The premier conference on high-performance building enclosures

Boston

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July 17, 2024

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Join us at The Westin Copley Place

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Themes we’ll explore:

  • Efficient Construction Techniques: Prefabrication and Panelization
  • Fabrication Futures: Advances in Materials for Building Envelope Excellence
  • Strategies for Passive Cooling: Shade, Ventilation, and High Performance Glazing
  • Circular Economies and Sustainable Material Specification

Co-Chair

Emily Goldenberg

Design Director

MASS Design Group

Chris Hardy

Design Director

MASS Design Group

Featured Speakers

Derek Johnson

Associate Principal, Corporate and Commercial, Boston

Perkins&Will

Katie Ownes

Sr. Construction Manager

Boston Properties

Matthew Pierce

Principal

Perkins&Will

Adam McCarthy

President

McNamara • Salvia Structural Engineers.

Megan Altendorf

Senior Architect

MASS Design Group

Jason Jewhurst

Partner

Bruner/Cott Architects

Matthew Scarlett

Senior Associate

TenBerke

Ben Shepherd

Director

Atelier Ten

David Valecillos

Senior Development Project Manager

The Community Builders, Inc.

Colin Booth

Associate Principal

Stack + Co

What to Expect at Facades+

The Premier Conference for High-Performance Building Enclosures brings the AEC Community together to discuss all things facades, from technical innovations, new materials, and designs that push the envelope. Be inspired by presentations and discussion by world-class architects and engineers.

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Symposium


Attend a day of
presentations and panels examining the fast-paced evolution of facade
technology.

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Expo Hall


Visit and network with our exhibitors and your fellow attendees at the Methods+Materials
Gallery

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Location


Join us for peer-learning and networking opportunities to keep you at the forefront of practice.

From Our Past Events

Symposium

Wednesday, July 17 – Times in ET

8:00 – 9:30 AM

Check-in & Breakfast | Methods+Materials Gallery local_cafe

9:30 – 9:40 AM

Diana Darling

CEO & Creative Director

The Architect’s Newspaper

9:40 – 9:45 AM

Jim Hammond

Architectural Sales Representative

YKK AP

9:45 – 9:50 AM

Emily Goldenberg

Design Director

MASS Design Group

Chris Hardy

Design Director

MASS Design Group

9:50 – 10:30 AM

When the City of Boston decided to build a new facility for the Josiah Quincy Upper School (JQUS), it sought to bring the school up to contemporary educational facility standards, expand learning and teaching opportunities, and create a much-needed resource for the local community. This required adding significant program features, the kind expected of most public middle and high schools but missing from JQUS since its founding in 1999 due to lack of suitable space. After studying almost 40 sites throughout Boston’s neighborhoods, the City selected a location in Chinatown that satisfied the highest number of search criteria but presented a series of challenges to public school design and construction, a building type more commonly found in low-rise residential contexts.

Matthew LaRue

Associate Principal

HMFH Architects

10:30 – 11:15 AM

In this session, with leading building materials manufacturers, attendees will learn about the advanced building envelope technologies transforming the AEC industry. These advancements allow designers, engineers, and contractors to embrace renewable energy and sustainable building solutions.

Chris Heider

Business Development Manager

Longboard Arch Prod

Tim Nass

VP of National Sales

SAFTI FIRST

Erin Lindsay

Director of Architectural Business Development

CRL

11:15 – 11:45 AM

Complimentary Networking Lunch | Methods+Materials Gallery Break local_cafe

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM

MASS Design Group Senior Architect Megan Altendorf will expand and discuss the role of affordable housing as an act of justice and equity through the lens of resilience. Altendorf will look at two projects north of Boston that blur the lines of enclosure to extend thermal comfort and address longer-term flooding challenges.

Megan Altendorf

Senior Architect

MASS Design Group

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

This roundtable with leading building materials manufacturers will discuss the advanced materials newly available and just around the corner. Learn how architects can work together with manufacturers to build with the latest, most up-to-date technologies, code requirements, and products, and hear what’s next for the industry.This panel, with leading building materials manufacturers, will discuss the advanced materials that are newly available and just around the corner. Learn how architects can work together with manufacturers to build with the latest, most up-to-date technologies, code requirements, and products, and hear what’s next for the industry.

Aaron Alterman

Curtain Wall & Facade Specialist

STI Specified Technologies

Chris Giovannielli

Global Director of Product Management

Kawneer

Brian White

Technical Manger North America Glass

H.B. Fuller

1:00 – 2:00 PM

Complimentary Networking Lunch | Methods+Materials Gallery Break restaurant

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM

TenBerke transforms a 1957 modernist building on Harvard’s campus, originally designed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott, to create a flexible learning and work environment to support today’s academic communities and the way law is taught in the 21st century. The project has introduced new entrances, increased teaching, office, research, and interaction spaces, and a high-performance enclosure made of existing-updated and new elements.

TenBerke Senior Associate Matthew Scarlett and Atelier Ten Director Ben Shepherd will discuss the strategies utilized to reconceive the building for contemporary law pedagogy and better connect the building to the law school campus. The presentation will also focus on a life cycle assessment around embodied carbon and holistic envelope strategies that balance transparency, comfort and performance.

Ben Shepherd

Director

Atelier Ten

Matthew Scarlett

Senior Associate

TenBerke

Emily Goldenberg

Design Director

MASS Design Group

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

This session will showcase the implementation of a high-performance panelized façade system on an existing 1970s high-rise precast concrete multi-family housing building complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the resulting measured data, reduced operational energy and decreased water consumption. In addition to addressing climate resilience, we will discuss how the project prioritizes community resilience and the installation of prefabricated and panelized insulated facades on a fully occupied building through construction. Rivermark is part of a national initiative supported by LISC, MASS DOER, and the Rocky Mountain Institute to provide new examples of how existing buildings can be sustainable transformations.

Jason Jewhurst

Partner

Bruner/Cott Architects

Jackie Mignone

Architect

Bruner/Cott Architects

3:00 – 3:30 PM

This owner and developer roundtable will highlight considerations surrounding sustainability in the design and construction industry. Focusing on the considerations and decisions involved in getting a project organized, funded, and built, the panelists will share their varied experiences working in and around the City with what has been the most successful approaches to implementing innovative sustainability solutions.

David Valecillos

Senior Development Project Manager

The Community Builders, Inc.

Colin Booth

Associate Principal

Stack + Co

4:00 – 4:45 PM

Designed by Perkins&Will, The View at Prudential is a 360-degree observation deck that offers a breathtaking and orienting view of the Boston skyline from the top of the Prudential Center in the heart of Boston. The three-floor observatory is designed with simplicity and minimalism to emphasize the view of Boston’s skyline. Interior materials were chosen sustainably and locally to celebrate Boston’s deeply rooted history. The Perkins&Will team had to reconfigure that tower’s mechanical system and remove several suspended ceilings, walkways, and solid panels to raise the ceiling height to 25 feet to provide better views and fill the interior with light.

Katie Ownes

Sr. Construction Manager

Boston Properties

Derek Johnson

Associate Principal, Corporate and Commercial, Boston

Perkins&Will

Matthew Pierce

Principal

Perkins&Will

4:45 – 5:00 PM

Diana Darling

CEO & Creative Director

The Architect’s Newspaper

Emily Goldenberg

Design Director

MASS Design Group

5:00 – 7:00 PM

Cocktail Reception wine_bar

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