171st Edition – Zak World of Façades Australia

• Loadbearing stone façades
• Prefabricated, prestressed stone panels, manufactured offsite and assembled on site
• Low carbon construction using latest technology as an “act of theatre"

• Are hybrid steel curtain walls the long-waited disruption in the market?
• Fire resistance, tower infernos belong to the past
• Drastic reduction of CO2 emission
• Redefined sustainability: Not just 0 energy, but also 0 finance cost!

• Looking at the history of high performance façade design, incorporating new technologies and techniques to achieve improved energy performance for our buildings. While, historically speaking, considerations like daylighting, solar shading and thermal transmission have been key drivers of the design, they primarily addressed operating energy, the amount of energy required to heat, cool and illuminate the spaces they contain. The other half of the energy equation is embodied energy, or the amount of energy (and therefore carbon) consumed in the process of material sourcing, fabrication, and installation
• How can our façades be designed to respond to both performance considerations — operating energy and embodied energy? A careful an analysis of each façade component to understand its carbon footprint must be undertaken and cross referenced with its operating performance — how well it is insulating, shading, etc
• Examples of recent projects where we explored the merging of structure and skin as a way of combining assemblies and getting “dual use” out of building components. In the process, the structure and skin become hybridized and introduce new possibilities for the overall reduction of carbon in our buildings

• What are the changes to design and building practitioner obligations and their impact on façades
• Challenges related to compliance declarations, indemnification of practitioners, and requirements for variations after commencement of work
• Complexities of regulatory compliance and ethical responsibility

John Perry

• Overtly environmental expression: Emerging trends and increasing requirement for aesthetic expression of façade environmental response
• Computational analysis and parametric façade design: Showcased through recently completed Array, 1 Eden Park Drive, Macquarie Park
• Balancing solidity and openness: Showcased through recently approved 153 Walker Street, North Sydney
• Self-shading building form: Showcased through recently approved 17 Flinders Street, Melbourne

• Structural compatibility & energy efficiency
• Aesthetic and heritage considerations
• Material selection
• Regulatory compliance

• 33 Alfred Street - Horizontal configuration on unitized system
• Bondi Archibald - Vertical configuration on unitized system
• Macquarie University - Complex geometry cladding
• Case study: The New Dunedin Hospital Outpatient Building - Transforming healthcare through patient-centred design and care at scale

• Zero carbon or low carbon buildings
• How façade solutions drive sustainablity by reducing energy use or generating energy on site

• Achieving net zero with Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)
• Maximising building façades for solar energy production
• BIPV façade solutions

• Fire safety and ventilated façade constructions
• Learnings from the Grenfell Tower disaster
• The solution

• Atlassian Central which is co-owned by Dexus and Atlassian, encompasses a range of complex structural systems and materials, including an eccentric concrete core, composite mega floors, timber structures, steel exo-skeleton, atriums, curved geometry and inclined aluminium and glass façade and how the diversity of these systems and structural behavior presented significant challenges for assessing the movement in the façade joints, which would have been impractical to assess with traditional analysis
• How a cross-disciplinary team of façade, structural and digital engineers collaborated to analyse the façade joint movements, throughout all stages of construction and completion of the building
• Software developed and used to automate the analysis and precisely map the movement of each individual façade joint and the innovative processes and key insights that informed the design of the façade

• Risk vs. reward
• How to best handle QA/QC from abroad
• Procuring bespoke façades globally to suit local requirements
• Adapting procurement keeping in mind carbon targets