13th Edition – Zak World of Façades India

Mumbai has long been a stalwart in infrastructural innovations. Development in this sector has seen a steady rise with a strong synergy of technology and accessible design. This growth has sparked off a ceaseless endeavour to merge advancement with responsible environment management.

Setting sight on discovering and disseminating ideas beneficial to the growth of infrastructure, Zak returns to Mumbai with its all encompassing conference. The flagship conference created a benchmark in the city in its earlier editions in 2013 & 2014 and now aims to raise the bar of quality discussions. Hot topic of discussion will be the new Mumbai Fire Brigade regulations on glass façades.

Zak World of Facades conference is determined to propagate awareness on the newest cutting edge technology and perspectives in the field of façade design. The conference expedites a platform for networking, necessary in the professional world.

Organized by Zak, this will be a part of the build-up to the mega exhibitions on Glass, Windows & Façade and Aluminium Extrusions to be held in Mumbai from the 10-13 December 2015.

Zak invites you to World of Façades – an interactive seminar focused on showcasing the best technology and practices for the Indian façade industry.

Speakers and Panelists

Allen Chen

Managing Director, Kinlong India

John Guest

President - Construction, Piramal Realty

Dr. Prashanth Reddy

Managing Director, FunderMax

An astute, self-motivated, results driven leader and Managing Director, Dr.Prashanth Reddy spearheads Fundermax, the leading Austrian architectural brand’s Indian business for the last 16 years from a career spanning 31 years. A mechanical engineer, postgraduate in business administration and a...

Rajeev Trehan

Senior Associate Architect, Architect Hafeez Contractor

Rajeev Trehan graduated from Sir J. J. College of Architecture, Mumbai in 1990 and joined Architect Hafeez Contractor. He has been in practice since then. In his experience of over 24 years, he has been in charge of several large...

Alan Hartley

BDM, Cotswold Architectural Products

Alan, who is 46 and lives in Poole, Dorset, previously worked for Cotswold, joining the company as a teenager and working in internal and external sales roles as well as in a business development position. He spent over 12 years...

Amit Mehrotra

AVP - Design, Tata Housing

Amit is a Development Manager with over 18yrs of real estate experience across construction, design, statutory approvals and overall project management of over 3.5 million sqft projects of cumulative worth above INR8000Cr.

Atul Bhandari

Director - Design & Projects, RSP India

Atul Bhandari is a 1995 graduate of Govt. College of Architecture, Lucknow and Registered with Council of Architecture, India. He has over 19 years of experience in a wide range of projects. He has held senior positions at Aakar design...

Ashok Khemlani

Chairman, Clean India Group

23 years back, when he saw first glass building in Mumbai, Ashok Khemlani tied up with Cradle Runways International and imported the very first system. This was for DHL at Andheri. Subsequently, he started manufacturing the facade access systems in...

Christoph Timm

Principal, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Christoph Timm leads SOM’s Enclosure Group, a practice embedded among the design and engineering studios in the firm’s New York office that focuses on the design of building enclosures and facades. With more than two decades of experience in the...

Winfried Heusler

Head of Corporate Building Excellence, Schüco International

Winfried Heusler has worked with GARTNER, a façade construction company in Germany, from 1981 to 1998. Afterwards, he has been associated with Schüco International as Technical Director for Aluminium and CTO (Chief Technical Officer). As Sr. VP-Engineering, he oversaw international...

Mukesh Jaitley

Director - Projects, The Wadhwa Group

Mukesh is an experienced Director of Projects with a demonstrated history of working in the real estate industry. He is skilled in Negotiation, Budgeting, Value Engineering, Business Planning, and Cost Management. She is a strong operations professional.

Niteen Parulekar

Managing Director, Niteen Parulekar Architects

Architect Niteen Parulekar is the Founder and Design Director of NPAPL – Niteen Parulekar Architects Private Limited. A graduate in Bachelor of Architecture from the renowned JJ School of Architecture, he has been leading a successful design practice for more...

Sambaprasad Pinge

VP- Architecture, K Raheja Group

He is the Head of the department, and coordinates with International and Local Architects for various Commercial and residential project. He has executed more than 10 million sqft IT spaces at Mind space, Navi Mumbai.

Tarun Khemlani

Managing Director, Clean India Group

Tarun is the Managing Director at the Clean India Group which is one of India’s largest Façade Access Solution & Maintenance company. Their operations are extended over 17 countries which include Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, UAE, Singapore, Oman &...

Sourabh Kankar

Marketing Manager - India, Gujarat Guardian

Sourabh Kankar heads Marketing Operation at Gujarat Guardian Limited, a leading manufacturer of float, coated and mirror glass products. A Computer Science graduate with a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing and Finance, Sourabh spent over 14 years in various Technical,...

Robert Stephens

Executive Director, Inhabit Group

Robert Stephens is the Executive Director for Inhabit and is responsible for group operations in the Middle East and Europe. He has over 20 years of façade construction experience in Europe, the Middle East and Far East. For the last...

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...

Praveen Chaubey

Principal, Facade Design Factory

Mr.Praveen K. Chaubey is one of the well-known names in the field of façade engineering in India and internationally. He have an experience of more than 15 years in Façade Industry. He has executed many complicated facades in india and...

Nitin Bhatia

Managing Director, FACET Façade Engineering

Nitin has trained as an architect and has worked across disciplines including design, management, R&D and forensics and is currently working on several projects in India and overseas including super tall buildings such as the 117 floor World One Tower...

Rajan Govind

Director, BES Consultants

Rajan has more than 30 years of international experience within the facade industry, out of which he has served more than 11 years at Arup. With Structural engineering background Rajan has gained working experiences in various regions such as Asia,...

Kamlesh Choudhari

Director, Glass Wall Systems

Born with an aim to conquer his ambition in life and goal. He started working as a entrepreneur to take path in achieving his vision. With over two decade plus experience in Façade industry.He has played a pivotal role in...

KR Suresh

Regional Director - South Asia, Avante Façades

With a view to lead by example through devoted work ethics and constant innovation, Suresh is one of the most sought after façade consultants of India with a unique approach of integrating and detailing to insure that all elements of...

Jawahar HH

Director, Glass Wall Systems

Serving the façade industry for more than 27 years, Jawahar makes sure all his ventures are met with immaculate precision and absolute commercial success.

Tariq Kachwala

Director, FG Glass

Tariq Kachwala is the Director of FG Glass Industries and has 12 years of experience in the glass processing industry. He spearheads marketing, strategy and new business development and is also a consultant to architects and façade specialists on the...

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