81st Edition – Zak World of Façades Qatar

This was the 81st global edition and the 4th edition in Doha. It showcased the latest innovations and challenges in the construction industry pertaining to building envelopes and the latest technological solutions.

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Speakers and Panelists

Donel Dippi

Senior Technical Engineer, Siderise Insulation

Donel Dippi is an experienced stakeholder-focused Technical Engineer who specialises in passive fire protection and acoustic solutions for the façades of buildings in the Middle East, India, and South Asia Pacific. With a deep understanding of testing, certification, compliance, and...

Mansoor Ahamed Khan

Project Manager-Designs, Qatar Design Consortium

Mansoor is an architect with experience of around 15 years in wide range of projects including hotels, commercial developments, health-care, residential, broadcasting studios, stadiums etc. With a background in Architecture and a passion for design, he delivers a unique combination...

Moen Azmi

Executive Director - Infrastructure, Arab Engineering Bureau

Moen is working with Arab Engineering Bureau as Executive Director. He is an expert on smart cities and intelligent mobility and has many research publications in International Journals and seminars. Moen serves on a various national committees and advisory boards....

Javier Vieiro

Associate Director - Madrid, Chapman Taylor

Javier has extensive design and construction experience working on both Spanish and international projects, including the project and resident architect role during the construction of Mall of Qatar in Doha. He has a strong record of leading multidisciplinary teams in...

Gokhan Ermis

Architectural Marketing Manager, Pulver Powder Coatings

Gökhan ERMIŞ is the architectural Marketing Manager of Pulver Powder Coatings, the third largest powder coating manufacturer in Europe. He has a master’s degree in marketing from Marmara University and a bachelor’s degree in advertising from Near East University. He...

Sanmukh Bawa

Director, The Glass Company

Sanmukh is the founder of The Glass company that he set up after working for over 10 years in the glass industry and brings is specialist knowledge of complex and challenging glass assembly to fabricators and end clients to delivery...

Susanna Noureddine

Principal Façade Consultant, Ramboll Middle East

Susanna Noureddine holds a master’s degree in Façade Engineering from the University of Applied Science in Detmold, Germany. She is a Principal Façade Consultant at Ramboll responsible for project management commercial and technical design.With just over 9 years’ experience in...

Luke Harrison

Director, BDP Pattern

Luke Harrison is Associate Director of Pattern Design. He is both an Architect and computational designer, with extensive experience of Sports Architecture and Venue Design. He has worked on many of Pattern’s projects around the world, most recently Luke has...

John Douglas

Pre-Construction Director, Alutec

John qualified with a degree in Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering from Trinity College Dublin in 2003. Since then he has been involved in the construction industry, firstly in main contracting and then as a façade specialist for the past...

Bassem Mardini

Senior Manager - Architecture, Qatari Diar

Bassem Mardini has over 30 years of Project/Design Management experience for complex large scale (mega) international Master Plan, Infrastructure, FIFA Regulation Stadiums & Building projects covering both public and private sector developments within Architectural, Project Management and Client representative organizations...

Paulo Carvalho

Commercial & Corporate Relations Director, Effisus MENA

Paulo Carvalho is Effisus commercial & corporate relations director, supporting the business with his skill set and experience in the international building construction industry. With a solid experience on sales, management, product development, and business strategy, his current focus is...

Thomas Fruhmann

Director Pre-Construction Services, Schueco Middle East

Thomas Fruhmann is a senior Façade/Building Skin Specialist with a top-level experience in curtain wall construction industry. He has acquired a diversified experience in design, production, project coordination, project management, contracts management, risk management, and tender/sales management, and developed a...

Micha Pawelka

Chief Operating Officer, Priedemann Façade Experts

Micha Pawelka, who has an academic qualification in Wholesale Management and Foreign Trade, gained over 20 years of experience in the Glass and Facade Industry in Europe. He was a Sales Director in the Schollglas Group in Germany before relocating...

Allan Gibson

High Performance Product Manager - Northern Europe, Kuraray

Allan Gibson is based in Oxford and for the past 18 years, Allan has managed the supply and specification of specialist materials used in the construction industry in the UK and Middle East. Now responsible for the Trosifol PVB and...

Alejandro Stochetti

Director of Design, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

AS+GG Design Director, Alejandro Stochetti AIA, is building an impressive body of international work in all scales and typologies. He embraces the challenges of highly prominent projects with global exposure as well as of smaller, cost-conscious projects, with their own...

Maged (Max) Ahmed

Lead Façade Engineer - Middle East, 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...

Yousef Al Yacoub

CEO, Qatar Aluminium Extrusion Co (QALEX)

Mr. Yousef Al Yacoub, a Jordan national having a degree in BCS in Applied Chemistry is currently the General Manager of Qatar Aluminium Extrusion Co. (QALEX) – a subsidiary of QIMC (Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company). He has proven his expertise...

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