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2025

Full Proceeding


Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Building Technology Educators' Society

Terri Meyer Boake and Jeanne Homer

2025-09-01 2025

Papers


Concrete City: Chicago's Role in Concrete High-Rise Engineering

Thomas Leslie and Carol Willis

2025-09-01 2025

A Return to the Thick Space of the Wall

Genevieve Baudoin and Bruce Johnson

2025-09-01 2025

Virtual Reality and Structures Education?

Marci Uihlein

2025-09-01 2025

Beyond Aesthetics: Adaptive Facades as a Bridge Between Climate Responsiveness and User Experience

Peter S. Raab

2025-09-01 2025

OpenHOUse: A Thermodynamic Living System

Mili Kyropoulou and Jason Logan

2025-09-01 2025

Assessment of Indoor Environmental Quality in Educational Settings: Insights in level of stress, attention and engagement

Marjan Miri, Carlos Faubel and Antonio Martinez-Molina

2025-09-01 2025

Breaking the Code: A Prototype for Single-Stair Housing

Zhan Chen

2025-09-01 2025

The B-TEAM: Curriculum Development through Mutual Mentoring

Robert Williams, Jordan A. Kanter, Hellen Awino, Caryn Brause and Ray Mann

2025-09-01 2025

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

Keefer Dunn

2025-09-01 2025

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

Ehsan Sheikholharam

2025-09-01 2025

From calculations by hand to hands-on explorations: Re-thinking structural design pedagogy through interactive computational tools

Juney Lee

2025-09-01 2025

Integration and Synthesis: Teaching the Parts in Anticipation of the Whole

Mehdi Ghiai and Liane Hancock

2025-09-01 2025

Gray-boxing: Integrating Structural Behavior into Architectural Education

Reese Greenlee

2025-09-01 2025

Discovering and Translating Building Technology through a Cultural and Technological Investigation of Carnival

Annicia Streete

2025-09-01 2025

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

Erin Hunt

2025-08-31 2025

Merging Tradition and Technology: A Zero-Waste Approach to Customizable Clay Facade Systems with Integrated Vegetation

Mark Segovia, Desiray Rodriquez and Erin Hunt

2025-08-31 2025

Ecological Performance Through Design and Digital Fabrication of Bird Habitats

Niloufar Emami

2025-09-01 2025

Volumetric Construction: Learning from Sweden, Finland, and the United States

Michel Mounayar

2025-09-01 2025

PANTHEON 1.0 or: Reflections and Speculations on the Roman Construction and Casting of the Pantheon Dome

Regin Schwaen and Nick Wickersham

2025-09-01 2025

Architecture + Fashion = Cultural Expression of the Building Envelope as Explored in the Architectural Design Studio

Paolo Sanza and Awilda Rodriguez

2025-09-01 2025

Go Big or Stay Home? Structural Understanding Through the Accessibility of Precedent

Stephanie Bunt

2025-09-01 2025

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

Jason Alread

2025-09-01 2025

Earth Construction: Alternative Building Strategies for More Equitable Housing

Robert Holton

2025-09-01 2025

The 100-Mile Building: Bioregional, Biogenic Architecture

Clare Olsen and Angela Bracco

2025-09-01 2025

Enhancing Rapid-Build Structural Assemblies with Hybrid Hardwood-Softwood Mass Timber: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Edward Becker

2025-09-01 2025

From the Lab to the Land: Challenges of Upscaling Biobased Materials for Architecture

Mercedes Garcia-Holguera

2025-09-01 2025

Learning from Limitations: Design and Construction of a Rammed-Earth Community Kitchen

Hannibal Newsom, Christina Chi Zhang and Lauren Scott

2025-09-01 2025

Collaborative Learning in Design Build Studio Culture

Sara Codarin, Karl Daubmann, Scott Shall and Masataka Yoshikawa

2025-09-01 2025

Collaborative Materiality: A New Outdoor Lab to Study Iridescent Nanocellulose

Shawn Protz, Sarah Queen, Nathalie Lavoine, Harish Palani, Sea Vang and Kunal Bhardwaj

2025-09-01 2025

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

Danny Wills

2025-09-01 2025

Integrating Material Selection and Specification Writing into Architecture Education and Practice

Jessica Garcia Fritz and Mariangel Meza Santiviago

2025-09-01 2025

Integrating regenerative design with adaptive thermal comfort: insights for sustainable rural housing in India's composite climate

Parvesh Kumar, Vijayaraghavan M. Chariar and Chitrarekha Kabre

2025-09-01 2025

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

Angus Eade

2025-09-01 2025

Beyond EUI

Keith Peiffer, Khaled Mansy, Christina McCoy and Jay Yowell

2025-09-01 2025

Case Study of an Adaptive Reuse Project using Embodied Carbon Visualizations as part of a Holistic Design Process 

M. Naomi Darling, Garth Schwellenbach, Mitsuki Ito, Xinyi Qi and Lauren Madsen

2025-09-01 2025

Design Optimization for Resilient Building Design in Coastal Environments

Soo Jeong Jo, Dongkeun Lee and Farzaneh Oghazian

2025-09-01 2025

Engaged Practices: A Meditation on Design-Build Pedagogy and Public Health

Hannibal Newsom

2025-09-01 2025

Greening Building Enclosure for Improved Footprint: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Green Facades and Living-Wall Systems LWS

Ashraf Ragheb

2025-09-01 2025

Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Affordable Housing: A Comparative Study of Construction Methods

Layla Iskander, Carlos Faubel, Antonio Martinez-Molina and Saadet Beeson

2025-09-01 2025

David or Goliath? Empowering Architecture through Energy at Scale

Ralph Nelson

2025-09-01 2025

Empowering Architectural Performance through Biophilic Shading and Hands-On Teaching

Nea Maloo and Danny Sagan

2025-09-01 2025

Sustainable Building Envelopes: Exploring Alternative Materials for Passive Thermal Regulation Through Hotbox Testing

Safiyyah Khan and Mili Kyropoulou

2025-09-01 2025

ethinking Sustainability: A Pedagogical Approach to Explore Design for Disassembly

Anahita Khodadadi

2025-09-01 2025

Holistic evaluation of formwork materials for low-carbon concrete

Alexandra Daley, Mohamed Ismail and Leopold Wehner

2025-09-01 2025

Hybrid Typologies: Quantifying the Operational Energy, Embodied Energy, and First Cost of Emergent Light-Wood-Framed Multifamily Construction Methods

Grant Mosey

2025-09-01 2025

Posters


Cut Fold Span Connect

Brian K. Lee and Reese Greenlee

2025-08-31 2025

3D Motion Graphics Using Blender to Illustrate Structural Concepts

Deborah J. Oakley

2025-08-31 2025

The "Drop Fin" Method for Strengthening and Shaping Sheet Steel

Brian K. Lee

2025-08-31 2025

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

Cameron Spencer Klassen, BJ Tamber-Rosenau and Mili Kyropoulou

2025-08-31 2025