34th Edition – Zak World of Façades United Kingdom

• Increases in computational power has unlocked the potential for individually manufactured cladding panels and digital fabrication. What analysis and systems are available to adopt the complex more routinely and cost effectively?
• Increases in complexity and cost effectiveness means that we can not longer rely on worst case designs for analysis. How can we further automate algorithms for structural analysis to help solve this problem?
• As regulations for energy use are becoming more stringent, ever more detail of the building envelope needs to be designed to perform thermally. How can we inform early stage design of non-repeating geometry, to optimise the building envelope?

• Optimizing health and safety
• Minimizing CO2-emissions
• Playing the digital transformation

• The instrumentality of appearance
• Information – rich environments
• The need for aesthetic revolutions

• Digital Influence on façade construction: How is the horizon changing?
• State-of-the-art trends in contemporary façade designs & aesthetics for European projects
• Culminating complexity of design with safety and sustainability features of the façade
• Latest materials on the block being used for contemporary façade designs coupled with enhanced safety features

John Downes

• Façade industry 4.0
• High expectations – Great challenges

• The Sustainability Triangle: let us make the difference
• The Cradle-to-Cradle concept and certification
• Cradle-to-Cradle for the construction industry

• Natural light management
• Smart-tinting façades… to create comfortable spaces
• Outstanding aesthetics & design

• Acoustic properties
• Structural properties
• Combining acoustic & structural properties

• Acoustic terminology & sound transmission paths
• Compliance and testing
• Performance limiting factors & acoustic enhancing products

• Multi-layered envelopes: Novel approaches with multi-layered glazed façade execution
• Refurbishing with structural glass: Taking aesthetics and value addition together
• Glazing with large glass panes: Strategies to steer clear with challenges of their application
• Curved laminated glass: Structural behaviour and performance of cold bending

Saverio Pasetto

• Reducing the dependency of glass
• A new aesthetic of solidity
• The challenge of natural ventilation

• Innovating with ultra high performance concrete – Taking bridge technology to façades
• Advanced simulation and computational design
• On the frontier of complex and new best practice – going beyond the code

• Production capability & façade quality
• Attributes of the façade & fire safety
• The façade supply chain

• Regulations above and below 18m
• Routes to compliance with regulations above 18m
• Tips for successful specification

• Evolution of building design and ventilation
• Requirements for need to ventilate for IAQ and IEQ
• Natural ventilation - design considerations

• Low air infiltration rates, with controlled ventilation for fresh air
• Combating weather through envelope insulation, and balance natural ventilation
• Assessing the sustainability of such structures vis-à-vis building guidelines
• Evaluation of mixed mode ventilation and cooling strategy
• Consideration of acoustics in relation to ventilation

Ant Wilson

• Using double skin façades and CCF systems for a Renzo Piano’s tall building in Taipei
• Bespoke ultra high performance concrete for an Art Gallery in Istanbul
• Façade design for the AELTC Wimbledon No.1 court

• The latest landmark projects in structural glass
• Emerging innovations and their potential applications
• The challenge of managing energy performance

• 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

Stephen Tanno