3 Building in Melbourne, Australia designed by HDR is a colocation data center in Melbourne’s West Footscray that is set to house Australia’s largest and most comprehensive cloud ecosystem.

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s businesses and consumers adopt more digital technology, the need to store data grows exponentially.

Bitcoin mining and AI are only making the surge swell.

More data means more servers and more servers mean more data centers.

“Demand for data centers is at an alltime high, and it’s been trending that way for a few years now,” adds David Fanning, Critical Facilities Leader, Senior Associate, Gensler, Denver.

Where companies once owned and operated their own small data centers, there’s a big shift underway. “It’s becoming more consolidated into fewer entities owning much larger areas of the internet landscape,” says Tom Widawsky, Principal, Tech, HDR, New York City.

More colocation and hyperscale.

Less enterprise.

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While enterprise data centers have been the most prevalent data center design projects, they are declining in numbers. Many major hospitals, banks, or corporations that once operated their own data center to have content on-premises, have opted for using colocation data centers instead.

“Colocation providers build data centers for others to occupy,” explains Widawsky.

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of colocation. Retail colocation is where providers build out and operate the facility and you occupy your IT equipment in their space.

“Look at companies like Google and Meta. They want their facilities to have some character to allow people that are working there to not feel like they are working in a concrete box all day long. A server rack does not care about what its surroundings look like, but the folks who are working there do.”

The other option gives the customer more control. “Wholesale is where a developer-type data center operator builds a building as a shell. Maybe it has got power to it.

Maybe it has some base infrastructure, but essentially if I’m a customer, I then come

in and dictate what the fit-out of the mechanical/electrical systems is going to be. It is built to suit,” shares Jackson Metcalf, Critical Facilities Leader, Industrial & Logistics Leader, Senior Associate, Gensler, Chicago.

The other main type of data center is hyperscale. “Hyperscale is typically defined by the big five: Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft,” says

Widawsky. As the name suggests, these are usually massive facilities and often operated by these cloud providers.

Both hyperscale and colocation operators, according to Widawsky, are investing in and creating prototype designs. “They are trying to do something that is very repeatable, that is very standardized, and very consistent as far as procurement and size expectations go,” he adds.

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-Tom Widawsky, Principal, Tech, HDR, New York City

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HDR designed this NEXTDC colocation data center, referred to as M2 Melbourne in Tullamarine, Australia, to deliver 60 MW in a footprint of 172,222-sq.ft. The building’s façade features red articulating blades to help manage solar exposure and create a dappled effect on the aluminum structure.

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As density increases, so does the heat.

Data centers are becoming more dense and mechanical systems must keep pace. “Picture your old computer tower at home.

There’s a fan in there that removes the heat, the harder it works,” explains Fanning. Data centers have rows and rows of servers with fans to move the air and vent the heat that’s generated (aka hot aisle containment).

“Historically, you would have a density in each rack of servers that typically hovered around three to five kilowatts per rack. What we’re seeing now is the advance of these servers. They are tento twenty times more dense. So, [it’s gone] from three kilowatts a rack, up to 30 to 50 and in some cases even higher,” he adds. As the temperature in data centers rises, new means of cooling the equipment are being explored, such as direct-to-chip liquid cooling or immersion cooling, which encloses the server equipment in dielectric liquid to dissipate heat. “The cooling technology is getting closer and closer to the equipment that it’s cooling,” says Fanning.

“With the advent of in-rack or direct-tochip cooling, you are capturing that heat more efficiently, as opposed to just removing it via air through the facility.”

Data center developers are using a variety of different cooling approaches as testbeds, notes Metcalf, to explore which works best. “It

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is an exciting time for us on the design side, because we are getting to explore these advancements in their early developmental stage,” he notes. These new technologies also impact the physical footprint of the data center. “Because you are not removing hot air, you need less, what we would call, white space,” adds Fanning. Cooling technologies aren’t the only advancements being made. “As the need for efficiency increases, the industry has pushed OEM manufacturers to figure out a way to run their servers hotter because that will reduce our cooling requirements,” notes Widawsky. With servers operating at a higher temperature and alternative cooling technologies being deployed, energy efficiency is more easily achieved.

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The processing and storage of data accounts for three percent of the world’s energy consumption.

“When we talk about data centers being power hungry, we shouldn’t confuse that as them being gluttonous.

They are using it as efficiently as any building on the planet.”

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Water management drives decisions.

Climate change and the increase in global population are making water a more universal consideration for architecture projects, including data centers.

Widawsky explains: “In the very beginning when we were looking at energy consumption, the quick solution was evaporative cooling, which became very popular. But as the industry grew and these data centers became larger, water consumption became millions of gallons a day and the industry immediately recognized that that is not a sustainable long-term

path.” With a real push toward smarter use of resources, data centers have pivoted toward closed-loop systems where water is reused and recirculated.

“Water’s a big deal when it comes to data centers, and alternative means of providing cooling are definitely where I think things are headed,” adds Metcalf.

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Data centers, especially hyperscale, consume a tremendous amount of power. Developers need to know that the existing grid can supply enough power to the data center. “I’ve heard that substation demand is on a five- to seven-year backlog,” Metcalf says. “That is a major driver in where a data center developer or operator is going to consider building.” Not only do the power needs of the new facility need to be considered during initial planning, but it’s equally important to ask if additional power can be supplied should further development of the site be necessary in the future. Widawsky warns: “All of that planning needs to be thought about when you first purchase the site and not later on. You are certainly not doing any major excavation work once you have an active region already operating.” Because of delays in the availability of power, more and more developers are looking at onsite power generation in a variety of forms, such as hydrogen fuel cells. “They are only being adopted in smaller situations today, simply because none of these systems are designed to handle the scale of power that these sites have increased to; whereas they may have done a 12-megawatt to even a 24-megawatt facility, now these sites are going to 100 megawatts. That strains what some of these alternative energy systems or onsite power systems can provide,” explains Fanning.

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“I’ve seen a metric where for every degree hotter you can have a data center, it becomes 4% to 5% more energy efficient, because you are utilizing less cooling.”

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Data is moving closer to businesses and customers.

The rural data center is not going away anytime soon. “Most of them are located on the outskirts simply because the land is cheaper, the power is usually cheaper, and honestly, once the first data center provider goes there and improves

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the infrastructure for network and cabling, you will start seeing these hub areas where several places will develop,” explains Widawsky. There is some evidence, however, that data centers—especially colocation providers— are moving closer to cities. “You will see

those big campuses out in the nether regions.

Those are the primary areas where they do a lot of their work, but they also need smaller infill sites closer to urban areas to make sure that they have a streamlined network system for end-to-end minimal latency issues,” he says. Multi-story

projects (historically less common in the U.S. than Europe and Asia) may become more common. “If you can get farm field real estate prices and 200 acres, it is really affordable to build big single-story data centers,” explains Metcalf. “There is not the land in surrounding suburbs where you

can build a monster campus, especially single story. There are still a few sites, but generally speaking, it is not abundant. And so the need for multistory [data centers] has always existed.”

Aesthetics matter.

As data centers move closer to urban/

suburban areas, design becomes more important—to be a better neighbor, fight NIMBY resistance, and meet local requirements.

“High-income suburbs do not want an industrial shed. They want the tax revenue. They want the high-paying jobs. There are so many benefits to having a data center in

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your community. But they don’t necessarily want to look at what would get built if there were no regulations to make them be better,” says Metcalf.

An increasing number of urban/suburban data centers are paying attention to façades, and landscaping, and tastefully imbuing the design with local and regional flavor.

Colocation data center providers especially are paying attention to design. “They need to have a marketing capability because they’re trying to attract customers to their locations,” explains Widawsky. “It’s a competitive market.”

The same is true for the need to attract and retain talent. “There is such a talent shortage of people who have experience in this field,” says Metcalf.

“Building a low-quality workplace is a shortsighted decision. When you are spending hundreds to a thousand a square foot on the portion of the building with the computing and electrical gear and all that, the interior workplace is like a rounding error for one of these buildings.

People want to be proud of where they work.”

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Build now for the future.

“You generally try to build a building for at least a 20-year lifespan.

But with data centers, you’re building that building for something that has a general lifespan of 3 to 5 years,” notes Widawsky. Short of being psychic, it can be hard to predict what the future of data center design will look like. However, architects doing these projects regularly are keen to understand both current practicalities and future advancements and how a project today might be built to accommodate the technology of tomorrow. Fanning shares the influence AI is having: “The design parameters continue to change as people understand how this new technology is deployed, and what these new densities really mean in terms of energy usage, airflow, etc. What we are seeing now is not a neat and clean, ‘We need a hyperscale data center or an AI data center.’

Instead, it is ‘We need a hybrid data center that accommodates both.’

It is requiring far more innovation than we have seen before.”

One of HDR’s hyperscale clients planned space for cooling distribution units (CDUs) at the ends of the rows. “Even though the current model for their chips and their servers today weren’t requiring water to the chip, they knew that they were going to be implementing that in the next three to five years,” says Widawsky.

“In the very early 2000s, the EPA issued a report talking about data centers and the fact that they were going to exceed 5% of the total power usage of the whole U.S. power grid. Since then, a lot of strides in the industry have been made to become more energy efficient.”

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by Barbara Horwitz-Bennett, contributing writer

Building envelope professionals are applauding the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) 2024’s first-time recognition of thermal bridges, along with modest increases in air leakage and thermal performance requirements.

Of significance on the electrical side, EV-ready requirements at parking facilities for both residential and commercial occupancies are making IECC 2024 the first national model code with a mandatory requirement for electric vehicle power transfer system equipment infrastructure.

“Beyond the EV-ready requirements, onsite renewable energy production and onsite energy storage will significantly increase the efficiency, resilience, reliability and sustainability of energy distribution and utilization in buildings,” states Bryan P. Holland, MCP, CStd. managing director, technical field representatives, National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), Port Charlotte, Fla. Our coverage provides some background and details on some of these changes, alongside expert commentary.

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For over three decades, the International Code Council has developed an energy code that has reduced the impact of energy use on our planet and saved consumers billions of dollars on their energy bills. From 2006 to 2021, the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) increased its efficiency requirements by about 40%, or an average of 8% a cycle.

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At 1245 Broadway in New York City, a high-performance plastic hybrid warm-edge spacer in triple-pane glazing helped the highly glazed building comply with a more stringent energy code in this jurisdiction and achieve LEED Gold certification.

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Thermal Bridging Because thermal bridging significantly compromises building enclosure thermal performance, potentially leading to condensation, mold and durability issues, the IECC 2024’s new thermal bridging requirements are significant. In addition to alleviating these potential problems, enclosures designed without thermal bridging issues deliver enhanced thermal insulation, energy savings and occupant comfort.

“Even though the new requirements are not considered particularly stringent, the consideration of thermal bridging alone raises awareness of this performance degradation issue,” explains Helen Sanders, Technoform North America, Twinsburg, Ohio.

Applicable for buildings in climate zones 4 to 8, prescriptive requirements address the largest culprits for thermal bridging including balconies and floor decks, cladding supports, structural beams and columns, parapets and the intersection of fenestration with the surrounding walls.

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This means:  Balconies and floor decks cannot penetrate the building envelope without separately including mechanisms that minimize thermal bridging through the envelope.

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THERMAL BRIDGING

To meet new thermal bridging requirements, products like this thermally broken cladding attachment will be key.

 Cladding attachments must allow the continuous

insulation to pass behind linear cladding supports.  Structural beams and columns must be wrapped in a minimum amount of insulation where they penetrate the building envelope.  For non-metal fenestration, the thermal break needs to be aligned, within a specified dimension, with the continuous insulation. There is also a requirement for insulating the rough opening.  Parapets must be insulated to reduce thermal bridging where the building envelope is penetrated, depending on the design.

“Including thermal bridging mitigation requirements makes design and construction teams think about how to manage these conditions, causes them to analyze the condensation and thermal performance risk, and therefore gives them the opportunity to decide to improve further than the code,” adds Sanders, president of the Facade Tectonics Institute, whose organization provided a lot of technical input for the development of the thermal bridging and air barrier language in the IECC 2024.

To meet these new thermal bridging requirements, David W. Altenhofen, aia, senior technical director of enclosures for the Philadelphia-based RWDI, recommends the Building Envelope Thermal Bridging Guide, developed by Morrison Hershfield and sponsored by a number of Canadian-based companies. “The updated code provides helpful new options for combinations of insulation between framing plus continuous insulation in the R-value table for opaque components,” he states.

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SOLVING FOR THERMAL BRIDGES Incorporating Technoform’s plastic hybrid stainless steel warm edge spacer and high-precision polyamide (PA)-based insulation profiles in aluminum fenestration improves thermal performance and condensation resistance without sacrificing durability and allows designers to meet more stringent energy codes. The Warm-edge spacer reduces the heat flow between room-side and exterior elements of the fenestration and can reduce fenestration U-factors by 0.02-0.03 BTU/oF.hr.ft2 in captured fenestration systems, and up to 0.05 BTU/ oF.hr.ft2 in structural glazing systems.

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Seattle Convention Center’s Summit building, designed by LMN Architects, is a good example of achieving high window area in a jurisdiction with a stringent energy code and backstop requirement by using high-performance fenestration. This 15-story building is part of the largest revitalization and construction effort in the city’s history.

The aluminum-framed curtain wall, manufactured and installed by Enclos, is made up of Guardian’s SuperNeutral SN 62-34 low-E coating in UltraClear low-iron glass. Technoform’s polyamide thermal barriers are installed throughout the assembly, ensuring high thermal performance. This helped enable the design to meet Seattle’s high thermal requirements as verified by the National Fenestration Rating Council’s commercial certification program.

“Increasing thermal efficiency of fenestration not only helps save energy costs and carbon emissions, it also provides the freedom to design with more glass to create delightful, well-lit, welcoming spaces what are both comfortable and healthy for building occupants,” stated Bill Blazek, Technoform, Twinsburg, Ohio.

Other energy-efficient measures include lighting sensors and HVAC sensors. They open the window shades allowing passive solar heat to warm the room or close the shades to prevent overheating.

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For air leakage, IECC 2024 reduces acceptable air leakage from 0.40 CFM/ft2 to 0.35 CFM/ft2, aligning with ASHRAE 90.1-2022. In addition, air leakage testing requirements have been expanded to more buildings and to more climate zones. According to Sanders, these changes will better ensure that actual performance is more in line with what is specified.

EMBRACING POLYISO An ideal solution for continuously insulating roofs and walls, Polyiso delivers exceptional R-values per inch and can be installed as a 3-in-1 building envelope solution to meet water resistant and air barrier requirements. Suitable for NFPA 285-compliant fire-resistive assemblies, the material is durable, lightweight and easy to install.

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“The building shell is the most longlasting component of any building, and as such is the cornerstone of the energy code. To help jurisdictions nationwide achieve current climate policy goals, future codes must include more aggressive building envelope specifications.”

—Sean Denniston, NBI Associate Director

Experts also assure building teams that the new requirements will not be hard to meet. According to Theresa Weston, president of the Richmond-based Holt Weston Consulting, who represents the Air Barrier Association on the 2024 IECC envelope subcommittee, the new requirement will need project teams to consider and define the air barrier system in the design phase and participate in quality control of the air barrier materials and accessories installation, especially at material interfaces.

Another change impacting the building enclosure is U-factor reductions for fixed fenestration in climate zones 5 to 8, to align with current zone 4 to 6 requirements of 0.34 BTU/of.hr.ft2. “While the changes are more incremental, it pushes higher thermal performance into climate zone 3, requiring thermally broken frames and dual pane low-e coated insulating glass with at least one of the following—wider/higher performance thermal barriers in the frames, warm-edge spacer, argon fill or fourth surface low E,” reports Sanders.

For curtainwall systems, building teams are given the option of using a non-metal Polymide pressure plate.

While the New Building Institute applauds IECC 2024’s efforts to raise the bar for building envelope performance, the organization believes the code doesn’t go far enough. “The building shell is the most long-lasting component of any building, and as such is the cornerstone of the energy code. To help jurisdictions nationwide achieve current climate policy goals, future codes must include more aggressive building envelope specifications,” says NBI Associate Director Sean Denniston.

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Renewable Energy Based on a technical brief put out by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and aligning with the ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2022 requirements, IECC 2024 requires new buildings have a means for on-site renewable energy generation. In addition, energy storage ready requirements are included in the updated code.

Energy monitoring will now be required in smaller spaces with the code’s size threshold reduction to 10,000 sq. ft. to align with common benchmarking policies. Furthermore, jurisdictions have the option of adopting appendices to require all-electric or electricready buildings in an effort to phase out fossil fuels.

“The electrification of buildings from renewable energy sources enhances decarbonization and greenhouse gas emission reductions, while increasing the reliability of energy for buildings during peak demand, natural disasters and as society trends towards urbanization,” states Holland.

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In Charge Already comprising 16% of U.S. light-duty vehicle sales, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a growing percentage of the American workforce is driving hybrid and allelectric cars.

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“From a design standpoint, special consideration needs to be given to the location and space needed for the ESS installation along with the interconnection to the premises’ wiring system required or permitted by the National Electrical Code,” he explains.

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Commenting on these changes, Holland, a 2024 iecc Development Committee member, notes that energy storage provides energy resiliency and reliability from utility supply disruptions and helps increase the efficiency and reliability of onsite renewable energy production by serving as a back-up energy supply.

This reality is driving a need for corporations and organizations to provide accessible, easy-to-use charging stations on their premises.

Enter ChargePoint.

With a variety of scalable solutions, the company offers standalone EV charging stations, AC and DC options, networked solutions, easy-to-use apps and more. These options were particularly useful for Citrix, a cloud computing company based in Fort Lauderdale.

For example, if all chargers are busy, an employee can put themselves on the app’s Waitlist. Once another car completes its charge, the waiting driver can then send a friendly reminder to his or her co-worker to kindly move their car to free up the charging station.

As the company began installing chargers at its different locations, they eventually scaled up to tie everything together.

LeLack also appreciates the ChargePoint Cloud Dashboard, which enables her to track driver data, energy usage and other aspects of their charging program and compare data across all stations at all locations. “It’s amazing to be able to just log in, put in the metrics I want to pull and see live data on our portfolio of stations.”

“We decided to network the stations across all locations so we could centrally manage everything. The ChargePoint Cloud Dashboard made that a reality,” said Laurie LeLack, global director, corporate real estate and risk management, Citrix.

In addition to enabling management to set charging policies, such as who is allowed to charge and for how long, the platform enables Citrix employees to communicate.

“I also love the environmental statistics about the carbon offset,” she continued. “Citrix really takes a science-based approach to how we are monitoring our emissions. I love that I can take a screen grab of the dashboard and add it into a PowerPoint for collaboration with our Sustainability and ESG team.”

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IECC 2024 also requires grid-integrated controls on space heating and cooling systems that adjust temperature within 4°F and grid-integrated water heating on electric storage water heaters.

Citing the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings, Russ Manning, ICC’s senior vice president of technical services, notes that technologies such as grid-integrated thermostats and water heating can save on the order of $100 to $200 billion in electric costs over the next two decades by reducing and shifting the time of use of building energy consumption from peak energy use periods.

POWER STORAGE

Another noted mechanical engineering change is the inclusion of the Total System Performance Ratio (TSPR) as a compliance option for mechanical building systems. Echoing ASHRAE 90.1-22’s TSPR inclusion, the metric evaluates overall system efficiency as opposed to individual component efficiency.

e-STORAGE introduces its latest containerized energy storage product, the SolBank 3.0. The 20-ft. container stores power up to 2.35 MW and a capacity of 5 MWh. The system comes with electrical redundancy protection system, smart abnormal performance detection, multi-level fire alarm and suppression protection.

Power metering and management systems are essential for tracking power use, fixing issues and shedding load during power peaks, where possible.

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“TSPR is a ratio that compares the annual heating and cooling load of a building to the annual energy consumed by the building’s HVAC system, which can be determined by a web-based calculation tool,” says Manning. “This provides the industry opportunities to move towards addressing energy for the built environment using a holistic performance-based code structure.”

Another HVAC-related addition is a focus on heat pumps, thereby closing an historic code loophole that allowed for less efficient space conditioning equipment, according to Denniston.

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JAMES M. MCKELVEY, SR. HALL, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS

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80% of today’s built environment will be part of the United States’ existing building stock in 2050. The new code mandates energy efficiency improvements for existing building retrofits or additions.

The most significant change, says Manning, is the inclusion of additional energy efficiency credits that must be achieved based on the level of change to the existing building. “Using the same methodology

“Larger steps in stringency will need to be made in the 2027 and 2030 IECC versions to achieve an envelope performance that supports both net-zero performance and needed resilience/passive survivability performance.”

—Helen Sanders, Technoform North America

as new construction, existing buildings undergoing an alteration or addition must provide a minimum number of energy efficiency credits from a table of roughly 30 different energy efficiency options based upon the building’s occupancy and climate zone,” he explains.

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Altenhofen adds that new provisions lend enhanced flexibility to make existing buildings more energy efficient. For example, there is new guidance on floor alterations, below-grade wall alterations and air barrier alternations, making it clearer that alterations to a portion of an existing building’s thermal envelope do not mandate compliance for the entire thermal envelope.

“There is some new flexibility given regarding roof/ceiling/attic insulation if there are ‘limiting conditions,’” he adds. “A registered design professional or other approved third party can put forth plans that do not comply with insulation requirements for new construction. This could assist when it is infeasible to add thick insulation above an existing deck that is constrained by coping or flashing heights and in accessible ceilings. These clarifications should make it more economically feasible to upgrade existing buildings when compliance with the performance of new construction might mean they are left unused or worse, torn down.”

Future Updates Offering some overall feedback on the 2024 building envelope performance changes, Sanders acknowledges that there has been some progress, but emphasizes that it is incremental. She explains

High-performance, thermally efficient building enclosures are key to achieving more stringent IECC 2024 energy use requirements. Pictured here is Washington University’s James M. McKelvey, Sr. Hall in St. Louis. Designed by Perkins Eastman.

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that consensus is largely based on the cost effectiveness of energy savings, which typically moves the dial only so far.

There is now a methodology to demonstrate costeffectiveness based on the social cost of carbon, but this has yet to drive change. “Larger steps in stringency will need to be made in the 2027 and 2030 IECC versions to achieve an envelope performance that supports both net-zero performance and needed resilience/passive survivability performance. This may require that effectiveness justifications can be based on social cost of carbon analysis rather than just energy cost,” she suggests.

Moving forward, Manning explains that the Code Council put the IECC on continuous maintenance, which means that development will continue without a substantial pause in order to account for rapidly evolving building technology in future updates.

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Kineum Tower, Gothenburg, Sweden Making a statement on the Gothenburg skyline, in Sweden’s second-largest city, is the sleek Kineum Tower with its diamond-shaped, glass façade, and slanted glass roof.

BY BARBARA HORWITZ-BENNETT, CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Diamond-shaped aluminum panels and a slated glass roof comprising the building’s fifth façade are signature design elements.

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A Fishnet Facade Drawing inspiration from Gothenburg’s history as a historical seaport, Kineum Tower's facade’s crisscross structure resembles a fisherman’s net and represents the modern crane trusses transporting goods, as viewed across the harbor.

Beyond beauty, this façade offers impressive performance—24/7. The breeam-certified 28-story mixed-use high rise plays host to a buzz of activity from its office tenants by day, and hotel, dining, pool, and spa guests visiting in the evening.

“Kineum acquires its name from the Greek ‘kinéo’ meaning ‘to set in motion.’ With this in mind, we have created a building characterized by its visual reflection of movement and dynamism. Kineum achieves its purpose of creating a pulse, vitalizing the area and engaging people,” states Marco Testa, CEO, Reflex Architects, Stockholm.

Another element that makes the building’s form unique is its diamond-shaped glass roof. Essentially comprising the building’s fifth side, the parametric roof emphasizes the building’s verticality and finishes the elegant silhouette.

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Marco Testa, CEO and Partner, Reflex Architects, Stockholm, Sweden

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Project: Kineum Office Building and JACY'Z Hotel & Resort Architect: Reflex Architects Size: 28,000 m2 / 27 floors Developer: Platzer Construction: NCC Delivery year: 2020 / Completion year: 2022 Photography/Renderings: Reflex Architects

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The breeam-certified 28-story mixed use Kineum is a welcome addition to the Gothenburg skyline in Sweden.

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Each pane of jumbo-sized flat glass—3.2 m × 6 m— was divided into six triangles to minimize waste.

There are approximately 100 floor-to-ceiling, singlestory triangle modules on each floor.

“These glass triangles are held in place in a rectangular module with a unique aluminum profile system, which is deepest where they intersect, protruding half a meter,” said Testa. The thickness of the aluminum profiles is based upon solar study calculations that helped to minimize solar heat loads, while offering pleasant natural light to pass into the offices and hotel rooms.

The high-performance glazing system was designed to achieve 25% better energy performance than national requirements. The building was certified as breeam Excellent, achieving one of the highest levels of sustainability certification available in the UK and Europe.

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Striking Facade

The toughened solar control glass, with a double or triple silver coating, offers a solar factor of 33%, blocking 2/3rds of solar radiation, while bringing in 62% of visible light. With an insulating Ug value of just 1.0 W/(m2K), the glazing is well suited for cold climates.

The unitized glass facade has narrow face widths and can be outfitted with large insert units as projected top-hung or parallel-opening windows with vent weights of up to 250 kg.

Construction with stepped insulating glazing ensures seamless integration into the façade. For Kineum, a projectspecific unitized modular façade was designed.

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A Solid Anchor Anchor plates serve as a convenient, efficient solution for transferring load in a structure. The plates can be welded or bolted into concrete or steel. For Kineum, a number of customized anchor plates were used throughout the building.

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Approximately 100 prefabricated modules were lifted up and installed on each floor.

GLASS MODULES

GLASS FABRICATION

The design and fabrication team took a maximum-sized flat glass unit of 3.2 meters x 6 meters and divided it into six triangles to form the pieces of the pre-fabricated façade.

The highly sustainable building is constructed with prefabricated concrete slabs and steel frames.

The structural team successfully engineered the building’s support system to reduce the cement content in the concrete core, resulting in carbon dioxide savings of 200 tons, 39% lower than the use of traditional concrete.

The cast-in-place concrete core enabled the building to have a column-free floorplan to support a large variety of programs and layouts. The open plan also allows occupants to have 360-degree views of the city. Additionally, at the end of the façade’s usable life, the glass and aluminum can be recycled.

Streamlining Workflows with Software In addition to supporting the evolution of this complicated façade’s design, Archicad was instrumental in fostering communication and sharing ideas across the architectural team, their consultants, the client, and the construction team. The design team leveraged the power of BIMx, Graphisoft’s award-winning app to explore the building model and project deliverables from anywhere on an iPad, iPhone, or Android phone or tablet. The architects simply extracted IFC files directly from Archicad and then used BIMx to present a clear visualization of the building in their office, the client’s office, or on the construction site. The team also used VR technology to share the design intent and communicate the complexities and details of the design to all the consultants and contractors. The team used Solibri to run advanced checks to identify issues in the model and then used BIM Collab to communicate this key information to the relevant team members.

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SOFTWARE

Using Archicad and Graphisoft’s CurtainWall tool, Reflex Architects fine tuned the shapes and sizes of the triple-glazed glass, opaque panels behind the glass and criss-crossed metallic cladding on the façade.

The diagonal cross patterns in Kineum’s façade are Larson metal panels from Alucoil. Made from aluminum alloy, the product comes in a variety of finishes. In addition to aluminum, Larson is available in stainless steel, copper, brass, and zinc.

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The sleek new building houses several modes of entertainment underneath its glazed rooftop, including a 100-meter-high pool club and a skybar.

Reclining in Style At this Kinuem restaurant, diners can sit in this luxurious Big Barbara armchair from the House of Ess while enjoying the view. As part of Kineum’s top floor spa, hotel guests can lounge in this House of Ess Croisette Velour Camel Armchair made from velvet.

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Decorative Metal

The Perfect Weave The unique aesthetics of woven wire mesh make it a popular application for elevator cabs and lobbies.

While the elevator cab of a new or renovated project may not garner a lot of publicity, this small space can make a big impression on nearly every employee and person who visits the building.

One material giving design teams a unique blend of creative flexibility and functionality is woven wire mesh. The openness of the weave adds another

dimension to the rider experience, while the many colors and patterns offer a near limitless palette to complement the aesthetic of the project.

The following project examples illustrate how woven wire mesh has been used to transform an elevator cab into an architectural element clad in bronze, copper, brass, and stainless steel. Hold the elevator!

Playing with the natural textures of the wire mesh and layering those textures has always been popular with our clients, and it results in an unlimited number of unique pairings.

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RSA Trustmark Building, Mobile, Ala. In refreshing the 34-story RSA Trustmark office building in Mobile, Ala., Bank Wire SZ-4 woven wire mesh was customized to fit a specific color and style.

Whereas the SZ-4 pattern is typically woven with a stainless-steel warp wire and a bronze, copper or brass fill wire, the architect wanted to reduce the amount of bronze in the overall weave.

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stainless in the fill direction and weave two stainless for each bronze wire. This produced a subtle hint of bronze in the wire mesh to best compliment the interior design of the elevator cab.

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“Stemming from our deep understanding of projectbased manufacturing and extensive weaving experience, our team specializes in requests for highly customized mesh,” says Horan, as was the case with this project.

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Hide at 85 Piccadilly, London Wire mesh is also a great application for exterior elevator cladding. For London’s Hide at 85 Piccadilly restaurant, two woven antique brass-plated wire mesh patterns, M22-28 and I-188 were combined to create an artistic, textured cladding on the elevator exterior. M22-28 is a small-scale, twin-wire intercrimp pattern and I-188 is a large, single-wire intercrimp pattern.

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“Playing with the natural textures of the wire mesh and layering those textures has always been popular with our clients, and it results in an unlimited number of unique pairings,” he notes.

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166 Geary Street, San Francisco Known as the Grace Building, the historic 166 Geary Street San Francisco office building, built in 1907, was in need of an elevator renovation. While retaining the original dome, Unique Elevator Interiors chose Banker Wire’s woven wire mesh M33-2 to preserve the classic look.

The rich bronze tones and flat-faced basket weave create both warmth and texture, and the 9.2% open design reveals a glimpse into the elevator shaft and mechanics.

According to Unique Elevator Interiors, the original cab design was very open.

Riders could see into the elevator shaft.

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“The interior design of the cab pays homage to its original design. In the selection of bronze, the hue is reflective of the vintage elegance of the building—a color you see throughout the lobby and exterior,” says Harrison Horan, vice president, Banker Wire, Mukwonago, Wisconsin.

The elevator lighting lends a glistening effect and deep shadows to the wire mesh, creating a rich, ornamental appearance.

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Problem-Solving Ceiling for Restaurant Remodel Create an atmosphere of authentic Old World, Italian charm with considerable design constraints that include an existing T-bar suspended ceiling.

CHALLENGE

When the Italian Kitchen restaurant in Vancouver, B.C., lost its lease, owner The Glowbal Group decided to move the restaurant down the street, into a site vacated by another restaurant. Monica Jeffers, of Monica Jeffers Interior Design, Squamish, B.C., says the new location’s existing design had become, “tired and dated and sad.” Her assignment was to create a modern yet classic interpretation of “an authentic, Italian, pasta-focused experience,” a visual expression of the restaurant’s slogan, “Old World Charm, New World Vibe.”

However, an aesthetic obstacle hung over the project: an existing T-bar suspended ceiling grid that had to be retained in the new design. She thought, “How the heck am I going to deliver a beautiful restaurant with an old T-bar ceiling, and a low ceiling height at that?”

“It’s an unusual request from a client, to do a design of this caliber and be asked to retain a T-Bar ceiling.”

She began researching ceiling products that would fit the grid, the budget, and her design vision.

SOLUTION

Neutral colors and warm materials.

Stonework and brick walls. The use of marble. Soft lighting—often accomplished with candles, sconces, or lanterns. Antique paintings.

Ornate, without feeling cluttered or enclosed. These are some of the hallmarks of Old-World charm. Was it possible to capture the essence of Old World in this space?

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“When I found Ceilume’s thermoformed ceiling panels, I thought, ‘Wow, this is an amazing and affordable option that fits the look we are going for.’”

Jeffers selected the company’s Orleans panels— a gracious floral design—one of Ceilume’s 39 traditional and contemporary patterns.

To increase the perception of greater ceiling height, she designed dropped millwork beams that divide the ceiling into 8 ft. × 8 ft. sections. “It seems counterintuitive,” Jeffers explains, but the different levels create the illusion of more height, “just by bringing the millwork grid down 4 in.” Ceilume, the leading manufacturer of thermoformed ceilings, offers 16 colors and finishes and Jeffers selected a

light color, “Sand,” to enhance the apparent height of the rooms.” The existing T-bar grid was covered with self-adhering Ceilume Decorative Strips to match the panels.

Because the panels are impervious and easy to wash, they are code-compliant for food preparation areas. This allowed Jeffers to keep a unified ceiling design throughout main dining rooms, including over the antipasto bar where the chef produces hand-cut pasta.

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The Orleans ceiling tiles are made from 0.03 in.-thick vinyl plastic that is 100% recyclable and completely waterproof.

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The ornate design of the ceiling tile creates incredible texture across the ceiling plane that captures the Old World atmosphere sought by the owners.

The stunning ceiling tiles are code-compliant for food preparation areas, enabling the designer to create one contiguous ceiling throughout the dining area and the antipasto bar, where hand-cut pasta is prepared.

The thermoformed panels have acoustical backing panels above them for increased acoustic control. The panels meet Class A fire safety requirements and are Greenguard Gold certified for indoor air quality.

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“The restaurant takes simple ingredients and creates fresh but classic Italian dishes,” Jeffers says. The layered design creates texture that provides “a backdrop for their beautiful food.”

This strategy has apparently succeeded. Opening night was packed, and the relocated restaurant has been a hit ever since.

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Public & Cultural

Designing a Safe, Secure and Daylit Aquatic Center Hafer Designs crafts a building envelope that brings daylight into the competition space during the day, and serves as a soft, welcoming beacon after sunset.

CHALLENGE

City officials in Evansville, Indiana, realized that the city’s deteriorating 1975 Lloyd Pool facility could no longer meet the needs of the local community, let alone high school, collegiate, NCAA and USA swimming meets.

Hafer Design was tasked with designing the new Deaconess Aquatic Center, complete with a 950,000-gallon competition pool named after Olympic gold medalist and Evansville native Lilly King, a 91,000-gallon leisure pool and a 1,750-sq.-ft. outdoor splash pad.

One key design challenge was finding a way to make these notoriously dark and cavernous spaces feel evenly illuminated and inviting.

While limiting glare and reducing the penetration of hot spots into the building, UniQuad welcomes soft, uniform natural light into the center. The diffuse lighting enables the swimmers to focus on their training and performance, and the spectators to enjoy a comfortable, non-glare environment.

“The translucent panels that flank the south and east walls of the competition pool area allow natural light to penetrate the competition pool space while minimizing harsh shadows that would distract swimmers and lifeguards,” states Jennifer Kissel, senior associate/architect, Hafer Design, Evansville, Ind. The system delivers an additional level of safety and security by blocking a direct line of sight from the outside into the pool area.

SOLUTION

The architectural team at Hafer Design addressed that issue by bringing daylight into the competitive pool area in a way that prevented glare from disrupting swimmers and fans. They specified more than 13,000-sq.-ft. of custom-designed Kingspan Light + Air UniQuad translucent wall system panels.

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The UniQuad panels feature a custom-designed dot pattern illustrating the forms of swimmers in action. “At night, the dot patterns that adorn the translucent panels appear, creating glowing images of swimmers on the building’s exterior,” describes Kissel. A clear anodized finish on UniQuad’s

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UniQuad translucent wall systems feature a unitized panel design that provides light control and high thermal performance. aluminum framing pays tribute to the industrial history of the neighborhood and the wood tones add warmth.

Winner of the Aquatics International 2022 Dream Design Award, the Deaconess Aquatic Center includes a competition pool and a large mezzanine for 960 spectators lending full views of the entire area. The pool itself offers 10 lap lanes, two bulkheads with numerous pool configurations, a separated diving well, under-deck lane line storage and a state-of-the-art timing system.

The smaller recreational pool contains four lap lanes, a stair entry, a zero-depth entry area with play features, a basketball net and space for swim lessons with a built-in shelf where kids can sit.

In addition to a mural of its namesake, Lilly King, the facility also features a wall display that showcases the accomplishments of another Evansville native, Paralympic gold medalist Mikaela Jenkins.

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Hospitality

Improving Access to Florida’s Premier Historic Hotel A new lift solution makes accessibility stylish at the fully renovated Don CeSar hotel.

VIEWS FOR ALL

Guests of all ages and abilities can climb the stairs or take the lift to see the stunning Gulf of Mexico views.

CHALLENGE

SOLUTION

Opening in 1928, the Don CeSar hotel in St. Pete Beach, Florida, has been welcoming travelers for nearly a century. While the property boasts a glamorous history, after over 90 years of service, it was time for a full-scale renovation and revitalization that would prepare the hotel for another hundred years.

Ascension wheelchair lifts were selected to provide fully ADA-compliant access to an upper-level poolside bar—without physically compromising the historic hotel.

During the renovation, Parker-Torres Design, the architecture firm that led the project, was faced with a need to preserve the visual appeal of the hotel, prevent unnecessary demolition to the building, and provide reliable ADA-compliant second-story access to a new poolside bar.

“Creating a new accessible and usable space for all within a building that was built in 1928 is a challenge in itself,” said Heather Gray, Senior Designer at Parker-Torres. “We used [an Ascension] lift next to the new lit staircase.”

The Ascension Clarity wheelchair lift used in the Don CeSar is designed to provide second-story access while maintaining a low profile. The lift features a small footprint and glass enclosure, as well as quiet operation. Additionally, Parker-Torres Design chose a custom color so the lift would match the finish of the hotel bar and blend into the atmosphere.

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The Ascension Clarity enclosed wheelchair lift can reach heights up to 14 ft. and needs only 4 ft. of clearance for installation on the existing floor.

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Looking to help bridge the gap between skills learned in architectural school and those required on the job, Katelyn Rossier, aia, ncarb, lssbb, started mentorDINO—Designers Innovating New Opportunities.

Katelyn Rossier, aia, ncarb, lssbb. By day she’s an associate and project architect in SmithGroup’s Pittsburgh office and by night and on the weekends, she runs her mentorDINO— Designers Innovating New Opportunities, creating training programs and publicizing architect stories through articles and a podcast.

Drawing from her own experiences acclimating to the profession, Katelyn Rossier created a bundle of targeted classes teaching key skills, both technical and soft. She posts weekly Architecture Registration Exams experience stories and more recently added a podcast, Interview Series.

“When young architects, designers, and engineers transition into new roles, there is often no training, and most firms don’t have a plan in place to help guide them. It is a sink or swim situation,” she states.

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