Facade Design and Engineering - Finding the scope within a growing community

Abstract

Facade Design and Engineering in many cases is related to other fields such as structural design, material technology, design and construction processes, building physics and climate design. In the past, research efforts in the field of building envelopes were directed towards those fields, more or less already established in the scientific world. We started JFDE because we felt a specialised journal was needed to react to a constantly growing interest in the discipline and with it, naturally a growing community of readers and authors.