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Advanced Building Skins

Advanced Building Skins

The Advanced Building Skins (ABS) conference is an international event on innovative building envelopes for architects, engineers, scientists and the construction industry. It has nearly 800 participants from around the world.

BIFF SA has participated in this conference every year since 2016.

  • 2016_ABS_Technical constrains and strategies for building envelope design
  • 2017_ABS_Building envelope design optimisation for refurbishment projects
  • 2018_ABS_Fully glazed facade design for a villa with special and large sized glass panels
  • 2019_ABS_Envelope retrofit of historical buildings
  • 2020_ABS_Double skin facade, semi-unitized system for improving architectural flexibility
  • 2021_ABS_Integrating PV and dynamic glass - A highrise facade retrofit
  • 2022_ABS_Glass façade & Structure movements
→ PDF - CO_2016_ABS_Technical constrains and strategies for building envelope design→ PDF - CO_2017_ABS_Building envelope design optimisation for refurbishment projects→ PDF - CO_2018_ABS_Fully glazed facade design for a villa with special and large sized glass panels→ PDF - CO_2019_ABS_Envelope retrofit of historical buildings→ PDF - CO_2020_ABS_Double skin facade, semi-unitized system for improving architectural flexibility.pdf→ PDF - CO_2021_ABS_Integrating PV and dynamic glass - A highrise facade retrofit.pdf

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