Fire safety

ZWOF Manila 2026 Philippines Fire safetyBuilding codesCavity barriersPhilippinesPerimeter firestopping

Nine minutes to melt: what still holds once the aluminium is gone

Donel Dippi

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India High-riseFire safetyIndiaRainscreenSintered stone

Sintered, not tiled: what a high-rise asks of a ceramic panel

TS Aditya

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Embodied carbonFire safetyIndiaCladdingProduct certification

A panel maker's argument for a floor stricter than the code itself

Uday V Shetty

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Fire safetyIndiaCladdingBuilding codesCompartmentation

NBCS 2026: why a compliant material is not a compliant façade

Sajid Raza

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Fire safetySolar shadingIndiaCladdingRainscreen

What Delhi's temperature swing asks of a laminate cladding panel

Ashwanii Khanna

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India High-riseFire safetyIndiaRainscreenSintered stone

The tested skin: sustainable cladding for high-rise buildings

TS Aditya

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Fire safetyIndiaSustainabilityInsulationPassive fire protection

System, not product: what actually gives a façade its fire rating

G Subham

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Façade engineeringFire safetyCurtain wallIndiaBuilding codes

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

KR Suresh

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Fire safetyCladdingLow-carbonPortugalLightweight façade

Reinventar a pele do edifício: da fachada pesada à envolvente leve em gesso

João Telmo Gabriel

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Fire safetyMaterialsAluminiumCladdingPortugal

Liberdade para criar: o painel compósito de alumínio como ferramenta de desenho de fachada

Victor Fortanete

ZWOF Limassol 2026 Cyprus Façade engineeringFire safetyCyprusComplianceFaçade consultancy

Where vision meets reality: the first Cypriot façade consultancy

George Sergiou

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom Façade engineeringFire safetyComplianceUKZWOF Man 26

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

Camille Destres & Iain Gray

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom Fire safetyBuilding safetyComplianceUKZWOF Man 26

Getting through the gateways: what the Building Safety Regulator actually wants

Sean Robinson & Craig Renton

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 Rome Italy Fire safetyItalyFibre cementCavity barriersInsulation

La facciata ventilata come sistema integrato: rivestimento, isolamento e sicurezza antincendio

Giuseppe Pugliese

ZWOF Istanbul 2026 Turkey Fire safetyTurkeyInsulationAdhesivesMaterial compatibility

Yalıtım camında kimyasal uyumluluk ve cephede yangın güvenliği

Tolga Aycı

ZWOF Los Angeles 2026 United States Fire safetyUSAWildfire resilienceMultifamily façadesRisk design

Wildfire resilience starts at the façade

Nathan Wittasek, Nathan Bishop, Tom Silva & Colin Mangham

ZWOF Barcelona 2026 Spain Fire safetyCircularitySpainVentilated façadesAluminium composite

La fachada ventilada exige alinear cuatro sistemas

Sergi Vargas Torvisco

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 Fire safetyAustraliaSustainabilitySteelWindows

The master of materials: steel façades, windows and doors

Philippe Juliard

ZWOF Riyadh 2025 Saudi Arabia Fire safetySaudi ArabiaForensic engineeringCondensationFaçade defects

Forensic lessons from façades that failed

Austen Smith

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Fire safetyComplianceUKFRAEWExternal walls

External wall appraisal is becoming a permanent building record

Paul Phillips

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Fire safetyUKSteel façadesCurtain wallingHybrid systems

Hybrid steel curtain walls answer demands aluminium cannot always solve alone

Eric Claeys

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Fire safetyIndiaFaçade regulationPassive fire protectionPerimeter barriers

Building for safety: why compliant intent arrives as a painted sheet

Gautam Bhasin, Santosh S. Warick, Alok Decruz, Nandita Agnihotri, Apurba Maity & Vicky Vora

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Fire safetyIndiaCladdingSintered stoneTesting standards

Fire class and UV grading decide whether a cladding panel belongs on a tall building

TS Aditya

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India High-riseFire safetySolar shadingIndiaCladding

Double-skin shading and fire behaviour: two demands on high-rise cladding

Ashwanii Khanna

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