Laura Karnath Senior Associate and Senior Enclosure Technical Designer at Walter P Moore The last year has shown us that as a global community we must mobilize together to achieve solutions in response to a crisis— we are interconnected, and wide-reaching solutions cannot be achieved in a vacuum. The A/E/C industry along with scientists, academia, and policy makers alike agree that climate change is indeed a crisis. In order to prevent catastrophic warming of 2 degrees or more, we must drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions across every industry. Page 82
Massimiliano Fanzaga Communication Manager at Permasteelisa Over the years, buildings have become taller and more complex – an ever-evolving process – and that has brought about increasingly complex technological challenges for all parties involved in the creation of such modern megastructures. This evolutionary spiral has affected the sector of curtain wall as well; there has been a shift from units composed of one sheet of glass mounted on an aluminum frame to more complex double and triple “skin” facades using increasingly advanced technologies which now characterise most newly built skyscrapers. Page 71
Dr. Hossein Reza has ‘The Glass Word’ Founding Principal and Director of Web Structures The mantra of “Business-as-usual is not sustainable” is now a clear reality for most of us. The AEC industry is no exception to this tsunami of change. We are not only changing the manner in which we work, with work from home and more remote collaboration, but also are questioning the merits of some of our design and material selection processes by introducing circularity into our work and by squeezing waste and carbon out of them. Page 134
his issue Discover the story behind this dramatic façade with Foster + Partners on Page 60 © Oleg Kovalyuk
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