199th Edition – Zak World of Façades Canada

This will be the 199th edition globally and the 3rd edition in Toronto which will showcase sustainable innovations and challenges in the construction industry pertaining to the building envelope and will also display latest technological solutions.

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Andrew Geldard
Senior Associate - Design Director, BDPQ
Originally from the United Kingdom, Andrew joined the BDP Quadrangle team in 2011. He was the Design Lead for notable projects including 1181 Queen Street West, Duke Condos, 1071 King Street West and 900 St Clair Avenue. He has contributed...
David Wach
Senior Engineer, Engineering Link
David Wach is a Senior Engineering in the Building Envelope department at Engineering Link Incorporated. Working with existing buildings, David has gained extensive forensic investigation and building rehabilitation design experience and leverages that knowledge to new building design and construction....
Richard Orser
Sr. Project Manager, Permasteelisa N.A.
Richard is a Toronto-born Senior Project Manager with Permasteelisa North America | Benson, having joined the company in 2016, with a diverse construction background spanning 18 years. Now based in Minnesota, Richard developed strong project teams throughout the Permasteelisa Group...
Kamilah Bannister
Development Manager, Great Gulf
Kamilah Bannister is a dynamic real estate development professional with extensive experience delivering transformative projects across Canada, USA and UK. As Development Manager at Great Gulf, she plays a key role in shaping the company’s most ambitious developments, including Forma,...
David Stanton
Associate | Sr. Engineer, RDH
David Stanton is a Senior Building Science Engineer in RDH Building Science’s Toronto office. David’s work tends to focus on high-performance, innovative projects that include site-built and prefabricated facades. His involvement in projects with prefabricated facades has been as both...
Jennifer Mallard
Principal, Henriquez Partners
Jennifer Mallard leads the Toronto studio for Henriquez Partners, a Vancouver-based practice with a focus on urban mixed use residential work. She has over 30 years of experience in civic, residential, educational and institutional sectors. She currently leads the Kennedy...
Dan Francis
Façade Designer, RJC Engineers
Dan is a dynamic and innovative building envelope professional with a strong background in the structural and functional dynamics of the building enclosure. With over 7 years of industry experience, he brings a comprehensive understanding of the design, analysis, and...
Abel Gill
Associate, Adamson Associates
A graduate of the University of Waterloo, he brings to our team over 25 years of professional experience in architecture in both a design and management capacity. His portfolio includes urban design and town planning, sports, recreation, entertainment, hospitality, commercial,...
Matias Reyes
National Architectural Manager, Vitro Architectural Glass
With over 11 years of experience in the architectural and construction industry, Matias Reyes brings a deep understanding of both design intent and building performance to every project. For the past two years, he has been with Vitro Architectural Glass,...
Brian Langenberg
Façade Specialist and Project Manager, WSP Building Sciences
Brian Langenberg is a Senior Building Science Consultant and Project Manager with over 25+ years’ of experience and is part of the Façade Engineering team at WSP Canada. Brian has also been supporting CENTRUS, a joint venture of WSP and...
Pascal Létourneau
Heritage Lead for CENTRUS | Principal, DFS Architecture
Pascal Létourneau has been leading the heritage team at DFS Inc. since 2015. With an impressive group of conservation architects, technologists, and conservators, they have worked on the most significant conservation projects in the province of Quebec, Ontario, and the...
Alex Weller
Associate | Senior Project Architect, HOK Architects
Alex Weller is a senior associate at HOK with more than 25 years of experience working on a wide range of complex institutional building projects. For the past seven years, Alex has been dedicated to the rehabilitation of Centre Block...
Marco Chow
Senior Architect, NEUF architect(e)s
Marco Chow has over 15 years of experience as a project architect since completing a Master of Architecture at McGill University.  With a strong design foundation and a background in building and construction technologies, Marco has contributed to various public...
Krista Palen
Partner, Transsolar KlimaEngineering
Krista is passionate about contributing to innovation in the sustainable architecture and design field. She believes that this can be best achieved by merging design thinking with building science and ecology. She excels at facilitating collaboration within design teams to...
Robert Miller
President, Jansen America
Robert leads the North American activities for Jansen, a Swiss-based manufacturer of steel systems for facades & fenestration.   Robert has over 20 years experience with international projects in both construction and architectural planning. He has a passion for innovative...
Kristoph Karbach
EVP - North America, Lumon Canada
Kristoph Karbach is the Executive Vice President of Lumon Group’s North American division. An international leader in balcony glazing systems, Lumon Group is transforming outdoor spaces for homeowners across the globe. Before joining Lumon in early 2022, Kristoph managed and...
Lilia Koleva
Partner, NEUF architect(e)s
Partner architect since 2020, Lilia joined NEUF architect(e)s in 2011 to contribute to the development of the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), one of the largest healthcare projects in North America. She now leads the Toronto office and...
Eric Claeys
Founding Partner, Fassada Steel
Eric Claeys holds a degree as Civil Engineer in Construction from KU Leuven, Belgium, a degree in Industrial Engineering in Public Works from KU Leuven, Belgium, and graduated with a Master in Business Administration from the Vlerick Business School, Belgium....
Peter Dushenski
Managing Director, GlasCurtain
Peter Dushenski is the Managing Director of Canada-based GlasCurtain inc., the leading manufacturer of fibreglass-framed curtain wall systems. Since 2013, he’s lead the company to several industry firsts including the world’s highest thermally-performing glazed curtain wall based on Passive House...
Tobiasz Staszak
Area Manager North America, Reynaers Aluminium
Tobiasz Staszak is Area Manager North America at Reynaers Aluminum focused on developing a successful growing market. Having a background in the building industry for 14 years, gaining experience in technology, sales, and value proposition development. For the last 5...
Brian Hubbs
Principal | Senior Building Science Specialist, RDH
Brian Hubbs is a Founder, Principal, and Senior Building Science Specialist at RDH Building Science. With over 30 years of experience as a consultant practicing exclusively in the field of building science, he is a practical façade engineer and researcher....
Tomer Diamant
Principal, Teeple Architects
As a Principal at Teeple Architects, Tomer plays a key leadership role in the firm while leading projects in higher education, performing arts, residential and mixed-use development. Since joining the practice is 2008, Tomer has helped guide the design and...
Hamid Vossoughi
Senior Principal - Building Sciences, WSP
Hamid Vossoughi is a Senior Façade Specialist and Project Principal in the Building Sciences team of WSP Canada Inc. based in Toronto. Hamid is a structural engineer, with primary focus on façade renewal of existing buildings and design and construction...
Jelena Madzarevic
Manager - Building Science, EllisDon
Jelena is a Manager in EllisDon’s Building Science group. Her focus is to support project teams with navigating technical challenges and envelope-related risks across Canada. Her approach is to combine sound building science principles with the complex reality of construction....
Adrian Betanzos
Principal, VIA
Adrian Betanzos is a Materials lover who was born in Tapachula, Chiapas. He is married, has two kids and a dog. In his free time, he is a Principal at VIA, a facade consulting firm with projects all over the...
Jörn Teipel
Lead Technical Manager – Architecture, Outokumpu Nirosta
Joern Teipel studied Physics in Bonn, Germany, and at The Ohio State University in Columbus, USA, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2006 in the field of nonlinear optics. He began his professional career in 2006 at a technical consultancy...
Matthew Ferraro
Principal, Weiss/Manfredi
Matthew Ferraro is a Principal at WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, a multidisciplinary design practice based in New York City. He is a registered architect, a member of the American Institute of Architects, and a LEED Accredited Professional with significant experience orchestrating design...
Conference Agenda
  • Integrated façade design: Bridging functionality, practicality and schedule
  • Maximizing value through integrated 3D shop drawings and trade-offs
  • Expect the unexpected: Lessons learned
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  • Outline essential consideration of the façade design team to ensure successful design collaboration
  • Discuss clashes and "impossible geometry" in case studies and graphical examples of building and façade movement
  • What makes one façade system better than another?
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  • Reynaers’ 360-degree approach to the 89 Avenue Project
  • Virtual Reality as a game changer in architecture and construction
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  • Innovative design for sustainable urban living
  • Case studies in Canada and Europe
  • Technical specifications
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  • The subtle line between understanding why each material should be the right material for the right place
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  • Understanding biophilia
  • Designing with nature in mind
  • Glass as a catalyst for biophilia
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  • Why does a Canadian supply chain now rank alongside U-factor on so many project specs?
  • With –40 °C design temps and Net-Zero standards gaining traction, how do we keep attractive window-to-wall ratio and still meet building performance targets?
  • What innovative domestic glazing technologies can architects leverage to maximize performance while minimizing geopolitical risk?
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  • Lessons learned from other projects
  • Benefits of design flexibility
  • Design and detailing coordination
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  • Overview of the Centre Block Rehabilitation Project, Canada’s largest and most complex heritage restoration projects
  • With ambitious sustainability targets, this project balances enclosure improvements with the preservation of key heritage building characteristics that compose a significant portion of the building enclosure
  • How building envelope improvements were implemented with new air, moisture and thermal control layers

Hamid Vossoughi

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  • Site context and heritage materiality and form
  • Precast concrete and window system façade - A modern interpretation on historical context
  • Aluminum stick built and unitized mega panels - Celebrating innovation and neighborhood connections
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  • Form and façade design maximizing natural light and ventilation through operable windows and solar chimneys
  • Prefabricated envelope construction enabling quality control, thermal optimization, and waste reduction
  • Coordinated façade development through iterative design and stakeholder input for high-performance, low-carbon mass timber systems
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  • Historical renovations: Traditional aesthetics with modern performance
  • New building designs with optimized materials
  • Tips for LEED certification
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  • Hybrid steel curtain walls, the long-waited disruption in the market?
  • Fire resistance, tower infernos belong to the past
  • Drastic reduction of CO2 emission
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  • Envelope decision-making is a balancing act—juggling energy performance, durability, embodied carbon, constructability, and cost
  • Opportunities exist both in the "tried and true" envelope approaches and with emerging envelope technologies
  • Close collaboration between the many parties (architecture, contractors, building enclosure consultants etc.) is key in navigating complex decision making and executing complex façades
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  • Compliance with modern energy efficiency standards and codes requires careful consideration of thermal bridging of façade components
  • Guides for calculating thermal bridges have limitations and project specific thermal modelling of key elements is required
  • Design of the façade must balance thermal performance with constructability, durability and aesthetics
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  • Ensuring longevity: Up-to-date corrosion field test results for stainless steel in urban environments
  • Façade finish on buildings around the world
  • Sustainable features of stainless steel
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  • Highlights the ambition and innovation behind the project
  • Focus on teamwork and turning vision into reality between ownership, design, engineering, and execution teams

Kamilah Bannister

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