78th Edition – Zak World of Façades UAE

This will be the 78th global edition and the 6th edition in UAE 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

Belarmino Cordero

Technical Director - Head of Façade Engineering, AESG

Belarmino is Technical Director at AESG where he leads facade engineering and parametric design. With a strong academic background in Architecture, environmental design and construction technologies, he brings a unique approach to the construction industry based on care for architectural...

Paulo Carvalho

Commercial & Corporate Relations Director, Effisus

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...

Alain Garnier

Manager Sales & Business Development - Middle East, Saint-Gobain SageGlass

Since mid-2015, Alain Garnier is in charge of developing the SageGlass business for Saint-Gobain in the Middle East, based out of Dubai. His goal is to support continued and sustainable growth for SageGlass dynamic glazing and to address this new...

Frans van Vuure

Director, UNStudio

Frans van Vuure, Director at UNStudio, joined the company in 2008, bringing a wealth of experience translating design concepts into technical and feasible construction processes. Apart from his knowledge of complex geometries, interiors and detailing, he is an equipped communicator...

Nikolay Kolomiychenko

Business Development Manager - MEA, AGC

Nikolay Kolomiychenko graduated from Russian State Aviation Technological University in 2001, All-Russia Academy for Foreign Trade in 2002, Russian Higher Commercial Management School in 2007, IMD Loisanne in 2012. He has 5 years of design activities experience in aviation mechanical engineering and...

Mark Powell Kyffin

Architecture Head, Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi

Mark is the Head of Architecture for Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture & Tourism. He is a past Branch President and longstanding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a former member of the Institute of Historic Building...

Mercedes Gargallo

Associate - Façade Engineering, Arup

Mercedes is a qualified architect and holds a master’s degree in façade engineering. She has fifteen years of work experience including ten years at the multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy firm Arup where she works as façade specialist. She has been involved...

Gonzalo A. Seminario

Design Manager, Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar City)

Yoshiyuki Uchiyama

Design Director, Nikken Sekkei

Yoshiyuki Uchiyama joined Nikken Sekkei in 2015 after he worked for National Stadium Tokyo in Zaha Hadid Architects. Which Nikken Sekkei was the lead local architect for the project. He had earned variety of experiences in many different part of...

Joe Tabet

Managing Director, JT + Partners

Joe Tabet is an exceptional multi-award-winning architect with +20years extensive experience in worldwide architecture, construction industry, master-planning and urban design. Since establishing JT+Partners in 2015, with offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Joe continuously demonstrates excellent records of initiating/ leading...

Farah Naz

Sustainability Team Leader, BuroHappold Engineering

Having gained construction sector experience in the UK, USA, and UAE, including working with the Copenhagen Government to develop green city initiatives and other sustainability policies, Farah now oversees sustainability in Dubai for BuroHappold Engineering. She’s heavily involved in developing...

Matthew Engele

Principal, Woods Bagot

Matthew is Woods Bagot’s Middle East Regional Design Leader and Principal in the Dubai studio. He is responsible for leading the design of the architecture department. A specialist in sustainable design, Matthew has a wide range of experience in projects...

Paul Haslam

Partner, Bauporte Group

Paul Haslam has been a façade professional for more than 25 years. He began his journey in the 1990’s with Schmidlin, arguably one of the best in the business and had the benefit of working on some of London’s most...

Kourosh Salehi

Principal Architect - ME, Atkins

British Architect and Urban Designer with over 25 years experience in the UK, Asia and the Middle East, working on several large scale Retail, Residential and Mixed Use Developments. Kourosh has successfully completed a number of major projects in the...

Micha Pawelka

Managing Director, Priedemann

Micha Pawelka is a Managing Director of the Priedemann group and is based in Dubai. Handling the role of business development for the Middle East projects, he is in charge of all sales and marketing activities, implementation of the business...

Agnes Koltay

Director, Koltay Façades

Agnes Koltay has a Masters degree in Architecture (Hungary, USA) and in Façade Engineering (UK) and worked with award winning architects and multidisciplinary engineering companies before founding Koltay Façades, a boutique façade engineering consultancy firm, in 2011. She is the...

Benjamin Beer

Head of Façades, Ramboll Middle East

Benjamin has been working as a façade professional for more than 17 years with projects around the world and long-term positions in London, New York, Dubai and Stuttgart. After building up and heading the Dubai office of Werner Sobek in...

Alastair Common

Technical Director, Schüco Middle East

Alastair Common was born in UK (1976) and finished his Civil Engineering studies with Honors. He started his career in the façade industry in 2002 and has since then obtained a wealth of knowledge through experience gained in Italy, Ireland,...

Ammar Alul

Managing Director, Schüco Middle East

Ammar Alul is the Managing Director of Schüco Middle East which is the regional headquarters of Schüco International KG that’s responsible for eleven countries across the Region. He has been in the Middle East since 1996 and has held several...

Michelle Bacellar

Technical Director, Meinhardt Façade Technology

Michelle graduate as an Architect with the PUC-PR University – Brazil. In the first years of her career she gained experience as an architect working in Brazil and Australia. In 2004, she has completed a Masters Degree in Structural and...

Markus Plettau

Marketing Manager - EMEA, High Performance Building Solutions, Dow Performance Silicones

Markus Plettau is Marketing Manager – EMEA, High Performance Building Solutions at Dow Performance Silicones. He is based in Wiesbaden, Germany. Markus leads the marketing activities for High Performance Building Solutions in Europe which look at developing and implementing silicone and silicone based...

Yahya Jan

President & Design Director, NORR

Yahya Jan is President & Design Director at NORR. With over 30 years of global experience, Yahya leads the design efforts of the group’s operations in the Middle East and Asia. Yahya undertook his undergraduate and graduate studies in the...

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