Façade engineering

ZWOF Bangkok 2026 Thailand Façade engineeringMuseum architectureThailandCurved glazingFire-rated façades

Curved glass and locked-down galleries: the façade logic behind an open art depot

Achim Heinzle

ZWOF Editorial — Façade engineeringIndustryLeadershipCareers

The hidden people behind every building

Ahad Ahmed

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Façade engineeringCurved glassArchitectureAcoustics

Precision by design: keeping faith with the render, all the way to site

Yogesh Tantia

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Façade engineeringFire safetyCurtain wallBuilding codes

Beyond compliance: what a fire really asks of a high-rise façade

KR Suresh

ZWOF Dubai 2026 United Arab Emirates Façade engineeringProjectsArchitectureDubai

TeamLab Phenomena: an envelope asked to keep changing

Tony Abi Gebrayel

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Façade engineeringCurved glassReuseStructural glass

O engenho da transparência: quando o vidro deixa de ser revestimento e passa a ser estrutura

Nuno Barbedo

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Façade engineeringCeramicsGeometryStructural engineering

Geometrias complexas: da visão arquitetónica à realidade construtiva

Jorge Moreira

ZWOF Limassol 2026 Cyprus Façade engineeringFire safetyCyprusFaçade testing

Where vision meets reality: the first Cypriot façade consultancy

George Sergiou

ZWOF Limassol 2026 Cyprus Façade engineeringDaylightCyprusGlass

A filter designed for performance, not for people

Petros Karatzas

ZWOF Limassol 2026 Cyprus Façade engineeringCyprusReuseRetrofit

From concept to compliance: the envelope as one interdisciplinary problem

Ioannis Gkikas

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom Façade engineeringFire safetyUKZWOF Man 26

Engineering fire safety into a complex façade: the NESST case study

Camille Destres & Iain Gray

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom Façade engineeringCurtain wallUKZWOF Man 26Movement

A façade that moves: engineering for deflection

Andrew Bird

ZWOF Rotterdam 2026 Netherlands Embodied carbonFaçade engineeringNetherlandsDigital fabricationTimber construction

Carbon-driven façade engineering needs to start early

Marc de Winter & Rouven Nieuwenburg

ZWOF Rotterdam 2026 Netherlands Façade engineeringNetherlandsProcurementComplianceCircularity

Dutch façades are engineered through constraints

Leonie van Ginkel & Joep Hovels

ZWOF Rome Italy Façade engineeringHeritageRefurbishmentSustainabilityCollaboration

Migliorare il futuro senza tradire il passato: tre criteri per progettare l’involucro nei contesti storici

Saverio Pasetto

ZWOF Rome Italy Façade engineeringRefurbishmentReusePerformanceConstructability

Riqualificare senza ricominciare da zero: l’involucro come progetto di equilibrio

Alessandro Baldini

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania Façade engineeringParametric designAlbaniaComplex geometryPrefabrication

Complex façades need early engineering

Pietro Pavesi

ZWOF Los Angeles 2026 United States Façade engineeringThermal bridgingUSAStainless steelRainscreen attachments

Rainscreen performance starts behind the cladding

Natasha Appel

ZWOF Barcelona 2026 Spain Façade engineeringFabricationConstructabilityBarcelonaTolerances

La tecnología empieza por las dimensiones

Xavier Ferrés Padró

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Façade engineeringComplianceRegulationProfessional 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 GRCFaçade engineeringGlassCurved glass

A veil of curved glass: the Paula Fox Melanoma Centre

Anne-Laure Chappat

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Façade engineeringFabricationStructural glassComplex geometry

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

Andreas Geyer

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia Façade engineeringAustraliaProfessional competencyAccountabilityEarly contractor involvement

When façade engineering has no clear owner: the case for competency, accountability and early involvement

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

ZWOF Riyadh 2025 Saudi Arabia Façade engineeringSaudi ArabiaKAFD metroSteel structureCoordination

Building the KAFD Metro Station, told by the people who made it

Filippo Innocenti, George Kanj, Azat Tatygulov, Mark Storm & Rawan Alderjem Aldossari

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Façade engineeringDesign assistConstructabilityGFRCMetal panel

Skin-deep efficiency: rationalising three façades for the fabricator

Manan Raval & Jun Schick Lee

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Façade engineeringHistoric preservationLimestone rainscreenMuseumsSkylights

Made to look load-bearing: the Frick's limestone expansion

Paul Granger & Tali Mejicovsky

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Façade engineeringProjectsIndiaCostZWOF Mum 25

Bridging vision and reality: the façade of Brigade Gateway Neopolis

Vrinda Shetty & Rajan Govind

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 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 Façade engineeringArtificial intelligenceAustraliaBuilding safetyBird-safe design

Façade design as imagination bounded by competence

Robert Moisy

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Façade engineeringCurtain wallAustraliaMass timberMovement analysis

Why a façade on a leaning, timber-and-steel tower needed a quarter of a million movement checks

Dwayne Van Halewijn

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Façade engineeringHeritageAustraliaAdaptive reuseWeatherproofing

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

Neil Kendrick