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Zak World of Façades Australia

Name: Zak World of Façades Australia
Start: 2020-09-17
Location: Virtual Event

edition

Date

17 September 2020

Venue

Virtual Event

City

TempCity

Speakers & Panelists

Conference Agenda

Every speaker for the day, grouped by session. Select a topic to see who is presenting, the session focus and the talk points.

Session 1

04:30pm — 04:45pm Joint Q&A

04:45pm — 05:00pm Networking

10:30am — 10:45am Joint Q&A

10:45am — 11:00am Networking

11:00am — 11:00am End of the Session

3:00pm — 3:05pm Welcome Address & Introduction of the Speakers

5:00pm — 5:00pm End of the Session

8:45am — 9:00am Networking

9:00am — 9:05am Welcome Address & Introduction of the Speakers

Session 2

10:30am — 10:45am Joint Q&A

10:45am — 11:00am Networking

11:00am — 11:00am End of the Session

3:00pm — 3:05pm Welcome Address & Introduction of the Speakers

3:05pm — 3:30pm Quantifying the Ephemeral: Physically Accurate Rendering of Façades

4:30pm — 4:45pm Joint Q&A

4:45pm — 5:00pm Networking

5:00pm — 5:00pm End of the Session

8:45am — 9:00am Networking

9:00am — 9:05am Welcome Address & Introduction of the Speakers

Session 3

10:30am — 11:00am Networking

11:00pm — 11:00pm End of the Session

3:45pm — 4:00pm Networking

4:45pm — 5:00pm Networking

5:00pm — 5:00pm End of the Event

8:45am — 9:00am Networking

9:00am — 9:05am Welcome Address & Introduction of the Speakers

03:05pm — 03:35pm

Lin Lin

Associate Principal

BG&E Facades

Simon Haussegger

Director

Cox Architects

Topic

Wesley Place: Adaptation and Re-Life within the City

Talk points

Design opportunities and challenges: Balancing heritage and workplace principles

Evaluating technical aspects of the façade design with a focus on engineering and testing of façade fins

Managing visual distortion and quality of curved glass

03:35pm — 04:00pm

Cian Davis

Director

Bates Smart

Topic

Queen Victoria Market: Redefining the future of living in the city

Talk points

Breathing new life into this corner of the city and a valuable piece of cultural and social infrastructure

The residential Build-To-Rent (BTR) development, will deliver a future focused tower with strong integrated community, catering to the needs of different cultural, socio-economic and age groups.

The tower form and facade design has been optimised for environmental performance and the comfort of the residents and will deliver the first 8 Star NatHERS rated apartment building at this scale.

04:00pm — 04:30pm

Sander Versluis

Associate

UNStudio

Topic

Talking Skin

Talk points

Designing for a humane, active and healthy city environment

Answering the big questions with small details

Transforming our existing fabric and providing the best answer to our new challenges

10:00am — 10:30am

Mark Curzon

Director

Fender Katsalidis

Topic

Breathing Façades

Talk points

Naturally ventilated high-rise and megatall commercial buildings (Case study: Merdeka118, Kuala Lumpur, the second tallest building in the world)

The impact of façade design on the contemporary workplace

Section J: Impact on NSW façade design

9:05am — 9:35am

Hazel Porter

Principal

Woods Bagot

Topic

The Expressive Building Façade of an Innovation Precinct

Talk points

Evolution of an architectural language for the Melbourne Connect façade

The façade's role as part of a larger building ecosystem, performance parameters and a responsive approach

9:35am — 10:00am

Zamaneh Khoshdel

Associate Director

AECOM

Topic

Bespoke Façade Design and the Dynamics of Façade Industry in the Region

Talk points

Value generation through design

Innovation journey

Beyond compliance

10:05am — 10:30am

Scott Brookes

Associate - Heritage Engineering

Meinhardt Façade Technology

Topic

Heritage Conservation - Engineering the Past for the Future

Talk points

What is conservation engineering?

Historic building stock – Tackling the climate emergency

Embracing technology - Unlocking heritage sites

3:30pm — 3:50pm

Amer Magrabi

Principal

Lote Consulting – Fire | Risk | Security

Topic

Façade Cladding Fire Safety under the Building Code of Australia

Talk points

External Fire Spread under the Building Code of Australia (BCA)

ACP Cladding Assessment Methodology under the BCA

Australian Cladding Guidelines – Existing & New Buildings

3:50pm — 4:30pm

Aaron Poupard

Associate

ARM ARCHITECTURE

Elissa Stirling

Regional Manager – Victoria

Inhabit

Igor Kebel

Director

XO Projects

Mariola Kesy

Project Leader

Cottee Parker Architects

Nathan de Leeuw

Principal

DesignInc

Topic

Panel Discussion: Digital Influence on Façade Design: Changing the Future of Design for a New World

Talk points

Parametric design & complex geometry buildings - Future of high rises

Technological advancement in construction techniques for digital façades

BIM visualizing & 3D design of a building before construction: Helping realize novel and complex ideas into reality

Augmenting the delivering of infrastructure within the time frame stipulated

9:05am — 9:35am

Simon Topliss

Associate Director

Jackson Clements Burrows Architects

Topic

Gillies Hall and La Trobe 624 - Chasing Passive House, Prefabrication and Poetics

Talk points

Chasing Passive House Certification and Mass Timber: Driving low carbon outcomes through mass timber and a passive house compliant façade for Monash University Gillies

Prefabrication and unitisation of the façade of La Trobe 624: Taking the lessons learnt in façade performance and working with industry to create a unitised façade outcome

Poetics of façade and repetition: Looking across the architectural language of both Gillies Hall and La Trobe 624 and looking at how simple repetition, colour and an understanding of materials informed the design outcomes

9:35am — 10:05am

Li Yang

Principal

Aurecon

Topic

From Dreams in the Cloud to Reality on Super High-Rise Facades in Australia

Talk points

Case study: Australia 108, tallest residential tower in the southern hemisphere

Case studies: Melbourne Square, Southbank’s largest park

Digital drive of façade engineering

3:00pm — 3:45pm

Arash Hemmati

Associate

Rickard Engineering

Charles Rickard

Principal

Rickard Engineering

Topic

[Workshop A] - Designing with Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC) for Australian Projects

Talk points

Applications of GRC in the Australian market

The importance of quality assurance for the satisfactory supply of GRC

Recent developments in R&D for GRC

FEA vs Reality - Importance of Australian fire testing for GRC

3:00pm — 3:45pm

Nick Williams

Digital Practice Leader - VIC/SA

Aurecon

Pablo Sepulveda

Integrated Design Lead

Aurecon

Topic

[Workshop B] - Parametric Tools to Support Net-Zero Carbon Building Design

Talk points

Leveraging data in estimating embodied and operational carbon

The role of parametric tools in integrating cross-disciplinary design knowledge

Demonstrations of custom tools in typical design exercises

4:00pm — 4:45pm

Natasha Stojanovich

Partner

Lander & Rogers Lawyers

Topic

[Workshop C] - Navigating Cladding Disputes: The Australian Landscape

Talk points

What is the current landscape in Australia re-cladding disputes?

What is the response of the Australian insurance industry to the cladding crisis?

What can be done to mitigate cladding related exposures?

9:05am — 9:35am

Tony Grist

Principal

Hassell

Topic

Sixty Martin Place, Sydney: Designing a New City Skyline

Talk points

The computational design

Economy, repetition and originality in façade design

Making a statement though façade and context

9:35am — 11:00am

John Perry

Associate Principal

fjcstudio

Gema Edo

Architect

fjmt Studio

Paul Wintour

Founder

Parametric Monkey

Tim Phillips

Managing Director

Tilt Industrial Design

Topic

Project Panel Discussion: Designing & Engineering the Responsive Operable Blind System at UTS Central, Sydney

Talk points

A comprehensive case study on the design, engineering and fabrication of the complex operable blinds and sunshades designed by fjmt Studio (Architect) and executed by Tilt Industrial Design (specialist sub-contractor) along with their parametric/BIM/CAD/CAM integrator Parametric Monkey