The 10th North American Materials Education Symposium (NAMES, 2019) symposium comes off this August 8-9, 2019.

There is just one month left to register for the leading materials education forum. Join Prof. Mike Ashby and other leading academics for two days of discussion around materials and engineering education. Hear talks, share best practice and gain new ideas for meeting the challenges facing today’s materials educators.

Speakers include:

Prof. William Nix, Stanford University

Prof. Steve Yalisove, University of Michigan

Dr. Prith Banerjee, CTO at ANSYS, Inc.

Ms. Emily White, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Dr. Waguih Ishak, Chief Technologist – S&T Division VP, Corning Inc.

 

Poster presentations

Hands-on CES EduPack Workshop

August 7

This one-day workshop will provide inspirational ideas and teaching resources that will help you to engage students in learning about materials and their use in engineering and design applications.

Whether you already use CES EduPack in your teaching, or have heard about the resources and would like to know more join this workshop and discover CES EduPack and contribute to its future development.

All registrants will receive a 30-day license to

CES EduPack 2019 All Editions!

These events are coordinated by: Granta Design; the Symposia Academic Advisory Committee; and educators at: University of Cambridge, and Stanford University. The organizers are also very grateful for help and advice received from ASEE, ASM International, IFEES, MRS and TMS.

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Select articles on materials continue to be updated as they are acquired. These articles can be found in the attached link or in our journal collection in the Architecture Reading Room (KING+KING Library). Let us know if there are any materials articles that we should look into.

Koga, D. “Biofilms and Lichens on Eroded Marble Monuments Reconsidering Cleaning” APT Bulletin. vol. XLIX, no.2-3, 2018, 55-66

Golenda, G., Thomas, I. and Mills, Kendall. “Product: Tile Style” An Interior. Summer 2019, pp 36-59

Hall, J. “Building Practices. The Infrastructure of Materials Research” The Business of Research: Knowledge and Learning Redefined in Architectural Practice. vol. 89, no. 3, 2019, 102-107

Devlieger, L., Gielen, S.L., Roy A. and Duliere A. L. “Building and Demolition waste in UK” ARQ. vol. 23, no. 1, 2019, 90-96

Young, A. S. “Carbon Fiber Composite Holds Promise for Platform Construction” Theatre Design and Technology. vol. 55, no. 2, Spring 2019, 20-35

Fernandez-Galiano, L. “Dossier: Blibliotexas materials / Material Libraries” Arquitectura Viava. no 213, 2019, 55-76

Theroux, P. “Traditional Houses” Available at https://dreaminginarabic.wordpress.com/interesting-snippets/traditional-houses/ Assessed June 11, 2019 at 2:00pm

Zewde, S. “If You Don’t Build Anything, You Don’t Exist: Cementing the Future of Africatown in Seattle” No Sweat, no. 46, 2018, 208-2013

Witte, D. “Structural Bamboo Building Codes: Catalysts for Industry, Research and Construction Technology” TAD, Issue 3:1, Spring 2019, 50-64Selected Articles 




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Maximizing benefits of panelized walls while reducing cost of shipping windows in panels is critical to sustainable projects. In this review, Pella Architectural solutions provides receptor installation systems which completes critical flashing steps in a controlled environment before shipping windows for quick and easy installation on site.

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The 10th North American Materials Education Symposium (NAMES, 2019) symposium comes off this August 8-9, 2019.

Register before June 26 to receive the early-bird discount and secure your place for two days of talks, poster sessions, networking, and more.

This year’s theme of 100 years of Materials Education: Past, Present and Future captures the great strides in education that events like this symposium help our community to make.

Secure your place today and benefit from early-bird rates.

Find link below for more details.

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Reclaiming Historic Brick

When it was time to repair historic brick sidewalks on Chestnut Street, PSABC rallied a group of volunteers to help reclaim the original brick.  Not only do we want to see that historic brick on our sidewalks, we don’t want to see it in a landfill.

A team of dedicated volunteers spent their Saturday morning pulling the bricks up and stacking them on pallets for future reuse, keeping Asheville historic and beautiful, saving resources and preventing waste.


Why Preservation? 

Answer: The Environment 

by Josi Ward



As the warnings of climate scientists become increasingly urgent, preservationists are ready to remind the public that historic buildings are “greener” than many may initially suppose. This is not only because historic buildings were often designed to take advantage of natural daylight, ventilation, and passive solar before invention of electric lighting and powered heating and cooling. Historic buildings also have something that no new buildings do: embodied energy. The concept of embodied energy—that is, all of the material and human energy consumed by the initial building process—is critical to understanding how historic architecture can help communities reduce their carbon consumption immediately. When the embodied energy of existing buildings is taken into account, demolition and reconstruction is almost never the most environmentally beneficial option.

To quantify the environmental impacts of historic preservation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Preservation Green Lab conducted a groundbreaking study in 2016 and its findings were clear. The Greenest Building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse found that building reuse almost always consumes less energy when compared to demolition and construction of new buildings, even energy efficient ones. Adaptive reuse not only reduces resource consumption, it also keeps enormous amounts of construction waste out of our landfills, and often preserves undeveloped land by encouraging the rehabilitation of already-developed land.

In order for the environmental advantages of preservation to become more widely known, we all need to let go of disproved notions of old buildings as inefficient. And we need to think creatively about how our local communities and government programs can encourage property owners to seriously consider the short- and long-term benefits of reuse and renovation before resorting to demolition and construction of “energy efficient” replacements.

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Our fall schedule will be posted early September 2019




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After the 2018 renovation, the Materials Collection has been relocated to the basement of Slocum Hall, room 008. Materials can be accessed with the assistance of King + King Architecture Library staff.




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The materials are arranged by Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) format.

Each of the main tabs for the materials are placed under one of 7 groups, making it easier for you to find them in the materials room of the Architecture Reading Room. Each material has been coded so as to enhance accessibility and ease of use.

There are labels on each box to indicate contents. For example, all boxes that contain wood materials are labelled as wood composites. There are multiple boxes, hence every material has been given a number for example WPG001 which means that Wood Plastic (Box G) and material number 1 (001).

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The Architecture Reading Room houses a vast collection of materials related books stored in the Working Drawings Room.

The link below provides information on our current holdings that can be found at https://suarrmaterials.syr.edu/resources/book-collection/




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The schedule for Fall’18 lectures will be announced soon. Stay Tuned…




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