BUILDING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATORS' SOCIETY 10th CONFERENCE
JUNE 2 TO 5, 2025

Schedule

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Safiyyah Muhammad Khan, Mili Kyropoulou
Dynamic Building Envelopes: Exploring Adaptive Materials for Passive Thermal Regulation Through Hotbox Testing

Anahita Khodadadi
Rethinking Sustainability: A Pedagogical Approach to Explore Design for Disassembly

Alexandra Kendall Daley, Mohamed Ismail
Holistic evaluation of formwork materials for low-carbon concrete

Grant Mosey
Quantifying the Operational Energy, Embodied Energy, and First Cost of Emergent Light Wood Framed Hybrid Multifamily Typologies

During this session all Poster Participants are invited to make a 6 minute Powerpoint Presentation on their Poster content.

Deborah J Oakley
3D Motion Graphics Using Blender to Illustrate Structural Concepts

Brian K Lee, Reese Greenlee
Cut Fold Span Connect /
The "Drop Fin" Method for Strengthening and Shaping Sheet Steel

Atousa Momenaei, Alexandra Rempel, Andrea Soledad Martinez, Maria Isabel Rivera
Enhancing Classroom Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality through Sunspace Design Optimization

Dustin Albright, Kylee Russell
If You Build It, Will It Make a Sound? Learning through Acoustic Testing of Mass Timber Floor Assemblies

Angus Eade
Forensics in Process: A Heuristic Approach Combining Topology Optimization and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Jarren Amaro, Peter Raab, Lenora Ask
Empowering Community through Design-Build Education: A Playhouse for CASA

Cameron Spencer Klassen, Mili Kyropoulou
Let Me Go Semi-Outside: A Human-Centric Comparison of Outdoor Comfort Models in a Hot-Humid Semi-Outdoor Environment During Summer and Mid-Season

Terri Peters
Evaluating Privacy in Urban Apartment Housing/
Evaluating Healthy Housing Parameters in Coop Housing/
Educating the Educators

Mili Kyropoulou, Jason Logan
OpenHouse, A Thermodynamic Living System

Marjan Miri, Carlos Faubel Alama, Antonio Martinez-Molina
Assessment of Indoor Environmental Quality in Educational Settings: Insights in level of stress, attention and engagement

Zhan Chen
Breaking the Code: The Case For Point-Access Blocks in Multi-Family Housing

Robert L. Williams, Jordan Kanter, Hellen Awino, Mann Ray
The B-TEAM (Building Technology Educators Advancing Mentorship): Curriculum development through Mutual Mentoring

Keefer Dunn
Political Economy in Introductory Technical Architecture Education: Experiences and Pedagogical Methods

Ehsan Sheikholharam
The Dialectics of Text and Image: From Mechanical Reproductions to AI Image Productions

Angus Eade
Updating Materials and Methods of Construction Pedagogy for Digital Natives: A Critical Adaptation From Textbooks, Tests and Essays, to Digitally Fabricated Physical Materials Systems Models, Discursive Video Blogs, and Gamified Computational Simulation

Keith Peiffer, Khaled Mansy, Christina McCoy, Jay Yowell
Beyond EUI

Naomi Darling, Garth Schwellenbach, Mitsuki Ito, Xinyi Qi
Case Study of an Adaptive Reuse using Embodied Carbon Visualizations as part of a Holistic Design Process

Parvesh Kumar, Chitrarekha Kabre
Integrating regenerative design with adaptive thermal comfort: insights for sustainable rural housing in India’s composite climate

Jessica Garcia Fritz, Mariangel Meza
Shifting Specifications: Educating the Architect for a New Sustainable Role

Soo Jeong Jo, Farzaneh Oghazian, Dongkeun Lee
Design Optimization for Resilient Building Design in Coastal Environments

Hannibal Newsom
Engaged Practices: A meditation on design-build pedagogy and public health

Ash Ragheb
Greening the Building Enclosure for Improved Air Quality: The Environmental Impact of Green Facades vs. Living-Wall Systems

Erin Hunt
Bridging Technology and Sustainability: 3D-Printed Clay Formwork in Architectural Pedagogy

Desiray Rodriguez, Mark Segovia, Erin Hunt
Robotic Milling for Sustainable Ceramic Tile Design: Merging Tradition with Technology for Enhanced Water Management

Niloufar Emami
Ecological Performance Through Design and Digital Fabrication of Bird Habitats

Michel Mounayar
Volumetric construction: Factory-built Housing. Learning from Sweden, Finland and the United States

Christina Chi Zhang, Hannibal Newsom, Lauren Scott
Constructing with Earth: Building Layers of Accessibility into Collective Practices

Sara Codarin, Karl Daubmann, Masataka Yoshikawa, Scott Shall
Collaborative Learning in Design Build Studio Culture

Sara Queen, Shawn Protz, Nathalie Lavoine
Collaborative Materiality: A Project for a New Outdoor Lab to Study Iridescent Nanocellulose

Danny Wills
The Passive Solar Greenhouse and the Fluid Column: Two Case-Studies in Integrated Design-Build Pedagogy

Layla Iskandar, Carlos Faubel, Antonio Martinez-Molina, Saadet Toker Beeson
Optimizing Energy Efficiency in Affordable Housing Prototypes

Ralph Kirk Nelson
David or Goliath? Empowering Architecture Through Energy at Scale

Nea Maloo, Danny Sagan
Empowering Architectural Performance through Biophilic Shading and Hands-On Teaching

Regin Schwaen, David Swenson, Nicholas Wickersham
Reflections and Speculations on the Construction of the Pantheon in Rome

Paolo Sanza, Awilda Rodriguez
Architecture + Fashion = Cultural Expression of the Building Envelope as explored in the Architectural Design Studio

Stephanie Bunt
Go big or stay home? Structural understanding through the accessibility of precedent

Jason Alread
1 to 1: Human Experience and the Process of Making Buildings

Robert Holton
Earth Construction: Alternative Building Strategies for More Equitable Housing

Clare J Olsen, Angela R Bracco
The 100-Mile Building: In Pursuit of Bioregional, Biobased Materials

Edward Becker
Enhancing Rapid-Build Structural Assemblies with Hybrid Hardwood-Softwood Engineered Wood Products: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Mercedes Garcia-Holguera
From the Lab to the Land: Challenges of Upscaling Bio-based materials for Architecture