Answers for “embodied carbon in a façade”
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Recaps
The hidden people behind every building
Ahad Ahmed built Zak World of Façades from a single event in a Delhi coffee shop into a platform that now runs in more than 50 countries, yet he calls himself a reluctant speaker, an accidental founder, and, above all, a...
Editorial
From combustible cladding to cavity barriers: how façade fire compliance changed
Scott Young traces a shift from treating façade fire safety mainly as a material-combustibility question to examining complete wall systems. Cavity spread, slab-edge separation, ventilation and weatherproofing now have t...
Brisbane
Engineering fire safety into a complex façade: the NESST case study
BB7’s Camille Destres and Iain Gray used a Northumbria University lab building, a unitised curtain wall its own maker called the most complicated it had ever built, to show how fire safety is actually engineered into a m...
Manchester
When façade engineering has no clear owner: the case for competency, accountability and early involvement
Balesh Baleshan, Anne Kovachevich, Alex Ward, Taryn McQueen and Richard Fairhead examine why a building system that controls safety, energy, comfort and durability still lacks a clearly recognised professional pathway in...
Brisbane
Regulated designs, not just weatherproofing: what the DBP Act now asks of façade practitioners
Jonathan Lynch, Vera Tchikina, Simon Gray and James Perry set out why the Design and Building Practitioners Act requires façade structure, fire and integration to be resolved before a construction certificate, and why pr...
Sydney
