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
Ben Piper
Partner & Design Principal, Killa Design
Ben Piper is an Architectural Design Director with 20 years of professional experience in architecture and urban masterplanning (14 years in the Middle East). He is an experienced team leader with an excellent ability to work across varying disciplines and...
Matthew Utley
Principal, Grimshaw
Matthew Utley is a Principal at Grimshaw and leads the Middle East studio. He has spent the past 19 years working across all scales of architecture and design, leading projects in the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle...
Yahya Kaddoura
Lead Design Architect, Atkins
Yahya Kaddoura is an award-winning architect, researcher and strategist. Making the most value out of diverse architectural core principles; user experience human centric design and the influence in surrounding context, and the impact of technology on current and future design. Experienced in architecture, urban...
Shyam Chand
Senior Consultant - Façade Access, WSP
Shyam has over 13 years of experience in the building sector in the field of Facade Access within the Middle East. He has been involved in a wide range of innovative projects in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Indian...
Ralf Thorwarth
Business Manager Glass - EIMEA, H.B.Fuller/Kömmerling
Ralf Thorwarth is GSM for Segment Glass at H.B.Fuller/Kömmerling in the EIMEA region and is responsible for the Marketing and Sales of Sealants to the Insulating Glass, Façade systems and Window Bonding industry. With a commercial background, he and his...
Esmeralda Maria Malo
Regional Marketing Head IMEA, Henkel Construction Adhesives
Maria Malo is the Regional Marketing Head IMEA and member of the Global Marketing team at Henkel Construction Adhesives since October 2018. Based in Dubai, she is responsible for the marketing and communication strategy in IMEA region, along with the...
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
Managing Director – Sales & Marketing, AGC Obeikan Glass
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...
Farah Naz Buro Happold
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
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...
Scott Coombes
Managing Partner, AESG
Scott is the co-founder and Managing Partner of AESG, an award winning, Specialist Consultancy, Engineering and Advisory firm headquartered in London and Dubai, working throughout the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Under Scott’s leadership, AESG has grown to be a...
Lars Anders
Managing Director / CEO, Priedemann Holding
Lars Anders is the CEO of Priedemann Façade Experts and Façade-Lab Research & Development Center, which accomplishes tasks relating to the façade or building envelope. In this role, He manages and leads along with his managing partners, a team providing...
Kourosh Salehi
Design Director, LWK + Partners
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...
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...
Valérie Hayez
Global Façade Engineering & Architectural Design Engineer - High Performance Building, Dow
Valérie Hayez holds a PhD in Applied Sciences from the University of Brussels, Belgium. She is Global Façade Engineering & Architectural Design Engineer for High Performance Building at Dow, Belgium. In her current role, she provides technical service to the...
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...
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...
April Soh
Technical Director - Façades, AESG
April Soh brings with her over 20 years of experience in the Façade Consultancy with experience in project management, consultancy, engineering, and site supervision. Prior to joining AESG in 2020, April has consulted on numerous prestigious projects across the Middle...
Conference Agenda
  • Lessons learned: Impact on purchase strategies and sustainability
  • Adjustment into new global trends: New developments vs updating existing façades
  • Following upcoming business opportunities: Digital technology supporting new business models
Speakers:
  • How the concept for this tower is a result of design Integration and the symbiotic relationship between form, structure and façade
  • Parametrically modeled for optimization, the façade of this tower responds to changes in geometry
  • Sculpted in glass, the shaping of this tower is based on wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamic modeling
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  • Contributing to the connectivity of a building with dynamic glass
  • Increasing the occupant’s comfort and well-being
  • Case studies: Dynamic façades in the UAE
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  • Systems for foundations
  • Systems for main building
  • Systems for roofing
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  • Challenges of the changing world
  • Back to the future: Reviewing existing & new technologies
  • Major design considerations for sustainable building envelopes
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  • How the idea of Dubai's upcoming tourist sensation was developed in collaboration with the developer, façade engineer and architects?
  • Engineering challenges of designing giant glass pieces outside of a skyscraper to scare people
  • Implementation and installation, doing the unprecedented
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  • “Cherry picking” the right façade system for the right application
  • The secret to designing a sword façade
  • Digitalisation: your daily fix
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  • How can we answer the need for comfort and well-being in the skin of buildings
  • How do we control the rationality of providing that well-being
  • Are we able to transform the city’s existing envelopes and make them more sustainable?
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  • The impression of the envelope
  • The substance of the façade
  • A narrative of context culture and content
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  • Learning from the past
  • Climate changes
  • Designing for the future
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  • Enabling design freedom and building functionality with advanced technologies
  • Optimizing safety and security of high rise construction
  • The proven contribution of silicone materials to façade quality and longevity
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  • Façade access strategy development
  • Building maintenance unit (BMU) types
  • Requirements for BMU integration into the building
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  • What are A2 class fire rated weatherproofing membranes?
  • Bespoke solutions for façade weatherproofing
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  • Advantages of a reactive thermoplastic spacer in structural glazing façades
  • Improved energy efficiency through long-term gastight insulating glass
  • High end warm-edge spacer system for unlimited design possibilities e.q. cold-bending glass
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  • Glare versus daylighting
  • Design process examples
  • Designing for optimal lighting
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  • Liveability, efficiency and sustainability; Houses to apartments
  • Reducing the area of land use by increasing the functions in each space; Efficiency in spaces with time
  • Four key dimensions playing the main parameters in building’s envelope
Speakers:
  • UN17 Goals: Relevant and applicable goals for building envelopes
  • Circular Economy: Smart façades through responsible consumption, production and recycling
  • Net Zero: Reality and practicality for the Middle East climate?
  • Regulations: How local codes can help in achieving more sustainable façades
  • Climate Change: Role of façades in helping to combat the same

Panelists
Ben Piper, Partner & Design Principal, Killa Design
Kourosh Salehi, Design Director, LWK + PARTNERS
Farah Naz, Sustainability Team Leader, BuroHappold Engineering
Matthew Engele, Principal, Woods Bagot
Matthew Utley, Principal, Grimshaw

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Event Details
  • 78th Edition – Zak World of Façades UAE, March 16, 2021, The Conrad
  • Start Date
    March 16, 2021 8:00 am
  • End Date
    March 16, 2021 3:25 pm
  • Status
    Upcoming
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