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Clean Building Technologies in Architecture

Attmann O., University of Colorado at Denver, US

This paper presents an overview of clean building technologies, their use in architecture, and introduces an ongoing research project about the development of a green-wall system incorporating these technologies. In our research project, we introduce [...]

Sustainable Facility Solutions beyond LEED

von Below D., Ostafi J., Flad Architects, US

Flad Architects, one of the world’s leading renewable energy research design practices, is currently designing a preeminent renewable energy laboratory in the tropics. Operating research and development laboratories in an equatorial environment poses extraordinary energy [...]

Implementation of Comparison Function Using Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata

Wagh M.D., Sun Y., Annampedu V., Lehigh University, US

Quantum-Dot cellular automata (QCA) architectures represent the future of computing. But it can only implement an inverter and a three input majority gate directly. Consequently very few QCA architectures are available in literature. By fixing [...]

Leveraging the Nation’s Nanotechnology Research Centers: True interdisciplinary buildings foster a seamless transition from lab bench to consumer

Soueid A., Adams G., Schaeffer M., Riojas S., HDR Architecture, Inc., US

Successfully fostering emerging technologies requires diligence in continually assessing and evolving best practices resulting in process improvements. While nanotechnology is in many ways still considered an emerging field, it is rapidly becoming the corner stone [...]

Clean Technology & Sustainable Design Applied to the New York State Alternative Fuel Vehicle Research Laboratory (AFVRL)

Ostafi J., Sereno D., Flad & Associates, US

The proposed presentation will highlight how this emissions laboratory’s nano-particle-focused awareness is elevated through a marriage of the sciences and arts. This is accomplished by employing innovative architectural and engineering sustainable building concepts into a [...]

Building Green with Nanotechnology

Elvin G., Green Technology Forum, US

Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the molecular scale, is opening new possibilities in green building through products like solar energy collecting paints, nanogel high-insulating translucent panels, and heat-absorbing windows. Even more dramatic breakthroughs are [...]

Designing Today’s CleanTech Research Facility: Sustainable, Highly Technical Architectural and Engineering Design Applied to the New York State Alternative Fuel Vehicle Research Laboratory (AFVRL)

Ostafi J., Sereno D., Flad & Associates, US

The proposed presentation will highlight how this emissions laboratory’s nano-particle-focused awareness is elevated through a marriage of the sciences and arts. This is accomplished by employing innovative architectural and engineering sustainable building concepts into a [...]

Building Green with Nanotechnology

Elvin G., Green Technology Forum, US

Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the molecular scale, is opening new possibilities in green building through products like solar energy collecting paints, nanogel high-insulating translucent panels, and heat-absorbing windows. Even more dramatic breakthroughs are [...]

Nano-Tecture: Developing Smart Skins in Architecture

Ataman O., Trautmann J., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US

This paper surveys a brief history of architectural skin materials and presents an ongoing research project about the development of the materials and fabrication concepts for a fundamentally new class of architectural composite. This type [...]

A Collaborative Approach to Architectural and Societal Issues in Nanotechnology

Elvin G., Woerner J., Ball State University, US

How will nanotechnology affect the way we design, make, and inhabit buildings? In the NanoSTUDIO, interdisciplinary groups of students from Ball State University’s Department of Architecture and the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Interprofessional Projects Program [...]