50th Edition – Zak World of Façades United Kingdom

• How tools can help decide what the façade should be
• Communicating design
• Tracking what is going on
• Additive fabrication and its potential

• Manage projects complexity and dynamic digitally
• Improve efficiency from seamlessly integrated digital processes
• Stay on the top of the project and save time, reducing risk and stress!

• Exploring forces that shape our cities and buildings and their envelopes with case studies of projects through the scorching heat of the Arabian Desert to the unforgiving chill of the Finnish tundra
• Exploring how design solutions are shaped by their cultural and climatic contexts to unlock the immense possibilities of adaptive architecture
• Mitigating the climatic extremes for hospitable human life, while finding solutions that can be both economically and environmentally profitable

• I-Façades: is Artificial intelligence in façades the new go-to thing for better performance
• Streamlining complex façade designs through BIM: Benefits and challenges
• Augmenting 3D printing for smart, well insulated and sustainable façades
• Delivering complex façades in post digital era: Ticking durability, adaptability, maintainability, upgradability and recyclability boxes right

Mark Pniewski

• Glass and where we live
• Glass and how we live
• Glass and why it matters

• How do we link an ever specialising world to true design intent?
• Archineer or Engitect? Varying roles within a single discipline
• How can collaborative engineering and interlinked models unlock design potential?

• Transparency and freedom of design
• Aesthetics, precision and variety of form
• Energy efficiency, economy and sustainability

• Changing the face of world cities enabled by silicone
• Advances in non-glass panel bonding
• Improving energy performance with silicones

• Principles of acoustic damping in glass, different PVB interlayers and their benefits
• Examples of building application with laminated acoustic glazing and their advantages over regular glazing types
• Structural interlayer offer both post breakage performance and thinner glass construction

• Safe glazing: Balancing between delicate material and complex architecture designs
• How are glass innovations helping in dynamic architecture?
• What next in the future of glass?
• Large-glass panes and the challenges for creating transparent building envelopes

Saverio Pasetto

• Charting the development of this innovative building
• From challenge, to research, to concept, to prototype, to building, to place
• Creating a 21st century warehouse for work

• A very innovative take on the traditional bay window for Grosvenor Square
• Modern tools to evaluate condensation risk for the new Lambeth Library
• Complementing an Edwardian building along Oxford Street with a new glass block extension - Holden House

• Different evacuation strategies and what they that mean for your façade fire performance
• Façade fire risks
• What does this mean for those who design façades?

• Value proposition
• Quality
• Fire safety

• Why system testing is important
• Intermediate scale testing for extended applications
• Assessing the performance of the full build up

• Material: Do non combustible façades limit the choice of materials?
• Cost vs Performance: Is it worth risking devaluating building assets?
• Testing: Knitting effective testing regime and product traceability through “fire resistance” and “reaction to fire”
• Responsibility: Stakeholder collaboration for the honest implementation of recommendations

Phil Sedge

• A journey into our work with integration of light
• Thoughts on thin glass
• Gravity – A test case

• Associated risks related to Interstitial and Surface Condensation Formation
• Technical requirements for mitigation of internal, interstitial and external condensation formation
• Methods for assessment of condensation risk: standard and best practices and their limitations
• Robust façade construction systems

• Envelope optimisation
• Face performance
• Realising design whilst delivering high performance façades

• How new demands for low energy buildings require innovative façade solutions
• What are the future solutions for today’s architectural demands and the ever evolving performance requirements
• Developing safety prerequisites to buildings and how they can be achieved in an energy efficient way

• Current solar shading on façades
• Trends in glass design
• A future with dynamic glass

• How are solar shading technologies evolving to adapt to a changing climate and increased focus on building performance?
• Balancing sunlight and daylight penetration for improved health and wellbeing
• Designing for users: Do they need control?
• Dynamic glazing: Is smart glass the new game changer?

David Barker

• Design & engineering
• Large format glass properties
• Logistics of large glass sizes

• Operations: Licensing, quality control and production
• Regulations: Complying with codes & sustainable construction
• Creating a professional ecosystem and developing solutions

• Slim insulation for thinner walls and more space
• New systems for rain-screen-façades and façade elements
• Non-combustible for real fire protection on new-build and refurbishment

• International Procurement: Procuring bespoke façades suiting local requirements
• Is the supply-only-contracts new go-to method?
• Challenging the status quo: How are new players changing the façade delivery norms
• Pre-Construction Services Appointments
• Delivering Improved Construction Partnering "Trust, Quality & Value"

Stephen Tanno