Embodied carbon

ZWOF Manila 2026 Philippines Embodied carbonParametric designDigital fabricationUnitised curtain wallPhilippines

From three panels to thirteen hundred, without an Excel sheet

Jack Cruzado

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Embodied carbonIndiaCurtain wallingWind loadWindow hardware

Innovation on demand: what a project extracts from its supplier

Raghunandan Reddy

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Embodied carbonFire safetyIndiaCladdingProduct certification

A panel maker's argument for a floor stricter than the code itself

Uday V Shetty

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Embodied carbonRetrofitAdaptive reusePortugalDecarbonisation

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

Liliana Soares, Cláudia Sousa Monteiro, André Caiado, Marcus Cerdeira & Rodrigo Félix

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Embodied carbonAdaptive reusePortugalFifth façadeCertification

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

John Bushell, Tiago Sallas & Miguel Barbas

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Embodied carbonGlassSustainabilityCircularityPortugal

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

João Daniel

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Embodied carbonAluminiumRetrofitSustainabilityPortugal

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

Guillaume Nijdam & Filip Van Mieghem

ZWOF Rotterdam 2026 Netherlands Embodied carbonNetherlandsArchitectural glassDigital design toolsGlass performance

Digital glass selection works best with context

Nasser Labidi

ZWOF Rotterdam 2026 Netherlands Embodied carbonFaçade engineeringNetherlandsDigital fabricationTimber construction

Carbon-driven façade engineering needs to start early

Marc de Winter & Rouven Nieuwenburg

ZWOF Rotterdam 2026 Netherlands Embodied carbonNetherlandsLaminated glassInterlayersEPDs

Generic EPDs can hide the real carbon

Jochen Regenauer

ZWOF Rotterdam 2026 Netherlands Embodied carbonNetherlandsLow-carbon glassArchitectural glassMaterial specification

Lower-carbon glass is a design variable

Hilal Ucar

ZWOF Rotterdam 2026 Netherlands Embodied carbonNetherlandsAdaptive reuseFaçade optimizationProcurement

Optimize before you procure

Ana Araújo & Anke Rollenhagen

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Embodied carbonAluminiumCanadaSustainabilityVancouver

Sustainability from every angle: why chasing recycled content is a zero-sum game

Jordi Marasse

ZWOF Phoenix 2026 United States Embodied carbonAluminiumUSATraceabilityCircular design

Sustainable façades need more than recycled content

Jordi Marasse

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada GRCEmbodied carbonRetrofitAdaptive reuseCanada

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

Kyle Auch

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Embodied carbonAluminiumCanadaSustainabilityCircularity

A zero-sum game: why recycled aluminium is not the answer on its own

Jordi Marasse

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Embodied carbonBuilding envelopeQuality controlCanadaDurability

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

Jeff Ker

ZWOF Los Angeles 2026 United States Embodied carbonCurtain wallUSAStructural siliconeGlazing systems

Structural silicone can reduce façade metal

Frank Zhong

ZWOF Los Angeles 2026 United States Embodied carbonUSATerracottaMaterial innovationRainscreen

Terracotta moves beyond decorative cladding

Andrew Pries

ZWOF Washington DC 2026 United States Embodied carbonUSAWashington DCLaboratory façadesExternal shading

A laboratory façade tuned to climate

Michelle Lee & Roman Schieber

ZWOF Barcelona 2026 Spain Embodied carbonAluminiumRetrofitSpainLifecycle

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

Juan Grau Iglesias

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Embodied carbonGlassAustraliaComplianceCircularity

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

Rob Buck

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Embodied carbonAluminiumAustraliaArchitectureSustainability

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

Gumji Kang

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Embodied carbonAustraliaReuseCircularityFibre cement

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

Cedric Pinto

ZWOF Riyadh 2025 Saudi Arabia Embodied carbonSaudi ArabiaReuseSustainabilityStructural glazing

Silicone's quiet role in a lower-carbon façade

Valeriya Chernikova

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Embodied carbonGlassUKEPDsBIPV

Glass data is becoming part of the design material

Moujehed Neffoussi

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Embodied carbonUKSustainabilityCostCurtain walling

Low-carbon curtain walling begins by using less

Alistair Law, Laura Solarino, Paul Hargreaves, Steve Mudie & Tim Debets

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Embodied carbonWorkplaceAdaptive reuseUKFuture fit

Future-fit buildings begin with transformation, not replacement

Harry Cliffe-Roberts

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Embodied carbonCurtain wallCanadaAir tightnessPrecast concrete

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

Andrew Geldard & Jelena Madzarevic

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Embodied carbonCanadaAcousticsPrecast concreteAffordable housing

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

Jennifer Mallard

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Embodied carbonCurtain wallCanadaCostSupply chain

Procurement is a design choice: the Red Deer Justice Centre

Peter Dushenski

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Embodied carbonMaterialsAluminiumCanadaCircularity

No bad materials: what actually decides which one you use

Adrian Betanzos

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSARetrofitInsulating glassEnergy codes

Less is more insulating: the case for vacuum insulated glass

Justin D’Alessandro

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSAMass timberCircularityCultural buildings

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

Zach Craun

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSATerracottaMaterial innovationCircularity

Load-bearing again: reinventing terra cotta for the low-carbon façade

Andrew Pries

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonCurtain wallUSASteel façadesFaçade systems

Steel over aluminium: the case for a hybrid curtain wall

Eric Claeys

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSAPhotovoltaic façadesEnergy generationPolicy

Beyond the envelope: façades that generate power, and policy

Luis Palacio

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Embodied carbonFaçade integrationIndiaUnitised systemsSmart façades

Integration, safety and carbon: three pressures reshaping the façade envelope

Harsharaj Shetty K S

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Embodied carbonLaminated glassMaterial traceabilityIndiaBalustrades

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

Jennifer Schneider

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China Embodied carbonRetrofitAir leakageExisting buildingsHong Kong

Forty-two per cent, from replacing a gasket

Shevonne Kok

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China Embodied carbonTerracottaBIPVHong KongStructural bracing

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

Ujjal Roy

ZWOF Tbilisi 25 Georgia Green façadesEmbodied carbonGeorgiaMasterplanningGlass-reinforced concrete

Street first, then a façade a quarter the weight

Nicolas Guichard & Ioannis Gkikas

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Embodied carbonSolar shadingAustraliaSteel façadesCurtain walling

Cold-formed steel and the case against the unitised curtain wall

Eric Claeys

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Embodied carbonAustraliaWhole-life carbonStructural façadesCurtain walling

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

Scott Duncan