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ZWOF Calgary 2026

Calgary · Canada · 16 April 2026

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ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Design assistFabricationConstructabilityPublic realmCanada

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

Robert Clement

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Curtain wallCanadaProcurementSupply chainInsulating glass

Cold-climate net zero starts at the façade

Peter Dushenski

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Building physicsCanadaBuilding codesTestingAirtightness

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

Mira Saba

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada RetrofitCanadaDurabilityAcousticsBalcony glazing

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

Mike Vanderveen

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Public realmCanadaComplex geometryCivic architectureMass timber

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

Michael Henderson & Michael Dub

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 CanadaCladdingColourPlacemakingPublic architecture

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

Kevin Bridgman & Tyler Hall

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada RetrofitAdaptive reuseCanadaBuilding scienceHeritage façades

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

Joshua Taron, Christopher Zahaluk, David Leonard, Maxim Olshevsky & Steve Wirzba

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 Calgary 2026 Canada ConstructabilityQuality controlCanadaPrefabricationSupply chain

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

Christian Flores & Paul Carter

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Design assistMock-upsFaçade procurementDesign-buildCanada

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

Anine Eschberger Wortmann, Léo Lejeune, Kelly Coles & Joel Schwartz

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Façade engineeringBuilding physicsGlassCanadaResilience

A fifth barrier: the enclosure as the last line against wildfire

Brian Hubbs