Facades
Sessions and topics:
GLASS AND SUSTAINABILITY IN BUILDINGS
- Life cycle analysis (LCA) and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)
- Building performance evaluation (BPE)
- Recycling
- Sustainability
- Energy performance in buildings –codes, standards, ratings, calculations and modelling etc.
- Energy management
- Footprints e.g. carbon footprint
- Glass Selection: rendering of facades e.g. Glass Pro &Glass Pro Live
- Façade or BIPV case studies
- Variable light and energy transmittance
SMART CITIES, GLAZING AND FACTORIES
- Smart energy efficient facades
- Intelligent facades
- Switchable glazing
- Media facades
- Thermochromics, Gaschromic, Electrochromic
- Case studies
- Installations
- Multi-functional glass applications
- Glass for lighting applications
- Advances in large area electrochromic (EC) and active glazing
FACADE ENGINEERING
- Design and development
- Installation
- Performance
- Maintenance
- Innovative solutions for Glass Façades
- Protective glazing – bomb blast, fire resistance
- Acoustics – sound insulation
COMPLEX GEOMETRY
- Hot bend
- Cold bend
- Aesthetics
- Architectural bent glass