Journal Articles:

	ARCHITECT Magazine "Currier Museum of Art" by Vernon Mays Minimizing condensation was important in the selection of materials associated with the new climate-controlled galleries, and rainscreen construction promised the best performance. As the basis of the system, the architects selected Alphaton terra-cotta double-leaf tiles, manufactured in Germany by Moeding and represented in the U.S. by Shildan.
	arch daily National Museum of American Jewish History by Andrew Rosenberg Read Andrew Rosenberg's article on the Jewish Museum. "The sole aesthetic elements of the NMAJH are accomplished with glass curtain wall and terra cotta rainscreen by Shildan Inc. While limiting the number of materials used creates an air of simplicity, the sophistication of the design is anything but."
	Midwest Construction, July 2005 "Cook County's Originality: Courthouse Project Breaks New Ground" by Paula Widholm The renovation of a 19th Century warehouse into the Cook County Domestic Violence Courthouse pioneers the county's first Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design-certified "green" building and the area's first European rain-screen cladding system.
	Shildan.com Shildan Provides Terra Cotta Facade for the National Museum of American Jewish History by Ronald Boschan Local Supplier, Shildan Inc., Provides Unique Terra Cotta Façade for the National Museum of American Jewish History Shildan, Inc. a national distributor of terra cotta rainscreen facades with headquarters in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, played a major role in providing the unique, sustainable terra cotta façade on the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. According to Ronald Boschan, Vice President for Marketing, “the new museum will have a unique modern design combined with high performance in terms of energy conservation and sustainable architecture”. No other terra cotta façade approaches this project in complexity. Terra cotta is used as a traditional material in a modern system which makes it a good neighbor to the surrounding buildings on Independence Mall. The National Museum of American Jewish History will open to the public on Friday, November 12, 2010. The terra cotta façade has been used on the exterior walls in a unique scalloped design developed by Shildan, Inc. for the architectural firm Ennead in New York City. The terra cotta extends as sunscreens in front of the window openings and also curves inside to form the first floor ceiling. The terra cotta aluminum support system was manufactured in New York State from recycled aluminum. The rainscreen system used on this project provides substantial energy savings and reduces the air conditioning emissions into the environment. Rainscreen systems eliminate mold and mildew in the walls which can damage the collection. They also help control the relative humidity which is especially important in museums. Rainscreen systems with terra cotta should endure for 80 to 100 years or longer. Shildan, Inc. has over 140 U.S. projects including many significant buildings including the newly renovated Music Building at the University of Pennsylvania. Other major projects include the New York Times Headquarters, the Institute for Advanced Studies and the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan. Contact: Ronald D. Boschan Vice President of Marketing 215-370-7074 rboschan@shildan.com
	Building Design & Construction, July 2006 “Bring on the Rain” by Hannah Schroder Designers turn to Europe for a durable rainscreen to cover Carnegie Mellon University’s new research facility and earn a LEED Core and Shell Gold rating.
	New York Times “Green Grows Up…and Up and Up and Up” by Deborah Snoolan, P.E. When Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Fox & Fowle Architects were chosen as the winning team for the new headquarters of the New York Times, critics swooned over its façade of ultra-clear glass shaded by a scrim of white ceramic tubes.
	The Philadelphia Inquirer and philly.com "National Museum of American Jewish History topped by a new light structure" by Tom Stoelker Article highlights the architecture and symbolism of the light sculpture topping the Jewish history museum.
	Iowa Architecture "Melrose Avenue Parking Facility Expansion, University of Iowa" by AIA Iowa The parking facility expansion receives a 2008 AIA Honor Award for Excellence in Design. The structure, designed by Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck Architecture, features Shildan's Terra Cotta Sunscreen and ALPHATON® Terra Cotta Rainscreen."
	April 2009 "Fort Belvoir Army Hospital Moves toward Completion" by Shildan The Fort Belvoir Army Hospital, which is a state of the art Army Hospital containing 1.275 million square feet and intended to replace the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, is rapidly proceeding and will be completed by mid 2011.
	Architectural Record "Atrium links two different masses" by Architectural Record The Biomedical Science Research Building, located at the northern edge of the University of Michigan’s central campus, becomes a new entrance to the university’s medical school. The building contains 250 research labs and various facilities for student socializing. Stainless-steel and terra cotta Rainscreen panels clad the laboratory wing, while a rainscreen curtainwall improves insulation and diminishes air filtration.

Books:

	August 2003 Tall Buildings by Terence Riley (Contributor), Guy Nordenson (Contributor) Tall Buildings explores how the genre is being redefined for the 21st century, presenting a critical review of the current state of tall buildings, discussing structural inventions, programmatic innovations, and social and urbanistic implications. Twenty-six skyscrapers and highrise structures designed in the last decade around the world exemplify these concepts. Each project, fully illustrated, is accompanied by an explanatory text. Included are Santiago Calatrava's Turning Torso in Malmo; Norman Foster and Ove Arup and Partners' Swiss Re Headquarters in London; Steven Holl and Robert Silman's 5th Avenue and 42nd Street Tower; Hans Hollein and Josef Janda's Monte Laa Towers; Arata Isozaki and Toshiko Kimura's JR Ueno Railway Station; Rem Koolhaas's CCTV Tower in Beijing; Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, Francisco Serrano and Alejandro Fierro's Los Arcos Bosques 1 in Mexico; Renzo Piano and Charles Thornton's New York Times Headquarters; Richard Rogers and Ove Arup and partners' HHR Tower in Korea; SOM's Jin Mao Tower; Dr. Kenneth Yeang and T.R. Hamzah's Elephant and Castle Eco-Tower; plus various World Trade Center proposals. There is a swelling of excitement about the tilting towers and broad swaths of unencumbered space made possible by new technology and the poetic visions of engineers.
	June 2005 Designing the Exterior Wall by Linda Brock This book presents the basics of building science along with a prescribed set of details with the goal of helping architects understand how to design buildings that are more durable. It features the details from real world projects in a variety of climates, successful and unsuccessful case studies, and checklists you can use on your own projects. The author of this book chose to recommend the terra-cotta rainscreen system as a superior envelope system and included the terra façade of the Glassworks Condominium Homes on its cover.
	March 2000 Sustainable Height by Deutsche Messe AG Hannover Administration Building by Thomas Herzog, Herzog & Partner BDA, Munchen This book demonstrates how the tower block building type can be constructed utilizing energy conscious construction and the conservation of natural resources. This is accomplished in part through the use of the Moeding back-ventilated and pressure equalized rainscreen system.
	Electronic Publications Rouch Houses by M. Rouch Notable rammed earth building Martin Rauch, with the assistance of architect Roger Boltshauser recently completed his own rammed earth home in Schlins, Austria. The house which was finished 2008 reacts in its position and in its character directly to the topographic gradient of the slim plot and its genuine landscape context: A monolithic structure becomes a sculptural bloc, an abstract and artificial nature pressed upward from the underlying earth.