69th Edition – Zak World of Façades Germany

This was the 69th global edition and the 1st edition in Germany. It showcased the latest innovations and challenges in the construction industry pertaining to building envelopes and the latest technological solutions.

Speakers and Panelists

Aikaterini Doulkari

Senior Façade Engineer, BuroHappold Engineering

Aikaterini has background studies in Architecture where she obtained a Diploma from the NationalTechnical University of Athens NTUA. She then specialised in façade engineering and buildingenvironments by undertaking an MSc of building technology at theTechnical University of Delft, NL. She...

Michael Bauer

Managing Director, Drees & Sommer Advanced Building Technologies

Stephanie Heese

General Manager, Priedemann Façade Experts

Rudi Scheuermann

Global Leader Building Envelope Design, Arup

Klaus Ransmayr

Partner, Henn

Klaus Ransmayr studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and received his Master of Advanced Architectural Design Degree at Columbia University in New York in 2005. He worked at Coop Himmelb(l)au in Vienna as well as at Asymptote Architecture...

Enrico Cutri

Global Building Project Specification Manager - High Performance Building, Dow

Enrico Cutri is Global Building Projects Specification Manager and a member of the Building Science Team at Dow. Based in Switzerland, Enrico is directly responsible for the management of designated key accounts and for the introduction of product innovation, to...

Lars Anders

Group CEO, Priedemann Façade Experts

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...

Christian Lygum

CSO, MicroShade

Christian Lygum holds a B.Sc . in Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration. Christian’s career which has included positions as CPO, CEO and CSO in leading Danish façade companies, has provided...

Robert Jagger

Sales Manager - DACH Region, Halio Europe & Middle East

Robert Jagger joined a UK manufacturer of window sealants and fire cement gaining his first sales experience. In 1988 he moved to Germany where he has dual nationality. Over the past 25 years he has worked continuously in the building...

Konrad Hofmann

Project Manager, Eike Becker Architekten

Konrad Hofmann is an architect and project manager at Eike Becker_Architekten, responsible for numerous design projects and planning permission with a focus on residential and commercial buildings. The Germany-wide design tasks include typologies from peripheral residential complexes to inner-city skyscrapers....

Susanne Di Iulio

Regional Director of Sales, Staticus

Susanne Di iulio graduated 2003 from the Cooperative State University of Baden Wurttemberg as a Façade Engineer. Joining Tauber Eingineering GmbH in Frankfurt, she worked as an international project manager. She also worked as a guest lecturer in her former...

Tobias Wallisser

Partner, LAVA

Tobias Wallisser is director of the award-winning international practice LAVA which he co-founded with Chris Bosse and Alexander Rieck in 2007. LAVA combines digital workflow, nature’s structural principles and the latest digital fabrication technologies to build MORE WITH LESS: more...

Christian Bergmann

Senior Architect / Project Management, Teherani Architects

Christian Bergmann studied architecture at ETH Zurich and at the University of Stuttgart, from where he graduated with a diploma in 2006. He has worked at UNStudio in Amsterdam and Werner Sobek in Stuttgart as a design leader and project...

Markus Pfisterer

Associate Partner, GMP Architects

Markus Pfisterer has been Associate Partner at gmp’s Berlin office since 2014 and is responsible for an international team of architects. During his studies at Stuttgart University and the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, his focus was already on...

Jürgen Stake

Project Service Façades Building Berlin, HOCHTIEF Infrastructure

Jürgen Stake studied 1981-1985 at the Engineering College of Cottbus in the field of structural engineering and a doctorate in 1991 at the College of Civil Engineering in Cottbus. From 1991 he worked as a project manager in an Engineering...

Christoph Klinzmann

Head of Office - Hamburg, hhpberlin

Christoph Klinzmann received his doctorate degree in 2008 in Braunschweig where he carried out a research subject on Probabilistic Assessment of structures based on structural health monitoring. After a year of post Doctorate work on a Fire safety concept for...

Dr. Christian Scherer

Head of Business Development Glass, HB Fuller | Kömmerling

Christian Scherer is Head of Business Development Glass at H.B.Fuller/Kömmerling. In his current role he has the global lead within the business unit to further develop the (smart) glass, façade & structural glazing applications of the Kömmerling IG sealant and...

Jochen Regenauer

Head of High Performance Products EMEA, Kuraray

Jochen is working since more than 20 years in the construction & glass industry. Now responsible for high performance interlayers like Trosifol PVB & Sentryglas for laminated safety glass in the EMEA region with an focus on architectural applications.

Jan Ammundsen

Senior Partner & Head of Design, 3XN Architects

Jan Ammundsen is Senior Partner and Head of Design at 3XN Architects, where he is responsible for developing concepts and strategies for key projects to ensure the highest design quality. His involvement in each project spans from developing initial ideas...

Andrew Kiel

Associate Director, Sauerbruch Hutton

Andrew Kiel studied at the University of Virginia and Princeton University. From 1993 to 1998 he worked for Josef P. Kleihues and other architectural firms in Germany. He joined Sauerbruch Hutton in 1999. As a project manager, he specialized in...

Nicolas Winklmair

Senior Architect, Kleihues + Kleihues

Nicolas Winklmair studied at the HdK Berlin and the ETH Zurich and has been working as Senior Architect at Kleihues + Kleihues since 2005, where, among other things, he is responsible for various major projects as a façade planner.

Andreas Bittis

Marketing Director - iWin®, Saint-Gobain Glass

Educated as an architect and urban planner at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, Andreas Bittis was editor for ARCH+ and a freelance journalist for various architectural magazines on and offline. Consequently he worked in several architectural practices; Rhinescheme (Beijing)...

Thomas Meissner

Architectural Project Manager, SageGlass

As the Architectural Project Manager for Germany, he is committed to bringing the future-oriented innovation SageGlass to investors, architects, planners, and engineering firms. He is persuaded that the smart glass can significantly improve the comfort and energy efficiency of a...

Giovanni Betti

Senior Associate - Head of Performance Design, Henn

Giovanni Betti is a registered architect in Italy and the UK. He is currently a Senior Associate at the architectural practice HENN, with offices in Munich, Berlin and Beijing. There, he founded and leads the Performance Based Design Team. The...

Dominique Berger

Business Consultant Architecture, AkzoNobel

Dominique has a master’s degree in Architecture Media Management and joined AkzoNobel Powder Coatings (Interpon) in 2011 as member of the global specification team. In this role he supports architects, façade consultants, main contractors, cladding sub-contractors and powder applicators on...

Pierre Heck

Managing Director, Cosentino

Pierre Heck has been Managing Director of Cosentino Deutschland GmbH since 1 September 2015. In his function as Country Manager Germany he manages the sales and activities of the four Cosentino Centers in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Munich. Prior to...

Roland Bechmann

Managing Partner & Partner, Werner Sobek

Roland is Managing Director and Partner of the international engineering consultancy Werner Sobek. Born in Berlin, he subsequently moved to Hanover, Germany, where he studied Structural Engineering. Having ac-complished his diploma, He started working at Werner Sobek and soon rose...

Florian Scheible

Director, Knippers Helbig

Florian Scheible has joined Knippers Helbig in 2003, since 2013 he manages the Knippers Helbig branch office in Berlin. He is a trained architect and certified façade engineer working at the intersection of architecture, structural design and building envelopes. With...

Thomas Auer

Managing Director, Transsolar

Thomas is partner and managing director of Transsolar, an engineering firm with offices in Stuttgart, Munich, Paris and New York. He collaborated with world known architecture firms on numerous international design projects. He is a specialist in energy efficiency and...

Daniel Pfanner

Partner, Bollinger + Grohmann Consulting

Daniel Pfanner rejoined Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure in 2010 after he had already been working as a project manager in our team from 2003 to 2008 and is Partner since 2011. In 2007 and 2008 he set up and established...

Jörn Teipel

Lead Technical Manager – Architecture, Outokumpu

Joern Teipel studied Physics in Bonn, Germany, and at The Ohio State University in Columbus, USA, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2006 in the field of nonlinear optics. He began his professional career in 2006 at a technical consultancy...

Bettina-Gerharz-Kalte

Vice President Thermal Insulation, Evonik Resource Efficiency

Bettina Gerharz-Kalte is Vice President of the new growth business thermal insulation at Evonik and based in Hanau, Germany. Bettina has spent over 25 years within the chemical industry and a dominant share thereof in areas of the building and...

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