187th Edition – Zak World of Façades Italy

187th Edition – Zak World of Façades Italy, June 4, 2025, NH Milano Congress Centre, Milan

187th Edition – Zak World of Façades Italy, June 04, 2025

This will be the 187^th edition globally and the 2^nd edition in Milan 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 & Panelists

Mohamed Gaber

Architectural Design Manager - Italy, Guardian Glass

Mohamed Gaber is the current Architectural Design Manager in Italy for Guardian Glass, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float and coated glass products. He is responsible for interacting with architects, cladders, and consultants, assisting them in selecting the...

Alice Torricelli

Technical Manager, Technoform Bautec Italia

Alice Torricelli studied Construction Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. She specialised in the field of building envelope design with a thesis on the definition of the best strategies for the energy requalification of buildings. She has been working at...

Peter Gilbert

Project Engineer Customized Solutions, Renson

Peter Gilbert holds a master’s degree in electro-mechanical engineering and has been active in facade engineering since the beginning of his career. For the past 15 years, he has been the driving force behind customized solutions at Renson Ventilation and...

Luca Berdini

Senior Project Manager, Stoneweg

Luca Berdini is a highly experienced Senior Project Manager with over 15 years in project and construction management, specializing in real estate development. Currently leading projects at Stoneweg Italy (previously Cromwell Property Group), he oversees technical projects from planning to...

Carmen Spagnoli

Sustainability Director, Lombardini22

Chartered Engineer Carmen Spagnoli is Sustainability Director at Lombardini22, a leading Italian architectural and engineering company. She manages multidisciplinary teams of engineers and architects providing ESG and environmental design consultancy covering the main internationally recognised sustainability certifications and CAM application...

Chiara Tosi

Associate, Eckersley O’Callaghan

As Senior Facade Engineer in our Milan office, Chiara brings a wealth of experience having worked in both the UK and Italy. Her background spans a wide variety of industries, project types and sizes across Europe, the Middle East, and...

Florian Thorwart

Partner, ACPV Architects Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel

Claudio Saibene

Procurement and Conceptual Construction Director, Coima

Dario Bozzoli-Parasacchi

Commercial Director, Colombo Costruzioni

Francesco Montaguti

Senior Architect and Italian Business Development Lead, Hawkins Brown Architects

Francesco is a Senior Architectural Designer at Hawkins\Brown, where he leads the firm’s Italian business development strategy. An experienced architectural speaker, he has been invited to present at several international events and prestigious universities including the Pisa Biennale, Istituto Europeo...

Luca Benetti

Director, Pichler

A graduate in Management Engineering from Milan Politecnico in 1992, he has always been in the construction industry, and has been an industrial manager since 2001. He has worked for PICHLER since 2006, first as sales manager and then as...

Luca Mastropierro

Commercial Manager, Pichler

Graduated in Architecture at University of Genoa in 1995, he has been qualified to practice the profession since 1996. After experiences as a freelancer and in the commercial area of Multinational Companies in the construction world, since 2006 he is...

Lorenzo Boddi

Partner, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

Lorenzo Boddi joined BIG in 2012, he became Associate in 2017 and Partner in 2021. He has been a part of several winning competitions, including LEGO House in Billund, Denmark, MÉCA arts cultural center in Bordeaux, France, OMNITURM, a 186m...

Paolo Brescia

Co-Founder, OBR Open Building Research

Paolo Brescia graduated in Architecture from Milan Polytechnic with Pierluigi Nicolin in 1996 after studying at the Architectural Association in London. He worked with Renzo Piano until 2000, when together with Tommaso Principi he founded OBR with the idea of...

Stefano Belingardi Clusoni

Founder and CEO, Stefano Belingardi Architects

Stefano Belingardi Clusoni, born in Milan in 1987, graduated cum laude from the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, receiving the prestigious SIA Award for the best graduation project. Following international experiences at EMBT in Barcelona, CZA in Milan, and Studio...

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....

Michael Stumm

Vice President, Montanstahl

Michael Stumm is the Vice President of Montanstahl SA and has more than 30 years of technical sales experience. Montanstahl was established 1983 in Stabio, Switzerland, and ranks among the worldwide market leaders for custom-tailored special profiles in steel and...

Paolo Franco

Partner, Faces Engineering

Façades engineer and project manager specialized in technical and computational design of complex facade systems. Experienced in building envelopes, project management for all design phases and technical review of construction documents. Specialised in façade design, 3D modeling, computational and parametric...

Ana Cecilia Montiel

Specification Leader - Italy, Axalta Coating Systems

Ana Cecilia Montiel, Architect and Industrial Designer, since 3 and a half years acts as Specification Leader for Axalta Italy, working together with Specification team EMEA. Since her university years, Ana has always been very sensitive to the topic of...

Alberto Ferrari

Managing Director, Faces Engineering

Extensive project management experience in relation buildings and bridges projects. Throughout his career Alberto worked in many fields of civil engineering as buildings, highways, railways, fire safety, hydraulics, playing different roles as structural analyst, project director, site director and manager....

Nicola Greco

Façades Director, Deerns

Nicola Greco is a Building Engineer, with almost 20 years of work experience within the construction industry and a multidisciplinary background, with specialist expertise in açade design and building physics. During the years 2006-2012, he has been working for UK...

Silvia Ilardi

Senior Façade Access & Maintenance Architect, Arup

Silvia Ilardi is a Senior Architect. She joined Arup in 2008 currently being part of the Building Envelope team in Milan office, is also part of the Facade Access & Maintenance UK team and Europe Region point of contact for...

Konrad Runggaldier

Senior Façade Engineer, Arup

After graduating in Structural Civil Engineering at the University of Bologna, Konrad began his career at an international company focused on the design and production of special facade systems for buildings. In 2015 he joined the Arup facade design group...

Alessandro Baldini

Director, Eckersley O’Callaghan

Since joining the global, award-winning engineering design firm Eckersley O’Callaghan in 2014, Alessandro has been pivotal in the firm’s growth, helping set up the Milan office which he now leads. With a strong multidisciplinary background, he has amassed extensive experience...

Tommaso Pieraccini

Country Manager, Reynaers Aluminium Italia

Tommaso is responsible of the Reynaers Italian team: a young, dynamic and ambitious team involved in supporting local stakeholders to deliver elegant, efficient and cost effective façade solutions, as well as anticipating the future technical challenges to transform them into...

Massimo Roj

Founding Partner and CEO, Progetto CMR

Massimo Roj graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the Politecnico di Milano in 1986. Since 1987, he has been a Registered Architect. He worked for Architects such as Spinelli, Morisi and Helg. In 1994, he founded Progetto CMR in Milan,...

Marco Capelli

Head - Façade Engineering, Open Project

Marco Capelli is the Head of the Façade Engineering, Sustainability and BECx team at Open Project since 2009. After his architectural engineering degree in 1997, he worked on iconic buildings such as London Westfield Stratford, Bologna Municipality Offices and London...

Saverio Pasetto

Head of Façades, Skanska

Saverio is Head of Façades at Skanska U.K., a leading construction company and developer. He provides building envelope technical leadership while overseeing and coordinating the façade package management on all projects. Three decades of varied experience in the facade industry...

Simone Starnini

Sales Director, seele

Sandro Casaccio

Manager - High Performance Products, Kuraray Europe

I started in 1987 with DuPont have worked for more than 38 years in the industrial markets such as passive components, photopolymer for the printed circuits board market, PET for electrical insulation and packaging, automotive and architectural glass lamination. I...

Kenneth Zammit

Principal - Façade Engineering, Thornton Tomasetti

Kenneth Zammit, is a director in Thornton Tomasetti’s Façade Engineering practice responsible for accelerating the team’s growth in the U.K. and the European region. He leads the innovation drive for the façade engineering team globally and is part of the...

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