Sustainability

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India IndiaSustainabilityFenestrationThermal breakEnergy efficiency

Where the heat gets in: the thermal break, now required by code

Abhishek Shukla

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 Curtain wallIndiaSustainabilityAluminium systemsHospitality

The strategic envelope: bespoke engineering, transomless glass and green aluminium

Harsharaj Shetty K S

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India IndiaSustainabilityACPMetal claddingStandards & compliance

Metal cladding, held to account: speed, standards and the EPD

Uday V Shetty

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Green façadesBiophilic designIndiaSustainabilityKeynote

The living façade: when a building’s skin becomes a threshold, not a boundary

James Tan

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India ArchitectureBiophilic designIndiaSustainabilityEcological design

Inside out: dissolving the line between building, landscape and life

Dhurgai Kumaran

ZWOF Dubai 2026 United Arab Emirates MaterialsAluminiumSustainabilitySelf-cleaningUAE

Self-cleaning aluminium: an anodised skin that uses sunlight to stay clean

Fan Lee

ZWOF Dubai 2026 United Arab Emirates ProjectsDubaiSustainabilityDeliveryUAE

Net zero and climate resilience: the façade on a risk register

Nandan Tavkar

ZWOF Dubai 2026 United Arab Emirates ParametricDubaiSustainabilityEngineeringUAE

Parametric modelling for the whole façade: the loop run backwards

Jincy Mariam Rinu & Elia Galatolo

ZWOF Dubai 2026 United Arab Emirates GlassPerformanceDubaiSustainabilityUAE

A few stickers will not do it, and the standard is not enough either

Ahmed Abuhashem

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Embodied carbonGlassSustainabilityCircularityPortugal

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

João Daniel

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Embodied carbonAluminiumRetrofitSustainabilityPortugal

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

Guillaume Nijdam & Filip Van Mieghem

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Solar shadingProjectsSustainabilityGeothermalPortugal

A building you can see being sustainable: the diamond ‘veil’ of Fidelidade’s new headquarters

Timothy Poell, Miguel França Santana & Pedro Appleton

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom HeritageProjectsUKSustainabilityCarbon

Reimagining Tate Liverpool: opening up a heritage warehouse without trapping moisture

John Ross & Chiara Faliva

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom UKSustainabilityCarbonResilience

The power of ten: AHR's ten steps to a more resilient façade

Robert Hopkins

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom UKSustainabilityCarbonDigital

Double or triple glazed? Ramboll's data-driven answer

Amaldev Premkumar

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom Building physicsUKSustainabilityAirtightness

Move the airtight line outside: condensation and air-tightness

Nick Backhouse

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Embodied carbonAluminiumCanadaSustainabilityVancouver

Sustainability from every angle: why chasing recycled content is a zero-sum game

Jordi Marasse

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada CanadaSustainabilityBuilding scienceStep CodeEnergy

The 70% you decide before the energy model: why building shape governs façade performance

Ali Zadeh

ZWOF Rome Italy Façade engineeringHeritageRefurbishmentSustainabilityItaly

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

Saverio Pasetto

ZWOF Istanbul 2026 Turkey Urban designHeritageSustainabilityTurkeyDouble-skin façades

Double skins as a dialogue between context and performance

Gökhan Avcıoğlu

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India IndiaSustainabilityFaçade systemsIntegrationSafety

Integration, safety and sustainability in contemporary façade systems

Harsharaj Shetty K S

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India IndiaDurabilitySustainabilityPowder coatingCorrosion protection

Coating durability as the sustainability case for powder-coated façades

Deepak Parameswaran

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Embodied carbonAluminiumCanadaSustainabilityCircularity

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

Jordi Marasse

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 Melbourne 2026 Australia Embodied carbonAluminiumAustraliaArchitectureSustainability

‘Design a place, not a building’: Harborside’s low-carbon façade

Gumji Kang

ZWOF Melbourne 2026 Australia Solar shadingAustraliaPublic realmSustainabilityClimate resilience

Six of nine boundaries crossed: designing for the planet, not only for people

Viggo Haremst

ZWOF Riyadh 2025 Saudi Arabia Embodied carbonSaudi ArabiaReuseSustainabilityStructural glazing

Silicone's quiet role in a lower-carbon façade

Valeriya Chernikova

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Embodied carbonUKSustainabilityCostCurtain walling

Low-carbon curtain walling begins by using less

Alistair Law, Laura Solarino, Paul Hargreaves, Steve Mudie & Tim Debets

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSAPhotovoltaic façadesEnergy generationPolicy

Beyond the envelope: façades that generate power, and policy

Luis Palacio