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The building envelope is the skin that encloses the interior of a building, serving as the front line of defense
protecting it from the environment, facilitating climate control and air quality, and influencing
energy efficiency. The building envelope includes the exterior walls and roof and their critical interface.
The dimensions, performance and compatibility of materials, fabrication process and details,
and the connections and interactions of these components play a critical role in the effectiveness
and durability of the building envelope.
Our building envelope services cover two broad areas:
Curtain wall consulting is the application of building engineering to improve the performance of
new exterior envelope design and construction. Consulting often includes the design of waterproofing
and roofing and their interaction with the exterior wall.
Exterior wall rehabilitation is the evaluation of failures and design deficiencies that have compromised
building envelope performance.
Our work in exterior wall rehabilitation enhances our ability to design new curtain walls by providing
insights gained from understanding the mechanisms of failures.
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