131st Edition – Zak World of Façades Australia

• The evolution and development of structural glass
• Transparency and the challenges it faces
• How glass and façades are evolving to remain relevant in climate driven designs
• What will be tomorrow's glass

• Compartmentation in common façade types and how their function affects the performance requirements for slab edge perimeter and cavity barriers
• Evolving regulatory landscape, latest guidance, and increased focus on third party verification
• How passive fire product manufacturers can help to support a safer built environment

• What comes first, drawings or data?
• Can aesthetics and sustainability coexist?
• How can design advance sustainability goals?

The library is a component of the Liverpool Civic Place development in Liverpool, Sydney, a stand-alone building in-the-round, of 4 storeys above ground and two below. The above ground portion was envisaged as an all-glass monolith to facilitate strong visual connections between the library interiors and the surrounding plaza. As a consequence, the energy requirements are onerous. To achieve high solar performance the glazing trade-off was a lower light transmission - too low to preserve the visual connection concept. To overcome this a circular view zone with reduced performance and enhanced transmission was proposed, and an extensive R&D exercise exploring a variety of solutions for sun strike and glare control ensued. The result is a unique triple/double glazed system approach with cooperative graphic frits and a sun-tracking automated screen-printed blind.

The panel will discuss the initial studies and the development and prototyping of the glazing adopted.

John Perry

• The problem: Cities being populated with soul-less buildings, soul-less boxes
• How architecture needs to evolve and needs to be integrated with nature

• Glass carbon emissions impact to a building
• Advancing energy strategies for façades
• Sustainable case studies and references

• The One Sydney Harbour project overview
• The design and testing process
• The solution

• The rise in NCC F3V1 (previously FP1.4 in NCC 2019) Performance Solution Reports
• Who is responsible for weathertightness of a building envelope?
• Who should take responsibility when the building leaks?

• Large format, custom made, ventilated rainscreen panels
• Recent commercial façade projects in steel
• Façade design and manufacturing considerations for faster installation

• Flexible and versatile – perfect for any façade design project
• Certifications on façades
• Compatibility with many anchoring systems

• How the development of new digital tools and technologies, such as parametric design, computational modelling, and advanced manufacturing, is challenging the status quo
• Applicability of digital tools for the retrofit of existing buildings is a timely topic that still remains largely unexplored
• Testing of multiple digital workflows used to analyse the condition of the existing façade, evaluating multiple design options, actively involving the relevant stakeholders in the process and identifying the optimal design solution

• TNG introduction
• Super jumbo glass & flatness
• Single & 3D curved glass design

• Exploring the delivery of façades on Class 2 buildings in NSW arising after 2 years of operation of the NSW RAB and DBP Acts
• How these Acts require fully compliant façade designs to be documented and lodged with planning authorities prior to construction approval
• Whilst the focus of these Acts is about driving compliance with the requirements of the NCC, participants in the sector have identified other outcomes

Neil Kendrick