ZWOF Vancouver 2026

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada RetrofitCanadaGFRCBuilding scienceCommissioning

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

Dale Wannamaker & Timothy Wong

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Curtain wallArchitectureCanadaDesignVancouver

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

Venelin Kokalov

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Embodied carbonAluminiumCanadaSustainabilityVancouver

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

Jordi Marasse

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Fire safetyCanadaCladdingBuilding scienceCombustibility

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

Peter Senez, David Goyne, Claire Yuan, Graham Finch & James Johnson

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada CanadaVancouverMass timberBuilding sciencePanelization

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

Brad Carmichael

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Curtain wallCanadaSupply chainNet zeroFibreglass

Zero-tariff, net-zero: how a locally-made fibreglass façade de-risked the Red Deer courthouse

Peter Dushenski

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada ArchitectureCanadaVancouverMass timberIndigenous design

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

Avery Guthrie, Ouri Scott & Thomas Oster

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada CanadaSustainabilityBuilding scienceStep CodeEnergy

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

Ali Zadeh

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Urban designArchitectureCanadaVancouverMass timber

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

James Cheng

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada CanadaDurabilityFenestrationBuilding scienceStep Code

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

Anton VanDyk

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Curtain wallArchitectureCanadaVancouverEngineering

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

Mahsa Adib

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada GlassMaterialsCanadaVisualizationRendering

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

Ravneet Saini & Martin Durivage

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada GlassCanadaBiophilic designColourVancouver

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

Bryce Given

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada MaterialsAluminiumParametricComposite panelsCanada

From aerospace to façade: honeycomb panels and a World Cup stadium clad by algorithm

Mourad El Garci

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada GlassCurved glassMaterialsFabricationCanada

Bending glass to shape: multi-curved architectural glass and a Zaha Hadid megaproject

Bob Zhang