Symposium on Building Envelope Sustainability:
The Future is in the Balance

Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC
April 30 – May 1, 2009

In a continuing effort to support research, education and the dissemination of information important to the building industry, the RCI Foundation, in conjunction with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Institute of Building Sciences, and the National Research Council Canada is issuing a call for papers concerning sustainable building envelope design.

The two-day symposium will focus on evolving philosophies concerning the most cost-effective methods to address construction of sustainable building envelopes. This is an opportunity to share your knowledge of this important subject and make a difference in our industry.

  -- The deadline for submitting proposals for consideration is November 1, 2007. --

Proposals should be submitted as a 250-word abstract. A committee comprised of members from the symposium sponsors will review all abstracts. Please e-mail abstracts and/or questions to: CJ Walters, RCI Foundation, 1500 Sunday Drive, Suite 204, Raleigh, NC 27607-5041 (phone: 800-828-1902 / e-mail: cjwalters@rci-online.org).

Download the Call For Papers Document (.pdf)

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The mission of this symposium is to identify potential conflicts in the expanded role of the building envelope and to identify strategies that optimize building sustainability and occupant security.

Examples of topics to be explored include:

Sustainable Systems — New approaches to building envelope systems, including building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), garden roofing, and cool roofing.

Sustainable Materials — New and emerging building envelope materials that offer increased sustainability.

Sustainable Practices — New approaches to the manufacture, installation, maintenance, removal and recycling of building envelope materials.

Sustainability Metrics — New approaches to measuring and classifying sustainable materials, systems, and practices, including life-cycle costing.

Design Issues — Examination of critical design issues affected by new sustainable building envelope materials, including fire safety, long-term weathering and durability, wind and storm resistance, moisture migration and mitigation, thermal design, and alternative approaches.
 

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