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Journal of Facade Design and Engineering 3 (2015) 1
DOI 10.3233/FDE-150030
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Editorial

JFDE Special ICAE 2015

Dear Scientists, Engineers and Designers,
We are proud to announce that the Journal of Facade Design and Engineering is becoming a firm

partner for the distribution of scientific knowledge of the ICAE International Congress on Architectural
Envelopes, organised by Tecnalia San Sebastian. Tecnalia is one of the founding members of the
European Facade Network EFN, and this partnership supports the development of JFDE with regards
to the discipline of facade design and engineering.
This issue of JFDE is dedicated to ICAE 2015, the VIIth edition of the congress. The contributions

have been carefully selected from 32 abstracts, submitted to the scientific section of the conference.
Subsequently the finished papers have been subjected to the regular blind review process of the
journal. At this point, we want to thank our special editors Julen Astudillo and Jose Antonio Chica for
their effort to make this partnership happen.
The paper contributions show an interesting selection of approaches to innovative materials, form

finding, simulation and climatic concepts. This demonstrates the special character of the discipline
we are working in, bridging research, design and practice.
Facade Design and Engineering is a peer reviewed, open access journal, funded by The Netherlands

Organisation for Scientific Research NWO (www.nwo.nl). We see ‘open access’ as the future publishing
model. But it certainly requires new financial models which we will have to explore over the coming
years.

The editors in chief,
Ulrich Knaack
Tillmann Klein

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