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ZWOF Sydney 2025

Sydney · Australia · 20 February 2025

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ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Façade engineeringAustraliaRegulated designsDesign and Building Practitioners ActProfessional indemnity insurance

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

John Perry, Jonathan Lynch, James Perry, Vera Tchikina & Simon Gray

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia AustraliaSolar control glassElectrochromic glazingBuilding-integrated photovoltaicsLow carbon buildings

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

Anthony Breach

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Fire safetyAustraliaInsulationBuilding regulationsRainscreen façades

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

Will Wigfield

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia AustraliaFaçade procurementSupply chainQuality assuranceOffshore manufacturing

Buying façades offshore rewards the teams that do the homework first

Michael O'Reilly, Winnie Sun, Tran Van Tien & Giuseppe Michael Schmidt

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia AluminiumAustraliaBIPVNet zeroSolar façades

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

Marc Nakhle

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Unitised façadesAustraliaCeramicsPorcelain claddingCo-design

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

Bernat Miñana & David Mahon

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 AustraliaPrefabricationSteel façadesRainscreenNCC compliance

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

Jess Lindsay

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Façade engineeringAustraliaTerracottaBiophilic designPassive ventilation

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

William Sharples

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Wind engineeringAustraliaFaçade screeningAeroacousticsTesting standards

Why porous façade screening needs its own wind test regime

Shane Hart

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Façade engineeringArtificial intelligenceAustraliaBuilding safetyBird-safe design

Façade design as imagination bounded by competence

Robert Moisy

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Façade engineeringHeritageAustraliaAdaptive reuseWeatherproofing

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

Neil Kendrick

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Solar shadingParametric designAustraliaFaçade designTerracotta façades

Environmental performance stops hiding behind the glass tower

Marko Damic

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