Contributors · Debrief by Zak World of Façades

Aaron Dehara UK Regional Director Staticus

2 contributions Building Safety Act lessons are becoming new design practice Greater Manchester rising: identity, cost, and who really decides the façade

Abel Gill Associate Adamson Associates

1 contribution Hand-bent, 7,500 times: the stainless façade at Forma

Abhishek Shukla National Specification Manager Technoform

1 contribution Where the heat gets in: the thermal break, now required by code

Achim Heinzle International Markets Jansen

1 contribution Curved glass and locked-down galleries: the façade logic behind an open art depot

AL Adam Lee Principal PTCC Façade Design

2 contributions Half the wall operable, in a city where nobody opens a window Two numbers in a specification that cost a quarter of the metal

Adam Thornton Founding Director 5plus Architects

1 contribution Greater Manchester rising: identity, cost, and who really decides the façade

Aditya Goel Associate | Senior Strategist Gensler

1 contribution Experience is everything: designing the workplace from the inside out

Adrian Betanzos Principal VIA

1 contribution No bad materials: what actually decides which one you use

Ahad Ahmed Director Zak Exhibitions & Conferences Group

1 contribution The hidden people behind every building

Ahmad Fuad Marrwa Project Control Director Clear Engineering Consultants

1 contribution Decided before it is drawn: the case for early façade integration

Ahmed Abuhashem Regional Mega Projects Manager – AME Guardian Glass

1 contribution A few stickers will not do it, and the standard is not enough either

Ahmet Mumcuoğlu Sales and Specification Manager Saint-Gobain Glass International

1 contribution Render versus reality: predicting a glass façade before it is built

Aigana Tashmatova Project Manager Salavatsteklo

1 contribution Стекло, которое выбирают, чтобы здание исчезло

Ajay Sethi Managing Principal URBN Design Studio

1 contribution From concept to delivery: closing the gap between the drawing and the building

Akis Valalis Owner and General Manager i-BUiLD

1 contribution Thinking outside the glazing box

Alasdair Mealey Technical Leader Building Safety Laing O'Rourke

1 contribution Building Safety Act lessons are becoming new design practice

Albert Sagrera Cuscó Partner Societat Orgànica

1 contribution Las fachadas de Barcelona deben equilibrar memoria y cambio

Alberto Alarcon Marketing Manager Kuraray America

1 contribution Holding back the water, transparently: laminated glass for flood control

Alberto Ferrari Managing Director Faces Engineering

1 contribution Molo D di Fiumicino: rinnovare l’involucro mentre l’aeroporto continua a funzionare

Alberto Lago Architectural Projects Manager - Europe Sales Team Şişecam

1 contribution VakıfBank: trasformare una torre rettangolare in una stella senza perdere il controllo del vetro

Alejandro Garcia Gadea Lead Principal Architect AtkinsRéalis

1 contribution The Mukaab’s façade: storytelling first, rationalisation after

Alessandro Baldini Director Eckersley O'Callaghan

1 contribution Riqualificare senza ricominciare da zero: l’involucro come progetto di equilibrio

Alessandro Ferreri Design Manager - Terminal ADR Ingegneria

1 contribution Molo D di Fiumicino: rinnovare l’involucro mentre l’aeroporto continua a funzionare

Alessandro Fisalli Senior Architect MAD

1 contribution Fenix makes complexity buildable through shared models

Alessandro Massarotto Founder Frame Projects

1 contribution Prima dell’appalto, prima del problema: il valore dell’ingegneria di facciata coinvolta presto

Alessandro Terzi Senior Associate Partner PLP Architecture

1 contribution La facciata come spazio da vivere: tre progetti che partono dalle persone

Alessio Pierdomenico Senior Façade Engineer Deerns Italia

1 contribution Rome Office Complex: due edifici, due strategie di involucro, un solo obiettivo di rigenerazione

Alex Korter Principal CO Architects

1 contribution Critical envelopes, civic buildings: why life-science façades need whole-system thinking

Alex Miller Senior Associate Principal KPF

1 contribution Chapter Living turns origami into a buildable unitised façade

Alex Ward Principal Fender Katsalidis

1 contribution No clear owner: the case for façade engineering as a discipline

Alexander Riemer Head of Product Management Aluminum Systems Alukönigstahl

1 contribution Performance can reshape the form

Alexandre Daud Diretor de Projetos Königsberger Vannucchi

1 contribution O adensamento muda a envoltória na escala da rua

Alexandre Dubor Robotics Lab Director IAAC

1 contribution Los robots cambiarán el trabajo de fachada antes de sustituirlo

Alexey Boev Architect Neutelings Riedijk Architects

1 contribution The façade as an urban interface

Alexey Kolykhalin Project Manager Façade Solutions Roto Frank

1 contribution Как воздух попадает в герметичный фасад

Alexey Shchavlev Head of Corporate Sales Department Roto Frank

1 contribution Как воздух попадает в герметичный фасад

Alexis Harrison Associate Arup

1 contribution Embedding emotion at Xi’an CCBD

Alfonso Oliva Senior Manager DevRel AECO AI NVIDIA

1 contribution From concept to operation: AI's place in the built environment

Ali Zadeh Senior Energy Engineer Evoke Buildings Engineering

1 contribution The 70% you decide before the energy model: why building shape governs façade performance

Alina Valcarce Founder | Design Director Valcarce Architects

1 contribution Architect + AI: ninety per cent usable, ten per cent valuable

Alison Potter Design Principal HDR

1 contribution What is a façade engineer? The DBPA scope-and-competency panel

Alistair Law Associate | Façade Designer Arup

1 contribution Low-carbon curtain walling begins by using less

Allan Gibson Global Product Segment Marketing Manager Kuraray

2 contributions Coupling, not thickness: what actually sets a laminate's deflection Structural interlayers are also a carbon and traceability decision

Allan Ramsay Business Development Manager Knotwood

2 contributions The beauty and longevity of aluminium: timber-look metal Timber appearance, aluminium behaviour: the case for sublimation

Alok Decruz Partner Morphogenesis

1 contribution Building for safety: why compliant intent arrives as a painted sheet

Amaldev Premkumar Facade Design Engineer Ramboll

1 contribution Double or triple glazed? Ramboll's data-driven answer

Amanda Edwards Principal | Sr. Architectural Conservator MTFA Design + Preservation

1 contribution Modernising heritage without erasing it

Amanda Stacy AVP - Building Enclosures & Dept. Head - DC WSP

1 contribution Conversion feasibility starts at the enclosure

Amir Shurafa Head of Design, Ai certified expert Danube Properties

1 contribution Architect + AI: ninety per cent usable, ten per cent valuable

Ana Araújo Partner Buro Happold

2 contributions Optimize before you procure Retrofit needs planning, engineering and viability in the same room

Ana Vesho Building Envelope Consultant Rimkus

1 contribution Tirana’s next challenge is maintenance

Andi Eftimi Partner Atelier 4

1 contribution Tirana needs a façade culture

André Caiado Principal and Founder Contacto Atlântico

1 contribution Transformar edifícios: porque a reabilitação, e não a demolição, é a chave da descarbonização

Andreas Geyer Managing Director seele

1 contribution The world’s most complex façades: hanging glass and structural trusses

Andreas Hiersemenzel Managing Director HS&A

1 contribution The buyer stands 20 centimetres away: where the glass standard stops working

Andreas Reinhardt Civil Engineer & CEO Systea

1 contribution The hidden half of a rainscreen: sub-structure as a kit of parts

Andreas Roye Founder of LUCEM® LUCEM / Paradigm Design House

1 contribution Building façades with light-transmitting concrete

Andreas Vermeeren Project Manager CSM Steelstructures

1 contribution Fenix makes complexity buildable through shared models

Andres Roncal Senior Computational Designer HKS

1 contribution From concept to operation: AI's place in the built environment

Andrew Bird UK Marketing Lead

1 contribution A façade that moves: engineering for deflection

Andrew Black Director of Product Development and Design New Hudson Façades

1 contribution Buildings for people: rethinking the office tower at 70 Hudson Yards

Andrew Geldard Senior Associate - Design Director BDP Quadrangle

1 contribution A carbon budget for the envelope: 80 kilos, and what survives it

Andrew Lu Regional General Manager, Southeast Asia Pacific 3A Composites

1 contribution Cheaper panels cut the budget, not the cost of owning a façade

Andrew Pries Director of Innovation & Technical Sales Boston Valley Terra Cotta

2 contributions Load-bearing again: reinventing terra cotta for the low-carbon façade Terracotta moves beyond decorative cladding

Andrew Snalune Speaker Facade Associates

2 contributions Bangkok's façade weaknesses lie in expectation and sequencing, not in technology The gap between allowable and acceptable in architectural glass

Andy Fisher Founder Andy Fisher Workshop

1 contribution Letting the massing settle the façade, and designing the rest around people

Andy Loff Chief Executive Officer Building Composites

1 contribution Prefabrication turns façade design into production

Angelos Zografos Technical Sales Engineer Elval Colour

1 contribution Fire safety is multiparametric

Angus Macleod Director - Australia & New Zealand Vector Foiltec

1 contribution Air New Zealand’s Hangar 4: a 98-metre timber span under ETFE

Anine Eschberger Wortmann Associate | Business Development Lead Gravity Architecture

1 contribution Eight drawing sheets, then hundreds: procurement and the BMO Centre

Anke Rollenhagen Associate Director Buro Happold

1 contribution Optimize before you procure

Anna Dziekonska-Ramage Associate Director Allies and Morrison

1 contribution Building Safety Act lessons are becoming new design practice

Anna Lloret Papaseit Associate Architect and Building Vice Director Batlleiroig

1 contribution Una torre vegetal necesita una ecología diseñada

Anna Maria Pacini Head of ESG Management DeA Capital Real Estate

1 contribution Dalla città come miniera alla facciata come banca di materiali: cosa serve per rendere operativo il riuso

Anne Kovachevich Technical Director Sustainability Mott MacDonald

1 contribution No clear owner: the case for façade engineering as a discipline

Anne-Laure Chappat Facades Lead - Victoria Meinhardt

1 contribution A veil of curved glass: the Paula Fox Melanoma Centre

Anri Doda Director Patrick Ryan Associates

1 contribution Building Safety Act lessons are becoming new design practice

Anthony Breach Speaker Vitro Architectural Glass

1 contribution Coatings, dynamic tints and façade-integrated PV, working as one low-carbon system

Anton Novozhilov Architectural Consultant Kuraray

2 contributions The safety is in the interlayer: laminated glass in heat and salt После тридцати градусов плёнка перестаёт держать

Anton VanDyk Principal | Fenestration Division Manager JRS Engineering

1 contribution Kicking the can: why fenestration durability has to be a day-one conversation

AK Antonis Kakoullis Technical Director Imperio Properties

1 contribution A decade of towers: what changed in Cyprus, and what the state still has to do

Apurba Maity Head of Fire Safety Phoenix

1 contribution Building for safety: why compliant intent arrives as a painted sheet

Arnoud Herder Project Engineer CIG Architecture

1 contribution Fenix makes complexity buildable through shared models

Arwa Alzaabi Sustainability Consultant, Werner Sobek Dubai Werner Sobek

1 contribution Solar control glass and wellbeing: optimised for energy, not for us

Ashwanii Khanna Chief Customer Officer FunderMax

3 contributions Cladding on a high-rise: Class B crosses ignition, stops short of flashover Double-skin shading and fire behaviour: two demands on high-rise cladding What Delhi's temperature swing asks of a laminate cladding panel

Ashwin Shah Associate Zaha Hadid Architects

1 contribution Simple systems, concentrated complexity: the envelope logic behind the Navi Mumbai terminal

AC Assawin Choochottavorn Vice President, Design and Construction Lead MQDC

1 contribution Bangkok's façade weaknesses lie in expectation and sequencing, not in technology

Austen Smith Senior Associate Hawkins & Associates

1 contribution Forensic lessons from façades that failed

Avery Guthrie Principal Teeple Architects

1 contribution Making culture material: how Indigenous stories are being translated into façade and form

Azat Tatygulov Associate Buro Happold

1 contribution Building the KAFD Metro Station, told by the people who made it

Balesh Baleshan Senior Associate, Façade and Sustainability - ANZ Inhabit

1 contribution No clear owner: the case for façade engineering as a discipline

BC Barbra Anne del Castillo-Go President & CEO Casas + Architects

1 contribution Cut into seven: how Davao Global Township stays open to the air

Bart Mispelblom Beyer Co-founder & CEO TANGRAM Architekten

1 contribution Anodising can tell a story

Bassam Hilal Project Director Premium for Aluminium & Glazing Systems

1 contribution Why the façade contractor belongs in schematic design

Beat Huesler Managing Director Oppenheim Architecture

1 contribution A façade can teach the city

Ben Haigh Senior Director - Fire-Rated Division McGrory Glass

1 contribution Rated, but you'd never know: steel fire and security systems evolved

Beni Kohen Business Development Manager Fibrobeton Yapı Elemanları

1 contribution Making the Central Bank of Iraq’s complex façade buildable

Benjamin Beer Managing Director Werner Sobek

1 contribution Solar control glass and wellbeing: optimised for energy, not for us

Bernat Miñana Speaker Frontek

1 contribution Porcelain in unitised modules: what sintering measures and how far panels can be cut

Bernat Miñana Managing Director Frontek Australia

1 contribution Porcelain in a unitised frame: triangles and seismic movement

Beyza Sarıeyyupoğlu ECA Region Specification Manager Jotun Powder Coatings

1 contribution Günde dört yüz ton su: toz boya eloksalın yerini nasıl aldı?

Bhaumik Patel Principal Architect Bhaumik Patel Architects

1 contribution From wooden templates to a 3D model: where the gains stop

BM Bhavin Mehta Director, Delhi NCR Gensler

1 contribution What a city hands a façade when it hands it every variable at once

Bhrugu Gangadia Director - Architecture INI Design Studio

1 contribution From wooden templates to a 3D model: where the gains stop

Blair Stratton Director RED Fire Engineers

1 contribution If it has to be solid, make it work: PV façades from design to delivery

Bob Zhang Commercial Director North Glass

3 contributions Bending glass to shape: multi-curved architectural glass and a Zaha Hadid megaproject Curved glass needs one controlled process Curved glass quality is an optical problem, not just a geometry problem

Bobby Wei Associate Director Bates Smart

1 contribution If it has to be solid, make it work: PV façades from design to delivery

Botir Dusatov Head of the Department of Technical Standardization Research Institute of Technical Regulation and Standardisation

1 contribution Один пункт на весь фасад

Boudewijn Thomas Associate MVRDV

1 contribution Carbon decisions extend beyond the building

Brad Carmichael Principal 4EA Building Science

1 contribution A skin with no floor lines: layering a mass-timber façade to move like feathers

Breen Mahony Director Roger Ferris + Partners

1 contribution Buildings for people: rethinking the office tower at 70 Hudson Yards

Brian Davie Senior Building Enclosure Consultant Walker Consultants

1 contribution Air leakage is a systems problem: designing now for 2024 IECC verification

Brian Hubbs Principal | Specialist RDH Building Science

4 contributions A fifth barrier: the enclosure as the last line against wildfire A pool with a view: keeping water out, in, and off the glass Fifty to eight hundred: choosing a façade before you draw it What the standards do not test: where a good façade still fails

Brijesh Shah Design Director Neha Consultant

1 contribution Designing high-rise façades across a portfolio from 45 to 153 metres

Bryce Given National Architectural Manager Vitro Architectural Glass

1 contribution Beyond transparency: how colour in glass can bring a building to life

Buğrahan Şirin Partner | Country Manager HPP Architekten

1 contribution Malzemeden kabuğa: yüksek performanslı cepheyi yaşam döngüsüyle düşünmek

Camilla Rigamonti Chair Society of Façade Engineering Italia

1 contribution Dalla città come miniera alla facciata come banca di materiali: cosa serve per rendere operativo il riuso

Camille Destres Director, Safer Building Design BB7

1 contribution Engineering fire safety into a complex façade: the NESST case study

Carlo A. Scissura Esq., President and CEO New York Building Congress

1 contribution A $219 billion cycle: where New York’s façade work comes from

Carlo Zaka Chief Operating Officer ALCA

1 contribution Mock-ups turn ambition into agreement

CA Carmelo Arancon Associate Director WTA Architecture & Design Studio

1 contribution Belonging in three parts: look like it, perform like it, feel like it

Carmelo Guido Galante Director of Design Gualini

1 contribution 262 Fifth Avenue: wrapping a tower core in photovoltaic glass

Cassie Saba Arizona Higher Education Core Market Lead DPR Construction

1 contribution Low-rise façades are city-making decisions, not material selections

Catherine Huang Partner Bjarke Ingels Group

1 contribution Expression starts with environmental logic

CS Cathy Saldaña Principal | CEO PDP Architects

1 contribution Belonging in three parts: look like it, perform like it, feel like it

Cedric Pinto Senior Specification & Sales Manager - Southern Australia EQUITONE

1 contribution The circular façade: refuse, reduce, reuse and design for disassembly

Celeste Gariando Technical Director Meinhardt Façade Technology

1 contribution Same material, different physics: a façade across extreme scales

Chiara Faliva Associate Director BuroHappold

1 contribution Reimagining Tate Liverpool: opening up a heritage warehouse without trapping moisture

Chirayu Oza Founder | BIM Implementation Enthusiast Elysian Tech Studio

1 contribution From wooden templates to a 3D model: where the gains stop

Chris O'Hara Senior Principal - Structural and Facade Design, Studio NYL Studio NYL, a Lerch Bates Company

1 contribution Optimising shade without sacrificing the view

Christian Flores Senior Project Manager, Building Sciences WSP

1 contribution Mega panels: why prefabrication is arriving, and what moves off site with it

Christine Espinosa-Erlanda Associate Director Godwin Austen Johnson

1 contribution Architect + AI: ninety per cent usable, ten per cent valuable

Christopher Steffens Architectural Lighting Designer | Energy Modeler HLB Lighting

1 contribution Layers of light: how façades shape daylight for people

Christopher Zahaluk Project Director Lemay

1 contribution Designating a building to keep it: Petro Fina and Calgary’s conversions

Christy Irish State Specification & Sales Manager - QLD EQUITONE

1 contribution Refuse, reuse, reduce: where a circular façade is really decided

Claire Yuan Associate Principal, GHL Consultants J.S. Held

1 contribution Playing with fire: why fire safety has to shape the façade from the first sketch

Claudia Araujo Sócia fundadora e Diretora Técnica Unique Jurere Empreendimentos Imobiliários Ltda

1 contribution A segunda pele volta como ferramenta climática

Claudia Sacristán Pérez Senior Associate Schiattarella Associati

1 contribution Dalla città come miniera alla facciata come banca di materiali: cosa serve per rendere operativo il riuso

Cláudia Sousa Monteiro Head of Sustainability JLL

1 contribution Transformar edifícios: porque a reabilitação, e não a demolição, é a chave da descarbonização

Coby Armar Secretary General QUALICOAT

1 contribution A coating specification is a durability system

Colin MacKillop Principal Quinn Evans

1 contribution Preserving an icon through envelope renewal

Colin Mangham Chief Experience Officer USGBC California

1 contribution Wildfire resilience starts at the façade

Colin Niland National Sales and Technical Manager Aluminium Façade Systems

1 contribution Closing the handovers: what an integrated façade supply chain changes

Cory M. Ticktin Moderator Studio AXIS

1 contribution Bangkok's façade weaknesses lie in expectation and sequencing, not in technology

Craig Renton Associate Director and Building Regulations Technical Lead Anstey Horne

1 contribution Getting through the gateways: what the Building Safety Regulator actually wants

Crescêncio Petrucci Diretor Crescêncio Petrucci Engenharia

1 contribution Retrofit de fachadas começa pelo diagnóstico, não pela substituição

D. Rocky Rockefeller Founding Partner Rockefeller Kempel Architects

1 contribution The envelope decides conversion potential

Dale Wannamaker Senior Associate - Building Envelope Entuitive

1 contribution Unlocking value in a Brutalist box: whole-envelope thinking and commissioning at the Glenbow

Damien Bourke Project Director FCDO

1 contribution Greater Manchester rising: identity, cost, and who really decides the façade

Dan Clarke Executive Director Native Land

1 contribution Bankside Yards makes a tall home part of a mixed city

Dan Francis Façade Designer RJC Engineers

1 contribution Hand-bent, 7,500 times: the stainless façade at Forma

Dan Gleeson Sales Director Schüco UK

1 contribution Value-up starts with what a building already has

Dan Reynolds AI Leader Walter P Moore

1 contribution From concept to operation: AI's place in the built environment

Dana Getman Principal SHoP Architects

1 contribution Habitat turns the façade into landscape

Daniel A. Martin Lead Fire Protection Engineer Jensen Hughes

1 contribution Fire testing has to assess assemblies

DG Daniel C. Go Principal Architect ADGO Architecture and Design Inc.

1 contribution Half the wall operable, in a city where nobody opens a window

Daniel Liddy Partner / Project Design Director bureau^proberts

1 contribution Walan, Thornton and The Eaves: façade and form as a single idea

Daniel Lucenti Senior Project Director, Design & Construction Wexford Science + Technology

1 contribution Healthy laboratories need differentiated envelopes

Daniel Moore Partner PLP Architecture

1 contribution Bankside Yards makes a tall home part of a mixed city

Daniel Mossman-Clark Associate Ryder

1 contribution Greater Manchester rising: identity, cost, and who really decides the façade

Daniel Onions Senior Architectural Technologist Studio Egret West

1 contribution Shaping everyday wonder: regrowing Manchester

Daniele Norbiato Associate Director BDA

1 contribution Chapter Living turns origami into a buildable unitised façade

Darko Andric Technical Designer EGM Architecten

1 contribution Fenix makes complexity buildable through shared models

David Gogichaishvili Chief Commercial Officer Elita Burji

1 contribution ფესვგადგმული თანამედროვეობა: ადგილობრივი რელევანტურობის ძიება ფასადში

David Goyne Senior Project Architect | Senior Associate Perkins&Will

1 contribution Playing with fire: why fire safety has to shape the façade from the first sketch

David Kubik Partner BKSK Architects

1 contribution Lace and turrets: two contemporary façades in historic New York

David Leonard Principal-in-Charge METAFOR

1 contribution Designating a building to keep it: Petro Fina and Calgary’s conversions

David Mahon Speaker Warren and Mahoney

1 contribution Porcelain in unitised modules: what sintering measures and how far panels can be cut

David Sommer Director - KSA Schlaich Bergermann Partner

1 contribution Three Middle East façades: stone, membrane, and one that disappears

David Stanton Associate | Sr. Engineer RDH

1 contribution Fifty to eight hundred: choosing a façade before you draw it

David Wach Senior Engineer Engineering Link

1 contribution Where the catalogue stops: thermal bridging at 950 King West

DZ David Zaballero Director Arquitectonica

1 contribution What actually decides the shape: six projects, six constraints

Davide Malizia High Performance Products KSA – Saudi Arabia Business Development Kuraray

1 contribution Quieting the façade, and making it visible to birds

Dean Ming Speaker Hinlan

1 contribution Curtain walling's next phase: diversified structures, intelligent skins and lower energy demand

Dean Mouritzen Project Executive HITT Contracting

1 contribution Prefabrication turns façade design into production

Dean White Regional Façade Sales Manager Cosentino

2 contributions Pressed and fired: the case for ultracompact stone on the façade Stone façades through a lifecycle lens

Deepak Parameswaran Sales & Specifications Manager - Architectural Jotun Powder Coatings

1 contribution Coating durability as the sustainability case for powder-coated façades

Demet Sürücü Deputy Manager BAU Ahşap Yapı Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi

1 contribution Malzemeden kabuğa: yüksek performanslı cepheyi yaşam döngüsüyle düşünmek

Deniz E. Arslan Senior Computational Designer HKS LINE

1 contribution Computational design rationalises complex GRC

DL Derek Losi Sales Manager sedak

1 contribution From flat to fantastic: free-form tempered glass without a mould

DM Desiree Manlapaz Executive Vice President ALT

1 contribution Half the wall operable, in a city where nobody opens a window

Dhurgai Kumaran Director - Architecture FHD Group

1 contribution Inside out: dissolving the line between building, landscape and life

Diane Jacobs Founding Principal Holly Street Studio

1 contribution Low-rise façades are city-making decisions, not material selections

Diego Cuevas VP Business Development USA Onyx Solar

1 contribution 262 Fifth Avenue: wrapping a tower core in photovoltaic glass

Dimitrios Moustakidis General Manager ift Hellas

1 contribution Performance and safety in façades: test it before you build it

Dmitry Shcherbitsky Head of the CPE Group Murad Buildings

1 contribution Один пункт на весь фасад

Do Janne Vermeulen Founding Partner Team V

1 contribution Low-carbon design starts with what exists

DG Dominic Galicia Principal Architect Dominic Galicia Architects

1 contribution Belonging in three parts: look like it, perform like it, feel like it

Donald Lawson LUMIFLON® Technical Development Chemist AGC Chemicals Americas

1 contribution Durability is a sustainability strategy: the lifecycle case for FEVE powder coatings

DD Donel Dippi Head of Technical and Compliance, MEIAP Siderise

1 contribution Nine minutes to melt: what still holds once the aluminium is gone

Douglas Tolaine Principal - Design Director, São Paulo Perkins+Will

1 contribution Fachadas conectam contexto, desempenho e valor

Drew Gilbert Lead Design Architect & Global AI Lead OBM International

1 contribution Architect + AI: ninety per cent usable, ten per cent valuable

EC Edgar E. Cozzio Design Director P&T Group

1 contribution The sacred core: what stays fixed while a tower changes for a decade

Edlira Basha Head - Design and Development, Orion, Founding Partner Orion / Triark

1 contribution Tirana needs a façade culture

Edward Farrelly Senior Vice President, Real Estate lead Asia Marsh

1 contribution Climate risk reaches the façade through the insurance market first

Edward McIntosh Regional Design Director (Middle East + Africa) AtkinsRéalis

1 contribution The Mukaab’s façade: storytelling first, rationalisation after

Efthimios Zizos Projects Manager Elval Colour

1 contribution When vision meets ACP: shaping aluminium around architecture rather than flattening the idea

Ekaterina Urizchenko Deputy Director for Technical Development, Head of the Engineering and Technical Center Alutech Group

1 contribution Один пункт на весь фасад

Elena Giraldi Senior Façade Engineer AKT II

1 contribution Heritage at height: engineering a terracotta tower on Whitworth Street

ET Elena K. Tsolakis Co-Founder Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects

1 contribution A decade of towers: what changed in Cyprus, and what the state still has to do

Elia Galatolo Senior Façade Engineer Arup

1 contribution Parametric modelling for the whole façade: the loop run backwards

Elisa Faretina Senior Engineer Faces Engineering

1 contribution Molo D di Fiumicino: rinnovare l’involucro mentre l’aeroporto continua a funzionare

Elissa Stirling Regional Manager – Victoria Inhabit

1 contribution From risk to resilience: awning windows, wind loads and condensation

Elizabeth Carpenter Managing Principal fjcstudio

1 contribution What is a façade engineer? The DBPA scope-and-competency panel

Elvi Xhaxho Technical Director ALCA

1 contribution Mock-ups turn ambition into agreement

Emir Debastiani TS&D Engineer Dow Brasil

1 contribution Silicone carbono neutro muda a equação de carbono da fachada

Emir Pekdemir Associate Atelier Ten

1 contribution From concept to operation: AI's place in the built environment

Enea Bedo Project Architect ANA

1 contribution Mock-ups turn ambition into agreement

Enis Öncüoğlu Chairman of the Board Öncüoğlu Architects

1 contribution Perakendeden karma kullanıma: değişen program için esnek cepheler

Enrique Goberna Managing Director Schlaich Bergermann Partner

1 contribution La envolvente puede ser la estructura: Roig Arena

Enrique Mascort del Pozo Chief Architect Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

1 contribution Tirana needs a façade culture

Enrique Molinero Associate and Head of the Sustainability Department GCA Architects

1 contribution La fachada más verde puede ser la que ya existe

Eraclis Papachristou Director Papachristou Architects

1 contribution The façade is a result, not a starting point

Eric Chen Lei Project Manager, Smart Glass Division AGC Asia Pacific

1 contribution Before it generates anything, it has to behave like façade glass

Eric Claeys Founding Partner Fassada Steel

5 contributions Cold-formed steel and the case against the unitised curtain wall Hybrid steel curtain walls answer demands aluminium cannot always solve alone Hybrid steel, and the case for façades you can upgrade Steel over aluminium: the case for a hybrid curtain wall The grid outlives the glass: an argument against unitized

Erwin ten Brincke Associate Partner ABT

1 contribution Structural glass needs honest load paths

Esra Aydınoğlu Founder Solo Design and Consultancy

1 contribution Malzemeden kabuğa: yüksek performanslı cepheyi yaşam döngüsüyle düşünmek

Esteban de Backer Partner Marvel

1 contribution Reutilizar empieza por conservar espacio útil

Eva Arrieta Vergara Business Developement Lanik

1 contribution Las gridshells complejas dependen de la precisión de sus conexiones

Eva Muñoz Prescription and Business Development Manager Guardian Glass

1 contribution Las herramientas digitales deben afinar las decisiones sobre vidrio

Faisal Alghamdi Architect Gensler

1 contribution Why the façade contractor belongs in schematic design

Fan Lee Founder Anometal Aluminum

3 contributions Clean by sunlight: inorganic self-cleaning anodised aluminium Self-cleaning aluminium: an anodised skin that uses sunlight to stay clean The contact angle that decides whether rain cleans a façade

Ferran Figuerola General Manager Cricursa

1 contribution Glass changes when scale changes

Filip Van Mieghem Façade Product Manager Reynaers Group

1 contribution Building with intent: where a building’s carbon really is

Filippo Innocenti Director Zaha Hadid Architects

3 contributions Blocchi stampati in 3D e geometria a compressione: le stazioni a idrogeno per il Mediterraneo Building the KAFD Metro Station, told by the people who made it Una facciata che cattura lo scintillio del mare: il Centro delle Culture del Mediterraneo

Florian Ebner Senior Project Manager seele

1 contribution Kinetic façades become a building system

Francine Houben Founding Partner and Creative Director Mecanoo

1 contribution Turning a central bank back into a public building

Frank Filskow Partner Make Architects

1 contribution User experience can drive a lower-carbon façade

Frank Mahan Principal, Adaptive Reuse Practice Leader Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

1 contribution A century, matched: restoring the Waldorf Astoria's envelope

Frank Zhong AETS Application Engineer Technical Scientist Dow

1 contribution Structural silicone can reduce façade metal

Frederico Fontana Senior Associate | L.A. Thornton Tomasetti

1 contribution Otimização geométrica funciona quando a análise edita o projeto

G Subham Business Development | Specifications Manager Roxul Rockwool

1 contribution System, not product: what actually gives a façade its fire rating

Gabriele Zorino Technical Commercial Manager dott Gallina

1 contribution Costruire con la luce: cosa può fare davvero un involucro in policarbonato

Gareth Winstanley Director Fairlite Consulting

1 contribution What is a façade engineer? The DBPA scope-and-competency panel

Gary Tongco National Architectural Manager ES Windows

1 contribution Slowing the heat: how a window's thermal performance is measured and won

Gautam Bhasin Panel moderator Mirai

2 contributions Building for safety: why compliant intent arrives as a painted sheet What a city hands a façade when it hands it every variable at once

George Kallis Partner Armeftis Partners & Associates Architects

1 contribution A decade of towers: what changed in Cyprus, and what the state still has to do

George Kanj Vice President Almabani General Contractors

1 contribution Building the KAFD Metro Station, told by the people who made it

George Sergiou Managing Director Glass & Facades

2 contributions A decade of towers: what changed in Cyprus, and what the state still has to do Where vision meets reality: the first Cypriot façade consultancy

Gerd De Lathauwer Commercial Director EUROLACKE Powdercoatings

1 contribution Coatings need a life-span strategy

Gideon Maasland Director and Architect MVRDV

1 contribution Carbon decisions extend beyond the building

Gijs Libourel Principal | Senior Façade Specialist RDH Building Science

1 contribution Whole-life thinking reframes façade performance

Giovanni Gori Regional Director UK and Senior Façade Engineer Maffeis Engineering

1 contribution Greater Manchester rising: identity, cost, and who really decides the façade

Giulia Zarrella Senior Sales Manager Montanstahl

1 contribution Quando il profilo standard non basta: acciaio su misura tra precisione, snellezza e retrofit

Giuseppe Michael Schmidt Senior Engineering Director BM Windows

1 contribution Buying façades offshore rewards the teams that do the homework first

Giuseppe Pugliese Promat Business Development Manager ETEX

1 contribution La facciata ventilata come sistema integrato: rivestimento, isolamento e sicurezza antincendio

Gizelle Javidan Consultant - Building Enclosures WSP

1 contribution Smart façades, smarter access: panel families and a worker’s reach

Goga Gugava Chief Project Officer Anagi

1 contribution ფესვგადგმული თანამედროვეობა: ადგილობრივი რელევანტურობის ძიება ფასადში

Gökhan Avcıoğlu Founder GAD

1 contribution Double skins as a dialogue between context and performance

Gonçalo Martins Pinheiro Head of Operations UHA

1 contribution A decade of Cyprus, read through its façades

Grace Kwok Chairman & Executive Director Allied Sustainability and Environmental Consultants Group

1 contribution Climate risk reaches the façade through the insurance market first

Graham Finch Principal, Senior Specialist RDH Building Science

1 contribution Playing with fire: why fire safety has to shape the façade from the first sketch

Guido Petinelli Founder and CEO Petinelli Inc.

1 contribution Alto desempenho é um processo, não uma estética

Guillaume Nijdam Sustainability Manager Reynaers Group

1 contribution Building with intent: where a building’s carbon really is

Gumji Kang Managing Director - Australasia Snøhetta

1 contribution ‘Design a place, not a building’: Harborside’s low-carbon façade

Gurunathan Ramakrishnan Director | Principal Architect UA Design Studio

1 contribution When design decides performance: orientation, climate and the façade as a first move

Gvantsa Chubinidze Architect Artstudio Project

1 contribution ფესვგადგმული თანამედროვეობა: ადგილობრივი რელევანტურობის ძიება ფასადში

Hagen Scutt Senior Vice President – Design Hudson Yards The Related Companies

1 contribution Buildings for people: rethinking the office tower at 70 Hudson Yards

Hakim Khennouchi Director HKA

1 contribution Form follows energy: designing with climate in the Mediterranean

Haldun Yılmaz General Manager FMT Façade Consultants

3 contributions Beyond aesthetics: the criteria that make a façade perform Rüzgar yükü rüzgar hızı değildir: yükü bulmanın üç yolu Taşıyıcıyı dışarı almak: mimarın fikrini ayakta tutan mühendislik

Harry Cliffe-Roberts Global Transformation and Adaptive Re-use Leader | Studio Director Gensler

1 contribution Future-fit buildings begin with transformation, not replacement

HT Harsh Thapar Founder HiT Works

1 contribution Designed to come off: the hotel façade with a twenty-year life

HV Harsh Varshneya Principal Architect STHAPATI

1 contribution What a city hands a façade when it hands it every variable at once

Harsharaj Shetty K S Deputy Head - Engineering Schueco India

3 contributions Integration, safety and carbon: three pressures reshaping the façade envelope Integration, safety and sustainability in contemporary façade systems The strategic envelope: bespoke engineering, transomless glass and green aluminium

Hearan Kim Associate Director Design International

1 contribution Façade renovation from risk assessment to asset repositioning

Hilal Ucar International Specification Manager Benelux Saint-Gobain Glass

1 contribution Lower-carbon glass is a design variable

Hugh Dutton Founder & Director Hugh Dutton Associés

1 contribution Poetic intent, physical reality: a life in structural glass

Hugh Trumbull Principal KPF

1 contribution Making the curtain wall breathe: hiding, and showing, the window

Hugo Tavares Technical Department - Senior Structural Engineer b-face

1 contribution Engenharia da pele dos maiores estádios da Europa: Bernabéu, Everton e Camp Nou

Iain Bleakley Associate AKT II Envelopes

1 contribution A former embassy becomes a hotel without erasing its history

Iain Gray Director - Façades BB7

1 contribution Engineering fire safety into a complex façade: the NESST case study

IF Ian Fulgar Principal Architect Fulgar Architects

1 contribution Belonging in three parts: look like it, perform like it, feel like it

Ian Wilson Group Chairman Benx

1 contribution Beyond performance: the psychology of a façade

Ibrahim Ayaz Managing Director NRVN Façade

1 contribution Hesaplamalı cephe mühendisliği: modelden üretime tek veri akışı

Igor Alvim Diretor Técnico QMD Consultoria

1 contribution Consultoria de fachadas transforma complexidade em sistemas executáveis

İlayda Öner Mermerbaş Deputy Country Manager Turner Construction

1 contribution Malzemeden kabuğa: yüksek performanslı cepheyi yaşam döngüsüyle düşünmek

Ingit Anand Vice President Project Execution Collated Ventures

1 contribution Ahmedabad's tall buildings answer to a glass limit nobody enforces

Ioanna Agiomamitou Partner UDS

1 contribution From the icon to the everyday: façade realities in the Mediterranean

Ioannis Gkikas Associate Director AKT II Envelopes

3 contributions A former embassy becomes a hotel without erasing its history From concept to compliance: the envelope as one interdisciplinary problem Street first, then a façade a quarter the weight

Isabelle Paparo Senior Engineer Arup

1 contribution Selective enclosure lowers transit energy demand

Ivan Kaye Associate Partner Foster + Partners

1 contribution Retrofit needs planning, engineering and viability in the same room

Ivan Tomovic General Manager Werner Sobek Tashkent

1 contribution Кирпич, открытый с двух сторон

Ivo Henriques Architect Renzo Piano Building Workshop

1 contribution Do Braço de Prata à frente ribeirinha: uma fachada cerâmica que reinterpreta o azulejo

JC Jack Cruzado Principal Facade Option

1 contribution From three panels to thirteen hundred, without an Excel sheet

Jafar Abualrob Facade Manager Ahmadiah Contracting

1 contribution Why the façade contractor belongs in schematic design

Jaime Cavazos CEO Cavazos & Co.

1 contribution Performance and safety in façades: test it before you build it

JD Jak Drinnan Founder Tekne Lab

1 contribution When geometry is described rather than drawn, the cost of change collapses

James Cheng Principal James KM Cheng Architects

1 contribution Façades as urban catalysts: an architect’s view of the skin that shapes a city

James Hatch President & Chief Strategy Officer Kovach

1 contribution Critical envelopes, civic buildings: why life-science façades need whole-system thinking

James Hind Partner SimpsonHaugh

1 contribution Form, colour, texture: three residential towers on two Manchester sites

James Johnson Codes and Standards Representative / Fire Ground Survival Master Instructor International Association of Fire Fighters

1 contribution Playing with fire: why fire safety has to shape the façade from the first sketch

James Perry Director Koichi Takada Architects

2 contributions Naturalising the façade: from lakefront hills to dancing balconies Regulated designs, not just weatherproofing: what the DBP Act now asks of façade practitioners

James Tan Director WOW Architects

1 contribution The living façade: when a building’s skin becomes a threshold, not a boundary

Jamison Guest Principal Heintges

1 contribution From wind tunnel to window: automotive parallels in a façade

Jan Dijkema Director Chapman Taylor

1 contribution Design for good: giving more back to place

Jasmin Hodzic Marketing Director - AME Guardian Glass

1 contribution Solar control glass and wellbeing: optimised for energy, not for us

Jason Sandy Senior Design Manager Qatari Diar

1 contribution A former embassy becomes a hotel without erasing its history

Jay Silverberg Design Principal, Principal Gensler

1 contribution Beyond shade: designing desert façades as environmental infrastructure

Jayrold Bautista Speaker Dow

1 contribution Silicone bonds survive seismic drift long after the frame stops helping

Jeff Ker Sr. Technical Advisor Engineered Assemblies

1 contribution Not a façade system: the building’s primary environmental control

Jeffrey A. Caldwell Principal | Unit Manager, Wiss, Janney Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates

1 contribution The envelope decides conversion potential

Jelena Madzarevic Manager - Building Science EllisDon

1 contribution A carbon budget for the envelope: 80 kilos, and what survives it

Jennifer Mallard Principal Henriquez Partners

1 contribution Thirty-six moulds down to six: the precast at Kennedy Green

Jennifer Sage Partner Sage and Coombe

1 contribution Layers of light: how façades shape daylight for people

Jennifer Schneider Speaker Kuraray

1 contribution Why the choice of interlayer decides how far structural glass can go

Jeroen Boersma Senior Product Specialist Kawneer

1 contribution Circular façades need reversible decisions

Jess Lindsay Architectural Project Development Manager, New South Wales Lysaght

1 contribution A steel cassette panel detailed for rainscreen walls, and why the drawings come first

Jesse Clarke Technical Innovation Manager - Oceania Pro Clima

2 contributions Behind the rainscreen: the layers that actually shed the water The wind-tight layer: pressure equalisation behind the cladding

Jesús Bona Director Comercial España | Sales Manager Spain Reynaers Aluminium

1 contribution La sostenibilidad exige mirar la envolvente completa

Jimi Ogunsola Specification Leader - UK Axalta

1 contribution Powder coatings are starting to carry their own carbon strategy

Jincy Mariam Rinu Middle East Façade Leader Arup

1 contribution Parametric modelling for the whole façade: the loop run backwards

Joan Tarrús Consultant sedak

2 contributions Curved glass moves beyond the mould What the oven decides about a curved pane

João Daniel Technical Solutions Expert Saint-Gobain Portugal

1 contribution Fechar o ciclo do vidro: float de baixo carbono e o argumento do casco

João Jesus Partner OODA

1 contribution Arena Liga Portugal: uma bola, um campo verde, e uma fachada hexagonal difícil de fabricar

João Simões CEO OTIIMA

1 contribution Arena Liga Portugal: uma bola, um campo verde, e uma fachada hexagonal difícil de fabricar

João Telmo Gabriel Solution Sales Manager Pladur

1 contribution Reinventar a pele do edifício: da fachada pesada à envolvente leve em gesso

Jochen Regenauer Head of Strategic Projects & Business Development EMEA Kuraray

1 contribution Generic EPDs can hide the real carbon

Joe Lisiewski II Assistant VP | University Architect Arizona State University

1 contribution Critical envelopes, civic buildings: why life-science façades need whole-system thinking

Joel Schwartz Principal, Building Science - President JRS Engineering

1 contribution Eight drawing sheets, then hundreds: procurement and the BMO Centre

Joep Hovels Co-Founder Frontwise Facades

1 contribution Dutch façades are engineered through constraints

Johan Hermijanto Studio Director Bates Smart

1 contribution Crafting cities with terracotta: an ancient material, reinvented

Johann Mordhorst Principal KieranTimberlake

1 contribution Modernising heritage without erasing it

John Anderson Partner | Principal 180 Degrees Design + Build

1 contribution Preserving Wright's experiment: redesigning Taliesin West's roof for another generation

John Barbara Principal ZGF Architects

1 contribution Healthy laboratories need differentiated envelopes

John Bushell Principal Kohn Pedersen Fox

1 contribution Oriente Green Campus: keep, edit, add, a concrete ruin turned into a campus

John Czechowski Senior Associate Gray Puksand

1 contribution Design to shape perception: a Perth recladding and a Canberra campus

John Gralewski Principal Johnson Fain

1 contribution Orientation makes transparency work at Century City Center

John Ivanoff Principal | Facades Buro Happold

1 contribution From renderings to real time: running façade decisions through a game engine

John Meredith Partner and Board Member HDR

2 contributions Critical envelopes, civic buildings: why life-science façades need whole-system thinking Retrofit needs planning, engineering and viability in the same room

JB John Patrick Anthony L. Buensalido Principal Architect Barchan Architecture

1 contribution Belonging in three parts: look like it, perform like it, feel like it

John Perry Moderator

1 contribution Regulated designs, not just weatherproofing: what the DBP Act now asks of façade practitioners

John Ross Directors 6a Architects

1 contribution Reimagining Tate Liverpool: opening up a heritage warehouse without trapping moisture

Jonathan Lynch Manager, design and building practitioner audits NSW Building Commission

1 contribution Regulated designs, not just weatherproofing: what the DBP Act now asks of façade practitioners

Jonathan Taylor Senior Associate Higgins Quasebarth & Partners

1 contribution A century, matched: restoring the Waldorf Astoria's envelope

Jonathan Walker Associate Director CORE

1 contribution User experience can drive a lower-carbon façade

Jordi Marasse Technical Project Consultant Reynaers Aluminium

3 contributions A zero-sum game: why recycled aluminium is not the answer on its own Sustainability from every angle: why chasing recycled content is a zero-sum game Sustainable façades need more than recycled content

Jordi Torres Quintana Partner Royth

1 contribution Las fachadas de Barcelona deben equilibrar memoria y cambio

Jordi Vilà Alsina Technical Director Talleres Inox

1 contribution Las fachadas de Barcelona deben equilibrar memoria y cambio

Jorge Escribano Troncoso Innovation Project Manager Acciona

1 contribution Los robots cambiarán el trabajo de fachada antes de sustituirlo

Jorge Gonçalves Director Casais

1 contribution Arena Liga Portugal: uma bola, um campo verde, e uma fachada hexagonal difícil de fabricar

Jorge Moreira Structural Engineer Skinde

1 contribution Geometrias complexas: da visão arquitetónica à realidade construtiva

Jorge Peña Head of Technical Support Pladur Gypsum

1 contribution Las paredes ligeras redistribuyen las prestaciones de fachada

Joris Winters Sector Leader Property and Investment Arcadis

1 contribution Carbon decisions extend beyond the building

Jörn Teipel Lead Technical Manager - Architecture Outokumpu Nirosta

1 contribution Chromium, chlorine and a linen finish: specifying stainless

Jose Claudio Silva Design Principal 10 Design

1 contribution Adaptive design, inside-out planning and buildable geometry: three towers designed to be delivered

José Luiz Lemos Sócio aflalo/gasperini arquitetos

1 contribution Reaproveitamento adaptativo dá nova lógica de fachada a estruturas existentes

Joseph Madaghiele Associate Thornton Tomasetti

1 contribution A ceramic look in cast concrete: the GFRC façade at 600 West 125th

Joseph Schettino Assistant VP - Building Enclosures | Department Head – LA | Sports Venue Leader WSP

1 contribution Reliable façades depend on verification

Joshua Taron Associate Dean (Research + Innovation) University of Calgary

1 contribution Designating a building to keep it: Petro Fina and Calgary’s conversions

Juan Grau Iglesias Technical Director Aluman

1 contribution Las fachadas de bajo carbono exigen controlar todo el ciclo de vida

Juan Imaz Prescription and Business Development Manager Guardian Glass

1 contribution Las herramientas digitales deben afinar las decisiones sobre vidrio

Julen Astudillo Larraz Senior Researcher Technalia

1 contribution Los robots cambiarán el trabajo de fachada antes de sustituirlo

Jun Schick Lee Associate Principal - Façades & Envelopes Hatfield Group Engineering

1 contribution Skin-deep efficiency: rationalising three façades for the fabricator

Justin D’Alessandro National Architectural Manager Vitro Architectural Glass

1 contribution Less is more insulating: the case for vacuum insulated glass

Kaloyan Erevinov Associate Director Zaha Hadid Architects

1 contribution No spare glass: replacing a double curved pane in seven hours, without sealant

Kamilah Bannister Development Manager Great Gulf

1 contribution Hand-bent, 7,500 times: the stainless façade at Forma

Karim Amrouche Sales Director Outside Eastern Europe and Automotive Saint-Gobain Glass International

1 contribution Render versus reality: predicting a glass façade before it is built

Kelly Coles Vice President, Building & Infrastructure CMLC

1 contribution Eight drawing sheets, then hundreds: procurement and the BMO Centre

Ken Bernstein Principal City Planner Los Angeles City Planning

1 contribution The envelope decides conversion potential

Kevin Bridgman Partner KPMB Architects

1 contribution Not a lobby, a lodge: a curved façade with only its horizontals curved

Kevin Kim Associate SOCOTEC

1 contribution A century, matched: restoring the Waldorf Astoria's envelope

Kevin Ng Senior Deputy General Manager Henderson Land Development

1 contribution No spare glass: replacing a double curved pane in seven hours, without sealant

Khaled Iskandar AI Educator & Workflow Strategist ZKANDAR

1 contribution Architect + AI: ninety per cent usable, ten per cent valuable

Kosalraman CJ Managing Director | Principal Architect Infraabees Project Management Consultants

1 contribution When design decides performance: orientation, climate and the façade as a first move

KR Suresh Regional Director Avante Façade

3 contributions Beyond compliance: what a fire really asks of a high-rise façade How a fire-brigade rule and an airport height limit shaped one Mumbai façade Timeless façades through organic surfaces, crafted patterns and open-joint detailing

Krista Palen Partner Transsolar KlimaEngineering

1 contribution Nothing but stack effect: how Limberlost Place breathes

Kristoph Karbach EVP - North America Lumon Canada

1 contribution Wanted but never used: what glazing does to a balcony

Kyle Auch Associate DIALOG

1 contribution Fuzzy: how a 1975 bunker got a hand-sprayed skin and a front door

Lars Anders Group CEO Priedemann Façade Experts

1 contribution Deeper, not wider: taking façade expertise into execution

Lars Sorensen Senior Architect and Façade Specialist GCA Architects

1 contribution La fachada más verde puede ser la que ya existe

Laura Solarino Senior Engineer Arup

1 contribution Low-carbon curtain walling begins by using less

Laurence Brooker Director and Head of Central London Planning Turley

1 contribution Retrofit needs planning, engineering and viability in the same room

Lee Brandt Senior Principal HLB Lighting

1 contribution Layers of light: how façades shape daylight for people

Lefteris Siamopoulos Associate | Façade Consultant FMDC

1 contribution The city can become its own stone quarry

Leo Henke Principal Front

1 contribution 262 Fifth Avenue: wrapping a tower core in photovoltaic glass

Léo Lejeune Vice President & Higher Education Lead Stantec

1 contribution Eight drawing sheets, then hundreds: procurement and the BMO Centre

Leo Li Senior Sustainability Consultant Inhabit

1 contribution Why white paint reflects 90 per cent of the light and dazzles nobody

Leo Liu Technical Director KinLong

1 contribution High-span façades need a structural language of their own

Leonie van Ginkel Partner Frontwise Facades

1 contribution Dutch façades are engineered through constraints

Lesley Lawson Senior Technical Manager Fairview New Homes

1 contribution Building Safety Act lessons are becoming new design practice

Lilia Koleva Partner NEUF architect(e)s

1 contribution Not a box: Bombardier’s Pearson plant as a workplace for 2,000

Liliana Soares Head of ESG & Sustainability CBRE

1 contribution Transformar edifícios: porque a reabilitação, e não a demolição, é a chave da descarbonização

Lizette McNeill Managing Partner IXO Partners

1 contribution Climate risk reaches the façade through the insurance market first

Lorenzo Langella Associate Architect Studio Transit

1 contribution La facciata tra pelle e abito: quando il contesto decide quanto l’involucro deve mostrare

Luca Mastropierro Sales Manager Pichler Projects

1 contribution Molo D di Fiumicino: rinnovare l’involucro mentre l’aeroporto continua a funzionare

Luca Piraino Partner UNO-A Architetti Associati

1 contribution Torri dell’EUR: il travertino torna industriale senza perdere la memoria di Ligini

Lucy Head Associate Director Studio Egret West

1 contribution Shaping everyday wonder: regrowing Manchester

Luis Delgado Senior Architect Bjarke Ingels Group

1 contribution Las fachadas de Barcelona deben equilibrar memoria y cambio

Luís Gamboa Co-Founder & COO VIC Properties

1 contribution Do Braço de Prata à frente ribeirinha: uma fachada cerâmica que reinterpreta o azulejo

Luis Garcia Project Manager OODA

1 contribution Identity and performance can share one skin

Luis Palacio Design Director Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill

1 contribution Beyond the envelope: façades that generate power, and policy

Lyubov Safronova Founder Safronova Project Studio

1 contribution Из одного и того же кирпича

M. Vedat Sancakdar Tasarım ve Sistem Geliştirme Direktörü ASAŞ

1 contribution Parametrik alüminyum kanatlar: biçimden önce yerel performans

Maela Allegretti Associate Façade Engineer Arup

1 contribution Embedding emotion at Xi’an CCBD

Mahsa Adib Studio Manager | Senior Associate Arcadis Architects Canada

1 contribution Crafting intricate forms: engineering the twisting fins of Burrard Gateway Tower 2

Mahyar Vaid Senior Director Talati & Partners

1 contribution Addition and subtraction: two façade strategies for the same Worli street

Malvinder Singh Rooprai Senior Technical Program Manager - APAC Kuraray

2 contributions Interlayer stiffness, open edges and counterfeit risk: where ionoplast lamination is heading Structural interlayers and sustainability advances in laminated glass

Manan Raval Partner - Façades & Envelopes Hatfield Group Engineering

1 contribution Skin-deep efficiency: rationalising three façades for the fabricator

Manoj Joshi CEO | Senior Executive Partner Hiren Patel & Associates

1 contribution From wooden templates to a 3D model: where the gains stop

Manuel Castro Country Manager Forster Sistemas de Perfiles

1 contribution Los perfiles de acero pueden hacer más precisa la rehabilitación

Manuela Gatto Director Zaha Hadid Architects

1 contribution From fluid form to buildable skin: CityZen Tower in Tbilisi

Marc de Winter Façade Consultant Deerns

1 contribution Carbon-driven façade engineering needs to start early

Marc Nakhle Speaker Alspec Solar

1 contribution Shading elements become generators as solar moves off the roof and onto the façade

Marcella Carone Architect & Computational Designer Studio Marcella Carone

1 contribution A segunda pele volta como ferramenta climática

Marcelo Ignatios Assesor de Projetos Especiais Conselho de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de São Paulo

1 contribution O adensamento muda a envoltória na escala da rua

Marcelo Nudel Founding Partner - Executive Director Ca2 Consultores

1 contribution O adensamento muda a envoltória na escala da rua

Marco Brambilla Partner ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel

1 contribution RAI Viale Mazzini: aggiornare la facciata senza cancellarne il ritmo

Marco Casamonti Founding Partner Archea Associati

1 contribution Material gives architecture its memory

Marco Chow Senior Architect NEUF architect(e)s

1 contribution Not a box: Bombardier’s Pearson plant as a workplace for 2,000

Marcos Aceti Brazil Sales & Technical Service Specialist Kuraray

1 contribution O desempenho do vidro laminado depende do sistema completo

Marcus Cerdeira Fragmentos

1 contribution Transformar edifícios: porque a reabilitação, e não a demolição, é a chave da descarbonização

Maria Buhigas San José Chief Architect Barcelona City Council

1 contribution Las medianeras pueden convertirse en fachadas urbanas activas

Maria Cedó Co-founder DOS54

1 contribution Las fachadas de Barcelona deben equilibrar memoria y cambio

Maria Pelangia Associate Partner MUA - Architecture & Placemaking

1 contribution ფესვგადგმული თანამედროვეობა: ადგილობრივი რელევანტურობის ძიება ფასადში

Maria Sultanova Director | Managing Partner Architecture and Design Studio SAD

1 contribution Чего требует от фасада Ташкент

Mariana Simas Executive Director Studio MK27

1 contribution A segunda pele volta como ferramenta climática

Marina Kindelan Calvo Director of Façades ME / APAC AESG

1 contribution Inevitable design: when the right idea makes its own form

Marius Mariano Associate Inhabit

1 contribution Climate risk reaches the façade through the insurance market first

Mark Matusow Regional Façades Sales Manager Cosentino

1 contribution Large-format stone changes the façade assembly

Mark Storm Design Department Manager Permasteelisa Gartner

1 contribution Building the KAFD Metro Station, told by the people who made it

Marko Damic Design Principal Architectus

1 contribution Environmental performance stops hiding behind the glass tower

Marlice Anisia Imparato Senior Associate One Works

1 contribution Rome Office Complex: due edifici, due strategie di involucro, un solo obiettivo di rigenerazione

Martha DePlazaola Abbott Co-Managing Director Principal Gensler

1 contribution Beyond shade: designing desert façades as environmental infrastructure

Martin Durivage Architectural Project and Specification Manager Saint-Gobain Glass

1 contribution A clear vision of the future: predicting how glass will really look, before it’s built

Marwan Abbas Program Director Khatib & Alami

1 contribution Why the façade contractor belongs in schematic design

MM Mathieu Meur Director DP Facade

1 contribution A century of standing still: what is finally moving in façades

Matias Reyes National Architectural Manager Vitro Architectural Glass

1 contribution Ten minutes of nature: what biophilia asks of the glass

Matt Jarvis Project Manager Multiplex

1 contribution A former embassy becomes a hotel without erasing its history

Matt O'Malley Preconstruction and Commercial Market Lead DPR Construction

1 contribution Healthy laboratories need differentiated envelopes

Matteo Cipollini Head of Façade Engineering ESA Engineering

1 contribution Dalla città come miniera alla facciata come banca di materiali: cosa serve per rendere operativo il riuso

Matthew Ferraro Principal Weiss/Manfredi

1 contribution Same window, different panel: the taper at Schwartz Reisman

Matthew Owen Business Development Manager A. Proctor Group

1 contribution Airtightness is a small layer with a large consequence

Mattijs van Ruijven Head - Urban Planner Gemeente Rotterdam - Stadsontwikkeling

1 contribution Carbon decisions extend beyond the building

Maxim Olshevsky CEO Astra Group

1 contribution Designating a building to keep it: Petro Fina and Calgary’s conversions

Maya Cochrane RIBA Gulf Chapter Chair RIBA Gulf

1 contribution Architect + AI: ninety per cent usable, ten per cent valuable

Maya White-Turre Senior Associate Gruen Associates

1 contribution Selective enclosure lowers transit energy demand

Melissa Wong Principal Thornton Tomasetti

1 contribution A ceramic look in cast concrete: the GFRC façade at 600 West 125th

Meritxell Moyà Vilalta Building Department Vice-Director Batlleiroig

1 contribution Los robots cambiarán el trabajo de fachada antes de sustituirlo

Michael Dub Principal DUB Architects

1 contribution A velodrome made civic: straight timber, a twisted skin and no sloped insulation

Michael Henderson Principal HCMA

1 contribution A velodrome made civic: straight timber, a twisted skin and no sloped insulation

Michael Lette Market Development Manager - Façades, Design Solutions Group Lysaght

2 contributions Built for speed: steel cladding that fixes on two sides Sketch to robotic fold: where formed steel façades gain speed

Michael Lin Design Director Gensler

1 contribution Buildings for people: rethinking the office tower at 70 Hudson Yards

Michael Min Ra Global Founding Partner / Principal VIA

1 contribution Leaving the aluminium bare, and holding one model all the way to the factory

Michael O'Reilly Moderator Hutchinson Builders

1 contribution Buying façades offshore rewards the teams that do the homework first

MZ Michael Zhang Chief Technical Officer Guangzhou Baiyun Technology

1 contribution Eighteen years on a 440 metre tower: what the joint still does

Michalis Vrachimis Operational Director GRCY

1 contribution GRC: the strength of concrete without its limitations

Michele Versaci Head of Research Park Associati

1 contribution Dalla città come miniera alla facciata come banca di materiali: cosa serve per rendere operativo il riuso

Michelle Lee Architect Behnisch Architekten

1 contribution A laboratory façade tuned to climate

Miguel Angel Maldonado Principal Beyer Blinder Belle

1 contribution Layers of light: how façades shape daylight for people

Miguel Ángel Núñez Díaz Technical Director ENAR

1 contribution Los robots cambiarán el trabajo de fachada antes de sustituirlo

Miguel Barbas Development Director Norfin

1 contribution Oriente Green Campus: keep, edit, add, a concrete ruin turned into a campus

Miguel Costa Freire Co-CEO Effisus

1 contribution Where façades fail: the gaps between the trades

Miguel França Santana Board Member Fidelidade

1 contribution A building you can see being sustainable: the diamond ‘veil’ of Fidelidade’s new headquarters

Mike Vanderveen Emerging Markets Manager Lumon

1 contribution Enclosing the balcony: twenty years between repairs, and 13 decibels

Mikhail Balagurov Commercial Director Vilpe Russia

1 contribution Дом, в который не заходит воздух

Miquel Rodriguez Founder xmade

1 contribution Ligereza y masa pueden convivir en una rehabilitación

Mira Saba Project Engineer RJC Engineers

1 contribution Twenty-two milk jugs a minute: what the code lets a wall leak

Mitul Gajjar Director Façade Engineering Services

2 contributions Ahmedabad and GIFT City: wind, fire and the fabricator you pick Ahmedabad's tall buildings answer to a glass limit nobody enforces

Morgan Reynolds Associate Principal Thornton Tomasetti

1 contribution Modernising heritage without erasing it

Moujehed Neffoussi International Building Project Manager AGC Glass Europe

1 contribution Glass data is becoming part of the design material

Mourad El Garci International Sales Director Alucoil

2 contributions Aerospace thinking can accelerate façades From aerospace to façade: honeycomb panels and a World Cup stadium clad by algorithm

Moutaz Kaddourah Region Head MENA Effisus

1 contribution Where façades fail: the gaps between the trades

Mr. Pepper Humanoid Social Robot –

1 contribution Los robots cambiarán el trabajo de fachada antes de sustituirlo

Mustafa Alkan General Manager Werner Sobek Istanbul

2 contributions Heavier loads, lighter skins: designing façades for Tbilisi’s wind Making the Central Bank of Iraq’s complex façade buildable

Mustafa Arslan Project Manager Werner Sobek Istanbul

1 contribution Making the Central Bank of Iraq’s complex façade buildable

MZ Myra Zamora Architectural Specifications Manager Royal Pineda+ Architecture-Design

1 contribution Half the wall operable, in a city where nobody opens a window

Namrata Vaja Senior Associate Technical Entrepreneur Agile Management

1 contribution Ahmedabad's tall buildings answer to a glass limit nobody enforces

Nandakumar BS Project Director Evermark Façades

1 contribution Engineering value, not cost: halving a façade’s price without losing its face

Nandan Tavkar Senior Associate Director, Climate Response + ESG Advisory | Strategic Consulting Jacobs

1 contribution Net zero and climate resilience: the façade on a risk register

Nandita Agnihotri Senior Associate Manuel Kobin Associates

1 contribution Building for safety: why compliant intent arrives as a painted sheet

Naseera Razak Managing Director | Principal

1 contribution Experience is everything: designing the workplace from the inside out

Nasser Labidi Technical Advisory Center Manager for Europe, AME & APAC Guardian Glass

1 contribution Digital glass selection works best with context

Natalia Nebieridze Associate Partner and Design Director MUA

1 contribution დიალოგი კონტექსტთან: თბილისის ფასადური მეხსიერება როგორც ორიენტირი

Natasha Appel Business Development Manager EJOT

2 contributions Rainscreen performance starts behind the cladding Stainless steel strengthens rainscreen performance

Nathan Bishop Design Principal | Partner Koning Eizenberg

1 contribution Wildfire resilience starts at the façade

Nathan McRae Director Snøhetta

1 contribution From wind tunnel to window: automotive parallels in a façade

Nathan Wittasek Fire Protection Engineer & Investigator Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

1 contribution Wildfire resilience starts at the façade

Naveen Dath Director Cottee Parker

1 contribution Queen’s Wharf Brisbane: the envelope as civic infrastructure

Naz Fenercioğlu Product Manager Technoform Glass Insulation Italia

1 contribution Cam aynı kaldı, Uw düştü: gerçek enerji performansı neden bütün sistemden ölçülür?

NI Nazia Iqbal Senior Associate Architect Mott MacDonald

1 contribution What a city hands a façade when it hands it every variable at once

Necdet Bahadır Buluk CEO / Co-Founder Façade Design Factory

2 contributions A railing is a safety system: designing glass balustrades for high-rises Façade renovation from risk assessment to asset repositioning

Neil Kendrick Facade engineer

1 contribution Adaptive reuse puts façade engineers in the business of proving what already exists

Neville Grunwald Director of Façades and Roofs Wates

1 contribution Building safety changes the definition of competence

Nic Holmes Lead AI Design Innovator LW Design Group

1 contribution Architect + AI: ninety per cent usable, ten per cent valuable

Nicholas Hofstede Managing Director Johnston Marklee

1 contribution Extreme consistency: making grid, depth and colour do the work at Ray Phoenix

Nick Backhouse Business Development Manager

1 contribution Move the airtight line outside: condensation and air-tightness

Nick Ling Partner and Head of Technical Design Heatherwick Studio

1 contribution Embedding emotion at Xi’an CCBD

NP Nicola Pasquetti Supervisor Şişecam

1 contribution VakıfBank: trasformare una torre rettangolare in una stella senza perdere il controllo del vetro

Nicola Scaranaro Partner Foster + Partners

1 contribution Working with heritage by making the waterfront public again

Nicolas Guichard Architect Kengo Kuma & Associates

1 contribution Street first, then a façade a quarter the weight

Nicolas Wachter Chief Operating Officer, Hong Kong seele

1 contribution No spare glass: replacing a double curved pane in seven hours, without sealant

Nikelina Bineri Project Manager – Building Envelope Arcora

1 contribution Tirana needs a façade culture

Nikos Kolintzas Project Manager Lydia Roda

1 contribution Wrapped in terracotta: the Catalan vault, reinvented as a ceramic fabric

NS Nisar Ahmed Shaikh Principal Architect Architect Hafeez Contractor

1 contribution Where a Noida block keeps its rectangle and spends its curves

Nitesh Shah Director Neha Consultant

1 contribution Designing high-rise façades across a portfolio from 45 to 153 metres

Nuno Barbedo Associate Eckersley O’Callaghan

1 contribution O engenho da transparência: quando o vidro deixa de ser revestimento e passa a ser estrutura

Nuno Brandão Costa Founder Brandão Costa Arquitectos

1 contribution Todos os edifícios têm fachadas: tradição, classicismo e vanguarda

Oana Fayyad Senior Architect Killa Design

1 contribution Inevitable design: when the right idea makes its own form

Odysseas Georgiou Director Seamlexity

1 contribution Performance and safety in façades: test it before you build it

Olga Kudrevich Deputy General Director for Standardization StroyTekhNorm

1 contribution Один пункт на весь фасад

Olin McKenzie Design Partner Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

1 contribution Restraint lets structure shape the façade

Oliver Ng Managing Director BG&E Façades

1 contribution If it has to be solid, make it work: PV façades from design to delivery

Oliver Rohde Managing Director seele Middle East

1 contribution kinetIQ: engineering façades that move

Olivier Sommerhalder Design Director Gensler

1 contribution The envelope decides conversion potential

Osama Abbas CEO IBECE Group

1 contribution The façade mindset: quality is settled before design begins

Otar Sulaberidze Director / Lead Architect Artstudio Project

1 contribution ტრადიციული ტიპოლოგია წარსულის კოპირების გარეშე

Ouri Scott Principal Urban Arts Architecture

1 contribution Making culture material: how Indigenous stories are being translated into façade and form

Pablo Garrido Partner and Director of Technology b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

1 contribution Las fachadas de Barcelona deben equilibrar memoria y cambio

Paolo Ermeti Head of Design Focchi

1 contribution Torri dell’EUR: il travertino torna industriale senza perdere la memoria di Ligini

Paolo Franco Partner | Director - Façade Faces Engineering

1 contribution RAI Viale Mazzini: aggiornare la facciata senza cancellarne il ritmo

Paolo Matteuzzi Director Zaha Hadid Architects

1 contribution The node that could move six hundred millimetres

PC Paris Cotsapas Director PPA Architects

1 contribution A decade of towers: what changed in Cyprus, and what the state still has to do

Pat Duffy Associate - Façades Arup

1 contribution Access belongs in façade design

Patrick Beul MBA Eng. Tonality

1 contribution A façade that still shows the clay

Paul Carter Project Director, Building Sciences WSP

1 contribution Mega panels: why prefabrication is arriving, and what moves off site with it

Paul Crowther Associate Director Sheppard Robson

1 contribution Heritage at height: engineering a terracotta tower on Whitworth Street

Paul Granger Senior Project Architect Selldorf

1 contribution Made to look load-bearing: the Frick's limestone expansion

Paul Hargreaves Construction Director Lipton Rogers

1 contribution Low-carbon curtain walling begins by using less

Paul Korthagen Partner IMd

1 contribution Fenix makes complexity buildable through shared models

Paul Phillips Senior Director and Head of London Building Surveying Team Anstey Horne

1 contribution External wall appraisal is becoming a permanent building record

Pavel Baltsevich Sales & Marketing Director Alutech Group

1 contribution Типовых проектов почти не осталось

Pedro Appleton Partner Promontório

1 contribution A building you can see being sustainable: the diamond ‘veil’ of Fidelidade’s new headquarters

Pedro Pinhal COO OTIIMA

1 contribution Arena Liga Portugal: uma bola, um campo verde, e uma fachada hexagonal difícil de fabricar

Pedro Rodrigues CEO b-face

1 contribution Arena Liga Portugal: uma bola, um campo verde, e uma fachada hexagonal difícil de fabricar

PE Pegs Elumba Head | Principal, MFT Meinhardt Philippines

1 contribution The forgotten link: what a façade survives before it arrives

Pete Kennon Director Studio Kennon

1 contribution If it has to be solid, make it work: PV façades from design to delivery

Peter Dushenski Managing Director GlasCurtain Inc.

3 contributions Cold-climate net zero starts at the façade Procurement is a design choice: the Red Deer Justice Centre Zero-tariff, net-zero: how a locally-made fibreglass façade de-risked the Red Deer courthouse

Peter Goff Director - Façade Engineering Buro Happold

1 contribution Building Safety Act lessons are becoming new design practice

Peter Schmitt Head of Technical ‑ North America Siderise

1 contribution Curtain-wall fire safety needs continuity

Peter Senez Principal & President SenezCo

1 contribution Playing with fire: why fire safety has to shape the façade from the first sketch

Peter W. Rutti Chief Design Officer | Managing Principal DLR Group

1 contribution Low-rise façades are city-making decisions, not material selections

Petros Karatzas Executive Director Skyline Facades

1 contribution A filter designed for performance, not for people

Phaithaya Banchakitikun Managing Director Atom Design

1 contribution Bangkok's façade weaknesses lie in expectation and sequencing, not in technology

Phil Sedge Director - Head of Façades Mace

1 contribution Chapter Living turns origami into a buildable unitised façade

Philippe Juliard International Development Manager Forster Steel Systems

1 contribution The master of materials: steel façades, windows and doors

Pietro Pavesi Associate | Façade Engineer Faces Engineering

1 contribution Complex façades need early engineering

Pınar Aydın Architect & Design Sales Manager Cosentino

1 contribution İki buçuk Eyfel Kulesi basınç: ultra kompakt yüzeyin cepheye yolu

Prasana Kesavan Director Studio 7 Architects

1 contribution When design decides performance: orientation, climate and the façade as a first move

Prashant Pant Panellist Avante Facade

1 contribution How a fire-brigade rule and an airport height limit shaped one Mumbai façade

Prashanth S Kharche Principal Kharche & Associates

1 contribution The face of the building: visual impact and climate, on a realistic budget

Prathush Sreedharan Specification Leader - Middle East Axalta Coating Systems

1 contribution Where surfaces shape skylines: building a coating to beat the benchmark

Pratik Doshi National Manager - Façade Schüco India

3 contributions Ahmedabad's tall buildings answer to a glass limit nobody enforces From concept to delivery: closing the gap between the drawing and the building How a fire-brigade rule and an airport height limit shaped one Mumbai façade

R. Vijayan Chief Architect L&T Construction

1 contribution From concept to delivery: closing the gap between the drawing and the building

Rachel Green Rasmussen Principal and Partner Architekton

1 contribution Measure comfort, not just heat: putting the human condition back into façade performance

Rafael Lazzarini Diretor de Sustentabilidade CTE - Centro de Tecnologia de Edificações

1 contribution A segunda pele volta como ferramenta climática

RR Raghunandan Reddy Sales Head - North Schueco India

1 contribution Innovation on demand: what a project extracts from its supplier

Rajan Govind Director - Façade + Construction Tech Specialist BES Consultants

2 contributions Bridging vision and reality: the façade of Brigade Gateway Neopolis Why façades must be designed to move, and why the lowest bid rarely shows what is missing

RT Rakesh Thakur Vice President - Design and Sustainability BPTP

1 contribution What a city hands a façade when it hands it every variable at once

RD Ralph Damköhler Managing Director - Middle East seele

1 contribution kinetIQ: making the façade move

Raman Aras Founder | Principal Architect Studio ārā

1 contribution Treating the façade as a collaborative, detail-driven layer at ONE42

Raniel Sulaj Project Manager VIND

1 contribution Mock-ups turn ambition into agreement

Ravishankar Subramanian Principal Scientist Dow

2 contributions Five decades of structural silicone, and the widening job list for façade sealants Ninety per cent at twenty-five years: what an old seal is worth

Ravneet Saini Regional Manager Saint-Gobain Glass

1 contribution A clear vision of the future: predicting how glass will really look, before it’s built

Rawan Alderjem Aldossari Design Manager Bechtel Corporation

1 contribution Building the KAFD Metro Station, told by the people who made it

Reginald Truxon Senior Associate Gensler

1 contribution Prefabrication turns façade design into production

Renato Cilento Senior Façade Engineer Turner & Townsend

1 contribution Solar control glass and wellbeing: optimised for energy, not for us

Renato Luciani Project Consultant - WICONA Hydro Building Systems

1 contribution Dalla città come miniera alla facciata come banca di materiali: cosa serve per rendere operativo il riuso

Rence Gill Principal Beyer Blinder Belle

1 contribution Modernising heritage without erasing it

Reza Kabul Principal Reza Kabul Architects

1 contribution Four decades of evolving façade design thinking

Richard Fairhead Director Building Envelope Group

1 contribution No clear owner: the case for façade engineering as a discipline

RG Richard M. Garcia President GALA Architecture

1 contribution Belonging in three parts: look like it, perform like it, feel like it

Richard Orser Sr. Project Manager Permasteelisa N.A.

1 contribution Hand-bent, 7,500 times: the stainless façade at Forma

Richard Wood Managing Director, Asia Snøhetta

1 contribution The roof you can walk on: designing façades as public ground rather than elevation

Ritesh Jindal Associate and Mumbai Office Leader, Façade Business Lead India Arup

2 contributions Hierarchy first: turning façade data into a decision worth acting on Panel rationalisation, option-hunting and digital maintenance planning: automation as façade practice

Rob Buck Associate – Façade Engineering Arup

1 contribution Halloween horror stories: façade failures and the façade as an asset

Robert Clement Principal Populous

1 contribution Design assist at the BMO Centre: a lantern that took a year to draw

Robert Hopkins Regional Director AHR

1 contribution The power of ten: AHR's ten steps to a more resilient façade

Robert Miller President Jansen America

2 contributions Keep the 1928 look, add the performance: Battersea’s steel windows Sustainable façades start with long service

Robert Moisy Façade engineer Society of Façade Engineering

1 contribution Façade design as imagination bounded by competence

Robert Weitlaner Head of Innovation Laboratory Hella

1 contribution Thermal behaviour in closed cavities: why a low g-value isn’t enough

Roberto Galante International Building Project Manager AGC Glass Europe

1 contribution Dalla città come miniera alla facciata come banca di materiali: cosa serve per rendere operativo il riuso

Roberto Sprocati Head of Global Project Division Emilgroup

1 contribution Stoneware, ventilated: a façade as a system, not a product

Rodolphe El Asmar Managing Partner Alusteel

2 contributions A decade of towers: what changed in Cyprus, and what the state still has to do Engineering the envelope: complex geometry, long-term performance, and a contractor’s responsibility

Rodrigo Félix Program Manager GreenLab

1 contribution Transformar edifícios: porque a reabilitação, e não a demolição, é a chave da descarbonização

Roger Schaerer Senior Engineering Director BM Windows

1 contribution Complex façades depend on one coordinated model

Rohan Keswani Director Aluplex

4 contributions Scaling smart skins: jumbo panels, a cantilevered glass box, and stone on a unitised wall Scaling smart skins: unitised systems with integrated shading and mixed materials Unitised glazing is being pushed to hide its frames and open up tall homes Yashobhoomi: the transom that never ends and a 550-kilo pane

Rohit Sharma Chief Executive Officer Innovators

1 contribution From concept to delivery: closing the gap between the drawing and the building

Rok Lee Principal – Façades DeSimone Consulting Engineering

1 contribution Buildings for people: rethinking the office tower at 70 Hudson Yards

Roman Schieber Managing Director Knippers Helbig

1 contribution A laboratory façade tuned to climate

Ron Bakker Co-founder PLP Architecture

1 contribution Architecture can make innovation legible

RD Ronald Diaz Assistant Vice President, Construction Administration ALT

1 contribution Catch it on paper, not on site: holding a façade to its drawings

Rouven Nieuwenburg Sector Director - Real Estate Deerns

1 contribution Carbon-driven façade engineering needs to start early

Rubens Czeresnia Taragona Diretor de Negócios SKR

1 contribution O adensamento muda a envoltória na escala da rua

Rui Monteiro Global Commercial Director Effisus

1 contribution Façade literacy is a risk-control tool

Russell Cole Façade Leader Arup

1 contribution Building safety changes the definition of competence

RV Kheem N. Domingo Facade Consultant ALT

1 contribution Seismic damage to façades comes from movement, not collapse

Ryan Butterfield Associate Director David Chipperfield Architects

1 contribution A former embassy becomes a hotel without erasing its history

SR Sajid Raza CEO Butler Engineering

1 contribution NBCS 2026: why a compliant material is not a compliant façade

Samer Mohammed Abdullah Finishing & Materials Development Head Abdulmohsin Altheyab & Partners

1 contribution Why the façade contractor belongs in schematic design

Sammy Hui Managing Partner DYM Australia

1 contribution Twenty-four metres in one piece: jumbo and 3D curved glass

Sandro Casaccio Senior Manager - High Performance Products Kuraray Europe

1 contribution One interlayer cannot do every job

Santosh S. Warick Chief Fire Officer, and Director, Mumbai Fire Services MIDC

1 contribution Building for safety: why compliant intent arrives as a painted sheet

Saulo Suassuna Filho Senior Advisor of Business Development Pininfarina of America

1 contribution Branding arquitetônico dura quando desempenho e identidade se alinham

Saverio Pasetto Head of Façades Skanska

1 contribution Migliorare il futuro senza tradire il passato: tre criteri per progettare l’involucro nei contesti storici

Scott Duncan Design Partner Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

1 contribution Collapsing structure and skin into one plane gives the lowest whole-life carbon

Scott Young Senior Associate Omnii

1 contribution Beyond combustibility: how façade fire compliance moved to systems

Sean Og Coyle Chief Commercial Officer IG Masonry Support Systems

1 contribution Holding up the brick: a stainless approach to masonry support

Sean Robinson Director & Head of Building Safety Anstey Horne

1 contribution Getting through the gateways: what the Building Safety Regulator actually wants

Sergi Vargas Torvisco Responsable de prescripción – Zona Iberia STACBOND

1 contribution La fachada ventilada exige alinear cuatro sistemas

Sergio Domingos Country Manager UK Aluman Systems UK

1 contribution Fachadas em transformação: porque a industrialização é agora inevitável

Shane Hart Director of Client Relations Insol

1 contribution Why porous façade screening needs its own wind test regime

Shawn Duffy Principal KPF

1 contribution When component innovation plateaus, systems thinking takes over

Shekhar Patki Panellist Avante Facade

1 contribution How a fire-brigade rule and an airport height limit shaped one Mumbai façade

Shevonne Kok Market Segment Director APAC, Sealants, Glazing & Façades Tremco Construction Products Group

1 contribution Forty-two per cent, from replacing a gasket

Shrikrishna Ginde Lead Façade L&T Construction

1 contribution From concept to delivery: closing the gap between the drawing and the building

Shripal Munshi Principal Shripal & Venkat Architects

1 contribution When design decides performance: orientation, climate and the façade as a first move

SS Shubham Solanki Principal CoLEAD LLP

1 contribution Designed to come off: the hotel façade with a twenty-year life

Shyam Chand Senior Consultant - Façade Access WSP

1 contribution Smart façades, smarter access: panel families and a worker’s reach

Silvia Ilardi Senior Architect - Façade Access and Maintenance Arup

1 contribution Access belongs in façade design

Simon Allford Executive Director | Head of Design Studio Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

1 contribution Designing façades that can survive changing ideas

Simon Barnes Principal | Building Envelope Practice Leader - APAC Arup

1 contribution Kai Tak and the Bernabéu: what makes a stadium skin buildable

Simon Chan Technical Director Far East Façade

2 contributions No spare glass: replacing a double curved pane in seven hours, without sealant What a double curved unit will not forgive: the aluminium, not the glass

Simon Gray Insurance broker

1 contribution Regulated designs, not just weatherproofing: what the DBP Act now asks of façade practitioners

Sin Hei Kwok Founder LOFTSPHX STUDIO

1 contribution Low-rise façades are city-making decisions, not material selections

Sofía Galán Rivera Building Envelope Design Leader Arup

1 contribution Access belongs in façade design

Sofia Gasviani Partner The Architects

1 contribution ფესვგადგმული თანამედროვეობა: ადგილობრივი რელევანტურობის ძიება ფასადში

Somkiat Lo-chindapong Architect A49

1 contribution Recognition before novelty: how the rebuilt Dusit Thani Bangkok carries its identity in the façade

Sruthi Reddy Executive Director Ceebros

1 contribution From concept to delivery: closing the gap between the drawing and the building

Stavros Gargaretas Senior Associate MVRDV

1 contribution Mock-ups turn ambition into agreement

Stefan Brey Technical Director BG&E Façades

1 contribution If it has to be solid, make it work: PV façades from design to delivery

Stefan Prins Partner Powerhouse Company

1 contribution Carbon decisions extend beyond the building

Stéphane Domeneghini Diretora Executiva Talls Solutions, Grupo FG

1 contribution Senna Tower: transformando a jornada do herói em uma envoltória superalta

Stephen Tanno Director Pre-Construction Services Schüco International

2 contributions Building Safety Act lessons are becoming new design practice Value-up starts with what a building already has

Steve Mudie Partner Linear Consulting

1 contribution Low-carbon curtain walling begins by using less

Steve Valev Associate Principal Multistudio

1 contribution Spend the façade budget on depth: Central Station as civic desert infrastructure

Steve Wirzba Senior Development Consultant City of Calgary

1 contribution Designating a building to keep it: Petro Fina and Calgary’s conversions

Subbiah Sivasubramaniam Director Dius Design Consultants

1 contribution When design decides performance: orientation, climate and the façade as a first move

Subraya Kalkura Managing Director John R Harris & Partners

1 contribution Solar control glass and wellbeing: optimised for energy, not for us

Sunnie Shen Downstream Marketing Manager Kuraray

1 contribution Trust and traceability: proving the interlayer in your glass

Suraksha Acharya Founding Partner | Principal Architect Midori Architects

1 contribution When design decides performance: orientation, climate and the façade as a first move

SG Sushant Goel Director Eckersley O Callaghan

1 contribution Glass asked to carry the load rather than fill the opening in it

SV Sushant Verma Co-founder and Design Head rat[LAB]Studio

1 contribution Designed to come off: the hotel façade with a twenty-year life

SA Swati Agarwal Studio Head Charged Voids

1 contribution Brickwork stitched into the wall rather than hung on it as cladding

Taj Phitakraxanti Tandem Architect Tandem Architects

1 contribution Shade, not cooling: three Bangkok projects that cut solar load at the envelope

Tali Mejicovsky Associate Principal | Façade Engineering and Building Physics Arup

1 contribution Made to look load-bearing: the Frick's limestone expansion

Taryn McQueen Principal Populous

1 contribution No clear owner: the case for façade engineering as a discipline

Tasos Poulokefalos Associate & Structural Engineer Interface Facades

1 contribution Performance and safety in façades: test it before you build it

Thang Vo Managing Director BM Windows

1 contribution Complex façades depend on one coordinated model

TK Theodore Khoury Assistant Vice President, Business Development ALT

1 contribution Half the wall operable, in a city where nobody opens a window

Thomas Eschenbach Managing Director Priedemann CIS

2 contributions Mind the gap: carrying façade responsibility from design to site Разрыв между чертежом и стройкой

Thomas Miller Global Head of Projects Forster

1 contribution Steel curtain walls balance slenderness and fire safety

Thomas Oster Senior Project Manager Chandos Construction

1 contribution Making culture material: how Indigenous stories are being translated into façade and form

Tiago Sallas Project Director Saraiva + Associados

1 contribution Oriente Green Campus: keep, edit, add, a concrete ruin turned into a campus

Tim Brans Founding Partner NUDUS

1 contribution Circular design is learned in real projects

Tim Debets Lead Concept Design Façades Permasteelisa Group

1 contribution Low-carbon curtain walling begins by using less

Timothy Logan Regional Practice Director HKS LINE

1 contribution Computational design rationalises complex GRC

Timothy Poell Design Director Gensler

1 contribution A building you can see being sustainable: the diamond ‘veil’ of Fidelidade’s new headquarters

Timothy Soebroto Facade consultant Meinhardt Façade Technology

1 contribution Aerodynamic shaping, material choice and maintenance decide how a high-rise façade performs

Timothy Wong Associate - Building Envelope Entuitive

1 contribution Unlocking value in a Brutalist box: whole-envelope thinking and commissioning at the Glenbow

Timur Abishev Head of Representative Office in Russia & CIS NorthGlass

1 contribution Стекло, которому больше не нужны рёбра

Tobiasz Staszak Area Manager - North America Reynaers Aluminium

2 contributions 89 Avenue Yorkville: deciding the façade before it is built Four inches instead of five: settling 89 Avenue Yorkville in VR

Todd Grice Director Bligh Tanner

1 contribution Why façades keep leaking: the feedback loop the industry keeps missing

Todd Poisson Partner BKSK Architects

1 contribution Lace and turrets: two contemporary façades in historic New York

Todd Thongeiam Senior Associate Johnson Fain

1 contribution Orientation makes transparency work at Century City Center

Tolga Aycı Business Development Manager Tremco CPG Türkiye

1 contribution Yalıtım camında kimyasal uyumluluk ve cephede yangın güvenliği

Tom Donald Director Eckersley O’Callaghan

1 contribution What is a façade engineer? The DBPA scope-and-competency panel

Tom Nancollas Assistant Director (Design) City of London

1 contribution Growth and conservation: designing the City of London's 2040 skyline

Tom Silva Project Director - Design Webcor

1 contribution Wildfire resilience starts at the façade

Tony Abi Gebrayel Managing Partner MZ Architects

1 contribution TeamLab Phenomena: an envelope asked to keep changing

Tran Van Tien CEO BM Windows

1 contribution Buying façades offshore rewards the teams that do the homework first

TS Aditya Vice President - Strategy & Business Development Qutone

4 contributions Fire class and UV grading decide whether a cladding panel belongs on a tall building Sintered, not tiled: what a high-rise asks of a ceramic panel The tested skin: sustainable cladding for high-rise buildings Ventilated dry cladding and sintered-stone systems for high-rise applications

Tyler Grimshaw Principal Architect EwingCole

1 contribution Healthy laboratories need differentiated envelopes

Tyler Hall Associate KPMB Architects

1 contribution Not a lobby, a lodge: a curved façade with only its horizontals curved

Uday V Shetty EVP - Solid X Viva Composite Panel

2 contributions A panel maker's argument for a floor stricter than the code itself Metal cladding, held to account: speed, standards and the EPD

Uğur Özer Özgüven Founding Principal Özgüven

1 contribution Malzemenin yüzde doksan ikisi ithal: cephe için kurulan yeni firmalar

Ujjal Roy Associate Design Principal SOM

1 contribution Where a façade's carbon actually hides, and the cladding you can delete

Umut Bülbül Managing Director – UK, Ireland & Netherlands Metal Yapı

1 contribution Chapter Living turns origami into a buildable unitised façade

Upendra Walinjkar CEO | Principal Aluvision Façade

1 contribution From wooden templates to a 3D model: where the gains stop

Valentin Grudskiy Project Manager Werner Sobek Tashkent

1 contribution Кирпич, открытый с двух сторон

Valeriya Chernikova EMEA Marketing Manager Dow Consumer Solutions

1 contribution Silicone's quiet role in a lower-carbon façade

Venelin Kokalov Design Principal Revery Architecture

1 contribution Ten façades, one question: how do you protect an idea all the way to completion?

Vera Tchikina Associate Rickard Engineering

2 contributions Regulated designs, not just weatherproofing: what the DBP Act now asks of façade practitioners What is a façade engineer? The DBPA scope-and-competency panel

Veronica Quintero Senior Associate Principal and Head of BIM KPF

1 contribution From concept to operation: AI's place in the built environment

VJ Vibhakar Jha Head - Residential Business & Retail Schueco India

1 contribution Designed to come off: the hotel façade with a twenty-year life

Vicente Montes Principal | Façade Engineer, Curtain Wall Design & Consulting Curtain Wall Design Consulting

1 contribution Designing out dangerous solar reflections

Vicky Vora Founder & Principal V3 Façade Design Studio

2 contributions Building for safety: why compliant intent arrives as a painted sheet The International Co-operative Museum: cold-bent glazing, one degree a floor

Victor Fortanete General Manager Elval Colour Iberica

2 contributions El aluminio plegado necesita una geometría disciplinada Liberdade para criar: o painel compósito de alumínio como ferramenta de desenho de fachada

Victor Orive Associate Director Zaha Hadid Architects

1 contribution Making the Central Bank of Iraq’s complex façade buildable

Victor Zhilinsky Founder & CEO Skytop Engineering

1 contribution Фасад как костюм, который лучше подогнать заранее

Victoria Ponce de Leon Vice President, Principal TYLin (Silman)

1 contribution A century, matched: restoring the Waldorf Astoria's envelope

Viggo Haremst Partner and Design Director APAC Henning Larsen

1 contribution Six of nine boundaries crossed: designing for the planet, not only for people

Vinod Patel Director Trogon Group

1 contribution Ahmedabad's tall buildings answer to a glass limit nobody enforces

VS Vishal Sharma Founder Partner | Principal Architect Confluence

1 contribution Buildings that behave like a forest rather than look like one

Vittorio Banella Technical Director ADR Infrastrutture

1 contribution Molo D di Fiumicino: rinnovare l’involucro mentre l’aeroporto continua a funzionare

Vivian Ngo Design Principal NBBJ

1 contribution Making a folded X meet exactly at the corner

Vrinda Shetty Executive Director Bentel Associates

1 contribution Bridging vision and reality: the façade of Brigade Gateway Neopolis

Vrutul Panchal Studio Head HCP

1 contribution From carved stone jalis to performance glass: shading devices in Indian façades

Waleed Elsayed Design & Studies Director Engineering Liwan

1 contribution Why the façade contractor belongs in schematic design

Werner Jager Managing Director Keller Minimal Windows

1 contribution Minimal glazing depends on hidden engineering

Will Wigfield Speaker ROCKWOOL

1 contribution Why the ventilated cavity turns cladding fires into a chimney, and what that means for insulation choice

William Sharples Founding Principal SHoP Architects

1 contribution The envelope as the first thing the eye touches: craft, terracotta and the making of place

WT William Ti Founder & Principal Architect WTA Architecture & Design Studio

1 contribution The first ten metres: the part of a façade the city actually meets

Winnie Sun Associate Facade Engineer Xavier Knight

1 contribution Buying façades offshore rewards the teams that do the homework first

Woody Chan Senior Manager, Sustainability Link Asset Management

1 contribution Climate risk reaches the façade through the insurance market first

Xabier García Rodríguez Managing Director Inasus

1 contribution Los robots cambiarán el trabajo de fachada antes de sustituirlo

Xandon Keating Deputy Economic Development Director City of Phoenix

1 contribution Critical envelopes, civic buildings: why life-science façades need whole-system thinking

Xavier Ferrés Padró Managing Partner Ferrés Arquitectos y Consultores

1 contribution La tecnología empieza por las dimensiones

Yan Krymsky Principal, Design Director, US West Stantec

1 contribution Façade pattern can carry performance and narrative

Yan Torres Chief Estimator and Project Manager PGNY

1 contribution 262 Fifth Avenue: wrapping a tower core in photovoltaic glass

Yanchee Lau Director Eckersley O'Callaghan

2 contributions Making a folded X meet exactly at the corner No spare glass: replacing a double curved pane in seven hours, without sealant

Yiannis Pericleous Managing Director AJP Facade Technology

1 contribution Performance and safety in façades: test it before you build it

Yogesh Tantia Director - Architecture DSP Design Associates

1 contribution Precision by design: keeping faith with the render, all the way to site

Zach Craun Associate Partner COOKFOX

1 contribution Timber, weathering steel and a spirit of place: the Springsteen archive

Евгений Чернышёв Генеральный директор Nordfox

1 contribution Что скрывается за облицовкой навесного фасада

Павел Бальцевич Генеральный директор Alutech Group

1 contribution Светопрозрачные фасады: доводы в пользу общей инженерной модели