Midwest

Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
Provider: Atlas Roofing

Complex project designs & evolving enclosure material options combined with demanding weather conditions & confusing product performance attributes can be challenging to synthesize. Because thermal value code targets are increasing, along with the uncertainty of future energy costs & weather patterns, getting the project’s insulation strategy right is critical. This session examines the performance attributes of exterior insulation options under real world conditions to better enable the design & installation of higher performing, more resilient and durable walls.

Learning Objectives

• Understand current building code requirements and testing methodologies for fire propagation and smoke development. Given assembly testing following the Grenfell tragedy, attendees will better understand NFPA285 fire propagation testing in relation to actual material properties and performance.
• Review material properties governing moisture and air performance as they pertain to conditions encountered in rainscreens and masonry veneers so as to best understand the actual performance characteristics of insulation specification choices.
• Understand conditions that pose unique challenges, including multiple drain planes, drainage efficiencies, increased water absorption, and water vapor transmission.  Recognize risks associated with exterior insulation when used in combination with cavity insulation, interior vapor retarders, and low-perm water-resistive barriers.
• Understand the effects of wind-washing and convective heat loss in modern rainscreen systems. Identify and prevent conditions that jeopardize the thermal insulation layer, which may in turn affect moisture transfer and overall wall performance.

Presenters

Lance Williams
Architectural Sales Manager

Lance Williams

Lance Williams is an Architectural Sales Manager with Atlas Roofing Corporation focused on continuous insulation applications. His experience includes over 15 years of collaboration with Designers, Specifiers, GC’s, Installers, Building Scientists, and Building Envelope Consultants. With his expertise in building science, as well as the implications of continuous insulation choices, he is exceptionally suited to offer advanced perspectives. He inspires professionals to take advantage of the benefits of exterior CI, while also avoiding its unintended consequences.

Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
Provider: Northern Facades

Reaching towards Net Zero energy ready buildings is becoming a popular topic in todays climate changing world. Energy efficiency has expanded towards exterior wall assemblies where effects of thermal bridging are considered and thermally broken sub-framing systems are becoming the new norm. This course will identify and compare various cladding attachment methods on the market. Learn how to determine the appropriate clip for your project and how to compare effective thermal resistance required to achieve projects targeted R – Value.

Learning Objectives

• In this presentation you will be able to understand how the use of thermal clips will impact thermal bridging on various exterior wall assembly applications.
• Identify types of clips currently on the market.
• Learn how to calculate the number of clips required on your project by identifying structural forces involved to determine clip spacing.
• Gain insight on how the NFPA 285 fire code applies to thermal clips.
• Acquire a new ability to effectively detail thermal clips on architectural drawings.

Presenters

Bilal Khan
Facade Systems Design Advisor

Bilal Khan

An advocate for high performance building envelopes, Bilal’s work has helped build grass-root level educational infrastructure, biomass energy plants and, automated transit systems. Bilal has a Masters in Architecture and an MBA.

Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
Provider: Porcelanosa

This course discusses the rain screen system for exterior facades using porcelain tile or solid surface.

Learning Objectives

• Participants should be able to correctly define various types of exterior cladding systems.
• Participants should be able to identify the major components/features of the ventilated facade system.
• Participants will gain an understanding of the advantages of the ventilated facade when compared to other cladding systems.
• Participants will gain an understanding of appropriate use of the ventilated facade system.

Presenters

Ignacio Vidal
Facades Director

Ignacio Vidal

Ignacio is an architect with over 20 years of experience in designing buildings of varied sizes and types. Before founding his firm in 2009, he worked with the well-known Barcelona architect Albert Viaplana, where he gained invaluable experience in developing and constructing several high-profile public projects. After that, Ignacio worked with the London office of the award-winning AHMM Architects.

Since 2014, Ignacio has spearheaded the introduction of porcelain panels for rain-screens through PORCELANOSA Facades for the North American market. In a sea of material sales vendors, Ignacio brings credibility and authority, helping architects achieve their designs. Due to his understanding of architecture, construction, and cost, Ignacio has helped complete more than 150 porcelain facades, and has therefore become a porcelain façade expert of reference nationwide.

Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
Provider: Aluminum Extruders Council

Aluminum extrusion-based products have a proven history in commercial buildings. Whether in façade systems, window framing, entrance doors, sun shades or interior components like light shelves and moveable partitions, extrusions have offered specifiers strength, durability, a wide range of aesthetics and often enhanced energy efficiency.

Yet extrusions have a downside as well – embodied carbon.

Aluminum is regarded as the third most significant source of GHG emissions in construction, trailing concrete and steel. While aluminum’s GHG is significantly less than those materials, it is important to understand how it can be minimized.

This presentation will explore aluminum extrusions’ impact on GHG: what drives it, and what the specifier can do to minimize it.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the key drivers of aluminum extrusions’ embodied carbon
• Assess the most recent EPD data for aluminum extrusions
• Analyze trade-offs  between various extrusion characteristics and finishes
• Employ strategies to minimize the embodied carbon from  extrusions in their projects

Presenters

Brent Slayton
National Sales Coordinator

Brent Slayton

Brent Slayton has been in the aluminum extrusion industry for 39 years with the last 20 working for a leading custom aluminum extrusion company – Keymark Corporation as the National Sales Coordinator responsible for Sales and Marketing for both of our locations in Fonda, NY and Lakeland, FL. He is currently serving as the Chairman of the Aluminum Material Council and the Finishing Committee at FGIA – the Fenestration Glazing Industry Alliance, as well as Chairman of the Building & Construction Committee at the Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC).

Kassandra Spencer
LEED Green Associate

Kassandra Spencer

Kassandra Spencer possesses eleven years of invaluable experience in the aluminum industry. Kassandra has spent her entire career working for the Keymark Corporation. She is a LEED Green Associate, holding credentials with the USGBC. Demonstrating an unwavering commitment to the sustainability of aluminum, Kassandra is eager to continue her professional development in this area and actively contribute to a more environmentally responsible future for the industry.