Australia

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia AluminiumAustraliaDurabilityCoatingsSelf-cleaning

Clean by sunlight: inorganic self-cleaning anodised aluminium

Fan Lee

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Façade engineeringAustraliaComplianceRegulationProfessional practice

What is a façade engineer? The DBPA scope-and-competency panel

Tom Donald, Gareth Winstanley, Elizabeth Carpenter, Vera Tchikina & Alison Potter

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia AustraliaCondensationWindowsWeatherproofingWind load

From risk to resilience: awning windows, wind loads and condensation

Elissa Stirling

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Building physicsAustraliaStructural glassCondensationWaterproofing

A pool with a view: keeping water out, in, and off the glass

Brian Hubbs

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia GRCFaçade engineeringGlassCurved glassAustralia

A veil of curved glass: the Paula Fox Melanoma Centre

Anne-Laure Chappat

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Fire safetyAustraliaSustainabilityBIPVSolar façades

If it has to be solid, make it work: PV façades from design to delivery

Oliver Ng, Pete Kennon, Bobby Wei, Blair Stratton & Stefan Brey

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Façade engineeringFabricationAustraliaStructural glassComplex geometry

The world’s most complex façades: hanging glass and structural trusses

Andreas Geyer

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Fire safetyAustraliaSustainabilitySteelWindows

The master of materials: steel façades, windows and doors

Philippe Juliard

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 HeritageAustraliaArchitectureTerracottaLow-carbon

Crafting cities with terracotta: an ancient material, reinvented

Johan Hermijanto

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Embodied carbonAustraliaReuseCircularityFibre cement

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

Cedric Pinto

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia AustraliaCladdingSteelPrefabricationTesting

Built for speed: steel cladding that fixes on two sides

Michael Lette

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia AluminiumAustraliaDurabilityCladdingTimber look

The beauty and longevity of aluminium: timber-look metal

Allan Ramsay

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Solar shadingAustraliaPublic realmSustainabilityClimate resilience

Six of nine boundaries crossed: designing for the planet, not only for people

Viggo Haremst

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia AustraliaTerracottaColourAsset repositioningRecladding

Design to shape perception: a Perth recladding and a Canberra campus

John Czechowski

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Air barriersAustraliaRainscreenWeatherproofingPressure equalisation

The wind-tight layer: pressure equalisation behind the cladding

Jesse Clarke

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Curved glassAustraliaQuality controlArchitectural glassWarm edge

Twenty-four metres in one piece: jumbo and 3D curved glass

Sammy Hui

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia AustraliaMaintenanceForensic engineeringFaçade testingWaterproofing

Why façades keep leaking: the feedback loop the industry keeps missing

Todd Grice

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia AluminiumAustraliaSurface finishesTimber-look façadesNon-combustible materials

Timber appearance, aluminium behaviour: the case for sublimation

Allan Ramsay

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia AustraliaCompliancePrefabricationTestingSteel façades

Sketch to robotic fold: where formed steel façades gain speed

Michael Lette

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia Parametric designAustraliaDigital fabricationAcousticsStadium façades

Kai Tak and the Bernabéu: what makes a stadium skin buildable

Simon Barnes

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia Air barriersAustraliaRainscreenWeatherproofingPressure equalisation

Behind the rainscreen: the layers that actually shed the water

Jesse Clarke

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia HeritageAustraliaPublic realmPlacemakingSubtropical design

Queen’s Wharf Brisbane: the envelope as civic infrastructure

Naveen Dath

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia Unitised façadesAustraliaComplex geometryCeramicsPorcelain cladding

Porcelain in a unitised frame: triangles and seismic movement

Bernat Miñana

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia GlassAustraliaPublic realmResidential façadesSubtropical design

Walan, Thornton and The Eaves: façade and form as a single idea

Daniel Liddy

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia AustraliaBiophilic designShadingTimberResidential façades

Naturalising the façade: from lakefront hills to dancing balconies

James Perry

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia AustraliaPrefabricationTestingFaçade deliveryAluminium systems

Closing the handovers: what an integrated façade supply chain changes

Colin Niland

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia AustraliaForensic engineeringMass timberFaçade riskInsulating glass

What the standards do not test: where a good façade still fails

Brian Hubbs

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia AustraliaFire engineeringNCCCavity barriersFaçade compliance

Beyond combustibility: how façade fire compliance moved to systems

Scott Young

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia Façade engineeringAustraliaProfessional competencyAccountabilityEarly contractor involvement

No clear owner: the case for façade engineering as a discipline

Balesh Baleshan, Taryn McQueen, Anne Kovachevich, Richard Fairhead & Alex Ward

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia AustraliaReuseCircularityFibre cementDesign for disassembly

Refuse, reuse, reduce: where a circular façade is really decided

Christy Irish

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia ETFETimber structuresLightweight façadesWeather testingAircraft hangars

Air New Zealand’s Hangar 4: a 98-metre timber span under ETFE

Angus Macleod

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