Extruded aluminum profiles, are entering a new era of challenge and opportunity. The urgent need for improved insulating values in facades coupled with an emerging understanding of the importance of embodied carbon threatens the status quo. At the same time, the need for rapid construction of low-cost housing and market demand for larger glass spans recommends we improve aluminum designs rather than abandon them. Steve St. Pierre of Ensinger is an expert in aluminum profile processing and will share new methods and approaches for creating thermally broken aluminum profiles with surprising energy efficiency characteristics.