Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories provides a comprehensive collection of the most relevant and forward-looking research in the field of façade design and construction today, with a focus on both product and process innovation. The book brings together the expertise, creativity, and critical thinking of more than fifty global innovators from both academia and industry, to guide the reader in translating research into practice. It identifies new opportunities for the construction sector to respond to present challenges, towards a more sustainable, efficient, connected, and safe future. - Introduces the reader to the role of façades with respect to the main challenges ahead - Provides an overview of the major façade technological advancements throughout history and identifies prospective research trajectories - Includes interviews with key industry players from different backgrounds and expertise - Showcases a comprehensive range of leading research topics in the field, organised by product and process innovation - Covers major innovations across the value chain including façade design, fabrication, construction, operation and maintenance, and end-of-life - Contributes towards the definition of an international research agenda and identifies emerging market opportunities for the façade industry

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1 : Façade innovation: between ‘product’ and ‘process’
2 : Façade innovation: an industry perspective
3 : Urban overheating mitigation through facades: the role of new and innovative cool coatings
4 : The pursuit of transparency
5 : Advanced fenestration—technologies, performance and building integration
6 : Embedding intelligence to control adaptive building envelopes
7 : Biomimetic adaptive building skins: design and performance
8 : Building integrated photovoltaic facades: challenges, opportunities and innovations
9 : Unitized Timber Envelopes: the future generation of sustainable, high-performance, industrialized facades for construction decarbonization
10 : Industrialized renovation of the building envelope: realizing the potential to decarbonize the European building stock
11 : Vertical farming on facades: transforming building skins for urban food security
12 : Interactive media facades—research prototypes, application areas and future directions
13 : The building envelope: failing to understand complexity in tall building design
14 : Resilience by design: building facades for tomorrow
15 : Inverse design for advanced building envelope materials, systems and operation
16 : Towards automated design: knowledge-based engineering in facades
17 : Additive manufacturing in skin systems: trends and future perspectives
18 : Mass customization as the convergent vision for the digital transformation of the manufacturing and the building industry
19 : Automation and robotic technologies in the construction context: research experiences in prefabricated façade modules
20 : Life cycle assessment in façade design
21 : Circular economy in facades
22 : Facades-as-a-Service: a business and supply-chain model for the implementation of a circular façade economy
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