Circularity

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Embodied carbonGlassSustainabilityCircularityPortugal

Fechar o ciclo do vidro: float de baixo carbono e o argumento do casco

João Daniel

ZWOF Rotterdam 2026 Netherlands Façade engineeringNetherlandsProcurementComplianceCircularity

Dutch façades are engineered through constraints

Leonie van Ginkel & Joep Hovels

ZWOF Rome Italy ReuseTraceabilityItalyCircularityRecycling

Dalla città come miniera alla facciata come banca di materiali: cosa serve per rendere operativo il riuso

Camilla Rigamonti, Claudia Sacristán Pérez, Anna Maria Pacini, Michele Versaci, Matteo Cipollini, Renato Luciani & Roberto Galante

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Embodied carbonAluminiumCanadaSustainabilityCircularity

A zero-sum game: why recycled aluminium is not the answer on its own

Jordi Marasse

ZWOF Barcelona 2026 Spain Fire safetyCircularitySpainVentilated façadesAluminium composite

La fachada ventilada exige alinear cuatro sistemas

Sergi Vargas Torvisco

ZWOF Barcelona 2026 Spain HeritageUrban identityCircularitySpainBarcelona architecture

Las fachadas de Barcelona deben equilibrar memoria y cambio

Jordi Torres Quintana, Albert Sagrera Cuscó, Jordi Vilà Alsina, Luis Delgado, Maria Cedó & Pablo Garrido

ZWOF Barcelona 2026 Spain AluminiumBuilding envelopeWhole-life carbonCircularitySpain

La sostenibilidad exige mirar la envolvente completa

Jesús Bona

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Embodied carbonGlassAustraliaComplianceCircularity

Halloween horror stories: façade failures and the façade as an asset

Rob Buck

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Embodied carbonAustraliaReuseCircularityFibre cement

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

Cedric Pinto

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia AustraliaReuseCircularityFibre cementDesign for disassembly

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

Christy Irish

ZWOF Riyadh 2025 Saudi Arabia Curtain wallSaudi ArabiaCircularityHybrid steelOperational carbon

Hybrid steel, and the case for façades you can upgrade

Eric Claeys

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ReuseUKCircularityStone reuseUrban quarry

The city can become its own stone quarry

Lefteris Siamopoulos

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada MaterialsCanadaDurabilityCircularityStainless steel

Chromium, chlorine and a linen finish: specifying stainless

Jörn Teipel

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Curtain wallCanadaSteelPrefabricationCircularity

The grid outlives the glass: an argument against unitized

Eric Claeys

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada HeritageAdaptive reuseCanadaSteelCircularity

Keep the 1928 look, add the performance: Battersea’s steel windows

Robert Miller

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Embodied carbonMaterialsAluminiumCanadaCircularity

No bad materials: what actually decides which one you use

Adrian Betanzos

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSAMass timberCircularityCultural buildings

Timber, weathering steel and a spirit of place: the Springsteen archive

Zach Craun

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSATerracottaMaterial innovationCircularity

Load-bearing again: reinventing terra cotta for the low-carbon façade

Andrew Pries

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India RetrofitIndiaCircularityStructural glazingSilicone sealants

Five decades of structural silicone, and the widening job list for façade sealants

Ravishankar Subramanian