Prefabrication

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Unitised façadesCurtain wallIndiaPrefabricationDouble-skin façades

Scaling smart skins: jumbo panels, a cantilevered glass box, and stone on a unitised wall

Rohan Keswani

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal AluminiumProjectsPrefabricationPortugalIndustrialisation

Fachadas em transformação: porque a industrialização é agora inevitável

Sergio Domingos

ZWOF Limassol 2026 Cyprus CyprusTerracottaCeramicsPrefabricationStainless steel

Wrapped in terracotta: the Catalan vault, reinvented as a ceramic fabric

Nikos Kolintzas

ZWOF Limassol 2026 Cyprus GRCCyprusMaterialsFaçade designCladding

GRC: the strength of concrete without its limitations

Michalis Vrachimis

ZWOF Phoenix 2026 United States USAPublic realmPrefabricationTransit-oriented developmentDesert shade

Spend the façade budget on depth: Central Station as civic desert infrastructure

Steve Valev

ZWOF Rome Italy Unitised façadesPrefabricationItalyTorri EURTravertine

Torri dell’EUR: il travertino torna industriale senza perdere la memoria di Ligini

Luca Piraino & Paolo Ermeti

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania Façade engineeringParametric designAlbaniaComplex geometryPrefabrication

Complex façades need early engineering

Pietro Pavesi

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada ConstructabilityQuality controlCanadaPrefabricationSupply chain

Mega panels: why prefabrication is arriving, and what moves off site with it

Christian Flores & Paul Carter

ZWOF Washington DC 2026 United States USAWashington DCPrefabricationPanelised façadesFRP composites

Prefabrication turns façade design into production

Reginald Truxon, Dean Mouritzen & Andy Loff

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia AustraliaCladdingSteelPrefabricationTesting

Built for speed: steel cladding that fixes on two sides

Michael Lette

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia AustraliaCompliancePrefabricationTestingSteel façades

Sketch to robotic fold: where formed steel façades gain speed

Michael Lette

ZWOF Brisbane 2026 Australia AustraliaPrefabricationTestingFaçade deliveryAluminium systems

Closing the handovers: what an integrated façade supply chain changes

Colin Niland

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Curtain wallQuality controlCanadaPrefabricationStainless steel

Hand-bent, 7,500 times: the stainless façade at Forma

Kamilah Bannister, Abel Gill, Dan Francis & Richard Orser

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Curtain wallCanadaSteelPrefabricationCircularity

The grid outlives the glass: an argument against unitized

Eric Claeys

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada HeritageCurtain wallCanadaPrefabricationPrecast concrete

Same window, different panel: the taper at Schwartz Reisman

Matthew Ferraro

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Curtain wallAluminiumCanadaPrefabricationDigital twin

Four inches instead of five: settling 89 Avenue Yorkville in VR

Tobiasz Staszak

ZWOF Tashkent 2025 Uzbekistan Parametric designPrefabricationUzbekistanExoskeletonConstruction tolerances

The node that could move six hundred millimetres

Paolo Matteuzzi

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia AustraliaPrefabricationSteel façadesRainscreenNCC compliance

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

Jess Lindsay