Hospitals don’t behave like typical buildings, and their façades shouldn’t be engineered like them either. In commercial towers, performance issues are frustrating. In healthcare facilities, they become operational risks....

Structural glass is one of those architectural elements that looks effortless from the outside — clear, elegant, weightless. But the moment it stops being an idea and becomes a...

In architecture, the words façade design and façade engineering are often used interchangeably — but they shouldn’t be. A façade can look right on paper and fail in the...

At Architectural Wall Systems, we don’t treat curtain wall engineering as a drafting exercise or a box-checking step in submittals. For us, a curtain wall is a structural, environmental,...

At AWSI, we don’t draw pretty pictures for the sake of it—we design building envelope systems that shrug off wind loads, soak up seismic drift, and stay watertight long...