229th Edition – Zak World of Façades Egypt

This will be the 229th edition globally and the 5th edition in Cairo 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
Raef Fahmi
Chairman, Raef Fahmi Architects
Sherif Ali Bey
Project Technical Support Manager, ECG Consultants
Over thirty years experience in construction management and supervision, architectural design, quantity survey, time schedule, progress reports, quality control, coordination and follow up of various types of projects including residential, educational and commercial buildings, entertainment buildings & Landscape. Experience covers...
Tarek El Akkary
Chairman and CEO, OMSI Group
Sherif Abu EL Liel
Chief Project Officer, Nations of Sky
Sherif Abou El Liel serves as the Chief Projects Officer (CPO) at Nations of Sky, a prominent real estate development company in Egypt. He is a senior executive with extensive leadership experience in the real estate and construction sectors, where...
Russell Gilchrist
Design Director, Gensler
Russell is a Principal, Design Director and Cities Flex Studio Leader that undertakes large scale architectural infrastructure projects in the Gensler London office. With nearly 40 years of design experience, he has amassed a portfolio of high profile, architecture and...
Marianthi Tatari
Director/Senior Architect, UNS
Marianthi Tatari is a Senior Architect and Director at UNS in Amsterdam, where she leads projects across a wide range of scales and typologies. Since joining UNS in 2007, after earning her education in Thessaloniki, Paris, and Los Angeles, Marianthi...
Iman Ghaly
Design Director | Vice CDO, NGDS Architects
Hazem Al Zaro
Founder & Principal Architect, Zaro Architects
Hazem Alzaro is the Founder and Principal Architect of Zaro Architects, a multidisciplinary design studio working across architecture, interiors, master planning, and place-led urban experiences. His work explores the façade not merely as a building envelope, but as a living...
Iman Youssri
Director of Procurement & Value Engineering, Pinnacle Misr
Iman Youssri is a Director of Procurement & Value Engineering with over 25 years of experience across Egypt and the Middle East’s engineering consultancy and construction sectors. She brings strategic expertise in technical specifications, quantity surveying, and cost management mastering...
Sherouk Al-Sayed
Managing Partner, FTI Integrated Engineering Solutions
Sherouq Al Sayed is the Founder and Managing Partner of FTI Integrated Engineering Solutions (FTIIES), a boutique consultancy focused on the engineering, technical governance, and architectural integration of high-performance building envelopes. With over 15 years of experience, her work connects...
Hisham El Sergany
Independent Façade Expert
Hisham Elsergany is an architect and façade specialist with 38 years of experience executing complex façade and curtain wall projects across the GCC and Egypt. His career spans landmark developments for leading developers, contactors and consultants including Habtoor Leighton, Arabtec,...
Haby Yaqob
Commercial Manager, Hydro Building Systems Middle East
Haby Yaqob is a seasoned architectural engineer with a passion for innovation and sustainability in the built environment. A graduate of Cairo Academy, he further specialized in Façade Engineering at the University of Bath, UK, earning certifications from CWCT and...
Abdullah Faza
Director of Fire & Life Safety - Middle East, AESG
Abdullah Faza is the Director of Fire and Life Safety in AESG Middle East, and he holds Bachelor of Science with Honour degree in Fire Safety Engineering University of Central Lancashire, UK, 2014 with Associate Membership in Institute of Fire...
Hani Mohamed El Rashidy
Head of Façade Design Unit, Dar Al-Handasah
Dr. Hani El-Rashidy is a highly specialized façade engineer and gives technical support in designing and construction supervision of building envelopes for major projects in the region. He is a Ph.D. holder in structural engineering as well as the head...
Maged (Max) Ahmed
Lead Façade Engineer - Middle East Region, BG&E Façades
Maged (Max) Ahmed joined BG&E Façades in 2014 as a senior façade engineer. After two years in the head office in Melbourne, Australia; he re-located to the Middle East where he established the Middle East presence of BG&E Façades. Since...
Conference Agenda
  • Identity, memory, and material in Egypt
  • Scale, ambition, and the GCC condition
  • One practice, many contexts
Speakers:
  • Key updates in façade fire safety regulations, testing standards, and regional authority requirements shaping today’s developments
  • Common façade fire safety gaps and coordination challenges observed across high-rise and complex projects in the region
  • Critical principles designers, developers, and contractors must remember to achieve safer, compliant, and practical façade solutions
Speakers:
  • Where does Egypt stand today in façade engineering capability compared to regional and international markets? (Benchmarking skills, delivery quality, and technical maturity)
  • What are developers and main contractors lacking from façade engineers today? (Is it design coordination, technical assurance, value engineering, or execution support?)
  • What is driving the capability gap — skills, standards, industry culture, or all three? (And which factor is the dominant constraint?)
  • What role should professional certification play in closing this gap, and what would a credible Egyptian façade certification system look like? (Who sets it, what does it measure, and how is it enforced?)
  • Who should lead the transformation of façade engineering capability in Egypt — industry, academia, regulators, or market demand? (And what concrete first step can this panel commit to today?)

Hisham El Sergany

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  • 229th Edition – Zak World of Façades Egypt, September 28, 2026
  • Start Date
    September 28, 2026 8:00 am
  • End Date
    September 28, 2026 5:00 pm
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