Retrofit

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Embodied carbonRetrofitAdaptive reusePortugalDecarbonisation

Transformar edifícios: porque a reabilitação, e não a demolição, é a chave da descarbonização

Liliana Soares, Cláudia Sousa Monteiro, André Caiado, Marcus Cerdeira & Rodrigo Félix

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Embodied carbonAluminiumRetrofitSustainabilityPortugal

Building with intent: where a building’s carbon really is

Guillaume Nijdam & Filip Van Mieghem

ZWOF Limassol 2026 Cyprus Façade engineeringCyprusReuseRetrofitBuilding safety

From concept to compliance: the envelope as one interdisciplinary problem

Ioannis Gkikas

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada RetrofitCanadaGFRCBuilding scienceCommissioning

Unlocking value in a Brutalist box: whole-envelope thinking and commissioning at the Glenbow

Dale Wannamaker & Timothy Wong

ZWOF Rome Italy Curtain wallRetrofitCeramicsItalyRome Office Complex

Rome Office Complex: due edifici, due strategie di involucro, un solo obiettivo di rigenerazione

Marlice Anisia Imparato & Alessio Pierdomenico

ZWOF Rome Italy Unitised façadesSolar shadingRetrofitItalyCollaboration

RAI Viale Mazzini: aggiornare la facciata senza cancellarne il ritmo

Marco Brambilla & Paolo Franco

ZWOF Rome Italy RetrofitSteelItalyStainless steelSpecial profiles

Quando il profilo standard non basta: acciaio su misura tra precisione, snellezza e retrofit

Giulia Zarrella

ZWOF Rome Italy Solar shadingRetrofitSteelItalyFiumicino

Molo D di Fiumicino: rinnovare l’involucro mentre l’aeroporto continua a funzionare

Alberto Ferrari, Alessandro Ferreri, Vittorio Banella, Luca Mastropierro & Elisa Faretina

ZWOF Rome Italy Mock-upsConstructabilityEarly involvementOptioneeringRetrofit

Prima dell’appalto, prima del problema: il valore dell’ingegneria di facciata coinvolta presto

Alessandro Massarotto

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada RetrofitCanadaDurabilityAcousticsBalcony glazing

Enclosing the balcony: twenty years between repairs, and 13 decibels

Mike Vanderveen

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada GRCEmbodied carbonRetrofitAdaptive reuseCanada

Fuzzy: how a 1975 bunker got a hand-sprayed skin and a front door

Kyle Auch

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada RetrofitAdaptive reuseCanadaBuilding scienceHeritage façades

Designating a building to keep it: Petro Fina and Calgary’s conversions

Joshua Taron, Christopher Zahaluk, David Leonard, Maxim Olshevsky & Steve Wirzba

ZWOF Barcelona 2026 Spain RetrofitNatural ventilationSpainConcrete repairBio-based insulation

Ligereza y masa pueden convivir en una rehabilitación

Miquel Rodriguez

ZWOF Barcelona 2026 Spain Embodied carbonAluminiumRetrofitSpainLifecycle

Las fachadas de bajo carbono exigen controlar todo el ciclo de vida

Juan Grau Iglesias

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom RetrofitAdaptive reuseUKPlanningViability

Retrofit needs planning, engineering and viability in the same room

Ana Araújo, Ivan Kaye, John Meredith & Laurence Brooker

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ReuseRetrofitAdaptive reuseUKCarbon

Value-up starts with what a building already has

Dan Gleeson & Stephen Tanno

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada RetrofitCanadaDurabilityAcousticsBalconies

Wanted but never used: what glazing does to a balcony

Kristoph Karbach

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSARetrofitInsulating glassEnergy codes

Less is more insulating: the case for vacuum insulated glass

Justin D’Alessandro

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India RetrofitIndiaCircularityStructural glazingSilicone sealants

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

Ravishankar Subramanian

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India High-riseRetrofitFaçade designComplex geometryIndia

Adaptive design, inside-out planning and buildable geometry: three towers designed to be delivered

Jose Claudio Silva

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China RetrofitResilienceHong KongClimate riskInsurance

Climate risk reaches the façade through the insurance market first

Lizette McNeill, Edward Farrelly, Woody Chan, Grace Kwok & Marius Mariano

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China Embodied carbonRetrofitAir leakageExisting buildingsHong Kong

Forty-two per cent, from replacing a gasket

Shevonne Kok