These workshops are designed for members the AEC community: architects, engineers, or other design professionals and students. For two days this April at facades+ PERFORMANCE, experts in the industry will analyze, discuss, and dispute the development, implementation, and maintenance of high-performance building enclosures.

Here’s a taste:
Performance is contextual. Like durability, it is not an inherent property of a material, product or system. The usage must be defined, performance evaluation criteria established, with metric and benchmark criteria determined. If the material, product, or system exceeds these benchmarks, they are qualified as high-performance. However, the definition of high performance facades itself is elusive, often incorporating trending keywords like “sustainable” and “technologically advanced” to describe practices that are arguably neither. The difficulty lies in pinpointing the most significant contributors to the performance of a façade, with contenders ranging from metrics (such as U-values) to physics (a double-skin façade cavity) to post-occupancy commissioning. There is no clear answer.