145th Edition – Zak World of Façades USA

This will be the 145th edition globally and the 1st edition in Los Angeles 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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Speakers and Panelists
Ben Juckes
Computational Design Lead, Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign
Ben Juckes is an Associate Vice President with the Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign, a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary architecture and design practice which is a laboratory for exploration and experimentation. Before relocating to California, Ben taught parametric modeling and design...
Isaac Smith
Senior Designer, AECOM
Isaac is an award-winning designer in The Buildings and Places practice at AECOM’s Los Angeles Studio. His work is focused on large-scale mixed-use projects with an emphasis on design, the urban context, and user experience. Isaac’s portfolio of work includes...
Tim Ellis
Business Development Manager - Commercial Steel, Simpson Strong-Tie
Tim Ellis is the Business Development Manager-Commercial Steel for Simpson Strong-Tie. Previously during Tim’s 23 year career at Simpson he has managed the roll-out of new products and systems including Anchor Tie-Down® System, Strong-Frame® moment frames and Yield-Link® Moment Connection....
Kristen Fraumeni
Sr. Designer | Vice President, HKS
Kristen Fraumeni is an award-winning Architect with 14 years of experience in hospitality and commercial mixed-use architecture. Kristen currently serves as the Past Chair for the Women in Architecture Committee of the AIA Los Angeles and uses her platform to...
Jeff Heymann
Vice President, Giroux Glass
Jeff Heymann is Vice President of Giroux Glass, a leading facade and glazing contractor in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada. In his role at Giroux, Jeff heads up the sales, estimating and marketing efforts. Jeff’s career has spanned forty years...
Heidi Creighton
President, Creighton Sustainability Advisors
Heidi Creighton is a passionate advocate and pioneer in the green building industry. She identifies solutions that improve asset performance, carbon reductions, community engagement, and user experience while furthering clients’ ESG strategies. Heidi is FAIA, a LEED Fellow, WELL AP,...
Mike Rable
Preconstruction Director, W.E. O'Neil
Mike Rable is Preconstruction Director at W.E. O’Neil Construction, an industry leader with more than 35 years of experience with priority on building envelope trade disciplines. Mike collaborates with project teams across California and National Offices leveraging his expertise on...
Seth Strongin
Building Decarbonization Planning Director, HDR
Megumi Hironaka
Associate Principal, HED
Megumi Hironaka brings over 20 years of experience in the planning, design, and construction of higher education, civic, and mixed-use developments throughout California. She brings a technical expertise in managing and producing all architectural project documentation with a focus on...
Miles Fujiki
Design Manager | Façade Specialist, Swinerton
Miles Fujiki is a Design Manager at Swinerton with a special focus on building façades. He is a licensed architect and has worked on high-profile buildings including the Mandarin Oriental Residences and Rosewood in Beverly Hills, Dior flagship on Rodeo,...
Rich Cowie
Division 7 Southwest Regional Lead, DPR Construction
Rich Cowie is the Division 7 Southwest Regional Lead at DPR Construction, with more than 15 years in the industry focused on building envelope trade disciplines. Rich works closely with project teams across Southern California and Arizona providing subject matter...
Nikola Hulina
International Business Development Manager - CROSSFIX, EJOT
International Business Development Manager at EJOT SE & Co. KG in the Market Unit Construction, specializing in rainscreen façade industry. Armed with a civil engineering background, I’ve dedicated over 12 years to the façade industry. My expertise lies in the...
Bob Zhang
Sales Director - North America, North Glass
Bob joined Northglass in 2012. For the first two years He worked on the technical side, then moved to project management and worked on the Apple Park project. In 2015, He came to the US and started the Northglass US...
Craig Booth
Design Leader, Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign
With 38 years of diverse architectural experience–the last 27 years being collaborative in the design and execution of all Yazdani Studio projects–Craig Booth establishes a clear design vision and is capable of project execution from conceptual design through project completion....
Vincent Ip
Associate | Studio Design Computation Leader, NBBJ
Vincent is an award-winning designer and digital computational leader at NBBJ, dedicated to pushing the limits of architectural innovation. His diverse expertise spans complex facade design, form-finding, simulation, digital fabrication, and interoperability workflows. His work exemplifies a seamless fusion of...
Mitch Albarran
Façade Engineer, Arup
Mitch Albarran is a Façade Engineer for Arup’s Americas West Geography. With a background in Architectural Engineering, Mitch brings a generalist approach in his daily practice. His primary areas of focus include system detailing, strategies for minimizing carbon emissions in...
Leon Rost
Partner, Bjarke Ingels Group
Leon Rost began his collaboration with Bjarke Ingels in 2005 as a design assistant at PLOT in Copenhagen, Denmark. After completing Architectural studies at California Polytechnic University and working for renowned offices in Japan, Scandinavia and Portugal, Leon took on...
Lawrence Scarpa
Principal, Brooks + Scarpa
Lawrence Scarpa has garnered international acclaim for the creative use of conventional materials in unique and unexpected ways. He is also considered a pioneer and leader in the field of sustainable design. In 2022 Larry received the National AIA Gold...
Kathleen Hetrick
Associate, Buro Happold
Kathleen Hetrick is an Associate at Buro Happold and is a Bloomberg Fellow at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. As the California Sustainability Lead for Buro Happold, Kathleen combines her passion for regenerative design with...
Jonathan Ward
Design Partner | Firmwide Design Leader, NBBJ
As NBBJ’s Firmwide Design Leader, Jonathan’s hallmark is visionary design that challenges commonly held assumptions about program, space and human experience to deliver highly creative built environments. Over the past three decades, Jonathan has led the design and delivery of...
Amir Mikhaeil
Senior Designer, Bjarke Ingels Group
Amir Mikhaeil is a senior designer at Bjarke Ingels Group. Amir Joined BIG’s New York office in 2015 where he is a NY registered Architect and in 2023 moved to Los Angeles to help start BIG’s West coast office. He...
Eduardo Rosa
International Business Manager, AGC Interpane
With a background as an architect, have been in the Glass Industry for the last 30 years. Started at Cricursa, a highly specialized company on curved and difficult dimensional shapes. Opened the world market and have participated on a long...
John Krouse
Chairman of the Board, Boston Valley Terra Cotta
John Krouse, Chairman of the Board, Boston Valley Terra Cotta, Founder – Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop John Krouse is the COB of Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, NY, as well as a Ceramic Engineer by trade. Boston Valley...
Laura Karnath
Senior Associate, Walter P Moore
Laura Karnath is a registered architect and Senior Enclosure Technical Designer at Walter P Moore’s LA office. She is a leader in computational design and holds global experience in the organizational models and technical challenges involved in the delivery of...
Kais Al-Rawi
Associate Director, Eckersley O'Callaghan
Kais Al-Rawi, AIA MSFE, works at the intersection of architecture, engineering and technology with expertise in solving complex building challenges through digital design. He is an Associate Director at the Los Angeles office of award-winning Structures and Facades practice Eckersley...
Irene Martin
Americas West Façade Leader, Arup
Irene Pau Martin is an Associate at Arup with an Environmental and Mechanical Engineering background. She leads the Building Envelope Physics sub-discipline within the Americas Region and co-leads the Los Angeles Facades team. Having worked in London and Los Angeles,...
Conference Agenda
  • Santa Monica College Math and Science - AHJ expectations
  • Caltech Resnick Sustainability Institute - Building the Right Team
  • University of Chicago Medicine Cancer and Research Pavilion - Elevating Expectations
Speakers:
  • Architectural terra cotta is a versatile material naturally suited for sustainable façade systems
  • Fabrication processes designed for cost-effective, thermally capable systems
  • Biophilic designs create a unique aesthetic and increase biodiversity
Speakers:
  • Parametric design tools for early design considerations
  • Approaching façade systems as a kit of parts
  • Iterative performance and sustainability assessments for façade systems
Speakers:
  • Introducing WAVETRAP - The ultimate glazing solution meticulously designed to fortify customer environment against electromagnetic wave intrusion
  • Helping cybersecurity professionals to secure any office network from proximity attacks, acting as a physical barriers
  • Making homes a safe and health place for EMF-sensitive people, by destressing the home of digital pollution
  • Ensuring EM compatibility which is key for electronic systems in a building becoming more resilient to accidental or intentional EMI
Speakers:
  • High performance
  • Lightweight
  • Cost effective
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  • Single & 3D curved glass design
  • Super jumbo glass & flatness
  • New techniques in architectural glass design
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  • Johns Hopkins University Student Center: A hive of 25 intersecting mass timber structures
  • The Maker’s Cube: A Piranesian mass-timber construct for the department of architecture and design
  • Claremont McKenna College: Masterplan interlocking with architecture
Speakers:
  • Two new California bills require companies to analyze and report on GHG emissions
  • Evaluating the climate-related financial risks in the transition
  • How improvements to the building envelope answers these mandates

Kathleen Hetrick

Speakers:
  • Designing a corporate HQ: Uniting wellness, nature & community
  • Creating a new high-rise work model
  • Exploring details of the large format glass façade
Speakers:
  • Insight on the the Fabric Mass Timber project that turns "junk" wood into high-value mass timber building systems (façade panels, superstructure and floor cassettes) to be used as a prefabricated kit-of-parts on residential buildings
  • Funded by a Cal Fire grant, how this project aims to rapidly build affordable housing at scale to alleviate California’s urgent housing crisis while simultaneously reducing wildfire risk
  • How junk wood from overgrown and fallen trees in California is either shipped to Japan to be burnt as biofuel or left untouched in the forests where it contributes to increased wildfire risks
Speakers:
  • Passive Design Strategies: Showcasing the power of simplicity where simple design interventions lead to improvements in building performance, thermal comfort and daylighting, without relying on complex technologies
  • Mass Customization: Leveraging repetition for unique expressions that are utilized to create visually striking and functionally efficient designs tailored to specific contexts and technologies
  • Harnessing the Beauty of Simplicity: Simple repeating geometries that can be economical, beautiful and aesthetically pleasing
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  • Thermal performance; stainless steel vs. standard solutions
  • Anti-corrosion & system longevity
  • Sustainability & environmental impact
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  • How design assist is growing in popularity due to potential cost savings to the overall project however façade layout and coordination continues to be a pain point
  • Insight on implementation of a continuous channel attached at each level on a structural steel building that can ease up-front design coordination by providing a universal structural attachment with unlimited adjustability along the horizontal plane aiding façade decisions to be made further down the design process
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