56th Edition – Zak World of Façades New Zealand

• Use of previously tested systems test reports
• Laboratory testing
• Onsite testing

• Compliance with Mott MacDonald international best practice façade specification
• Factory prefabricated modular unitized curtain wall solution
• Material handling/installation on-site to meet construction cycle programmes for closing in of structures

• The Jasmax perspective on the state of the New Zealand Façade industry
• Our commitment to authentically engage with Tanga Te Whenua to inspire and enrich our building designs and what that means for façade design
• APL’s new Hautapu campus & glass factory

• Sustainable façades for the region: Attaining energy performance requirements through building envelopes
• Understanding the role of building envelopes to meet local Green Building regulations
• NZBC updates for building energy efficiency measures: Optimal efficiency rate for residential vis-à-vis commercial buildings
• Rating standards and stakeholder coordination for façades: Will energy efficient be economically efficient?
• Thermal performance in curtain wall & fenestration (OTTV)
• Passive house in New Zealand? The way forward

Kent Nixon

• Collaboration: How architecture and art meet to create a new expression
• NZ Identity: The artworks and their role in storytelling and city making
• Scale and texture: How to manage mass and create human scale experiences

• Testing of curtain walls for seismic capability, mainly inter-storey drift, has been carried out for many curtain walls over the last 20 years
• Curtain wall engineers generally do not have the information to analyse a building structure to determine realistic seismic movement dimensions. They have to rely on the structural engineer who usually only quotes code values
• EQ-Assess which is the defacto standard in New Zealand for building's seismic assessment does not adequately address seismic capability of façades in general and curtainwalls in particular

• Performance standards and specification of powder coatings
• Benefits of powder coatings
• Recent innovations & track record in powder coatings

• Changing face of world cities enabled by silicone
• Advances in non-glass panel bonding
• New solutions and technologies

• Façades have a long life yet their design is still driven largely by appearance which is determined at an early stage of design with undesirable life-cycle costs and environmental impacts may therefore be locked-in if the environmental performance is not optimised
• How do we move from this ‘skin-deep’ approach to a deeper level of façade design and how can we use technology in the development of higher façade environmental performance?
• What passive and active strategies can we explore for improving façade environmental performance and what could the future look like?

• Impact of thermal breaks & warm edge spacer on U-value, thermal comfort and condensation resistance
• Window thermal performance is only as good as the durability of the system
• Why U-value matters in both winter and summer

• The paradigm shift from traditional approaches to future expectations
• Why fires on the outside of buildings are a big concern
• The challenges with façade fire testing: dealing with the detail

• The symbiosis between QA and risk management and holistic design
• Water-tightness and wind-loading with AS/NZS 4284
• Fire-performance with AS 5113/BS 8414 and AS 1530.4

• Introducing Neolith
• Customized sizes, colours and application for façades and their systems
• Neolith® + Pureti® for façades
• Case study in NZ: Armagh St & Merivall Mall

• Façade deliveries, understanding and mitigating risk
• The need for FPM
• Implementation - Players involved and their roles
• Possible pitfalls and their avoidance
• Effect on the bottom line

John Perry