by Helen Sanders
Compliance with mandatory energy codes in the United States, with some important exceptions, typically does not result in high-performance installed fenestration and façades. This is because of: The way codes are written, adopted and enforced.
This month’s blog focuses on the fourth concept in the Façade Tectonics Institute’s (FTI) blueprint for market transformation of façade performance: ensuring a sufficient selection of high-performance curtainwall and window wall systems and trained installers
Code compliance has been cited as one of seven major barriers to the adoption of high-performance façade systems. While lack of stringency in model codes and slow speed of adoption hold back high-performance façade adoption,
Developing bigger sticks – more stringent energy codes – won’t get building envelope performance where it needs to be fast enough to address either carbon reduction or building resiliency needs. Of course, energy codes are