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Chairman of the Planning & Transportation Committee, City of London Corporation Christopher M Hayward tells IGS about “City Plan 2036”, shaping the future city and how things are destined to look in London over the next few years.

Design the future, create tomorrow. The UK Department for International Trade in Hong Kong explains why design and design thinking plays such a central part of building a successful and thriving economy in Hong Kong and right across the world.

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Part two of a four part feature on the design, development and construction of New Clark City in The Philippines. IGS had the pleasure of a site visit around this unbelievable project last month, stay glued to this feature as there is plenty more to come from here. This is the story of a smart city that works...like a dream.

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Star of the show at glasstec last October, Vladimir Marinov of Define Engineers takes time to walk us through so we can understand how he managed to do what architects have previously only dreamed of achieving - Overcoming Gravity

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Johnson Controls new HQ for the Asia Pacific Region designed by Gensler is a work of art.

Stephen Katz shares essential knowledge about the facade design of the FIRST triple certified green building in China. Yet another of our world exclusive papers you will not see elsewhere.

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The strong visual impact in the design of the Nike HQ building’s facade is inspired by the combination of Nike air cushion technology and the speed and momentum of the athletes.

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Perhaps one of the most breathtaking engineering feats of all time and something you would expect to scare the living daylights out of you at a world class fun fair, the multiple award winning Zhangjiajie Bridge in China is kept at the forefront of our minds with words from the genial Professor Haim Dotan.

Josef Gartner GMBH continues to stun the world with masterpiece after masterpiece, Jurgen Wax goes into finite detail about One Fen Court in London revealing a building which is so much more than the sum of it’s architectural parts.

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Its Spring again, we begin again.

Every year in this fabulous glass industry is a busy year, getting philosophical, yes the cycle of life with all its expectations begins again. BAU has come and gone, there’s no glasstec this year so let me think for a moment of what exciting things lie in store for those of us with glass in our hearts. Christmas will be there of course but before that what can we get excited about? You know... I know you know because you’ll be there along with just about everybody who’s anybody with a passing interest in transparent architectural structures, the Glass Performance Days World Leading Conference in the land of the midnight sun of course, that’s what we have to look forward to.

GPD will always have a special place in the hearts and minds of important players in this industry, kind of like the Holy of Holies that housed the Ark of the Covenant. Its special, revered even, and fair to say that GPD was the spark that ignited the unstoppable firestorm of glass industry conferences and seminars that light up the world from Alpha to Omega. The original gathering of great glass industry minds that started way back when takes place in June this year and will be the final one for its Founding Father. Perhaps one of the most popular figures in the glass industry will be passing on the baton after this years milestone event, I know you’ll be there, it will be rude not to. A large part of this issue of IGS magazine is dedicated to lending a shoulder to the GPD Organizing Committee and in particular to its amiable Chairman Jorma Vitkala who has deservedly had an industry award named after him. Like Arsenal’s Thierry Henry has a statue outside of the Emirates stadium as an everlasting reminder of the good things he did for the Gunners, we now have the Jorma Vitkala Award of Merit. The first recipient of this prestigious blue ribbon award will be named in Tampere in June, exciting times like this is why we’re here.

It’s important to say a genuine and sincere thank you to all those who have contributed to the successful completion of this Spring issue, we made it. We simply have to call out and give a very special “Thank You” with hands clasped and head bowed to Chris Hayward. Making sure IGS received the City Plan 2036 was one of the last things Chris did as Chairman of Planning & Transport Committee for the Corporation of London before stepping down last month at the end of his three year tenure, read this gripping and informative article starting on page 6.

Staying with GPD, it would be rude not to, our Summer issue is the GPD 2019 Special Collectors Item. Once again this issue will be published in such tight collaboration with the organising committee that its difficult to breathe at times. There will be other strong editorial content as you’ve become accustomed to, however GPD will be front and centre of the content we publish inside that Collectors Item. Make sure you get your message and your brand between the sheets of that issue....it would be rude not to.

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CITY PLAN 2036 Shaping the Future City What is City Plan 2036?

It is a plan for the future development of the City of London, setting out what type of development the City Corporation expects to take place and where. This is your opportunity to have your say on the future look and feel of the Square Mile.

Each local authority in England has to produce a Local Plan. In London these plans must be in general conformity with the Mayor’s London Plan. The City of London’s current Local Plan was adopted in January 2015 and plans for development up to 2026.

We are now reviewing our Local Plan and looking forward to 2036. Our new Plan, City Plan 2036, contains policies

on a wide range of topics including offices, housing, tall buildings, open space and greening, shops, culture and community services.

Here we highlight some of the key policies within the draft City Plan 2036. The full draft Plan is available on the City Corporation’s website at www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ cityplan2036.

We will consider all the comments we receive and prepare a revised Plan for further consultation next year.

The various stages of preparing City Plan 2036 are shown in the diagram below.

Issues and Options (Autumn 2016) Public consultation on key issues to be addressed and emerging options

Draft Local Plan (Winter 2018/2019) A full draft of the Plan is issued for public consultation

Publication (Autumn 2019) A revised Plan is submitted to the Secretary of State, who appoints an Inspector

Examination (Early 2020) The Inspector considers the Plan and the representations made, including through public sessions to hear evidence about the key issues

Adoption (Autumn 2020) The Inspector’s recommendations are considered by the City Corporation and the Plan is adopted

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Strategy The draft City Plan 2036 is based on the three strategic themes in the City’s Corporate Plan: The draft City Plan 2036 also includes Key Areas of Change, which aim to bring forward beneficial change within specific parts of the Square Mile. Under each strategic theme are the detailed policies used to guide decisions on planning applications.

Contribute to a Flourishing Society The City Corporation will work with a range of partners to deliver a Healthy and Inclusive City, enabling our communities to access a wide range of health, education, recreation and leisure opportunities. To deliver this, we will: • Seek inclusive buildings and public spaces • Require Health Impact Assessments and Air Quality Impact Assessments on major developments, requiring all developments to be at least Air Quality Neutral • Promote healthy buildings and the Well Building Standard • Protect existing social, community, sports and recreation facilities • Minimise noise pollution and unnecessary light spillage The Local Plan emphasises the importance of delivering a Safe and Secure City, requiring developers to consider security features at the outset of the design process and engage early with the City Corporation and the City of London Police.

Area based approaches to implementing security measures are promoted, as well as incorporating security measures into the design of new buildings.

Policies address Hostile Vehicle Mitigation measures and the need for appropriate dispersal routes from major development and night-time entertainment premises.

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The Local Plan will meet the London Plan housing target of 146 new homes per year, as well as seeking 35% affordable housing on site. New homes will continue to be guided to sites in or near existing residential areas and we will seek to protect residential amenity.

The Plan also includes specific policies relating to shortterm residential letting, student housing and older persons housing.

Support a Thriving Economy Offices are the main land use in the Square Mile and the draft Plan proposes to: • Increase the City’s office stock by at least 2 million m2 to maintain the City’s status as the world’s leading financial and professional services centre • Ensure that new offices are flexible and adaptable for different occupiers including SMEs, start-up companies and those requiring move-on accommodation • Continue the protection of existing office floorspace, requiring evidence of marketing and viability to justify the loss of space • Encourage increased vibrancy and activity in office buildings, particularly at street level, through other commercial uses such as retail, leisure, education and health facilities

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The Plan recognises that retailing in the City has changed beyond recognition in recent years, but that further change is needed to deliver more and better retail units through: • Aiming to deliver 196,000m2 additional retail floorspace to meet future demand as the City evolves into an evening and 7-day a week destination • Focusing shopping facilities in four Principal Shopping Centres (Cheapside; Fleet Street; Leadenhall Market and Liverpool Street/Moorgate) and along Retail Links between these centres and other key destinations • Protecting specialist retail uses and permitting markets and temporary pop-ups in appropriate areas The City Corporation has ambitious plans to develop the City as a Cultural centre alongside its business role, and this ambition is reflected in the draft Plan through: • Supporting a wide range of cultural facilities across the City • Delivering a major destination for culture and creativity in the north west of the City through the Culture Mile initiative • Allowing hotel development where supports cultural growth but does not compromise the City’s business function • Permitting properly designed and managed night-time entertainment

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Smart Infrastructure and Utilities are essential to achieve the City’s ambitions and allow national and international business to flourish. The Plan aims to ensure world-leading digital connectivity, including full fibre wired and wireless infrastructure, while minimising the demand for power, water and utility services.

Shape Outstanding Environments The draft Plan promotes innovative, sustainable and highquality buildings, streets and spaces. The design policies aim to move towards a Zero Emission City, where: • Development makes effective use of limited land • There is more space for pedestrians and improved permeability, including new routes through buildings • Buildings are world class and sustainable, achieving BREEAM ratings, with reduced carbon emissions and improved air quality The draft Plan complements the City’s draft Transport Strategy, which aims to reduce the number of motor vehicles in the City by 25% by 2030 and 50% by 2044. Transport plays a key role in enabling and accommodating development, and the way the City grows will affect demand for travel and public space.

The Local Plan proposes: • A new, simplified street hierarchy to guide decisions on the design and management of streets • Reducing the number of freight and servicing trips, retiming them outside of peak hours, requiring freight consolidation and encouraging last mile deliveries by foot, cycle or zero emission vehicles • Increasing river-based transport, including retaining Walbrook Wharf and the reinstatement of Swan Lane Pier • Measures to encourage walking and cycling, including higher cycle parking standards and shower and changing facilities in new development

City’s streets and spaces to accommodate development.

The provision of more open space and greening of the City are key aims of the new Local Plan. These are required to mitigate the effects of climate change, enhance biodiversity, improve local air quality and support health and well-being.

The Local Plan will protect existing open spaces and require development to provide new spaces, where feasible.

New development will be required to deliver green walls, green roofs, trees and other green features. We will assess the level of greening through a new Urban Greening Factor which will be applied to major new development.

Buildings and the public realm must be designed for the long term and be resilient to future climate conditions, addressing the potential for overheating and reducing flood risk. All development, transport and public realm schemes must incorporate Sustainable Urban Drainage principles.

The draft Plan requires developers and businesses to adopt Circular Economy principles, where resources are kept in use for as long as possible and then remanufactured, reused, or recycled.

Implementation The draft Plan identifies a need for investment in new infrastructure and new facilities to support development.

This infrastructure will be part funded by contributions from developers through the Community Infrastructure Levy and planning obligations. Where a developer submits viability appraisals they will be made public.

The City’s rich and varied heritage will be conserved and enhanced with improved public access, protecting local and London-wide views, including: • The Mayor’s designated strategic views of St Paul’s Cathedral and the Tower of London World Heritage Site • Local views of St Paul’s through the St Paul’s Heights code and local views from Fleet Street • Local views of and from The Monument • Views of historic City landmarks and skyline features New Tall buildings over 75m in height will be permitted in appropriate locations, particularly in the City Cluster, where they are of world class architecture and sustainable and accessible design and don’t adversely impact on the skyline, protected views and the significance of heritage assets. A key consideration will be the capacity of the

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Buildings and the public realm must be designed for the long term and be resilient to future climate conditions, addressing the potential for overheating and reducing flood risk. All development, transport and public realm schemes must incorporate Sustainable Urban Drainage principles.

The draft Plan requires developers and businesses to adopt Circular Economy principles, where resources are kept in use for as long as possible and then remanufactured, reused, or recycled.

This detailed draft of City Plan 2036 was supplied by Chris Hayward, Chairman of Planning & Transportation Committee for the Corporation of London. Chris’s three year tenure as Chairman of the Committee ends now (April 2019).

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DESIGN IS GREAT Launch of Great British Design Campaign UK Department for International Trade in Hong Kong On 21 March 2019, the Department for International Trade (DIT) unveiled the start of Great British Design, a year-long programme of events that will showcase the UK’s exceptional talents and expertise in design and increase creative collaboration with Hong Kong, bolstered by the largest ever delegation of British designers to visit Hong Kong, led by Sir John Sorrell.

L-R: Edmund Lee, Executive Director of Hong Kong Design Centre; Paul McComb, Director-General of DIT in Hong Kong; Jenny Koo, Director of Service Promotion at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council; Victor Lo, Director of Hong Kong Design Centre; Andrew Heyn, British Consul General to Hong Kong and Macao; Pro

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The pinnacle of the campaign will be Business of Design Week (BODW) in December 2019. BODW is Asia’s premier design event organised by the Hong Kong Design Centre, for which the UK has been named official Partner Country.

As the Hong Kong SAR Government’s strategic partner for promoting design, Hong Kong Design Centre puts great emphasis on curating an event that can foster the appreciation of good design, promote cross-industry collaboration, and drive Hong Kong’s creative economy development.

Eric Yim, Chairman of the Hong Kong Design Centre, remarked, “Sharing the same vision as the DIT about the role of design in shaping our collective futures, we are thus very excited to be partnering with the UK for Business of Design Week. Your support in bringing the best design industry leaders to Hong Kong will surely bolster the impact of the event, and foster a dynamic learning and exchange of ideas between economies, cities and industries.”

As part of BODW, British architects Aedas unveiled during the launch event their design for the 1,000m² pavilion which will act as the centrepiece of the Partner Country collaboration, inspired by the geography of the UK. In the words of Max Connop, Aedas’ Global Design Principal, “the concept for the British pavilion represents a blend of science and nature; the roof evokes waves, wind

First look of the UK pavilion, designed by British architects Aedas, was unveiled in a hologram at the launch event.

Prof. Eric Yim, Chairman of the Hong Kong Design Centre at the Great British Design campaign launch on 21 March, 2019.

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Aedas’ design concept for the UK Pavilion at DesignInspire

and sails, all of which represent the UK’s deep relationship with the sea as an island nation, and its historic use of its waters as a passage to connect with the rest of the world.”

Design the Future, Create Tomorrow Great British Design will investigate how design and design thinking will affect how we work, live, play and learn in the future. Through these four thematic pillars, Great British Design will grapple with the biggest issues facing tomorrow’s world, including: how technology has created new business models, industries and behaviour; what projected levels of urbanisation will mean for the way we live; how issues of sustainability and a growing number of discerning consumers will affect travel and consumption; and how academic research can help leading design industries gain a competitive edge for tomorrow.

WORK How is work being transformed by innovative design, radical ideas and technology? Audiences will discover how savvy businesses are evolving and collaborating to adapt to the changing creative climate.

LIVE From smart cities to autonomous transport, sustainable farming to alternative energy sources, the campaign will

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Aedas’ design concept for the UK Pavilion at DesignInspire

show how innovative solutions will be the key to determine both our quality of life and the health of the planet.

PLAY Consumers are becoming curators, choosing immersive experiences and brands that connect on an emotional level. Join us as cultural leaders explore how design, innovation and creative thinking will alter the future of fashion, luxury, art and sport.

LEARN Through talks and hands-on events, audiences will learn how leading sectors are collaborating with unique engines of creativity to gain a competitive edge, strategically linking higher education, research and business to help create the future of design.

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UK’s Creative Offer Great British Design highlights how British design and designers are impacting businesses, from innovative architecture to sustainable fashion. Design is key to building a successful creative economy. Over the last two decades, the creative economy has been the fastest growing sector within the UK (growing at twice the rate of the rest of the economy), providing over 3 million jobs and delivering over £100 billion a year to the economy.

As the UK has much to offer in the creative space and wants to work with other nations, BODW will provide the ideal platform and gateway to achieve this both in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area. The campaign will include a series of design events, demonstrations and opportunities to build a growing anticipation of the UK’s participation at BODW – trailing the ideas and work of the UK’s top designers and budding newcomers.

Paul McComb, Director General Trade & Investment at Department for International Trade, said: “The UK’s creative economy is one of the most powerful in the world, and collaboration plays a crucial role to its continued growth. I am excited about a year-long idea exchange between the UK and Hong Kong, which will boost opportunities for UK business while at the same time enhance Hong Kong’s position as a leading global creative hub.”

UK’s biggest ever delegation come to Hong Kong With over 120,000 participants from around 80 countries attending the event, BODW is Asia’s premier annual event on design, innovation and brands, where the world’s most outstanding designers and influential business figures exchange ideas, network and explore new business opportunities. BODW will consist of four components: Summit, Exhibition (DesignInspire), Education, and deTour.

There will be 70-80 speakers throughout BODW, of which around 30% will be from the UK this year.

Sir John Sorrell, co-founder of the London Design Festival and the London Design Biennale, will lead the biggest ever delegation of world-famous British designers to BODW 2019.

The delegation will include: • Thomas Heatherwick, designer of the UK pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo; • Anya Hindmarch, fashion accessorises designer and Chief Creative Officer of Anya Hindmarch; • Es Devlin, designer of the UK pavilion in the upcoming Dubai 2020 expo; • Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby, founders of architecture studio Barber & Osgerby who have developed collections for Swarosvski, Capellini and Magis; • Paul Priestman, designer and chairman of PriestmanGoode who leads a variety of transport projects.

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Paul McComb, Director-General of the UK Department for International Trade in Hong Kong welcomed guests at the launch event.

Want to be a part of the design delegation?

Hong Kong is the world’s 8th largest trading economy and benefits from being a gateway into Mainland China and the wider Asia Pacific region. If your company is currently ready-to-export and looking into opportunities in Hong Kong and in the region, join us as we showcase the best of British design at Hong Kong’s premier design event. Delegates will enjoy full access to the BODW main conference, exclusive networking and showcase opportunities, access to regional buyers and distributors, discounts for flight and accommodation and more.

DIT is looking for export-ready designers, relevant industry professionals, universities & academic providers operating across all fields of design, including: • Architecture • Crafts • Design Consultancy • Experience • Fashion • Furniture • Interiors • Lighting • Museums • Product Design • Retail • Visual Arts To find out about DIT’s delegation offer and to register your interest, visit: http://events.great.gov.uk/bodw2019 DIT is looking forward to all the collaboration opportunities the Great British Design Campaign and BODW will bring to Hong Kong and the UK. To find out more about partnership and sponsorship opportunities with DIT at BODW 2019, please contact us at DITHongKong@fco.gov.uk.

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CASE STUDIES

Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge

ZHANGJIAJIE GLASS BRIDGE, CHINA The Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge, built several years ago has been reaffirmed as an architectural and engineering marvel, having won a multitude of awards along the way right up until 2018.

The ‘World of Innovative Glass Lamination Solutions’ – an international design competition for projects using laminated glass or laminated safety glass – culminated in an award ceremony at glasstec in October 2018 in Düsseldorf. The winner in the Resilience category was He’nan Fuxin Glass with the spectacular Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge project in China.

At 430 m long and 260 m high, it was the world’s longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge at the time of its opening in 2016.

The bridge incorporates glazed elements comprising large 3 x 4 m laminated glass panels. At 50 mm thick, the panels are made of three layers of 16 mm low-iron glass, with two layers of SentryGlas® interlayer sandwiched between them.

The glass bridge also won the Arthur G Hayden Medal in the 35th International Bridge Conference (IBC), the pre-eminent arena for the world’s bridge industry. The IBC annually recognizes individuals and projects of distinction, with seven awards in honour of distinguished engineers who have had a significant impact on the bridge engineering profession worldwide. The medal is awarded for a single recent outstanding achievement in bridge engineering demonstrating innovation in special use bridges such as pedestrian, people-movers, or non-traditional structures, according to IBC guidelines.

In this article, Hain Dotan, the architect, walks us through once again reminding us in detail of this mind boggling engineering feat, taking us on a personal exposé into the concept, design and significance of this project that still stands sturdy in the engineering sector, 2 years after its completion. This report has been re-published with extracts from Challenging Glass and additional input from Professor Dotan.

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Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge

Sympathy for Nature and Incredible Fortitude The glass bridge over the Grand Canyon of Zhangjiajie, China, shows sympathy for nature and incredible fortitude in the face of demanding winds, foot traffic and operating conditions.

At 300 m (984 ft) above the canyon floor, the 385 m (1,263 ft) long and six meters (19.7 ft) wide bridge over the Grand Canyon of Zhangjiajie is the world’s tallest and longest pedestrian glass bridge.

The thin horizontal bridge, which incorporates a transparent glass floor and side suspension cables, has been designed to accommodate up to 800 visitors, so the glazing solution deployed by the architects and engineers had to be incredibly robust. For such a demanding application, there was only one real option – the use of laminated glass panels incorporating SentryGlas® Ionoplast interlayers from Trosifol®.

Offering outstanding immersion within the surrounding canyon and mountains – which were the inspiration for some of the breathtaking scenes in the movie Avatar – as well as an unparalleled view of the canyon floor for walk-on visitors, the bridge also features the world’s highest bungee jump and will serve as a stage for dances, fashion shows and cultural events.

According to the architect, Professor Haim Dotan, founder of Haim Dotan Ltd. Architects and Urban Designers: “Out of respect for the beauty of nature, the bridge had to disappear… this was my challenge in the design process.

We therefore put our heart, vision and love of nature into creating a bridge, which had the least impact on the surrounding natural beauty.”

“We immediately conceived the glass floor,” he continues, “in order to make the bridge transparent. A structural girder design, suspended from cables, was devised to eliminate the need for bulky three or four meter (9.8 to 13.1 ft) bridge beams and to create a slim profile with a girder beam depth of just 60 cm (23.6 in) for a 400-meter (1,312 ft) span length – a record in Chinese engineering and

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Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge

Press representatives and visitors were invited to repeatedly strike examples of the panels with sledge hammers, then to walk and jump on them to demonstrate the interlayer’s capability to absorb shocks and to maintain the structural integrity of the panel - even under extreme duress.

bridge technology. In order to further integrate the bridge into the surrounding nature, the four suspension towers are covered with trees and plants, assimilating them into the green canyon cliffs beyond.”

The project, which was developed by the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Tourism Management Co. Ltd. in collaboration with the architects and structural engineering firm BRDI - China Railway Major Bridge Reconnaissance & Design Institute Co. Ltd., incorporates glazed elements comprising large 3 x 4 m laminated glass panels. At 50 mm (1.97 in) thick, the panels are made of three layers of 16 mm (0.63 in) low iron glass, with two layers of SentryGlas® interlayer sandwiched between them.

The structure of the bridge and the panels were subjected to incredibly rigorous testing prior to fabrication and construction. Six months’ worth of wind tests were performed in the Wind Testing Laboratory at Hunan University in Changsha, with wind velocities reaching 56 m/s (183.7 ft/s), or 201.6 km/h (125.3 mph). Furthermore, the glass sections were subjected to extremely demanding load and deflection tests. As well as experiencing extreme loads up to 40 tons, the 3 x 4 m panels showed a deflection of just 2.16 cm (0.85 in) under a 20 ton load.

At 430 m long and 260 m high, it was the world’s longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge at the time of its opening in 2016. The bridge incorporates glazed elements comprising large 3 x 4 m laminated glass panels. At 50 mm thick, the panels are made of three layers of 16 mm low-iron glass, with two layers of SentryGlas® interlayer sandwiched between them.

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Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge

Nature is beautiful as is. One wants to make the least impact upon it. Therefore, the Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge was designed to be invisible as possible – a thin white bridge disappearing into the clouds, into the fog.

A thin horizontal bridge incorporating a transparent glass floor and side suspension cables, it creates an experience of being in pure nature while suspended in mid-air, between heaven and earth, like a butterfly with its wings open wide. Hundreds of meters above a canyon, it is without doubt a Bridge of Wonder, a Bridge of Courage, a Bridge of Love.

I called it “Bridge of Courageous Hearts” and wrote a poem:

Floating in a cloud With open heart I love you Professor Haim Dotan

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Extensive engineering studies and tests were also conducted to determine aero elasticity, fluttering effects, gravitational stiffness, vibrations, structural dynamics and pedestrian effects. As a result of these tests, special measures were devised to ensure that structural designs for wind resistance, safety and pedestrian vibration requirements were met through the use of various shockabsorbing technologies coupled to damping and anti-vibration mechanisms. This was helped in part by the stiffness exhibited by panels incorporating SentryGlas® interlayers.

The panels in the bridge were installed by He’nan Chengjian Decoration Engineer Co. Ltd having been laminated by He’nan Fuxin Glass Co., Ltd. The General Manager at He’nan Fuxin Glass Co., Ltd explains: “The decision to use SentryGlas® was made jointly by the developer, architect, engineer and us, the laminators. We considered a number of different interlayers, but after significant testing and comparison studies SentryGlas® simply offered us better performance in terms of its glass-postbreakage capabilities, high light transmittance and its enhanced durability versus any other interlayer.”

The bridge, which opened to the public on August 20th 2016, has proved incredibly popular, so much so that it had to be closed for a while in order that the owners could improve the parking and ticketing infrastructure to cope with the influx of visitors. In terms of sheer adrenalin, visitors’ concerns about the use of glass in the structure have been allayed by some very public demonstrations of robustness.

Press representatives and visitors were invited to repeatedly strike examples of the panels with sledge hammers, then to walk and jump on

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Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge

them to demonstrate the interlayer’s capability to absorb shocks and to maintain the structural integrity of the panel - even under extreme duress.

Architect Professor Haim Dotan – Haim Dotan Ltd. Architects and Urban Designers Installer He’nan Chengjian Decoration Engineer Co.,Ltd Laminators He’nan Fuxin Glass Co., Ltd Developer/Owner Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Tourism Management Co. Ltd Structural Engineer BRDI - China Railway Major Bridge Reconnaissance & Design Institute Co. Ltd.

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One Fen Court, London Complex façade geometries and diversity of materials make this building…

Crystalline crown with iridescent stripes

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…more than the sum of its architectural parts A glazed crown on top of the building, spanning from level 10 up to 14, will become the eyecatcher of the new One Fen Court in the City of London. The closed cavity façade (CCF) with its kinks and inclinations features dichroid glass which offers an array of colours changing in dependence of daylight and weather conditions. Daylight enters the large office rooms from all four sides. The building also offers spaces open to the public, such as the unique rooftop garden with exceptional 360-degree views of the City, numerous retail space at the lower levels and a new public passageway at street level.

Jürgen Wax – Josef Gartner Gmbh, a Permasteelisa Group Company In February 2019, the rooftop garden on the 69 meter high building was opened to the public – one of the largest roof gardens in London. Eric Parry Architects designed the iconic building which is characterized by minimal yet sharp geometries. The façades even increase the overall complexity by an inclined and folded CCF and a diversity of façade types and materials.

Josef Gartner GmbH, a company of the Permasteelisa group, designed, engineered and produced for One Fen Court a 10 meter high steel mullion-transom façade at ground level using precast concrete cladded pillars. In the unitized main façade more than 20,000 terracotta plates with 30 different shapes were integrated. Its appearance changes due to the flip-flop paint that reflects light at different angles from the metallic painted surface of the brise soleil profiles used as sunscreen louvres.

For the first time, dichroic glass has been used for the outer pane of a CCF façade. Iridescent strips of the CCF are producing colourful effects both inside and outside the building.

Even the inclined and kinked individual panels have been fitted with complex aluminium sun-

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screen louvres inside the closed cavity of the façade. As a closed double-skin curtain wall, this CCF technology provides excellent noise protection (Rw= 48 dB) as well as thermal insulation (Ucw= 1.3W/m2K and Ug= 1.1W/m2K).

A building of a hundred views One Fen Court lies at the heart of the City of London’s banking, insurance and commercial sector near to the Lloyd´s building, which incidentally also features a Gartner façade, the building is 300 meters from 20 Fenchurch (affectionately known as the Walkie Talkie), with a main façade designed and produced

by Permasteelisa and the roof construction for the Skygarden realized by Gartner. Generali Real Estate as owner of the site at 116120 Fenchurch Street and 10-14 Fenchurch Avenue hired architect Eric Parry in 2006, who proposed a tower of similar height to 20 Fenchurch Street. But Parry had to find a compromise between the client and the City of London planners. So he cut down the scheme.

A park on the roof and open space below with extra room for pedestrian movement through the City, should compensate the uncomfortable height of the building for this site.

One Fen Court is an iconic building with a dynamic urban presence, it’s visible down the City´s many lanes and streets; a building of a hundred views“, explains Eric Parry, who therefore suggested a glass crown for this iridescent building. „One Fen Court is a building that represents a sustained dialogue between the planning authority, the client and the architect to create a building that is more than the sum of its architectural parts. It is a civic as well as a commercial building and it creates a new convivial horizon within the emerging taller buildings of the Eastern cluster.“ The project is subdivided into three superimposed parts. Vertically, it is structured by pre-cast concrete and terracotta tile cladded pillars and horizontally, by iridescent brisesoleil profiles and the gleaming strips of dichroic foils. The ground level offers a prominent street presence with shops, bank offices and a HQ style entrance solely for floors 1 and 2. A spacious through-passageway retains a historic link between Fenchurch Street and Fenchurch Avenue. Inside there is a curated

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One Fen Court, London art space featuring a 1,900 sq ft LED ceiling that displays a live feed of the view from roof level and video art, as well as stylish retail units. From here, vistors can catch a lift to the restaurant and the roof. Three units face into the hall, two have prominent street corner locations. It will be „a city blockbuilding that speaks to the street“, Eric Parry.

The commercial office space of the main building starts on the first floor, which is 9 meters above ground level. The glass crown, from levels 10 to 14, which is set back from the main building, is used for offices and a restaurant on the 14th floor. Office floors with a ceiling height of 2.75 m are virtually column-free and offer large, efficient and flexible offices with natural light on all four sides. Fen Court offers a total of 39,000 sqm of office space on 13 floors as well as 2,500 sqm retail space.

2,800 sqm of free public rooftop garden with a 360-degree panorama The free public rooftop garden on the 15th floor is one of the most exhilarating vantage points in the City of London and allows for stunning views in the open air with a 360-degree panorama on 2,800 sqm. Designed by German architects Latz + Partner this garden includes plants inspired by English country gardens with espaliered fruit trees, 79 wisteria trees, 5,000 bulbs and a 200 ft long recessed flowing water feature.

For members of the public, the rooftop garden is free to visit with no booking required. The 207-capacity garden will even open every Saturday and Sunday. Chris Hayward, Chairman of the Planning and Transportation Committee at the City of London Corporation, said: „I especially look forward to the warmer months when the garden will be in full-bloom, complementing the success and popularity of the SkyGarden at 20 Fenchurch Street and the roof terrace at One New Change (which also features a Gartner façade, J.Wax) as a weekend destination for Londoners and visitors alike. Fen Court is an example of the type of developments that the draft local plan ‘City Plan 2036’ proposes for the future of the City.

With a free public space, a pedestrian route between Fenchurch Street and Fenchurch Avenue creating more space at ground level, and

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One Fen Court, London

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the garden, which goes above and beyond our urban greening proposals.“ Also Tina Paillet, Senior Executive at Generali Real Estate, was excited, when the garden opened in February 2019: „The garden is the crowning achievement of Fen Court, an innovative development where new technologies blend with tradition and nature to create a unique office and retail environment that will benefit both occupiers and visitors. The building is recognisable at a glance and destined to become a landmark.in the City of London“

Sustainable façade types with high thermal and acoustic insulation and a high level of comfort One Fen Court will hold the now-standard mix not only of a green location with free public space and the roof garden, but also for the mix of office and retail spaces. The building is designed to achieve the BREEAM Excellent certification thanks to sustainable façade types, with high thermal and acoustic insulation and a high level of comfort.

Gartner has clad Fen Court with a 17,930 sqm façade of various types which have been specifically designed for the individual parts of the building. A particular challenge for façade design, planning and engineering has been the complex geometry of the building with its sharp edges and the diversity of materials requested.

Intricate Technical Detail The 3,650 sqm steel stick-system façade at ground level contains 10m long steel frames.

The pillars have been clad with precast concrete parts in varying sizes and with a weight of up to 7 tons. Generally, these concrete parts are approx. 1m wide and 5m high. For the ground floor level, a number of different glass types have been used, partly with translucent PVB interlayer “Vanceva Artic Snow” or with black screenprint RAL 9004. In some areas, the glass is fixed with toggles. This representative large-volume façade achieves a heat insulation of Ucw= 1.01 W/m2K or Ug= 1.0 W/m2K and a noise protection of Rw= 42dB. The 9,250 sqm main façade, from levels 1 to 9,

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One Fen Court, London is composed of panels with a standard size of 2.5 m x 3.8 m. This façade features more than 20,000 beige terracotta plates with 30 different shapes and a size of around 1m x 0.4m.

Another highlight of this façade is its sun protection with horizontal aluminium brisesoleil profiles and flip-flop paint between the vertical terracotta-cladded pillars. Thanks to this special paint they also change in color, between green-pink and orange-red as the sunlight changes. The main façade achieves a heat insulation of Ucw= 1.44 W/m2k or Ug= 1.0W/m2K and a nois protection of Rw= 42dB.

Inclined and folded closed cavity façade with dichroic glass The must-see of One Fen Court is the closed cavity façade (CCF) of the crown, from levels 10 to 14. Initially, an open double-skin façade had been planned. In a collaborative approach with the architect and the client Gartner demonstrated the clear benefits and advantages a CCF would bring to the project and showed how they are increasingly requested for sustainable building construction – a façade type which is also being installed by Gartner at the 288m high 22 Bishopsgate building in London. As a closed double-skin façade, a CCF provides a high degree of energy efficiency by profiting from very good heat protection in summer and in winter with a Ucw-value of 1.35 W/m2K and a Ug-value of 1.1 W/m2K for the Fen Court building. As compared to an open multi-skin façade, there are no costs for service openings, additional frames or fittings.

Furthermore, there is minimized cost for maintenance, no need for façade cavity cleaning and increased service life. In addition, the CCF allows for use of highly transparent glass in combination with a highly sensitive sun protection system in the façade cavity. Even complex geometries with kinks and inclinations can be realized, such as was used for the Fen Court building.

One Fen Court was clad with a 4,860sqm CCF with 21 differently inclined façade areas and folded panels. In order to produce these kinks and inclinations in the façade units (approx.

1.5m x 3.8m) the profiles had to be cut with individual dimensions and shapes. While the main façade was designed using proprietary digital design software PMF, the CCF was de-

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signed with parametric programming. It is the first time that dichroic foils have been incorporated in low-iron laminated glass with Sentry glass interlayer in the outer pane of the closed cavity façade. Like the flip-flop paint, the dichroic foil changes color depending on the light incidence and viewing angle. Despite varying inclinations and corners, the dichroic stripes run around the building perfectly, at the same height.

The closed façade cavity contain venetian blinds which accomodate the kinks of the units. These aluminium louvres run downwards vertically in guiding rails with varying distance to the glass panes. In general, the sunscreens are 1.4m wide and 3m high. They have been produced in a number of special sizes and in trapezoidal shape The CCF designed and engineered for this project is one of the most complex the Gundelfingen based company have ever developed.

Its complexity is due not only to the particular geometry of the panels, but also comes from the variety of materials and elements which have been specifically developed to meet the extremely high expectations of the architect and the clients. For the first time, such complex CCF units have been assembled on the new CCF production line at the Gartner HQ back in Gundelfingen/Germany, they have undergone cleaning in a special glass washing machine in order to safeguard quality, functionality and performance.

Façade logistics and installation in different steps Logistics and installation of the façade have also been a challenging venture since a bank subsidiary had to remain in the building during the demolition of the old structure and the construction of the new building. For this reason, Gartner had to install the façade in several strategic steps in partnership with the local company Permasteelisa UK who presented a sophisticated site management system..

At first, only the left-side of the old building was pulled down so that the bank offices could remain operational on the right-side of the building. Then, the building shell of the leftside was constructed and the façade installed.

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One Fen Court, London After approx. one year, the bank could move into the newly built premises and the rightside part of the old building was pulled down and re-constructed. Due to the fact that the installation had to be done in several phases, the façade units had to remain stored at HQ in Gundelfingen for up to six months.

Transport from Gundelfingen to London was made by lorry and ship. Upon arrival in London the façade units were transported inside the building to the individual storeys with one of the tallest freight elevators (this area now accommodates the lifts to the roof garden) and carried to the respective points of installation.

Gartner was able to deliver the project in time.

“Our performance throughout the construction phase was strongly influenced by the collaborative approach taken by main contractor SRM and all other stakeholders,” said John Linnell, Senior Project Manager of Permasteelisa UK. One of the many factors contributing to the smooth logistics and timely completion of this project was the good cooperation within the Permasteelisa Group who´s three brands are all currently cladding new developments each with unique façades in and around London, 22 Bishopsgate (Gartner), the International Quarter London (Scheldebouw) and Battersea Power Station Phase 3A (Permasteelisa), are to name but a few.

Owner: Generali Real Estate, London Architect: Eric Parry Architects, London Client and Main Contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine, London Façade Consultant: FMDC, London Development Manager: Greycoat CORE, London More information: www.josef-gartner.de

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A city that’s connected, smart, IGS covered part 1 of New Clark City in the Winter 2018 issue. Now (in part 2) we bring you an in- depth look at the design sensibility and thought processes and planning that go into such an ambitious project. A look at the design, resilience and sustainability of the project outlines a blueprint for future cities, one which considers the nuances of our time; a time where emphasis is placed on combatting climate change, natural disasters, ‘keeping green’, connected, smart and culturally sensitive.

Three of the best and brightest names in design, master planning and construction have come together to tackle what is a mammoth project that would put Clark on the economic map of the country and raise the benchmark in Philippine design and construction.

In what could best exemplify the modernday bayanihan, the development of New Clark City marks the first time Budji + Royal Architecture+Design, AECOM and Alloy, MTD Group Clark — in cooperation with the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA Group) — would collaborate.

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Filipino architecture Arch. Royal Pineda of Budji+Royal sees New Clark City as an opportunity to highlight the modern Philippine sensibility of design that goes beyond aesthetics; it is a showcase of Filipino identity in its most responsive and practical sense.

“Budji+Royal was brought in to bring the soul of modern Philippine sensibility that celebrates the `Filipino-ness’ inside us. But we need to be progressive; it needs to go with the times. The modern Filipino lifestyle has evolved and is in fact global,” said Pineda.

For Budji+Royal, New Clark City will be a “gift of luxury” that the Philippines can offer the world in terms of its design, honest to its environment, authentic in its purpose.

Pineda drew parallelism to the “bahay kubo” (nipa hut) in conceiving the design of the buildings.

“The bahay kubo* was designed based on logic. The floor was raised because it gets muddy when it rains; the roof is pitched high to shield the family from the rain. All of those were reactions to the needs of that time. The essence of bahay kubo* is not the look but the truthfulness.

The bahay kubo* was representative of that era. We need to present our own era by just being honest. But we must respond; we don’t need to copy from somewhere else, “Pineda said.

“In Philippine architecture, there is always that confusion because of our history of having been colonized.

They say we have been the melting pot… (I say) let us graduate from that. It is all about authenticity. Influence is good; it’s fine but you have to discover why it is good

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resilient, and sustainable for the Filipino lifestyle. If it is not our own discovery, we cannot claim it,” Pineda said.

This project would be so authentic that it is practical, he said. For one, the development will integrate lahar concrete in the structures such as panels and walls, making use of the abundant volcanic debris left by the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991 in the provinces of Tarlac and Pampanga.

In using lahar for some of the structures, Pineda said New Clark City will be defining a standard for the material.

“This is not a backyard thing because we are building a city, not just a house. There is modularity and multiplicity so there should be precision. Lahar is a good material but you need to add modernity, add technology in the system of putting it together,” Pineda said. A technology applied to the process will make the structures bullet-proof and water-proof.

According to Wong, the planners had at the very start decided to dedicate 60 percent of the development to open spaces and leave the conservation areas alone with due respect to the indigenous peoples inhabiting the place.

New Clark airport to introduce Modern Filipino design Perhaps, for the first time, modern Filipino architecture will have its imprint on a major Philippine airport, as the tandem of Budji Layug and Royal Pineda creates the architectural concept for the Clark International Airport

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“The modern Philippines will finally manifest itself to the world,” architect Pineda puts it succinctly.

Budji + Royal Architecture + Design is at the forefront of redeveloping Clark in Angeles, Pampanga, as the country’s model of a progressive city.

Among the firm’s key projects is the upcoming Clark International Airport Terminal 2. The Clark redevelopment is a project of the Bases Conversion Development Authority, with its president and CEO Vince Dizon and chair Greg Garcia. Budji+Royal is in charge of the architectural concept design of the new terminal in collaboration with the Hong Kong-based consultant Integrated Design Associates. The project is with Megawide.

The Budji+Royal firm is defining Clark’s urban planning and architecture based on its advocacy of Modern Filipino architecture and design—as the concept will be branded hereon.

Pineda says, “Although we Filipinos respect international standards, some of their solutions are specific to a foreign setting. As Filipinos, we must take charge of our vision. We can open up to the world to collaborate and learn the best practices but apply them in our own context.

“Once we create solutions and articulate them in our designs, they can become the modern Filipino standards for architecture. Other tropical countries can study how we are doing it. We are trying to generate innovations so that we can share them with the world. We can produce distinctly Filipino designs which make us authentic.”

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The new 100,000-square-meter terminal (about the size of Hong Kong International Airport’s Terminal 2) will complement the main Clark International Airport and the Ninoy Aquino International Airports (Naia) in Manila to accommodate the ever-increasing passenger traffic.

Tropical plaza The design bears a sense of place—the soul of the country. Envisioned as an architectural landmark in Pampanga, the terminal will have a façade inspired by the wavy silhouette of Mount Arayat, which is 16 kilometres away from Clark, and the Sierra Madre, the country’s largest mountain range.

The airport will also showcase the use of advanced and sustainable materials. Travelers will get around the terminal faster, see more views of nature and encounter less physical barriers.

“Apart from the architecture, we want to celebrate the culture of Filipinos—we greet and send off our loved ones…so the planning takes into account the comfort of well-wishers and greeters,” says Layug.

The send-off and welcome sections are open areas, with gardens called the Tropical Plaza at the entrance of the new terminal. There will be restaurants where people can relax while waiting for the arrivals.

“The plan reflects the warmth of Filipinos,” says Pineda.

“This concept was an offshoot of our rehabilitation of Naia 1 in 2011. We are bringing this concept as our main

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DNA in what makes the Filipino airport distinct. Present your culture beautifully and efficiently so that the world will appreciate it.”

New luxury The project also rethinks the concept of luxury. “We have been timid for a long time. It’s about time we went bold but practical. Being bold doesn’t mean that we will overspend. A government building can be practical imbued with the new luxury of Filipinos—space, openness, lightness and not expensive materials,” says Pineda.

The ridged roofline of the sprawling airport echoes the outline of the surrounding mountains. The roofline will use long span metal and a glue-laminated (timber) structure often referred to as glulam.

The warm, tropical tones of the surface treatments let the structure blend with the landscape—an organic perspective, says Pineda.

As a nod to one of Pampanga’s famous cultural symbols, the parol or star lantern, the patterns of the lantern will be interpreted in the glulam.

Following international standards, the runway can accommodate several Airbus 380s and even a space shuttle, adds Pineda.

Cosy ambiance The interiors will echo another cultural symbol, the bamboo. It must be noted that Layug earned fame here

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Clark International Airport (CRK) new terminal building

The design bears a sense of place—the soul of the country.

Envisioned as an architectural landmark in Pampanga, the terminal will have a façade inspired by the wavy silhouette of Mount Arayat, which is 16 kilometres away from Clark, and the Sierra Madre, the country’s largest mountain range.

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and abroad in the late 1970s by modernizing the use of bamboo in furniture—a feat that landed his line at Bloomingdales in New York, a first for a Filipino.

Since then, the bamboo—its limitless potential—has been seminal in the evolution of the Budji Layug design.

Instead of using traditional bamboo, the Clark project will make prodigious use of sustainable glulam or structural engineered wood in the interiors. “The cosiness is achieved in the naturalness of the material,” says Layug.

Pineda stresses, “We didn’t want to create a cold terminal. We wanted the Filipino feeling. The interiors have the warmth of wood.”

The flooring will use locally sourced material, lahar from Mount Pinatubo. It will mimic a terrazzo or marble finish for an understated elegant look.

The pitched ceilings will create the grandeur of the outdoors. “They reflect the organic shape of the mountains.

The different heights lend the feeling of dynamism and blending with the landscape. When you enter the space, you are in awe,” says Layug.

Pineda cites another design trademark of the firm—permeability or transparency and unimpeded flow of space.

Vast expanse of glass will allow a majestic view of Mount Arayat.

The design is anchored on a function—to help alleviate the stress of visitors and travellers. The Clark terminal is to be completed in 2019.

Layug notes that when Filipinos leave the country, they are full of excitement on seeing new things abroad. But when they return, instead of feeling well-rested, they feel

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gloomy. “Everything looks so Third World,” says Layug.

For him, Clark Terminal 2 must herald a renaissance.

“This airport will make us happy to come home. Something like this signals that the Philippines is stepping up on its modernity. It will show the world that we are in business. Everybody will have pride that the country is moving forward,” says Layug.

A city that breathes New Clark City’s masterplan calls for an unprecedented 60 percent of land as open space.

The quality of a great city is measured not by what is built, but what is left open. For Jan Gehl, the godfather of public space, urban design has a clear hierarchy: “First life, then spaces, then buildings— the other way around never works.” Although the concept of cities themselves are rooted in the public realm, they have been vigorously ignored in much of modern-day planning.

Today, cities are fighting to bring back public, open space as challenges such as climate change, density, and mobility threaten quality of life. In fact, United NationsHabitat deemed public space so crucial it received mention as one of the Sustainable Development Goals and is even part of a follow up provision titled the “New Urban Agenda”. New Clark City aims to set a new bar for master planned cities.

Central to this goal is the 60 percent of land that is designed as open space. In a recent study, U.N.-Habitat found that the most successful cities allocate 50 percent to open space; 30 percent of which consists of streets

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Today, cities are fighting to bring back public, open space as challenges such as climate change, density, and mobility threaten quality of life. In fact, United NationsHabitat deemed public space so crucial it received mention as one of the Sustainable Development Goals and is even part of a follow up provision titled the “New Urban Agenda�. New Clark City aims to set a new bar for master planned cities.

New Clark City Aquatics Centre

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and 20 percent to other public spaces like parks, playgrounds, and markets. The percentage for New Clark City is rare at the international level—and is unprecedented for a Philippine city.

A 2010 study of Metro Manila found there are five square meters of green space per person, well below the recommended World Health Organization (WHO) minimum of nine square meters per person. The amount of space is not the only indicator of a liveable city. Green space should be integrated into daily life, which is why the WHO also advocates that all urban citizens live within a 15-minute walk to green space. In New Clark City, there is not only plenty of public space, but it is the fabric that weaves the city together. The percentage of open space in New Clark City is high. While it may be counterintuitive to leave valuable land unbuilt, the justification behind this ratio is three-fold: to create a liveable environment for people, ensure resilience, and increase the value of investment.

Working with what’s there The term masterplan often leads people to believe a city rises from a blank slate. One of the first moves in designing a new city is paying attention to what already exists.

For New Clark City, the masterplan integrates an ambitious portfolio of investments around a carefully carved open space network, protecting existing features and integrating new ones.

Zooming out, at the boundaries of the site, the hills will be preserved in their natural state. The extensive tree cover is crucial to absorb rainfall and prevent runoff and

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in helping to cool and clean the air around the city’s core.

Zooming in, the city is defined by two rivers, the larger of which forms the spine of the urban grid. The programming around the river will be a prime public space for leisure, recreation, and culture. Preserving these rivers ensures the natural retention of floodwaters.

The creation of lagoons in target areas provides additional retention and brings a refreshing visual to the landscape. The rivers lead to a large park, which is one of many still being designed. As the development evolves, public parks will be integrated based on the balance of residential, commercial, and civic uses.

Streets are the most common open space in a city. In New Clark City, they go well beyond the use as a roadway.

The streets follow the grid model famous for making cities such as New York easy to navigate. Within this grid, people will enjoy commuting along wide shaded sidewalks and bike lanes. The streets are a living part of the city as a key to green infrastructure, with the integration of bioswales and permeable pavement to mitigate flooding by managing stormwater. These designs follow an international trend to maximize streets as primary urban places.

Although open space is often thought of as land, sight lines and air flow also influence urban design. New Clark City considered a careful balance of densities and positioning of buildings to capture the natural wind patterns in the area, allowing for valuable urban ventilation. From the green to the blue, this will be a city that breathes.

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In New Clark City, there is not only plenty of public space, but it is the fabric that weaves the city together. The percentage of open space in New Clark City is high.

While it may be counterintuitive to leave valuable land unbuilt, the justification behind this ratio is three-fold: to create a liveable environment for people, ensure resilience, and increase the value of investment.

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ronmental trials, attract and retain a talented workforce, and protect the investments that go into building a new metropolis. In other words, open space is at the heart of sustainability.

Resilient Growth Developers of New Clark City aren’t just taking a long 360-degree view of resiliency— they’re making it into a reality.

In the first ever Urban Resiliency Summit organized by 100 Resilient Cities, a non-profit put up by the Rockefeller Foundation, it was pretty much made clear that the state of transportation, poverty, public health—different stresses that a city experiences every day, or cyclically— put a community in as much risk as a super storm, or a heatwave. For the 500 urban planners and leaders that made it to the summit in July 2017 in New York City, this wasn’t breaking news. Boston’s Chief Resilience Officer, Dr. Atyia Martin, said, “Resilience is not about dealing with foods or earthquakes, but encompasses everything from financial stability to social equity.”

“Resiliency is the ability to bounce back better, but also the ability to not have to bounce back as much,” explains Sylvester Wong, vice president of AECOM, which has partnered with Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) to develop the Philippines’ first and largest fully resilient city. “It’s got three stages—planning for the unexpected, handling the unexpected at the time of the unexpected, and third, it’s what you do afterwards.”

“Resiliency” is part of the three-pronged approach AECOM and BCDA are utilizing in envisioning New Clark City.

The other two are “Investability” and “Connectivity”.

“Resiliency” is part of the three-pronged approach AECOM and BCDA are utilizing in envisioning New Clark City (NCC), a master-planned community with an unmatched ratio of green space, a spanking new government centre, smart buildings, and integrated transport systems, located in 9,450 hectares in the vicinity of Clark Freeport Zone and Clark International Airport. The other two lines of the masterplan trident are “Investability” and “Connectivity”, which in themselves make for, glibly put, a zombie-apocalypse-proof city.

In the Philippines, however, this holistic understanding of resiliency has yet to take anchor. Resiliency in most quarters is still very much about withstanding disaster brought about by the wide-scale and visible effects of climate change—having rafts ready during rainy season, or making sure children have a school to go back to when floodwaters recede. It takes a whole new way of thinking to take a longview and translate it into how it can work for a community in all minutae of their lives—and not just after the onslaught of a storm.

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Not that NCC disregarded this basic prerequisite of a disaster-proof city. “All the fault lines in the Philippines avoid that area,” comments Wong. “It’s an advantage.

Another is it not being next to the coast, where you have sea-rise issues.” Preparing for slow onset impacts of climate change and staying resilient should always be a priority. In a policy paper I authored in 2015, presented to the Philippine Congress to consider (read: beg for more) research on slow onset climate change impacts, important areas of focus for resiliency were discussed.

Among them: the facilities to properly gather and keep data; infrastructure that works and lasts; food security; preservation of community and culture.

Uncannily, New Clark City is equipped to provide these— and then some.

“Resilience, especially with BCDA and NCC, is the ability to have something which is thoroughly thought out, not just on the physical side, but the governance side,” says Wong. “It’s not just a physical design thing. It can be as simple a thing as (having the right) insurance. Financial literacy about a property. New Clark City has a lot of potential, and that’s sweet reassurance for investors and residents.”

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Although open space is often thought of as land, sight lines and air flow also influence urban design. New Clark City considered a careful balance of densities and positioning of buildings to capture the natural wind patterns in the area, allowing for valuable urban ventilation. From the green to the blue, this will be a city that breathes.

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Innovation – overcoming gravity

Vladimir Marinov,Director, Define Engineers, London

A car swinging upside down suspended only on two sheets of super-thin glass: ‘Gravity’ is a collaboration between engineers, architects, fabricators and suppliers showcasing the technological advances in glass processing, adhesives, high precision engineering and manufacturing. “Gravity” is a demonstration of a highly innovative, efficient and aesthetic design. The bold idea of ‘Gravity’ was conceived by us at Define Engineers and creatively enhanced

by Carpenter | Lowings’ architectural input, which resulted in an outstanding realisation by Seele’s manufacturing excellence. Two sheets of thin glass elegantly bonded to stainless steel edge strips are suspended from a tripod structure which holds the swinging car tantalizingly close over a podium. The glass sheets are 1m x 2m, composed of two 2mm heat-strengthened laminated glass panes. This visually and physically light structure without mechanical fixings impresses with its load bearing capacity.

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The dramatic image of a swinging car was inspired by a sculpture I saw at the Burning Man Festival in 2017 in the USA where I took some students to make an art installation in the desert. The sheer drama of using a hanging object to display the force of gravity was a gripping moment of realisation for me. Naturally, being a structural and glass engineer, I asked myself the question “What if we can hang an object on very thin glass?”. The notion of the car came about while I was visiting the research team at TU Delft Architectural Technology department, headed by Prof.Ulrich Knaack. He was heading up the organising committee for the 2018 Glass Technology Live for Glasstec and was on the search for inspiring ideas involving glass. Ulrich liked the idea of the car as a fun interactive way to showcase advances in glass and bonding technology. We saw this project in the category of fun but useful examples of technology inspired by Lisa Rammig’s Glass Slide.

Thin glass has, over recent years, been enhanced technically by the development of strengthening processes such as air-toughening and the awareness of Gorilla and Willow glass which are formed avoiding flaws which originate from contact with the molten tin of conventional float processes. At the same time bonding systems like TSSA from Dow have begun to suggest different ways of getting forces in and out of glass surfaces: previously with thicker glass systems minimisation of fixings meant development of point fixings, which of course focus forces at the points.

Thin glass in turn suggests that a more distributed fixing system would be necessary, and a strip fixing has a lot of potential in this scenario. In a car windscreen for example, thin glass suggests a continuous perimeter fixing rather than point attachments. This has significant and interesting aesthetic merit which has been a direction of exploration by glass designers for a while. Technically we as engineers were excited by the prospects, as the true structural implications of working with thin glass are only entering the consciousness of engineers. The advantages of using thinner glass are obvious in terms of weight, energy and transport cost savings but the aesthetic and technical challenges are still being understood. We as a team were gripped by the potential of this. Ultimately, the project proved a really interesting test-case and illustration of how innovation and change take place in the construction industry.

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Figure 1. Concept sketch by Luke Lowings

Figure 2 Concept sketch by Luke Lowings

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Figure 3 Core project team (Define, C|L, Seele) The key to the success of this story should be primarily attributed to the excellent team that worked very hard for nine months to turn the project to reality. We floated the idea approximately a year before Glasstec to Carpenter | Lowings (C|L) being impressed by their design ambitions which always resulted in spectacular architecture. We knew an idea as simple as hanging a car upside down requires meticulous attention to detail and proportion as well as careful thinking about human interaction. After all, realising simplicity is the ultimate challenge. We reached out to Luke Lowings naturally as someone who had completed a number of innovative and dramatic sculptures involving glass and steel. Having explored thin glass before, Luke and his team were inspired by the potential of the car project as a way of gaining more insight into the problem. For (C|L) the aesthetic component was the driver, working for almost thirty years in sculptural and architectural use of glass, this project seemed a natural extension of other aesthetic preoccupations with light, reflection and structure.

A few months later, Define and (C|L) approached Seele with an image for the hanging car. As the leader and innovator in the glass and steel industry, we knew they had the necessary mindset, technical resources, know-how and bravery to execute such project. Luckily, Seele were on the lookout for a good demonstrator for Glasstec and agreed to support the project. Luke and I had worked with Seele on a number of interesting projects recently and the beginning of the project

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Vladimir Marinov brought familiar faces, notably Martien Teich (head of R&D), Holger Krueger (Head of Design) and Andreas Hafner (CEO).

This trusted and well-connected group in London and Gersthofen formed the core of the design team with connections in Finland, the USA and Bulgaria, developed the design over about nine months entirely via video conference calls, nibbling at the edges of convention, always verifying the structural issues, but also willing to think outside the box. The dynamic on a project team like this is very interesting. Contemplating with Luke at C|L, “The drama of the concept forms a literal and metaphorical focal point for the group, and this human need for ‘something interesting to do’, while it might seem trivial, is actually one of the most critical drivers of innovation.

Often this ‘something interesting’ is working on a large or prestigious project, but it doesn’t have to be, because often procurement systems mitigate against risk or ‘one fabricator’ solutions which of course limit the advantage of an innovative supplier to offer new ideas.”

An innovation prototype is a successful model due to its relatively low financial risk environment. So the project became an interesting way of testing something that doesn’t require massive investment but provides a dramatic demonstration.

Once the team was committed, it was time to get to work and go through the stages. An iterative design process took place throughout the project, with design concepts (Define/ C|L/ seele), structural sizing (Define), 3D architectural modelling (C|L), detail engineering (Define) and final fabrication design, manufacturing and testing (seele). Seele was responsible for the preparation of the car as well as the design and manufacturing of the suspension points on the vehicle and the installation of the tripod and car structure, with over 20 members of their engineering, production, installation and PR teams.

The team at Define relied on state-of-the-art engineering methods to determine the behaviour of the 1.5 tonne car pendulum as it swings.

A simulation called Non-linear Transient Dynamic FE analysis captures the hanging and dynamic nature of the system, the results of which are used to design all components of the exhibit. The thin glass stretches under the dynamic 15kN load, which eliminates all bending and ensures the glass behaves as a membrane - the most efficient way to carry load.

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Figure 4. Fully detailed 3D model (Carpenter | Lowings)

Figure 5 Dynamic forces diagram (Define)

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Figure 6 Pivot detail with frictionless rotaion and swinging ability gral from the beginning. To keep things simple, we envisaged attaching the car to the ceiling but the Messe building is not designed that way, so we had to design a special structure to hang it from. Luke and his team proposed the simple tripod structure – echoing the triangular form of the glass arrangement and raising it off the floor to make the gap under it more apparent. They approached TriPyramid Structures who agreed to design and fabricate the hanging rod and bearing assembly which allows the free rotation of the car in any direction avoiding bending stresses in the glass, with one 9.5mm rod supporting the entire car.

The hangers and all brackets are carefully designed to avoid out-of-plane forces bending the glass, and the pivot at the top has been specifically designed for this project to allow maximum movement and minimum friction to reduce twisting forces in the glass planes.

The heat-strengthened glass is bonded using Dow TSSA to stainless strips within the hanger details which are in turn connected to the car and the specially designed and fabricated suspension detail at the top. The laminated glass

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uses SGP as an interlayer, and the glass, being heat-strengthened, has a breakage pattern which allows transfer of loads to the back-up glass sheet, through the interlayer. Note that the detail is one-sided to reveal the transparency of the fixing detail and preserve the clarity of the front face of the glass. This suggests how it could be presented in an architectural context for real projects.

A key feature of project is the transparent connection between the glass and the stainless steel brackets made with The Dow Chemical Company DOWSIL™ Transparent Structural Silicone Adhesive (TSSA). The permanent stress in the TSSA layer, estimated at about 0.6 N/mm², is further increased by the dynamic effects of the swinging car to ~0.7 N/ mm². Seele carried out structural performance tests to confirm the TSSA reliability utilising samples of thin glass with a size of 400 mm x 600 mm provided by Glaston Corporation. The test TSSA bonding area of 300 mm x 40 mm had to transfer a permanent load of 4.5 kN resulting in local peak stresses of about 0.6 N/mm². The short- and long-

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Figure 7 One-sided eccentric bracket detail

Figure 8 One-sided TSSA bracket

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Vladimir Marinov term tests were successful with an ultimate load capacity of 53 kN. Ultimately, this collaboration is a demonstration of how innovation can take place in the glass industry. Now more than even, we need an open industrial environment of technical innovation in which ideas can cross-fertilise and can be recombined. In a highly-litigious and intellectually protective environment these notions cannot flourish. We hope the project inspired and sparked new avenues of thought of how we as an industry can move forward and make things better.

Acknowledgements

Figure 9. TSSA testing by Seele

• The tripod and podium were fabricated in Bulgaria by BSYS, Ltd. • The bonding material was provided by Dow, along with technical advice and financial support.

• We asked TriPyramid Structures for technical and design advice for the central pivot detail. They were kind enough to provide their knowledge and also fabricated the actual components (and supported the exhibit financially).

• The glass was supplied by Glaston of Finland, fabricators of glass processing equipment who were able to supply thin heat-strengthened sheets of glass.

• The glass lamination with SGP was carried out by by Sedak.

• We thank Dr.Robert Akerboom for his kind support during the process as part of the organising team.

Key Facts

Figure 10 Hanging car at Glasstec

Total weight: • Car = 1200 kg + 300kg counterweight in boot; • Glass = 50kg (incl. interlayer) • Glass build-up: 2x 2mm Heat-strengthened, SGP-laminated; 1950mm x 985mm • TSSA Bonding area: 6 x 0.30 x 0.04 = 0.072 m² TSSA per panel • Load in each glass panel and TSSA bracket: 1 380 kg • Breakage capacity of: glass panel = 10 850 kg • Breakage capacity of TSSA per bracket = 53 000 kg • Frictionless 360° spin and max 15° swing of car • Car make: Fiat Coupé, type 175, 1.8 16V, 1990s • Collaboration of partners across 7 countries

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Stephen Katz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C Gensler, Chicago, U.S.A stephen_katz@gensler.com ABSTRACT Johnson Controls, a leading provider of intelligent building technology and energy efficiency solutions, hired Gensler to design a new headquarters for its Asia Pacific Region in Shanghai. The 35,000sm building is located in Changning District and is situated along Suzhou Creek. Johnson Controls and Gensler set high sustainability goals for the project which has resulted in the first building in China to receive all three top sustainability certifications; USGBC LEED Platinum, China Green Building Design Label Three Star Certification, IFC-World Bank EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) Certification. The building is expected to generate 44% savings in overall energy consumption compared to the local market standard.

Water usage reduction is expected to be 42% via its graywater recycling and storm water recapture facilities.

Knowing at the outset that the project would incorporate very high levels of cutting edge sustainable mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems as well as intelligent building features, the team was interested in exploring how the building could also promote an equally important goal which is building well-being design. The Gensler team focused on 3 aspects of building well-being design; daylight and views, access to usable outdoor space and creating socially connected spaces. Each of these features has implications for the form of the building in addition to the faรงade design. >

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Figure 1: Aerial View Johnson Controls needed a quality building to foster innovation, retain existing employees, attract new talent and let customers know that this is a company which designs and builds with cutting edge technology.

MARKET CONTEXT China’s need for new office buildings continues to increase year after year making it the world’s largest construction market. The Chinese government has taken notice and has mandated that almost every new building over 20,000sm meet China Green Building Design Label Certification standards. While these actions are a huge step in the right direction in efforts to fight climate change, there is an equally important need to integrate building well-being design along with energy savings strategies. Progressive approaches to the human experience in building design are essential parts of fostering productivity and innovation, and China is searching for new ways to elevate its service economy.

Centers of manufacturing are being replaced

by China’s smart cities. The Johnson Controls Headquarters Asia Pacific in Shanghai is a case study in combining energy efficiency, building well-being design and smart technology. The economic shift in China to a service-based economy means an increased importance factor for the design of successful office buildings. The quality of office buildings now means more than the quantity. As in US, European and Japanese markets, the office building in China has become a direct reflection of the values of that company for employees who work there and for customers

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who tour the building.

As David De Cremer and Jason D. Shaw have noted, “In a service-driven economy, customers cannot be lured in with cheap, low-quality offerings. Now, customers will demand highquality products, and for that they are willing to pay more. To differentiate your company, it thus becomes necessary to communicate to customers why you are in the business of selling this particular product and what value it brings to the customer”1. This statement is entirely applicable to office building design.

Johnson Controls needed a quality building to foster innovation, retain existing employees, attract new talent and let customers know that this is a company which designs and builds with cutting edge technology.

DESIGN AND SUSTAINABILITY Design Parti The site for the building is very narrow and has a 24m height restriction due to the proximity of Hongqiao Airport. This presented a unique challenge: how to create a sense of community on a linear site while optimizing floorplate efficiency. The solution was to create two long rectangular buildings to maximize daylight and views. These separate buildings were bent in opposite directions and then joined together, creating a large atrium in between that serves as a

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Figure 2: Massing Design Diagrams central community gathering space. Open circulation paths surround the atrium and each floor is linked by staircases to provide a platform for cross community connections, chance interactions and physical activity.

Ample research links these conversations across departments and business units to increased productivity and innovation, a hallmark of Johnson Controls’ approach to progressive engineering solutions.

Along the north side of the site is a large public park. According to city planning requirements, public access through Johnson Controls’ site to this park was mandatory. By lifting the north wing, we were able to create a green public walkway through the site without compromising Johnson Controls’ mandate for a single building. The design solution allowed an expansive outdoor setting for staff, public access to the park and offered employees daily interaction with nature in one of the densest urban centers in the world. A south wing was created to incorporate a Canteen and private courtyard which adds to the variety of onsite amenities and helps build community among employees.

of sustainable and intelligent buildings in the China. The Headquarters Asia Pacific is the first building in China to receive these three global energy efficiency awards: • U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Platinum Certification • China Green Building Design Label Three Star Certification • IFC-World Bank Group’s EDGE Certification

By lifting the north wing, we were able to create a green public walkway through the site without compromising Johnson Controls’ mandate for a single building.

Figure 3: View of lifted north wing

Sustainability Sustainability is at the core of Johnson Controls’ identity as a company. Their commitment to leveraging technology to solve energy efficiency problems dates to Warren Johnson’s 1883 patent of the first electric room thermostat. Fast forward to 2018 and one finds a company fully invested in smart building technology and with a progressive stance on fighting climate change. Johnson Controls’ new headquarters in Shanghai is the embodiment of their commitment to working in China and the Asian market which will have significant building construction growth for the foreseeable future. Gensler and Johnson Controls worked together to design a headquarters that would serve as a model

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Figure 4: View of Canteen courtyard

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Gensler • Underfloor Air Distribution System (UFAD) with a passive floor mounted chilled beam. This is a rare dual application in China.

• Decoupled mechanical system, radiant heating and cooling in the atrium to maximize occupancy comfort and reduce energy usage, ice storage mechanical system to reduce peak demand cooling loads.

Electrical

Figure 5: North wing with work areas

• In-building Johnson Controls Distributed Energy Storage Units (scalable battery based).

• 2,000sm of solar panels (PV and solar thermal).

• Intelligent LED lighting system with daylight dimming, occupancy sensors and integrated interior façade roller shade system.

• 750sm atrium skylight with integrated intelligent roller shade system.

• 6 hybrid and electric vehicle charging stations which enable employees to commute with a smaller carbon footprint.

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Figure 6: Atrium and skylight view EDGE certification was granted at both the design phase and project completion, and this recognition marks a first for an office building in China.

In order to achieve LEED Platinum and China Green Building Design Label Three Star and certifications, sustainability was a top project priority and paramount to the design approach. EDGE certification was granted at both the design phase and project completion, and this recognition marks a first for an office building in China. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, created the EDGE program as a green building certification system available in more than 100 economies.

• Rainwater collection system: rainwater is collected from 8000m² of roof area via a syphonic drainage system and stored in a 370m³ storage tank in the basement.

• Grey water system: grey water is collected from showers, hand washing, and HVAC condensate and stored in a 30m³ tank in the basement. The collected water is treated through an automatically controlled filtration system comprised of a normal filter, MBR system and an automatic chlorine dosing control system.

Landscaping • Green roof system for solar heat gain reduction.

• Low-maintenance site plantings.

Major Sustainability Statistics SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS SUMMARY: Mechanical • Optimized central plant with centrifugal chillers, centrifugal compressor magnetic drive water cooled chillers, Heat pumps and a JCI water-to-water heat pump.

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• 45.47% in energy savings annually, 42.27% in water savings annually.

• 20.82% less embodied energy using FSC certified wood-based building materials.

• Predicted above grade EUI is 4,276,422 KWH per year over 35,064m² = 121.96KwH/m²/yr excluding on-site renewable energy contribution.

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Figure 7: Terraced balconies linked to the Canteen courtyard

• Predicted above grade EUI is 4,111,422 KWH per year over 35,064m² = 117.25KwH/m²/yr including on-site renewable energy contribution (carbon offsets not counted).

• Energy cost saving compared to ASHRAE standard: 44%.

BUILDING WELL-BEING Building Well-Being Definition and Design Concepts Building well-being design can be defined as environments which have “strong positive effects on occupant well-being and functioning, especially attributes such as the amount and quality of light and color, the sense of enclosure, the sense of privacy, access to window views, connection to nature, sensory variety, and personal control over environmental conditions”2. Building well-being design is itself a sustainable goal and is essential in mega-cities like Shanghai, where dense urban environments challenge the way we work and achieve healthy lifestyles. Johnson Controls is investing in human capital by providing their employees with a progressive workplace design that mirrors the goals of their company. Environments that promote social connectivity foster innovation and have a direct benefit on quality of life.

The Gensler team focused on three aspects

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of building well-being design each of which has implications for the shape of the building in addition to performative values; daylight and views, access to usable outdoor areas, socially connected spaces.

Daylight and Views The long rectangular shaped floor plates created a perfect opportunity to provide access to natural light and views to landscaped exteriors. Workstations and collaboration areas are in close proximity to windows. In addition to reducing the amount of energy used for artificial lighting, this exposure to natural light offers psychological benefits during the workday as well as quality-of-life improvements such as sleep.

The views out of the building were also important to the design team. Surrounding the building with green landscaping reduces urban heat island affects but also provides an opportunity for visual connections with nature which are so important in an intense urban environment.

At the ground level, an outdoor Canteen courtyard off the dining area connects to a park along the adjacent Suzhou Creek. This outdoor retreat includes a water feature and is visually linked to the terraced balconies.

Access to Usable Outdoor Space Distributing accessible and usable outdoor space throughout the building both at ground level and above gives employees choice in where they work—focus areas, places for collaboration, and options for a change of scenery—not to mention the connection to green space many residents of large cities

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The open circulation paths around the atrium at this building provide a platform for cross community connections.

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often lack. Each floor has a terraced balcony where people can work outdoors or take a break. These build to a large two-level outdoor roof deck where casual gatherings or formal group meetings can occur. At the ground level, an outdoor Canteen courtyard off the dining area connects to a park along the adjacent Suzhou Creek. This outdoor retreat includes a water feature and is visually linked to the terraced balconies.

The sum of these areas is a network of distributed, usable and flexible outdoor spaces which serves as a productivity and well-being catalyst.

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FAÇADE DESIGN STRATEGY Façade System Goals

Figure 8: FS-1 with flat and curved units.

There were several important considerations for when designing the façade systems; the need for high thermal performance due to intense sustainability and energy modelling goals, adaptability to complex geometries with multi-directional curved and angled surfaces, the ability to accommodate

Figure 9: FS-1 Elevation, Section and Section Details.

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numerous transitions to outdoor spaces (including balconies, terraces and roof decks), the ability to handle the atrium long span structural system cladding needs, a focus on façade border conditions to achieve a tightly sealed building envelope. While the building has eight different façade systems, we will focus on three of the systems which were able to achieve a critical balance between sustainable performance, enhancing building well-being and design form and shape.

Façade System 1 (FS-1) Unitized Curtain Wall The major unitized curtainwall system is designated as Façade System 1 (FS-1) and is composed of custom extruded thermally broken aluminum mullions. The double insulated glass units (IGUs) are captured at the top and bottom and utilize structural silicone glazing (SSG) connections at the vertical panel to panel joints. Aluminum edge profiles at each vertical panel to panel joint provide sharp, clean terminations. The typical module is 1.5m by 4.4m. The FS-1 spandrel condition is rather tall at 1.5m owing to a raised access floor system and upturned concrete beam at the perimeter.

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m2K, a Shading Coefficient of .35 and an Exterior Reflective Value of 11%. This coating was specifically chosen for the balance between visible light and energy performance. Furthermore, the code required exterior glare study mandated a maximum of 11% reflectivity due to nearby residential buildings. The Heat Transfer Coefficient U-Value of the whole curtainwall system for FS1 is 1.817 W/m2K which is a 73% performance increase over code requirements. One of the most important façade design factors for this project was the window-to-wall ratio (WWR). Many award-winning office buildings feature WWRs exceeding 70% which result in substantial HVAC loads. The design team recognized the advantage of lowering the WWR and chose a high quality, well insulated and well detailed spandrel metal panel solution.

Curved geometries feature prominently throughout the design of this project. The flow of water from adjacent Suzhou Creek is mirrored onto the building at corners and façade border conditions. This meant achieving 3m to 2.3m radius outside and inside curved unitized curtainwall panels with curved IGUs and metal panels. There are no segmented façade applications.

There were several important considerations for when designing the façade systems; the need for high thermal performance due to intense sustainability and energy modelling goals, adaptability to complex geometries with multi-directional curved and angled surfaces, the ability to accommodate numerous transitions to outdoor spaces (including balconies, terraces and roof decks), the ability to handle the atrium long span structural system cladding needs, a focus on façade border conditions to achieve a tightly sealed building envelope.

Each typical FS-1 panel has three parts: • A 1500mm tall vented 3mm thick plate aluminum panel at the top. Behind the aluminum panel is an air space and a 90mm thick aluminum insulated back pan.

• A 700mm tall code required electronically controlled smoke exhaust window is in the middle. The smoke exhaust window has a vision glass IGU with an air space and insulated shadow box behind it. The window glass is fritted with a white high opacity dot pattern which serves as a gradual visual transition from the white metal panel above to the non-fritted vision unit below.

• A 2200mm tall vision unit at the bottom.

Grey silicone sealant and gaskets were used exclusively on the project for all façade systems.

The FS-1 vision glass is SYP (Shanghai Yaohua Pilkington) low iron substrates with a laminated outer light. The low-E coating is YKE0660 which yields a Visible Light Transmittance of 51%, a U-Value of 1.3 W/

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Façade System 2 (FS-2) Stick Fabricated Curtain Wall with GFRC Soffit The majority grade level condition is designated as Façade System 2 (FS-2) and is composed of custom extruded stick fabricated thermally broken aluminum mullions. The double insulated glass units (IGUs) are captured at the top and bottom and utilize structural silicone glazing (SSG) connections at the vertical joints. The typical module is 1.5m by 5.9m. At the top of the glazed area is a 650mm high code required electronically controlled smoke exhaust window. This exhaust window has a vision glass IGU with an air space and insulated shadow box behind it. The vision glass below the exhaust window matches that of FS-1.

The uppermost portion of FS-2 is a custom Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC) panel system. The GFRC panels are 15mm thick and are designed to act as a rain screen. A continuous water/air/vapor-proof membrane and substrate exists behind each GFRC panel. An air space separates the back of the GFRC panel from the membrane. The design team chose GFRC as the material to

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serve as the transition zone from the upper level unitized curtainwall panels to the grade level stick fabricated system for several reasons. Because GFRC can be cast into complex geometric forms, this material was able to accommodate the desired shape of the panels. This vertical wall element is set at bi-directional angles that then shifts and morphs to an overhead horizontal angled soffit condition. This geometry of this feature is quite complicated and was modelled using Rhinoceros software and transferred to Revit for final documentation.

Of critical importance to the design team was the final visual size of the GFRC panels.

From a design standpoint, it was desired to

Gensler have no panel joints parallel to the outer edge of the angled wall or the inner edge where it meets the ceiling and window system. This would have resulted in panels sizes of 3m by 5m which would likely result in GFRC panel cracking due to thermal and building movements. The solution involved working with the GFRC manufacturer to provide multiple smaller panels that were joined together post installation on site with a high elastic mortar backed by a high strength mesh fabric which is then bonded to the GFRC panels with epoxy. A coloured protective coating is then applied on site over all panels presenting a unified surface.

Another important aspect of the panel

Figure 10: FS-2 Photo at Entry and Elevation.

Figure 11: FS-2 Photo at Canteen, Plan Detail and Section Detail.

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design involved the connection details.

The GFRC panels have hidden steel angle connections on the back side which are then secured to tube steel framing members located behind the weather barrier and substrate. Each side of the panel joints have steel angle connections which means that the individual panels are restrained from moving. The high elastic mortar joint takes up panel thermal movement. This system took a substantial amount of investigation including full size mock-ups, but the result created a fluid surface which met the design team’s goal.

The GFRC panels provide a unique textured surface especially at night. This more varied surface serves as a material contrast to the smooth surfaces of the glass and aluminium panels. A narrow light fixture trough was integrated at the inner edge creating a dramatic night time effect. Separating the GFRC panels from the window system is a continuous 150mm high by 96mm deep aluminium channel. These small but wellcrafted details are important outer edge terminations for the GFRC system.

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Façade System 4 (FS-4) Terraced Balcony Assemblies One of the major building well-being goals for this project involved creating a distributed network of usable outdoor spaces. These are places where people can work outdoors or simply find a place to take a break. Locating numerous outdoor balconies across the building at every floor level had several detailing implications for the façade. The terraced nature of this façade also created detailing challenges. The cast-in-place concrete structural members were sloped back 30 degrees from vertical in order to permit more daylight to enter the floor which further complicated efforts to achieve a

One of the major building well-being goals for this project involved creating a distributed network of usable outdoor spaces.

These are places where people can work outdoors or simply find a place to take a break.

Locating numerous outdoor balconies across the building at every floor level had several detailing implications for the façade.

Figure 13: FS-4 Photo.

Figure 12: FS-4 Section and Section Detail.

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Complicated geometries and highperformance goals were not compromised but were instead finetuned and prioritized.

Gensler is very proud of the result we were able to achieve on behalf of and in partnership with Johnson Controls.

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uniform high performing building envelope across the façade systems.

The major façade detailing challenges for FS-4 involved maintaining a continuous layer of insulation and waterproofing. This was made even more difficult as the insulation and waterproofing materials require numerous transitions first from the window head, then to a GFRC clad soffit, then below a glass guardrail to a roof system located below open jointed stone pavers on pedestals with final termination to the sill of the window and door system. Careful attention was paid to waterproofing and insulation material compatibility which was reviewed with the Contractor at pre-installation conferences and during construction phase field observation meetings.

The GFRC clad soffit geometry is quite complicated and involves angled surfaces which face both skyward and downward at a 20-degree angle from horizontal.

A redundant waterproofing system was employed for the soffit with a continuous water/air/vapor-proof membrane (composed of a self-adhered rubberized asphalt sheet material) and substrate behind the GFRC panels as well as a continuous fluid applied waterproof membrane that was applied to the portions of the cast-in-place concrete slab which extends beyond the window systems. Both waterproofing systems marry up to the roofing waterproof systems inboard of the glass guardrail. While in United States markets, we would typically utilize fiberglass mat gypsum sheathing, the local Shanghai construction preference was cement board sheathing.

Incorporating balconies and terraces is a wonderful way to integrate building well-being design features. Additional care, however, is required with respect to maintaining high levels of building envelope performance and reducing maintenance costs. Water and thermal bridging management are two key areas to focus on. The benefits of usable outdoor space for building occupants are significant so it is important to treat the design of outdoor spaces with the same level of care as indoor spaces.

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Gensler the larger context that drives decisions for performance values, material selection and design compatibility. For the Johnson Controls Headquarters Asia Pacific this starts with the market context in China which is balancing construction sector growth and a recognition of the importance of high quality building design. Attention is being paid to office environments which promote notions of building well-being such as access to daylight, usable outdoor space and creating socially connected spaces.

The results can be dramatic for employee productivity, innovation, decreased sick days and the ability to attract top level talent.

The implications for façade design require increased attention to daylighting strategies, how to approach façade spandrel conditions, effective border condition transitions and great care when detailing outdoor spaces.

One can also never lose sight of sustainable building goals and how the building envelope needs to be a part of the overall energy use performance narrative. Many sustainable project metric results become the outward public face of the building in terms of sustainable ratings, tracking facility costs and returns on investment. The façade system strategy for this project benefitted from a continued effort to simplify details when possible to increase the chance of successful implementation. Complicated geometries and high-performance goals were not compromised but were instead fine-tuned and prioritized.

Gensler is very proud of the result we were able to achieve on behalf of and in partnership with Johnson Controls.

REFERENCES 1. D. De Cremer and J. Shaw, “What China’s Shift to a Service Economy Means for Its Managers”, Harvard Business Review, July 26, 2016.

2. WBDG Productive Committee, US National Institute of Building Sciences, “Promote Health and Well-Being”, Whole Building Design Guide, November 18, 2016.

3. M. Boubekri, I. Cheung, K. Reid, N. Kuo, C. Wang, P. Zee, “Impact of Windows and Daylight Exposure on Overall Health and Sleep Quality of Office Workers: A Case-Control Pilot Study”, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, January 1, 2014.

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Nike, Shanghai

North Glass Redefines the Future of Glass Facade Nike Shanghai 001, located in ShiMao Plaza, No. 829 Nanjing East Road, has been full of people from the opening to the present, and has become a new landmark in Shanghai.

The flagship store is Nike’s first high-end flagship store integrating digital and offline services. It brings Nike’s best products and services to consumers through experiential environmental design, driving the transformation of sports retail.

Nike’s custom-designed “air cushion glass” specifically echoes its identity as the world’s first high-end flagship store. The design of building facade is inspired by the combination of Nike air cushion technology and the speed and momentum of the athletes. It has a strong visual impact and helps create

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a work of art as well as a technologically innovative building. During the design process, there were concerns that this was an impossible task. However, the tides were turned when “China Northglass”, which provided high quality and jumbo size glass products for Apple Park and the National Theatre, gave the project high hopes! And the rest is history; the exquisité glass was produced by Tianjin Northglass, a subsidiary of Northglass.

“It’s a unique glass,” emphasises Dennis van Oossanen, who heads Nike’s direct retail

The Nike architectural glass curtain wall breaks the traditional slab glass design pattern, and the combination of high flatness and the “dynamic bubble” under the illumination of light complement each other; factors that contribute to the uniqueness of this flagship store.

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The main purpose of this experiment is to simulate the glass damage caused by a negative pressure generated on the glass curtain wall (simulating a hurricane).

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business in Greater China. Talking about the innovations of the store, praise was attributed to the special glass from Tianjin Northglass.

The Nike architectural glass curtain wall breaks the traditional slab glass design pattern, and the combination of high flatness and the “dynamic bubble” under the illumination of light complement each other; factors that contribute to the uniqueness of this flagship store.

The original design of the Air Max air cushion was inspired by the facade pipe which exposed in the interior of the Pompidou Centre. Nike also referenced “airbag aesthetics” to its building materials.

It “starts in architecture and returns to architecture.”

When it comes to the process of making this unique glass, the process is rigorous and extreme. The size is calculated by mold software and—edge treatment—prismatic design—slump bending— chemical tempering— laminating—insulating all contribute to the final output. Every detail shows the excellence and ingenuity of Tianjin Northglass’s glass products.

The quality is fully tracked in order to ensure the quality of the product. To make sure all the glass meets the request of the customer, Tianjin Northglass conducted

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thermal temperature difference tests and static pressure tests at the China Building Materials Research Institute and China Academy of Building Research respectively. In the following section, these two experimental methods are introduced:

1. Thermal temperature difference experiment: This experiment was used to verify the influence of the temperature difference between the shaded area and the area of direct sun irradiation on the glass. The simulation method: the middle part of the glass is heated by infrared light, and the glass edges installed in the 60mm area frame where the cooling water circulates inside (the position of the thermocouple is A=20 mm from the edge of the glass and B=120mm). When the temperature difference between adjacent AB points reaches 20°C, the temperature is kept for 90 minutes. If the glass is not damaged, it is increased at point B to 30 ° C and kept for 90 minutes.

2. Static pressure test.

The main purpose of this experiment is to simulate the glass damage caused by a negative pressure generated on the glass curtain wall (simulating a hurricane).

The test principles are shown in Figure 1.

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The pressurization method combines the two methods of pumping air outside the pressure tank and inflating the air inside the hollow layer. They are both introduced with downward pressure to the slump bent glass. The pressure difference between the two sections is the sum of the pressure differences of the laminated glass. Glass weight is not considered in the experiment.

Test principle During the test, the single piece of flat glass is also subjected to pressure generated by inflating the inside of the insulated glass cavity. To prevent the glass being damaged due to excessive deformation of the flat glass, a weight of 1000 kg is applied. By pumping the gas in the pressure box and inflating into the insulated glass cavity, the slump bent laminated glass is finally subjected to a pressure of up to 20 kPa, and the glass is still intact. (20 kpa pressure, equivalent to 2 tons of weight per square meter. each glass area is about 3.7 m², which means that each glass can withstand about 7.4 tons of heavy objects)

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In conclusion, we know that the production of air-cushion glass and the innovative methods used to produce it have created a unique and intriguing facade.

I believe that in the near future, when tourists from all over the world linger on busy Nanjing Road in Shanghai, their eyes will be firmly attracted to this unique building wall, and they will be impressed. We have created a permanent landmark standing in the commercial center of China! “North Glass not only leads the application of the large-panel transparent curtain wall, but also redefines the current appearance of the curtain wall!�

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Leading-edge design for a new living library in Helsinki “We knew there would be high demands on the glass, especially as it needs to withstand huge loads from the building itself.

Thanks to our capability to handle such large glass sizes and with Glaston’s ProBend machinery, we were able to supply the glass for its demanding use.”.

— Maija Kantelus, Sales Manager, Tambest, Finland

More about the project: www.glastory.net

Glaston Tel. +358-10 500 500 info@glaston.net www.glaston.net www.glastory.net

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TRIGONI Aims (mixed use and DMA) The scheme, aptly named Trigoni makes reference to the triangular plan of the towers and is based on the simple premises of creating a new city centre that emphasises connectivity, based on the principles of sustainable development. The area presents itself as a compact hub of interlocking functions with a selection of services that are alive and thriving around the clock. The objective of Trigoni is to form a genuine DMA (Density, Mix and Access) focussed block in Pasila. Pasila (Swedish: Böle) is a part of Helsinki, Finland, that is both a central-northern neighbourhood and district, bordering the areas of Alppila to the south, Central Park to the west, and Vallila to the east.

Masterplan/phasing Construction of the project will be 2 phases, beginning with the ‘starting block’, the first tower of 180 metres and 51 floors, and a second at 130 metres and 40 floors. These will be connected by a podium of restaurants, rooftop gardens and shopping opportunities. Later, phased development of the scheme will bear more mid- to high-rise buildings, towers and public spaces. Plans for the future include up to ten buildings that will be situated around the perimeter of the old rail yard; an area that will subsequently be developed into a park and sports pitches. The old rail roundhouse will be renovated into a vibrant cultural centre will cover an initial area of 67,000m2 out of a total of 150-200,000m2.

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“The most important thing is to know why you’re designing, who you’re designing for and where they come from; to forget preconceptions and approach each commission with a fresh pair of eyes, ready to learn.”

Professor Rainer Mahlamäki SAFA, Co-founder, Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects

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Functions Trigoni will add on to the already ‘underconstruction’ Tripla development as part of a movement to turn Pasila into a booming cultural, commercial and business-centric hub in Helsinki, Finland; a scheme that is set to become the countries busiest transport hub. LM and YIT’s new development will house a range of different services including homes, shopping, restaurants, offices, hotel and conference facilities; an endeavour that will see Trigoni as focal point that will thrive all year long.

Connected and Covered Covered and underground routes will connect the entire district. Essentially, pedestrians won’t need to step outside – a welcome respite from the harsh Finnish winter. Visitors or residents can arrive at the train station and walk through Tripla and Trigoni straight to their front door.

LM and YIT’s new development will house a range of different services including homes, shopping, restaurants, offices, hotel and conference facilities; an endeavour that will see Trigoni as focal point that will thrive all year long.

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Smart systems One of the main tenets of the scheme is to ensure the design and concept is human-centric, with a high priority placed on comfort, safety and ease of living.

To achieve this, in part, smart systems will be integrated into all levels of the scheme. Commercial and transport operators, offices, residents and guests alike are all linked into the same digital platform that will mean complete, seamless access to all the services.

For residents this means that all of the districts’ services are available at the touch of a button.

Through their interface the digital platform can be used for booking a sauna, laundry room or cleaning services – or even to order things from the shops or just find out what’s available.

The integrated system also means that the typical hotel services are available to both the guests and the tower block residents alike. The progressive housing concept in Trigoni offers the residents convenience that is usually available in a five-star hotel.

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Community space Despite our ever-present reliance on technology, people still need human encounters to balance out the hectic and demanding monotony of daily life in the city. The development needs to offer joy and experiences to users and visitors; public services and stunning views. The concept of the public space is extended throughout the towers, all the way to the top. Several stunning common rooms are placed throughout the towers, including one on the 49th floor. The outdoor areas are divided into three parts: Tower Square joining the two towers, Park Square and Roof Yards throughout the scheme.

The entire southern side of the design area will be developed into a significant recreational and cultural area for all the residents of Pasila.

The sweeping angular shelters of the podium, in places, double up as these Roof Yards – acting as shielded, quiet gardens above the main public spaces. In addition, more are located on the tops of the towers. These high-rising yards are secured by walls, but they still offer magnificent views through windows.

For residents, all of the districts’ services are available at the touch of a button. Through their interface the digital platform can be used for booking a sauna, laundry room or cleaning services – or even to order things from the shops or just find out what’s available.

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Triangles, facades and fitting in Trigoni aims to enrich the cityscape of Helsinki and life at the street level; creating uniqueness through elegance and reduction. The clear, triangular, geometric shape of a single tower offers the possibility to create a compact tower group. Simplicity, repetition and nuances—these are the cityscape-based starting points of Trigoni.

When combined with efficient interior layouts, a triangular floor plan can offer significant benefits to a cluster of high-rise towers when oriented with purpose: angling each individually means that views can more easily be directed past one another, more sunlight can be let through to each tower and also the ground.

Aesthetically they also look uniquely beautiful, giving a strong identity to Pasila.

Obstacles with regard to floor plan layouts have been efficiently overcome. Instead of being a problem, the corners have opened up the chance to create breathtaking panoramas in people’s homes, hotel rooms and offices; an intimate openness not offered by any other building in the world.

From the outside Trigoni applies a restrained Scandinavian idiom that fits into the Finnish cityscape. Each façade creates a slightly different identity, with two variations of façade tailored depending on the view that it will create with its backdrop. Denser or lighter spaced rasters, clad in natural stone, fibrous concrete or ceramic tiles, adjust the hues of the towers or highlight their individual characteristics. The end result will be a unified group of similar sculpture-like buildings where each one has its own, unique characteristics. The parts that are shielded from the weather, such as entrance roofs and indents, will include warm-toned wood.

Essentially, pedestrians won’t need to step outside – a welcome respite from the harsh Finnish winter.

Podium and Pavilion The podium joining the two starting towers will act as the main public centre of the scheme, creating a sheltered space between the towers that harks back to the market places, squares and streets of a traditional city.

Market and service functions, restaurants, and cafes are located in a cosy urban setting. The spaces open towards the streets and the courtyard, forming a lively pedestrian centre for the block.

A sculptural pavilion of approximately 250m2 in the middle of the square leads to the levels below the yard level, and onward to the Mall of Tripla shopping centre.

The pavilion also includes utility spaces: commercial, restaurant and public spaces. There is space that can be used as a public service area, exhibition space and gallery or, for example, as a cafe on the second floor.

The pavilion will be a jewel between the towers, formed by an elegant wood or steel structure and neatly clad in opalescent glass.

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By Timo Saukko, CEO, Finnglass

Heated glass for structural glass facades and window solutions developed, tested and proven in real winter conditions, for real winters.

Finland experiences long and harsh winters.

Days are short and in the northernmost parts of the country, temperatures can drop as low as 50 degrees Celsius below zero. When weather conditions get tough, solutions have to get creative. We have more than 30 years of experience in providing innovative, custom-made structural glass facades and window solutions suitable to withstand frigid climates with our leading-edge innovation — electrically heated glass. Electrically heated glass eliminates the uncomfortable “cold wall effect” causing convection and manifested by draft and cold radiation experienced when close to traditional, non-heated glass walls and windows.

It provides an energy efficient way to enhance comfort and utility of indoor spaces by eliminating space-consuming heating devices, such as radiators or fan coil units, usually installed all along the base of glass walls. Removing such devices releases space for operations, which can be used for workspace in offices or more tables in restaurants. Heated glass can cut down construction costs of new buildings and offer energy efficiency and a modern look to old buildings. Before getting technical about how

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these can be achieved, let’s have a look at how this technology has benefitted real-life projects.

Innovation for glass igloos The glass igloos at Kakslauttanen, Finland, are a prime example of how Finnglass helped a Finnish entrepreneur realize his vision of transparent accommodations to drive tourism for northern lights above the arctic circle.

Finnglass manufactured electrically heated glass panes mounted on tailor-made steel frames to achieve unobstructed views of nature while providing the utmost comfort.

Before finding the perfect solution, we considered insulated glass without heating and insulated glass with electric heating only on the interior glass, but both had their problems.

With insulated glass without heating, water condensed on glass, froze and collected snow on the outside. In addition, glass radiated cold inside and did not provide sufficient comfort.

When we added heating on the interior glass, we achieved comfort, but the outside surface of the glass globes still had to be brushed and scraped manually, which would have generated labor costs and breached the

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Igloos at the Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort in northern Finland are made with electrically heated glass to prevent cold wall effect, convection, condensation, ice and snow buildup. They offer an unobstructed view of the nature and a unique opportunity to enjoy the starry sky and northern lights in incredible comfort and peace.

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privacy of customers inside igloos.

The perfect solution was found in installing electric heating on both the interior and exterior panes of triple-glazed glass. This way we achieved comfort indoors and had snow and ice melt on outside surface.

The interior glass is heated to just one or two degrees higher than room temperature, eliminating all sensation of the cold wall effect.

Thanks to smart sensors, heating on the exterior glass is on only when it snows, making it energy efficient and highly reactive to changing weather conditions. Electrically heated glass is the only architectural solution that can prevent condensation and convection, provide unobstructed views at all times, and maintain customer comfort even if the outside temperature drops 15 degrees in less than an hour.

Construction costs increased with the use of heated glass, but the investment paid back within a year thanks to the international attention brought by incredible comfort in arctic conditions that in the end, led to a new, very profitable business. Pictures of the arctic resort have been viewed online over a billion times. >

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Mercury City Tower in Moscow, Russia. Crown and sloped roofs are made with Finnglass’s heated glass for energy-efficient indoor comfort and the safe removal of ice and snow.

Constructed by Josef Gartner GmbH.

Electric heating can be installed even in moving glass panes, such as these sliding doors measuring 6.5 meters in height and 12 in width at Mercury City Tower’s penthouse.

Comfort and safety in high altitudes Josef Gartner GmbH (a Permasteelisa company) contracted Finnglass to manufacture glass for Mercury City Tower’s crown. At 338 meters, it is the second-tallest skyscraper in all of Russia and Europe, situated in Moscow. Sloped roofs at lower levels were built by Yuanda, also using Finnglass products.

Again, cold climate played a role in challenging energy efficiency, indoor conditions and health and safety. Weather conditions called for heating on both interior and exterior glass, which Finnglass provided to meet requirements.

Electrical heating on the interior glass brought incredible comfort indoors from glass wall to glass wall. It optimized the utility of indoor space without the need for additional space-consuming radiators or fan coil units in proximity to the glass to prevent convection.

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When constructing skyscrapers in cold climates, the prevention of ice and snow buildup on rooftops is crucial in ensuring the safety of all people around. Snow and ice must be melted with heating on exterior glass to prevent it from falling to street from over 300 meters above. We built roofs with sensors to detect snowing, which turned the heating on to melt snow. Water from melted snow and ice is directed to gutters, also featuring heating, to ensure that water gets all the way down without freezing on the way, blocking passageways.

Since the heating is on only when it snows, costs are minimized, windows are kept unblocked, and daylight gets in.

The secret is in the coating Electrically heated glass differs from normal glass both in structure and features. In the example provided, the window consists of two tempered glass panes with the

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – EXTENDED TRAILER interior glass installed with heating. However, heating can also be in- stalled on the exterior glass, or even both, depending on customer requirements, climate and conditions.

Both glass panes feature low-E coating, but in the example, only the interior coating is connected to electricity, making it a heating coating. Low-E coating acts as a uniform resistance element warming glass evenly all across the pane. The second low-E coating on the exterior glass reflects escaping heat back towards the indoor space.

According to a study by the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT), 100 percent of electric power is converted to heat when using heated glass and over 90 percent of it can be directed indoors, making heated glass superior in efficiency to any other system or technology.

The edges of the interior glass pane have electrode strips, which lead electric current from a highly flexible double-insulated cable to the heating coating. The glass panes have air or argon in between and are held together with a sealant. Standard polyurethane sealant is used for glazing window solutions and silicone sealant for structural glazing. The use of point fixations is also possible for structural glazing.

With Finnglass’s cutting-edge technology, even shaped glass can be installed with heating to warm uniformly without transformers, saving on investment, usage and energy costs.

Energy efficient comfort To heat glass just enough to pre- vent convection and cold-wall effect consumes only 20 to 30 Watts of energy per square meter of glass. When convection and cold radiation asymmetry are eliminated, the room temperature can be lowed without compromising comfort.

We showcased increased comfort with our cold wall effect simulator at the semiannual Glasstec trade fair that took place in DĂźsseldorf, Germany, in October 2018.

Visitors were astonished at the incredible difference in comfort when standing next to heated glass with a Ufactor of 0.5, compared to normal insulated glass with the same U-factor.

Another typical problem is condensation, or the formation of water, on the surface of glass. The key here is to warm glass right above dew point.

When heating is installed on the exterior glass, it prevents condensation, ice formation and snow buildup.

When heating is installed on the interior glass, it can be used in humid environments such as swimming pools to prevent condensed water from leaking into the structures, causing damage.

Maximize floor space & save costs Having heating directly on the surface of glass eliminates the need for other heating devices aiming at preventing convection and freezing, such as radiators or fan

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There are no wires crisscrossing glass.

Instead, electricity is conducted via a low-E coating. The only way to tell that a glass is electrically heated is that it is always clear, even in cold climates. Example shows a double-glazed window, however, triple-glazing is predominant in Finland.

Convection is caused by the air temperature close to the window being lower than in the room. Cold air descends, moves across the floor and rises back up, causing a sensation of draft and cold radiation. When glass is heated just one or two degrees higher than room temperature, it stops convection and draft.

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – EXTENDED TRAILER coil units. These heating devices are usually installed at the base of glass walls and take up between 0.5 and one meter of space all along the length of a glass wall. With heated glass, you eliminate having to build extra space for fan coil units, which can lead to substantial savings in construction costs.

These cost savings in constructing new buildings more than make up for the initial investment in heated glass.

Alternatively, in old buildings you can remove fan coils and enjoy more operational space. For commercial spaces, this means additional workspace in offices and more tables in restaurants.

About Finnglass Finnglass has over 30 years of experience in developing and manufacturing electrically heated glass for structural glass facades and window solutions to achieve comfort and beauty in the face of the most challenging climates and conditions.

We believe that the highest value is achieved by innovating radically new solutions based on client needs, including leading glass and metal contractors around the

world. Our vision and values are driven by quality, assured by maintaining both product design and manufacturing in our premises in Finland.

Technical solutions are designed and tested using unique simulators and highly advanced analysis tools developed in collaboration with leading universities. For more information, visit www.finnglass.com.

Key figures • U-factor: standard 0.5–1.0 W/m2K • Efficiency: > 90 % of heat directed indoors • Comfort heating consumption: 20–30 W/m2 • Snow melting costs: ~ 1 Euro/m2/year in Finland • Power: 0–700 W/m2 for indoors, up to 3000 W/ m2 for marine applications (outdoor ship glass) • Voltage: 0–400 V

Fan coil units installed along the base of big glass walls can easily waste tens or even hundreds of square meters. They are usually installed to help reduce convection, but end up only moving draft further away from windows. With heated glass, you can eliminate convection without wasting space.

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GPD 2019 special workshop offers

Background icture: Central Deck and Areena in Tampere, Finland

Nordic Exposure to high-rise construction

Stefan Blach Stefan Blach, a Partner in Studio Libeskind, will be the opening speaker at GPD 2019. Mr. Blach is the Partner-in-Charge of the new landmark project, Central Deck and Areena in Tampere, Finland. The urban scale development is located on top of existing railway tracks in the heart of the city. The mixed-use program includes a multi-purpose ice hockey arena with a hotel, residential towers, retail outlets and offices. The estimated cost of the project €500 million. Mr. Blach has 30 years of experience in coordinating design teams and consultants for a wide range of cultural, residential and commercial developments like the Grand Canal Theatre project in Dublin, the Kö-Bogen retail and office complex in Düsseldorf which can be seen in these accompanying images. Learn more about Studio Libeskind from their website: https://libeskind.com

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The 16th Glass Performance Days Conference that will be held on June 26-28th 2019 has registered a record number of abstracts, some 230 expert presentations and workshops will be featured. The 20 workshops are part of the total program and the high-rise module continues its recent success with expectations of close to 160 attendants.

This special seminar is held in Espoo Otaniemi, near to our capital city Helsinki in the unique Alvar Aalto’s designed university building. The other Conference programs are based in Tampere. The high-rise seminar is arranged in conjunction with the Aalto University and coordinated by professor, architect Kimmo Lintula and Peter Smithson, BG&E Facades Pty Limited.

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High-rise construction is becoming increasingly popular in urban areas in the Nordic region where construction previously was more horizontal than vertical, remarks Mr. Kimmo Lintula .

The popularity of city development and the rising prices of properties are strong drivers of this development. Nordic conditions take their toll on buildings and logistics and the same applies to the requirement of operational efficiency and energy saving in particular. Keeping the cold out and the heat in during the winter time puts glass construction ahead of special challenges, Mr. Lintula remarks.

These are the issues we address at the high-rise seminar. Hence the name – Nordic Exposure.

The high-rise seminar has attracted a highly prominent group of speakers from different parts of the world.

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From the Nordic viewpoint a central issue is how to create outstanding architecture for the Nordic environment based on globally available design and technology, says Mr. Kimmo Lintula.

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Kö-Bogen

Peter Smithson of BGH&E Facades Pty of Australia teams up with Mr. Lintula as coordinator of the seminar.

Picture: KrischerFotografie

Occitanie Tower

Picture: Luxigon

The program includes Tim Leslie of Bates Smart Architects presenting an architect´s Design Review with Case Studies from Australia and the cold climate of the new Australian Embassy in Washington.

Andreas Hiersemenzel of HAS Façade Consultants presents a facade consultant´s technical review of HighRise Facades today with Case Studies including coldclimate Mongolia.

Michael Barlow of Urbis Planners deals with the subject of sustainable cities, a presentation well in line with the GPD Master Theme Smart construction.

Glass Appearances – Expressions of a Material The City of Hamburg has a new eye catcher in the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall, a combination of newbuilding and modernization. Architect Stefan Goeddertz from Herzog & de Meuron shares his enthusiasm of glass as a structural material: • Glass is one of the oldest artificial building materials.

It´s under constant development, research which makes glass one of the most advanced building materials. Working with glass needs detailed knowledge about its aesthetical and technical parameters. The Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall of Hamburg shows glass in different applications and expressions – flat and curved, various coatings, printings. The seminar presentation shows these expressions in the context of the parameters, design intent, development and production.

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The magnitude of the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall glass applications can be exemplified with some impressive facts. The building envelope consists of some 1100 glass elements that reflect the sky and mirror the environment.

The reflection effect of the glass façade is over 50 % while the penetration is a mere four per cent.

The total surface area of glass for the Elbphilharmonie is 22,000 square meters. A curved, 80 meter long escalator leads into the building and opens a city view through a glass panorama. A new facility, The Plaza, located at 37 meters height, combines the parts of the building.

High-rise seminar speaker Professor Stephen Selkowitz of Laurence Berkeley National Laboratory in the USA will present scientific views on Smart Glazing and its latest test results in laboratory and practice.

The complete program of the High-rise seminar can be accessed via link: https://gpd.fi/events/gpdfinland-2019/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Highrise_a4_03152019.pdf

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The Performers at Glass Performance Days

Brought to you in collaboration with the Organizing Committee of GPD 2019 ADAM NIZICH, Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc.

AJ PISCITELLI, FeneTech Inc.

Adam Nizich, PE is a façade engineer at Walter P Moore in Washington, DC. He has more than 5 years of experience in façade design and engineering. He is an active member of the ASTM Subcommittee E06.52, “Glass Use in Buildings,” and working groups for “Structural Use of Glass in Buildings” and “Design of Glass Railings and Guards and Balustrades”.

AJ Piscitelli has participated in the fenestration industry for more than a decade as an application engineer and project manager at FeneTech Inc. AJ’s current role is with FeneTech Labs, a group at FeneTech dedicated to researching and developing new ideas and technologies. AJ is a frequent speaker at North American industry events regarding the future technology will play in the fenestration industry.

Presentations Enhanced Effective Thickness Method for Cantilevered Laminated Glass Balustrades Enhancing the Light – Curved Insulated Glass Unit Design Study AGNES KOLTAY, Koltay Facades Agnes Koltay (MSc Arch, MSc FacEng) founded Koltay Facades in 2011 in Dubai. The boutique consultancy firm is one of the largest specialist practices in the Middle-East and opened their second office in Singapore. Koltay Facades is well known for their capability to work on large scale developments, high-rise projects, and complex geometry buildings. She was selected Woman in Construction 2018 and the firm was awarded the Specialist Consultancy Company 2018 award.

Presentations Looking Beyond Industry 4.0 – The Digital Factory AKI KARTTUNEN, Aalto University Aki Karttunen received the D.Sc. (Tech.) degree from Aalto University, Finland, in 2013 in radio engineering.

He is currently postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Finland. His current research interests include radio channel measurements, prediction, and modeling.

Presentations Investigation of 5G radio frequency signal losses of glazing structures

Presentations Building Sky View

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS ALBERT BALKE, Faymonville Distribution AG Born in 1954, he studied technical science of motor vehicles at Technical University of Aachen from 1973 to 1979. In 1979, he started his work in the business of trailers.

Among other topics, he focused on the construction of inloader trailers as well as the development of new concepts for the transportation of float glass by inloaders. In 2013, he became product manager for inloaders (ILO trailers) in the company Faymonville Distribution AG in Luxembourg and later leading instructor conducting technical trainings for staff, dealers, and customers. With over 50 years of experience and more than 1000 employees, Faymonville is one of the biggest manufacturers of semitrailers for special and heavy haulages. Its range of products includes inloaders for the transportation of float glass and of prefabricated concrete parts. The company has manufacturing sites in Büllingen (Belgium), Lentzweiler (Luxembourg), Goleniow (Poland), and near Cuneo (Italy), and it has actively developed its presence on the world market. Outstanding quality, flexibility, productivity, creativity, and service are the company’s guiding principles.

Presentations Transportation of float glass by inloader trailers ALBERTO ONETTI, Mind the Bridge A professor at Insubria University in Varese, Alberto Onetti has long been dedicated to research in the fields of management and entrepreneurship.

He graduated with first class honors from the University of Pavia, then completed his studies with a Master in International Finance and a PhD in Corporate Strategy.

His academic career is divided between Italy, where he teaches at the University of Insubria (prior also at LUISS in Rome) and he leads the Research Centre for Innovation and Life Sciences Management, and the United States, where he is recurring Visiting Professor at San Francisco State University. Since 2009 he has been appointed as Chairman of the Mind the Bridge in San Francisco. He is a seasoned serial entrepreneur. Among others, together with Fabrizio Capobianco he founded Funambol, Inc., a mobile personal cloud company in California. He has also acted as consultant for Italian and multinational firms and sits on the boards of several private companies and startups. Since 2014 Alberto has been selected by European Commission to help drive the Startup Europe Partnership (SEP), the first integrated platform to support growth and sustainability of European companies. Alberto has authored and coauthored insofar over 100 publications and regularly writes for Corriere della Sera. In 2016 he got awarded by DG for Research and Innovation with the Tender “Study on Transatlantic Dynamics of New High Growth Innovative Firms – Costs, Benefits and Impact of TTIP”.

ALEXANDER PAULI, Universität der Bundeswehr München Alexander, born in 1992 in Augsburg, studied Civil Engineering from 2011 to 2018 at TU Munich. He focused and specialized on structural engineering. Since September 2018 he works at the Institute and Laboratory for Structural Engineering at the University of German Self Defence Forces in Munich under the supervision of Univ.-Prof.

Dr.-Ing. Geralt Siebert. His topic area is the mechanical behaviour of intact and broken laminated safety glass with a main focus on the polymeric interlayer modelling.

Presentations Experimental and Methodical Investigations on the Hyperelasticity of Standard PVB ALINA JOACHIM, Technische Universität Dresden Alina Joachim received her diploma in civil engineering from the Technische Universität Dresden in 2017. She started working in the same year at the Institut of building construction at the Technische Universität Dresden. She is part of the research group focusing on adhesive technology and interlayers for glass.

Presentations Hybrid façade elements made of FRP and Glass AMIR BAYATI, Heliotrope Technologies Amir Bayati is the Chief Technology Officer of Heliotrope Technologies Inc. Prior to joining Heliotrope Amir was with First Solar working on CdTe thin film solar module development. Before First Solar Amir spent 18 years at Applied Materials where he worked on research and development of semiconductor and solar technologies. Amir received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Salford/UK in 1991.

Presentations A smart glazing technology addressing color, tint uniformity and cost challenges

Presentations Why you should work with startups?

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS ANDREAS HIERSEMENZEL, HS&A Ltd

BARBARA SIEBERT, Dr. Siebert Consulting Engineers

Andreas’s professional career has been in Façades on both design, management, building the essential infrastructure. Well known buildings where he was involved are his first project in façade Lloyds of London on to 4 Buildings for Bank of China, Jin Mao in Shanghai and Taipei 101. Since 2005 he is offering façade and BMU design services to clients and architects. One issue he is called in frequently is building forensics. This work is offered regionally in Asia through the Mid East.

Barbara Siebert, born 1967, received her civil engineering degree from TU München. After some years as employee in a consulting office, she is now working in her own consulting office Ingenieurbüro Dr. Siebert with special field of application of glass. The doctor’s thesis about the calculation of point helded glasses was accepted 2003.

She is aindependent, publicly appointed and sworn expert for glass constructions.

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Just meeting the specified Standards is not good enough BENJAMIN BEER, Ramboll ANDREAS M KASPER, Saint-Gobain Andreas Kasper is a 65 year-old researcher at SAINT-GOBAIN and associate professor at RWTH University, Aachen, Germany. Being materials chemist, his research work spans glass chemistry and production: Emissions, combustion, glass-floating and quality. He has published worldwide, during past 20 years, numerous papers in scientific magazines and conferences, among others showing his outstanding competence on spontaneous glass breakage prevention. He was honored by Adolf-Dietzel-Price and Golden-Gehlhoff-Ring of Deutsche-GlastechnischeGesellschaft (DGG).

Benjamin has been working as a façade professional for more than 17 years with projects around the world and long-term positions in London, New York, Dubai and Stuttgart.

After building up and heading the Dubai office of Werner Sobek in the position of Executive Vice President, Benjamin joined the Werner Sobek Head Office in Stuttgart, Germany and acted as Team Leader for Façade Engineering. In 2012, he joined Meinhardt Façade Technology in the role of Technical Director. Since October 2018, he is Head of Façade at Ramboll Dubai.

Presentations Options for Complex Geometry Facades - Single Corner vs. Free Form Cold-Bending

Presentations On safety of Heat-Soak tested thermally toughened glass

BERES DOWDLE, Surface Design Consulting ANTTI ARONEN, Glaston Finland Oy Antti Aronen is a senior research engineer at Glaston. Dr Aronen has over 10 years’ experience in the research of the tempering process.

His main area of interest is in the modelling of the tempering process.

Presentations Counting of fragments in tempered glass fragmentation test Improving Tempered Glass Quality: Challenges and Solutions Influence of cooling jets on stress pattern and anisotropy in tempered glass

Beres has initiated, grown and led the façade and sustainable design teams at three international engineering consultants. During this time he has developed a unique understanding in the design and selection of building fabric. He has substantial experience in shading, daylight and thermal performance of façades.

His focus has been the integration of the façade with other disciplines and sustainable design principles. He has developed a wholistic view of the design and performance of façade systems and has a particular interest in the use of glass as the prime architectural element optimising its structural as well as energy modifying properties. He has been invited internationally as guest lecturer on these and other topics.

Presentations Causes and Risk Management due to Glass Spontaneous Failure Design and Validation of Large Format Self supporting Laminate Glass

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS BERNARD SAVAËTE, BJS.Différences

CENK KOCER, University of Sydney

Bernard Jean Savaëte (Engineer – 73 years old) is President of BJS. Différences consulting company, created in 2004. He worked in 1969, with French BSN, and then with American PPG, from 1981. His last position was Director Quality for PPG Glass Europe. He created BJS.Différences, providing worldwide consulting services for building, industry, car & solar businesses. He is also expert in history of glass and companies from flat glass industry.

Dr Cenk Kocer is a senior researcher with over 18 years experience in the area of Vacuum Insulated Glazing (VIG). His research focus is the design, manufacture, and quality/ durability of the VIG window system.

Using experimental and numerical (such as finite element analysis) methods, he is involved in the detailed study of the thermal and mechanical properties of VIG and other thermally insulating technologies.

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The global float glass industry in the 21st century

Advanced introduction to the Vacuum Insulated Glazing

The world of glass coatings

An introduction to the Vacuum Insulated Glazing Technology

CARLOS MACHADO E MOURA, Jofebar s.a. / panoramah!® Carlos Machado e Moura (Porto, 1982) is an architect (FAUP, 2006), postgraduate in Architectural Heritage (2013), PhD candidate in “Architecture: Theory, Project and History”, and integrated researcher at the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism/Porto School of Architecture (CEAU-FAUP). Since 2015 he develops research on the technical and architectural history of minimalist windows with Jofebar, being editor and co-author of the book Building Views (Circo de Ideias, 2017).

The past, present, and future of the Vacuum Insulated Glazing technology CHRISTIAN LOUTER, TU Delft

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Dr. ir. Christian Louter is Assistant Professor on Structural Design at the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Delft. Christian obtained his PhD Cum Laude from TU Delft in 2011 and has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at EPFL in Switzerland before returning to TU Delft in 2015. In addition, Christian is an Editor-in-Chief of the Glass Structures & Engineering journal and an Organizer of the Challenging Glass Conference series.

A window for today

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Retrofitting California Modern: from Richard Neutra’s sliders to contemporary windows

Metal-to-glass bond strength of structural PVB

CÉDRIC JANSSENS, Glass for Europe Cédric Janssens is the Public Affairs Manager of Glass for Europe, the trade association for Europe’s flat glass sector. Cédric is actively involved in all regulatory issues affecting the flat glass industry, be in terms of manufacturing, product policy, energy-efficiency in buildings and sustainability.

Cédric is a graduate in political science and holds a master degree in European studies from university in Brussels.

Presentations Energy efficient glazing to reduce CO2 emissions and energy consumption

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Thin Glass for Architectural Applications CHRISTOPH BAUCHINGER, seele / se-austria GmbH & Co. KG Christoph has been working as a façade professional for more than 10 years and has successfully completed large scale projects worldwide. As Design Leader and certified Façade Engineer, Christoph is heading design teams that focus on steel-glass-structures and all-glass designs.

Presentations All-Glass Constructions: Requirements for Design and Engineering Total transparency: All-glass designs and its features

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS DIMITRIS VITALIS, Arup Presentations Next Step in Structural Glass - Digital Design and Fabrication DIRK SCHULTE, Tianjin North Glass Industrial Technical Co., Ltd. Dirk Schulte is Vice President of North American Operations at Tianjin North Glass, the leading fabricator of specialty and oversized architectural glass for the global construction industry. In this role, Schulte’s responsibilities include the strategic development of business and client relationships, technical engineering advisory, commercial sales and project consultancy. Schulte was previously serving as Vice President of Business Development, Sales and Engineering at APG International, Inc., a leading façade contractor in the Northeastern United States, as well as Managing Director of APG’s Middle Eastern operation in Dubai for over 8 years. Prior to that, Schulte was Global Business Development Manager for Structural Glass & Facade Applications at DORMA for more than 10 years. He is a Civil Engineer by trade, personal member of the Association of German Professional Engineers and the Façade Tectonics Institute. In addition, Schulte frequently contributes his expertise to the industry through a broad range of global publications since 2004.

Presentations High performance coated bent tempered glass DIRK SCHULTE, Roschmann Steel & Glass Constructions, Inc. Dirk Schulte is Executive Director of Preconstruction at Roschmann Steel & Glass Constructions, the leading custom fabricator and installer of high quality engineered architectural envelope systems. In this role, Schulte’s responsibilities include the strategic development of business and client relationships, technical preconstruction advisory, commercial sales and project consultancy primarily within the North-East and South Region of the United States and Canada.

Before joining Roschmann Schulte was Vice President of North American Operations at Tianjin North Glass, the leading fabricator of specialty and oversized architectural glass for the global construction industry.

Schulte was further previously serving as Vice President of Business Development, Sales and Engineering at APG International, Inc., a leading façade contractor in the Northeastern United States, as well as Managing Director of APG’s Middle Eastern operation in Dubai for over 8 years. Prior to that, Schulte was Global Business Development Manager for Structural Glass & Facade Applications at DORMA for more than 10 years. He is a Civil Engineer by trade, personal member of the Association of German Professional Engineers

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and the Façade Tectonics Institute. In addition, Schulte frequently contributes his expertise to the industry through a broad range of global publications since 2004.

Presentations Turning Crystal Rainbows into Reality - Prismatic Glass Facades ELISABETH KLIMM, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Education and experience: Master degree in chemical and environmental engineering at the University of Applied Science Merseburg, Germany in 2011 Master thesis at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg with the topic “Silver alloys for high temperature-resistant mirror coatings for application in solar thermal power plants” Working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, since 2012 as researcher in the group Service Life Analysis Areas of interest Degradation of materials in solar applications accelerated testing of PV-modules and solar thermal collectors and their components and materials, numerical simulations, methods to analyse degradation of PV-modules, non-destructive analytical methods.

Presentations Analysis of natural sand for soiling tests and qualification of solar glass with a soiling sensor Functionality and performance tests for coatings on glass for solar application ENNIO MOGNATO, Stazione Sperimentale del Vetro Ennio Mognato: Head of Glass for Building Department in SSV Venice – Italy. • CEN TC 129 – ISO TC 160 – UNI Committee Members.

• Test and certification on Laminated – Insulating Units – Toughened Glasses, • Glass materials for building.

• Head of Italian auditors teams for voluntary certifications on glass for building.

• Chairman of SG 09 (Group of official certification body and laboratories for CPR 305/2011).

Presentations Surface Compression Comparative Measurements on Tempered Glass with Different Instruments

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS ENOS “ANDY” AXTELL, Ferro Corporation

EVA BABIC, Arup

Dr. Enos Axtell, III hails from Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Missouri in 1989 and a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Michigan State University in 1995. A PostDoctoral Fellowship at the University of California-Davis followed. Dr. Axtell has been in the Glass R & D group at Ferro Corporation since 2001 and became involved in the bird collision issue in 2012.

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Presentations Glass Coatings Useful for the Prevention of Bird Collisions EOIN CASSERLY, schlaich bergermann partner Eoin Casserly works as a structural engineer for schlaich bergermann partner in Stuttgart, with a focus on glass and facades. He has previously held positions in Ireland, Paris and New York, and has been involved in the design of projects in 11 countries.

His professional interests include lightweight structures, new materials, and environmentally conscious design.

Presentations Structural Glass Challenges: Hudson Yards Observation Deck The Effects of Aerodynamic Damping on Cable-Net Glass Walls ERIC WANG, Dow (Shanghai) Holding Co., Ltd. Eric Wang is the Construction Industry Specialist for the Building & Construction Unit at Dow Consumer Solution based at Dow Chemical Shanghai, China. Be a member of ASTM C-24, and is vice-chairman of China Construction Sealant Association, Insulating Glass Group Expert of China Glass Association, Actively participated to establish relative national standards, for example, GB242662009 (Secondary edge silicones for structurally glazed insulting glass units) and GB11944 updated version (Insulting glass unit) Education Eric holds a B.S. Chemical Degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Presentations Technical Considerations and Performance of Structural Glazing Glass Façade of High-Rise Building in Extreme Climate

Re-thinking the life-cycle of architectural glass EYAL PESO, Gauzy Ltd Co-founder and CEO of Gauzy LTD, a leading startup focused on the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of light control technologies for glass, including liquid crystal and SPD technology. Mr. Peso has reputable experience in growing companies from initiation, and has led Gauzy to partnerships with some of the worlds largest glass related companies.

Presentations Startup mentality in a traditional industry FABIO FAVOINO, Politecnico di Torino Fabio Favoino is an Assistant Professor of Building Physics and Technology in the Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

His research focus on the integration of advanced high performance buidling envelopes in building, automotive and marine sector. He is a Coauthor and active member of Cost Action TU1403 Adaptive Facades Network, of numerous international publications about the performance of different adaptive façade technologies. He had been working in the past 2 years with the façade team at Eckersley O’Callaghan, working on different façade and R&D projects in UK and overseas.

Presentations Impact of novel glass and insulation technology on future transportation FELIX WEBER, Arup Presentations Structural Glass walls - Gravity and Stability Elements FERDINAND GRAPPERHAUS JR., PHYSEE Ferdinand Grapperhaus is cofounder and CEO of PHYSEE Technologies. Having a MSc in Applied Physics, experience at the European Patent Office and a passion for innovation he has built the organisation to 30 FTE with a product portfolio in solar and smart technologies and projects throughout the Netherlands. Besides his role at PHYSEE, Ferdinand is member of the Economic Platform Delft and a digital leader for the World Economic Forum.

Presentations Buildings deserve a skin that positively impacts their energy and comfort levels

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS FLORIAN GAST, Dr. Siebert Consulting Engineers

FUMIHIKO CHIBA,

Mr. Gast, M.Sc., IWE studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich. As part of his master’s thesis, he did research on silicone adhesives at the University of the German Federal Armed Forces Munich. Since 2019 he works at Dr. Siebert Consulting Engineers.

Presentations Testing artificially aged silicone sealants for advanced applications FRANK SETA, Frank Seta & Associates Frank Seta is the President of Frank Seta & Associates, a pioneering firm in the building envelope industry.

For over 35 years Frank has been involved in the design & engineering of thousands of building facades primarily in the NYC metro area.

With a mastery of cutting edge glass specification and design implementation, Frank brings new & traditional concepts to GPD. Presentations Process to Avoid Window & Related Failures in High-Rise Buildings

Senior facade engineer Expert on curtain wall design and performance Presentations Structural Silicone Performance after 31 years in service in Japan

GABRIELE PISANO, Construction Technologies Institute - National Research Council of Italy (ITC - CNR) Gabriele Pisano is a research fellow at the Construction Technologies Institute of the Italian National Research Council. He received his PhD at the University of Parma, under the tutorship of Prof. Royer Carfagni. His activity has been mainly focused on the research of micro-mechanically motivated models for characterizing the risk of collapse for glass elements. He published several papers on international journals, collaborating with European and American experts.

Presentations A micro-mechanical model to calculate the optimal HST holding time Many glass plies do really increase safety of laminated glass?

FRANZ PASCHKE, University of Sydney Presentations The Thermo-Mechanical performance of a Vacuum Insulated Glazing Window

FREDERICO FIGUEIREDO, Pentagonal Lda Frederico Figueiredo got his Master degree in Material Science Engineer in FCT-UNL Lisbon, scholarship for Project investigation for glass and ceramic. Post-Graduation in Façade Engineering by Civil Engineering Department LNEC, ANFAJE and European Façade Network (EFN). Worked in 2003 for Vitro as project technician, started working in 2005 for Pentagonal as project manager engineer, applied his work and know-how especially on construction of Glass facade systems.

GEORGIA EWEN-CAMPEN, Heintges Consulting Architects & Engineers, P.C Georgia Ewen-Campen is a Senior Associate at Heintges Consulting Architects & Engineers P.C., a building envelope and curtain wall consulting firm. Since joining Heintges in 2008, she has enjoyed collaborating with Architects on technical facade designs responsive to increasingly challenging performance requirements.

Her work includes customized facades across a range of scales and programs from retail storefronts to cultural institutions. Georgia holds a Masters degree in architecture from Columbia University.

Presentations Nike Flagship Façade – From Design to Realization

Presentations Complex geometry glass balustrade: Eleftheria Square, design and construction

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS GESINE BERGMAN, VDMA

GRAHAM DODD, Arup

Gesine Bergmann has been working for VDMA since 2017. The Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) represents more than 3,200 member companies in Germany and Europe.

Within VDMA she is responsible for the Forum Glass Technology. She studied Glass Technology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and used to work as a research engineer for the FraunhoferGesellschaft, the German Aerospace Center and the Research Association of the German Glass Industry.

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Presentations Standardization of machine interfaces GIANNI ROYER CARFAGNI, Maffeis Engineering Civil Engineering degree. Ph.D. in Structural Engineering. Professor of Structural Mechanics and Director of Graduate Studies in Mechanical Engineering, University of Parma, Italy. Adjunct Professor, University of Houston, TX, USA. Research Associate and member of the steering committee for structural standards of CNR (National Research Council of Italy). Italian delegate in CEN/TC 250/SC11 for the Eurocode on Structural Glass. Expert of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation for nontraditional structural materials.

Presentations An engineered tool for the soft-body impact on glazed surfaces An engineering approach for the basic design of glazed surfaces under blast waves GRAEME DEBRINCAT, Arup Presentations Re-thinking the life-cycle of architectural glass

Structural Glass walls - Gravity and Stability Elements GREGOR HORSTMEYER, Eckersley O’Callaghan Gregor is an Associate at Eckersley O’Callaghan having joined as a structural engineer focusing on glass, timber, and performance based seismic design. Growing up working in a glass blowing studio, Gregor eventually combined his interest in glass and his studies in engineering by writing his thesis on the subject of hyperbolic glass shell structures.

Presentations Transparency Revisited – a structural glass approach to Pei’s Louvre entrance GÜNTER BRÄUER, ICCG ICCG Chairman & Director of Fraunhofer IST, Germany Presentations Glass and Coatings

HANS KULL, Inmatic Hans Kull is of Swiss origin, holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Mathematics from ETH. Hans was developing software for manufacturers for 20 years before moving to Australia, where in 2000 he founded Inmatic. Inmatic has a vast experience in manufacturing software for customised products, from order processing to production and machine integration.

Hans’ book “Mass Customisation” explains the new chances and opportunities for manufacturers.

GRAHAM COULT, Eckersley O’Callaghan

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Graham Coult is the Technical Director of Eckersley O’Callaghan and has been working with glass for over 20 years. It is the creativity that is involved in this relatively new branch of structural engineering that has provided constant engineering challenges that continues to provide interest.

The Future of Software in Glass Processing

Presentations Connecting Glass, Now and in the Future

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HARALD HAGENSTRÖM, VON ARDENNE GmbH Harald Hagenström manages the VON ARDENNE business with glass coating equipment. He has a PhD in physical chemistry and has worked in the glass and related equipment industry for almost 20 years.

Presentations Digitalization of industrial coating production

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS HEIKO MERTEL, iconic skin GmbH Managing Director Civil Engineering background Experienced in steel, glass and facade structures and developing new facade types. Senior PM on different high profile roof and facade jobs

Presentations ISOshade - Latest development in double skin facades HELEN SANDERS, Technoform Helen has 25 years’ experience in glass technology and manufacturing, especially in functional coatings, insulating glass and thermal zone technology for fenestration. She has a Ph.D. in Surface Science from the University of Cambridge. At Technoform North America she focuses on business development and market education. She is an active member of many industry organizations, and is president of the Façade Tectonics Institute and vice president of the Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance (IGMA).

Presentations Why Fenestration U-factor is Important in Hot Climates HELMUT HOHENSTEIN, Dr. Hohenstein Consultancy Owner and Managing Director • Main activities: energy efficiency, market access conditions, standards, tests and certificates, innovative construction products and systems, their production technologies and their practical application in the field of transparent systems. Focus on vacuum glass and switchable glazing Work experience: • 2000-04 Director ift Rosenheim – practice-oriented, independent, EU-wide recognized testing institute • 17 years Pilkington Europe, General Manager, Building Products, Research, Turnaround, Reengineering, Strategic and Innovation Management, Factory Planning Presentations Curved and 3D Glass - the new hype in top end architecture What do adaptive glazing systems offer? - Perspectives for the industry

HELMUT KOESTER, Koester Lichtplanung Dr.-Ing. Helmut Koester, is focused in his scientific work on daylight control in architecture since more than 40 years. His office Koester Lichtplanung is known for developing mirror systems for daylight modulation for external, internal and for insulation glass integrated use.

Koester technologies are implimented in large projects throughout the world like museums, office buildings, universities etc. He is author of 3 books on daylight architecture published by Birkhauser (2004), Springer (2019) and WiTag (2015). He is teaching university courses on building physics and daylight architecture.

Presentations Energy Management by Daylight Control - Better Health

by Daylight HERMANN DEHNER, arcon Flachglas-Veredlung GmbH & Co. KG Hermann studied material science at university in Nurembourg (Germany). Since 2006, he has been working for arcon, a leading company in the field of innovative high-efficiency magnetron coatings.

He worked at arcon as Head of Quality Management and Development. Since 2014, he has been head of product management.

Presentations Design coatings - a game with colours and patterns The true colour of glass in a facade, technology versus reality and how to overcome the misunderstanding HORST MERTES, Fenetech EUROPE SARL VP of Sales & Marketing FeneTech Inc., CEO FeneTech Europe SARL Horst Mertes has been in the software industry for glass processing for more than 35 years now. Starting from application work in the late 80’s for glass industry software packages, Horst is probably the most experienced specialist worldwide in this industry. He has lived and worked in various continents of this world and has seen and consulted more than 500 glass processing companies world-wide. Horst Mertes has also been a world-renowned speaker at various glass industry events, such as GPD in Finland, Asia Glass, GPAD (organized by FeneTech) and others.

Horst is 56 years old, single and currently lives on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands and St.Vith/Belgium.

He speaks 7 languages fluently.

Presentations New Trends in ERP software for the flat glass industry

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS HUGUES LEFÈVRE, AGC Glass Europe

JAMES GULNICK, McGrory Glass, Inc.

Hugues Lefèvre is currently the product manager for laminated glass from AGC Glass Europe. He have a large experience from more 25 years in glass industry including in research and development, sales and marketing of glass product.

He is member of several technical glass committee and international association. Hugues Lefevre is owner of a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Catholic University of Louvain, an MBA from EPM school and a certificate in Legal Expertise from Catholic University of Louvain.

Since graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1988, Jim Gulnick has developed a deep and broad experience in business operations, finance, sales, marketing, and training within public and private companies across numerous specialized industries. He has achieved innovative solutions receiving multiple utility patents with other patents pending for his designs. Jim has a Master of Business Administration with continued advanced doctoral research and development in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

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Stiff PVB and annealed laminated glass for balustrades fixed on one lower side: experimental and numerical analysis in regards to local European legislation

Seismic Testing Results of a Decorative Glass Wall Mounting System

IGNATIUS CALDERONE, Calderone and Associates Dr Ignatius Calderone commenced working at Pilkington, Australia.

After 22 years he left to carry out Doctorate in the field of wind effects on building glass. He then worked for various consultancy companies and he is currently Director of Calderone and Associates Pty Ltd, in Melbourne Australia. He is also currently chairman of Standards Australia Committee BD007, Glazing and Fixing of Glass, and a delegate on ISO Technical committee TC160.

Presentations Checking if Heat Soak Testing was carried out JAMES GRIFFITH, Arup James Griffith is a chartered engineer in Arup’s Advanced Technology and Research group in San Francisco. He has designed a variety of innovative glass structures across the world, including the helical glass liftshaft through the Jesus Tower of Sagrada Familia and the award-winning curved glass façade of London’s Maggie’s Centre. He has a longstanding interest in applying digital technologies to improve the design and fabrication of the built environment.

Presentations Climatic Load Design Parameters for the United States

The Psychology that Drives Emotion in Interior Glass Design JAN WÜNSCH, Technische Universität Dresden Dr. Wünsch has been a scientific staff member at the Technischen Universität Dresden for many years.

There he conducts research in the fields of bonding and lamination of glass.

Presentations Transparent Epoxy Adhesives for Glass to Metal Joints JAVIER SANCHEZ-GIL, Cristacurva Director of Operations at Cristacurva since 2008 with sales and operations responsibility over two fabrication facilities.

Graduated from East Tennessee State University with a business management degree in 1993 and immediately after joined the Cristacurva sales team.

As a part of his role he has been in close contact with architects, designs, glazing contractors, and consultants on many different projects offering unique glass solutions. Javier is responsible for opening new markets for Cristacurva and developing many technologies to manufacture specialty glass products in which he continues seeking the most advanced processes and equipment in the market.

Presentations Curved Glass: Reshaping architectural glass with new possibilities and frontiers

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS JEAN-DENIS NICOLAS, Vesuvius France

JOHANA KUNCOVA-KALLIO, BioNavis Ltd

R&D Manager for Vesuvius Fused Silica and located in Feignies, France. Jean Denis Nicolas is graduated from the ENCSI Limoges ceramic school. He completed his study with a PhD degree from the Laboratory of Materials and Processes, in Maubeuge, France. Jean-Denis developed his understanding on material science and surface reactivity with a particular involvement on glass-ceramic interaction.

Dr. Johana Kuncová-Kallio, CEO at BioNavis Ltd has studied at CzechSwiss Institute, at Czech Technical University in Prague (B.Sc.), at University of Strathclyde (UK) and at Tampere University of Technology (“TUT”) in Finland (M.Sc., Dr.Tech.).

She has been working as a researcher in the fields of instrumentation, point-of-care diagnostics, microfluidic cell-based assays. Later, she became the Business Development Manager of Biosensing Competence Centre, which was established between the Finnish National Research Institute (“VTT”) and TUT, and gave raise to BioMediTech institute. She worked as an invited expert for the European Commission, Danish Technology Agency as well as for Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes, now Business Finland). Currently, she is a CEO of BioNavis Ltd, a Finnish company dedicated to expanding the capabilities of surface plasmon resonance in the fields of pharmaceutics, biosensing and coatings.

Presentations Physical and thermal transfer at roll interface JENNIFER SCHNEIDER, Kuraray America Inc Jennifer Schneider has worked in the laminated glass industry for over 14 years and is currently the Structural and Security Glazing Market Manager for Kuraray.

She has been involved in the development, commercialization, and marketing of new interlayers for laminated glass for both automotive and architectural applications. She holds a Masters of Science in Plastic Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.

Presentations Glass and Coatings JOHANNES GIESE-HINZ, Technische Universität Dresden Presentations

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Development of a hybrid glass-HPL balustrade

Next Generation Ionplast for Improved Glass Lamination JOE KAO, PHYSEE Joe Kao is a research engineer at PHYSEE Technologies where he works since he graduated at Delft University of Technology as MSc in Materials Science and Engineering.

With a constant refreshing perspective from material research in the lab to strategic and creative brainstorming at events, to scoring 3-pointers on the court, he is valued as co-worker and person.

Presentations Glass coatings that recycle sunlight instead of throwing it away

JON KIMBERLAIN, Dow Performance Silicones Jon Kimberlain currently provides technical expertise and application support for Dow Performance Silicones as a Senior Application Specialist. With 19+ years with Dow Corning and Dow Chemical, Jon has published 15+ research papers on the use of silicone sealants in high performance buildings which have presented at venues such as ASTM Symposiums, GlassCon and GPD Finland.

Presentations Durability of Structural Silicone Sealant in Cold Bent Glazing Design Novel Method for Cold Bending Glass – Transparent Structural Silicone Adhesive

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS JUHA LILJA, Stealthcase Oy M.Sc. Juha Lilja graduated from Tampere University of Technology in 2009 majoring in electromagnetics.

He has been working at a Finnish defense contractor, designing antennas for military systems, researching textile antennas in European Space Agency (ESA) projects, and has published multiple peer-reviewed articles. In 2013 he became an antenna chief at Nokia (later Microsoft).

Since 2017 he has been working in StealthCase Oy developing antenna systems for construction industry.

Presentations Mobile-friendly Glass - comparing solutions from the end user viewpoint JULIA AHVENAINEN, Stora Enso Julia works as Program Manager at Stora Enso Wood Products heading the HEAL Lab. She has > 20 years of experience in sales and development of building products and international business development.

She has lived and worked the last 20 years in Austria, Germany and Spain. As the head of HEAL Lab she wants to speed up innovation with start-up collaboration, developing new digital services and mind-set for Stora Enso.

Presentations HEAL Lab develops new digital services around Healthy and Affordable Living

JULIA SCHIMMELPENNINGH, Eastman Chemical Company Industry Technical Lead and Customer Applications and Service Manager, Saflex – Eastman Chemical Company 30 years’ experience in lamination and laminated glass applications providing technical product support to glass fabricators, Architects, Designers, Engineers and Specifiers. Her work includes customer applications support, product and regulatory development, industry education and association support. Julia is a solid contributor to the glazing industry being a member of ANSI, ASTM, ISO, NGA and other organizations.

Presentations Designing Glass for North America: a standardization overview Glass Creep of Unsupported Lites in Laminated Glass JULIAN HÄNIG, Technische Universität Dresden Studied civil engineering at the TU Dresden Finished his diploma in 2017 (Thesis: “Examination of Laminated Glass made from Thin Glass”) Started working at the institute of building construction (TU Dresden) in 2017 Now he is a research fellow – structural glass construction Current research project: Glass-Plastic-Composite Structures Presentations

JULIA ENDRESS, Sika Services AG Julia Endress has a degree in plastics and elastomeric engineering. In 2013 she joined Sika Corporate Industry Organization in Zurich as a Test Engineer, developing and testing polyurethanes, epoxy and acrylicbased adhesives for applications in the transportation, rail, marine and automotive aftermarket industry. In 2018 she joined and strengthened the façade, insulating glass and fenestration team of Sika as a Market Field Engineer. In this position, she provides technical support and trainings to customers on a global scale and focuses on the development and testing of new products.

Presentations Adhesives for Blast Scenarios – Extreme Conditions for Structural Sealant Glazing

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Load bearing behaviour of Innovative Lightweight GlassPlastic-Composite Panels JÜRGEN NEUGEBAUER, University of Applied Science FH-Joanneum After his study at the University of Technology in Graz he worked in an office for civil engineering. 2005 he completed his PhD at the same University. 2007 he accepted the offer of the University of Applied Science FH – Joanneum as a lecturer and became 2012 a professor. 2016 he started as the leader the research project “Josef Ressel Centre for thin glass technology for structural glass applications”.

Presentations Adaptive Façades Systems made from Thin Glass

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS KAI VOGEL, Viprotron GmbH Dipl. Ing. Kai Vogel Kai has more than 25 years extensive experience in developing high performance glass inspection systems. His technical background is electronical engineer from Technical University Darmstadt, with a specialization in artificial intelligence and image processing. Today Kai is director, co-owner and founder of Viprotron GmbH located in Pfungstadt / Germany. Since 2004 his company is well known for innovative glass quality scanning technologies. Viprotron is today the leading supplier for high performance inspection systems for the architectural glass processing industry. Their Quality Scanner 3D devices “Made in Germany” are installed worldwide in all big and leading glass processing players.

Presentations Optimized furnace settings with new Anisotropy and Haze measurement methods KARL STEFAN DEWALD, Schüco International KG Head of Business Unit Facade-Systems Schüco International KG Presentations The evolution of Windows and Insert Elements has been driven by trends and enabled by technology – where are the limits?

KATHARINA LOHR, Technische Universität Dresden Katharina Lohr received her civil engineering degree from the Technische Universität Dresden. She is a doctoral candidate with a focus on the glass edge. The presenter is in the head of the six-engineer “Structural Use of Glass” research group at the Institute of Building Construction.

Presentations Influence of regrinding on the load-bearing capacity of glass components KEITH BOSWELL, Skidmore Owings and Merrill C. Keith Boswell, FAIA, Technical Partner for SOM’s West Coast offices, orchestrates and oversees detailed design and construction documentation for all West Coast projects. Since joining SOM in 1981, he has worked on high-rise office buildings, government facilities, residential and mixeduse complexes, and international and domestic airport passenger terminals.

Keith is a specialist in designing and executing

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technically complex building systems, such as exterior enclosures, curtain walls, elevator and vertical transportation systems, and special construction. He is actively engaged in the research and application of materials and systems for use in SOM designs. He is the author of the book, Exterior Building Enclosures: Design Process and Composition for Innovative Facades, which was published June 2013 and addresses the design and execution of sophisticated exterior envelopes.

Some of Keith’s recent project experiences include; Moscone Convention Center Expansion, SeaTac International Arrivals Facility at SeaTac, 49 South Van Ness, Block 9 Residential Tower, U.C. Hastings School of Law, 350 Mission Street, the Cathedral of Christ the Light and the San Francisco International Airport—all in the San Francisco Bay Area, the New United States Courthouse and UCLA Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles, and 111 South Main in Salt Lake City Utah. Keith has led SOM’s services for the U.S. Embassy Beijing, U.S. Embassy Beijing NOX, New United States Consulate in Guangzhou, the Consulate in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and is leading the Embassy in Windhoek, Namibia. Keith’s recent international work include: Ningbo Guohua Financial Tower in Ningbo, LJZ 2-16-1 in Shanghai, and the Poly International Plaza in Beijing, China.

Presentations Specific Solution for a Specific Opportunity KENNY MARTENS, Vitroplena Kenny (28) received his Ph.D. on the topic ‘Statically Indeterminate Reinforced Glass Beams’ at Ghent University in 2018 and is specialised in structural glass systems. He is author of 10 articles in peerreviewed journals, 12 publications in conference proceedings and is first inventor of a patent concerning an innovative structural glass beam system.

Kenny recently founded Vitroplena, an engineering consultancy specialised in the design and realisation of structural glass projects.

Presentations Modular safe glass beam system: experiments and design aspects KEYVAN PIROIRD, Saint-Gobain Keyvan Piroird works for SaintGobain in the research center located near Paris (Saint-Gobain Reserach Paris). He is in charge of the R&D platform for laminated glass in building applications for Saint-Gobain Glass.

Presentations Statistical method to evaluate the process capability index of laminated glass regarding impact resistance

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS KIMMO KERÄNEN, VTT

LIANG ZHANG, LandGlass

Kimmo Keränen received his MSc, Lic. Sc. and D. Sc (Tech.) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland in 1992, 2002 and 2008, respectively. He works as Senior Scientist in Sensing and Integration research area at VTT. His current research interests are in flexible electronics/photonics manufacturing processes targeted to structural electronics applications. He is project manager in on-going Flex-in Glass R&D project funded mainly by Business Finland

Liang Zhang has very solid engineering background. He had got his second master degree in the Netherlands in aerospace engineering. After being working as an engineer for 6 years, he has changed his career to sales in 2016.

Now he works as the director of marketing & sales in LandGlass.

Presentations Glass laminated functionalities

Presentations The application and development trend of Vacuum Insulated Glass LISA RAMMIG, Eckersley O’Callaghan

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Lisa is a Senior Associate at Eckersley O’Callaghan having joined in 2013 to lead many of the facade group’s most challenging projects.

Lisa has the responsibility of directing EOC’s R&D efforts globally, focusing on innovative glass designs and technology which maintain EOC’s position as leaders in the field, but also identifying new fields of research including a variety of materials and novel analysis approaches.

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LAURA GALUPPI, University of Parma

Transparency Revisited – a structural glass approach to Pei’s Louvre entrance

KOICHI SUZUKI, ICCG President of SurFtech Transnational Co.,Ltd., Japanese Representative of FraunhoferFEP, & Secretary of ICCG

Laura Galuppi is Assistant Professor in “Structural Mechanics” at University of Parma (Italy). Her research interests focus on analytical modelling of layered and composite structures, in particular of laminated glass for structural applications. She has participated to the preparation of Italian Guidelines on Structural Glass CNR-DT/210, and JRC report “Guidance for European Structural Design of Glass Components”. She is member of the Editorial Boards of International Journals “GLAS” and “SGAMR”.

Presentations Post-breakage in-plane stiffness of laminated glass. An engineering approach Structural use of thin glass. Design of a transformable curved greenhouse

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LOUIS MOREAU, AGNORA Louis Moreau has over 25 years of experience in the Glass industry and brings an eclectic mix of international experience from float manufacturing, high performance coatings, large building glazing, and high-end glass fabrication. In 2011 Louis joined the AGNORA team as the company was getting ready to launch in the market. As the Head, Technology & Innovation, Louis has played an instrumental role in the development and success of the company.

Presentations Anisotropy Measurement for Architectural Glass

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS MARCIN MARCH, Thornton Tomasetti

MARK SCHMIDT, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

Originally from the UK, Marcin March is based in New York heading up the Specialty Structures Group at Thornton Tomasetti. With over a decade of experience working on specialty structures projects, most notably ambitious glass installations across the globe, Marcin is a Registered Professional Engineer in California and New York, a Chartered Engineer with the IStructE in the UK, and has published, presented, and taught extensively in the field of structural glass.

Mark Schmidt has performed hundreds of building envelope investigations addressing operational concerns (such as water infiltration), safety concerns (such as glass breakage, anchorage and component failure), and aesthetic concerns (such as finish or surface degradation). He has led investigations of aluminum-framed curtain walls, architectural precast concrete panels, thin stone veneers, stone and brick masonry, terra cotta, door and window assemblies, skylights, composite panels, mosaic tile systems, EIFS and stucco systems.

Presentations Transparency in Blast Resistance: The Museum of Westward Expansion, St. Louis

Presentations Modified ASTM Methodology for Insulating Glass Units with Two-Sided Support

MARCO ZACCARIA, AGC Glass Europe Marco Zaccaria is a research engineer for AGC, working in the architectural field (IGUs, thin glass, electrochromic glazing are some of his activities are related to). Before that he completed a PhD on ‘Bitempered glass’ at the University of Cambridge. His work is currently product development focused, but he keeps alive several fundamental research activities with Universities and Engineering practices.

Presentations Scaling thin glass use to the architectural world MARCUS KLEIN, SURAGUS GmbH Dipl.-Wi.-Ing. Marcus Klein is managing director of the SURAGUS GmbH. He holds a master degree in Business and Engineering from University of Technology Dresden focusing on microelectronics and electronic packaging. Past working experiences include Siemens Pte Singapore, Wacker Chemie AG, Advanced Mask Technology Center and Fraunhofer Institute for non-destructive testing Dresden.

Marcus´ expertise focuses on material testing and layer characterization.

Presentations Glass and Coatings Trends in offline and inline monitoring of coatings along the value chain of architecture, automotive, solar and smart glass

MARTIEN TEICH, seele GmbH Martien is working as Head of the R&D department at seele.

The R&D department combines all project-relevant engineering services like structural engineering, testing, building physics, welding and bonding technology, product developement, approvals, codes and specifications.

He is also giving lectures about Shell structures at the university in Munich.

Presentations All-Glass Constructions: Requirements for Design and Engineering Development of a Novel CCF Glass Tube Façade in Hong Kong MARTIN BOTZ, Universität der Bundeswehr München Martin Botz is a research assistant at the Institute and Laboratory for sructural engineering at the University of German Armed Forces in Munich under the supervision of Univ.-Prof.

Dr.-Ing. Geralt Siebert. He graduated with a Master of Science degree in civil engineering at the University of German Armed Forces in Munich in 2013. Before joining the research team of Prof. Siebert in 2016, he worked as EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) – officer in the German army. His research area is the field of structural glass engineering, especially the investigation of polymer interlayers used in laminated glass. The focus is on the material behavior of the interlayers in the postfractured state of laminated glass.

Presentations Structural design of laminated glass including the shear coupling effect through the polymeric interlayer: a comparison of different calculation approaches

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS MARTIN KAHLMEYER, University of Kassel

MATYAS GUTAI, University of Loughborough

I studied mechanical engineering at the University of Kassel with a focus on lightweight construction. Since lightweight design is always accompanied by joining technology, I currently work as a research assistant in adhesive bonding technology at the Department for Cutting and Joining Manufacturing Processes (Prof. Stefan Böhm).

Dr Matyas Gutai is an academic and practicing architect specializing in sustainable architecture and hybrid building materials like water-glass and fluid-solid building envelopes (Water House). His experimental buildings and patented innovation explore how hybrid material innovations can lead to new opportunities in architectural engineering and design.

Matyas’ research field focuses on Hybrid Architecture, a construction system that can disseminate mass and heat within the structure to create an energy-efficient network system on scale of facades, buildings, city blocks or neighborhoods.

Presentations Health monitoring of adhesively bonded glass elements by microcapsules MASSIMO MAFFEIS, Maffeis Engineering CEO of Maffeis Engineering Presentations One single model: structural glazing analysis for complex shape structures

MATTHIAS SEEL, MPA-IfW Technische Universität Darmstadt He studied civil engineering at the University of the German Armed Forces Munich (UniBwM) until 2007. He received his doctor’s degree about the calculation of point fixed glasses.

Since 2015 he works as research associate at the Center for Structural Materials, TU Darmstadt.

His research field is the structural application of glass and the Additive Manufacturing. Further on, he is a member of DIN working group for DIN 18008.

Presentations Effects of wavelike distortions on strength of thermally curved glass

Presentations Water-glass facades: Construction aspects, structural and energy performance of incorporated fluid-glass hybrids MAURO CORRADO, Politecnico di Torino Mauro Corrado is an Assistant Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research interests include fracture mechanics, computational mechanics, multiphysics and multi-scale analysis, mechanics of materials, structural glass. He is currently leading a project concerning the enhancement of the glass strength by means of functional coatings. He is member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Structural Glass and Advanced Materials Research.

Presentations A UV-cured functional coating to prevent glass stress corrosion MAURO OVEREND, University of Cambridge Dr Mauro Overend leads the Glass & Façade Technology Research Group at the University of Cambridge.

His research and that of his team is at the interface of structural engineering, materials engineering and building physics which underpin the performance of glass in buildings. His work has found applications in international design standards and in some of the most challenging buildings globally.

Presentations A form-adaptable FRP-Glass vision panel User-centred control of automated shading for intelligent glass facades

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS MAXIMILIAN LAURS, RWTH Aachen Maximilian Laurs was born on October 29th 1992 in Aachen (Germany). He studied Business Administration and Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen University and completed it in 2018. Since then, he has continued his studies as a PhD Student in Aachen at the Institute of Steel Construction, supervised by Prof. Feldmann. His main research topic is in the sector of cold bending of glass and glass structures. He teaches glass construction at the faculty of civil engineering of RWTH Aachen University.

Presentations Determination of prestress profiles in chemically toughened glass by means of photoelasticity MICHAEL BARLOW, Urbis Pty Ltd Michael Barlow is an urban planner who has over 40 years’ experience including the leadership of Urbis Australia, Australia’s largest multidisciplinary urban planning practice.

In his role as an urban planner he has specialised in major urban development, policy development and governance projects throughout Australia. His expertise also extends beyond the shores of Australia to include major projects in locations such as Dubai, Shanghai and other cities in China.

Presentations Adapting Buildings – A Smart City Approach MICHAEL DRASS, Technische Universität Darmstadt Michael Drass (29 years old) M.Eng. is educated as a civil engineer, finished his Master degree in structural engineering from University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany. After his studies he began his PhD studies at the Technical University of Darmstadt at the Institute for structural mechanics and design, where he is particularly concerned with adhesive joints of all kinds in constructive glass construction. This is at the same time the subject of his nearly completed dissertation on „Constitutive Modelling and Limit State Analyses of Poro-Hyperelastic Materials“.

Presentations Extension of Pseudo-Elastic Cavitation Model for Cyclic Loading for TSSA Pseudo-Elastic Cavitation Formulation of Structural Silicones at Finite Strains

State of the art calculation methods for silicone structural glazing joint dimensioning Stress-Whitening Effects in Transparent Structural Silicone Adhesives MICHAEL ELSTNER, AGC Interpane Michael Elstner is a technical engineer for glass constructions and master glazier and an officially appointed and sworn expert for the glazing trade/ glass in buildings. He is Head of the Technical Advisory Service the strategic communication for AGC Interpane.

He is member of different national and international associations and standard committees as well as working groups which are dealing with the application of glass.

Presentations The use of high performance glass in renovation while maintaining the building’s identity Visual Quality of Glass - Anisotropic Effects - Status of the Guideline MICHAEL EMONDS, BASF/ Chemetall Dr. Michael Emonds studied chemistry at RWTH – Aachen.

He made his PhD in (bio)polymer chemistry and teached students at the university before he changed into industry. Since 1993, he is active in glass industry and works for BASF / Chemetall Frankfurt as R/D scientist. He is also responsible for applications engineering consulting in the areas of cutting fluids, coolants, detergents and interleavants/corrosion inhibitors and carries out seminars and training.

Presentations Float glass processing: washing and anti-corrosion treatment Glass Cutting and Grinding MICHAEL HÄRTH, Kuraray Europe GmbH Dr. Michael Härth joined Kuraray Europe GmbH in July 2015 and works as a Scientist in the Europe Film R&D department. He is responsible for new product development and material testing.

Michael holds a PhD in material science from the University Erlangen-Nuremberg and is an expert in the field of polymer rheology.

Presentations Determination of Interlayer Mechanical Properties for Use in Laminated Glass Design

Rational Hyperelastic Constitutive Model based on the Nelder Function

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS MICHAEL KRAUS, Universität der Bundeswehr München Michael A. Kraus M.Sc. (hons) studied Civil Engineering at the Technical University Munich with a specialisation in structural engineering. Since 2015 Michael Kraus works at the Institute and Laboratory for Structural Engineering at the University of German Self Defence Forces in Munich. Special aspects of his research and PhD thesis lie in the fields of the application of Bayesian Machine Learning approaches to uncertainty quantification in the fields of material modelling and system identification. By end of 2018 he submitted his dissertation on ‘Machine Learning Techniques for the Material Parameter Identification of Laminated Glass in the Intact and Post-Fracture State’.

Presentations Simulation of Glass Fracture using Voronoi Random Field Tessellations Structural design of laminated glass including the shear coupling effect through the polymeric interlayer: a comparison of different calculation approaches MIGUEL A. NÚÑEZ DÍAZ, Enar, Envolventes Arquitectónicas Miguel Ángel Núñez Díaz -PhD in Architecture by the UPM -Master Degree in architecture by the UPM -Master Degree in Theorical & Practical Application of Finite Element method by the UNED -Specialist in technological façades both in the design and the implementation of works on landmark buildings. -Participant in several research programs in the field of national and international light façades. -Currently Technical Department Director in the technological façade consultancy ENAR, Envolventes Arquitectonicas.

Presentations HIGH TEC achievable for everyone MIKKO RANTALA, Glaston Finland Oy Long experience of R&D and IPR relating to float glass heat treatment machines.

Presentations Thermal radiation and forced convection in glass tempering furnaces

MILES BARR, Ubiquitous Energy Miles Barr is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ubiquitous Energy. Barr has worked at the forefront of organic electronics and solar technology for over a decade.

For his innovations in the solar industry, Barr has been named an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 and a Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy. Barr holds a PhD from MIT in Chemical Engineering and a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University.

Presentations Truly Transparent Solar for Electricity Generating Facades MIRIAM SCHUSTER, Technische Universität Darmstadt Miriam Schuster, born in 1990 in Luxembourg, studied Civil Engineering from 2009 to 2014 at University of Luxembourg and TU Darmstadt. She focused and specialized on structural engineering. After working in the Luxembourgish engineering office Schroeder&Associés she returned to TU Darmstadt in February 2016 as a researcher in the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Schneider. Her topic area is the mechanical behaviour of intact and broken laminated safety glass with a main focus on the polymeric interlayer modelling.

Presentations Investigations on the visco- and hyperelastic behaviour of polyvinylbutyral interlayers at different temperatures Structural design of laminated glass including the shear coupling effect through the polymeric interlayer: a comparison of different calculation approaches MIRKKA LÄNSISALO, Futurice Mirkka works as Culture Advisory Lead at Futurice. She has an extensive background in building successful services for clients in different fields, and helping them grow their business. Before working at Futurice, Mirkka worked for over decade at Nokia, ensuring the UX of their mobile devices were globally loved. Mirkka has a degree in administrative sciences from the University of Tampere, currently working on her PhD around digital transformation.

Presentations How to fall out of love with your own idea The Key to Innovate Organisational Culture and Product Creation - Lean Service Creation Crash Course

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS NABHAJIT GOSWAMI, Michigan Tech University I am currently working towards my PhD under Dr. Stephen Morse at Michigan Technological University, with an interest in studying glass as a structural member.

Presentations Lower tail fit of the Weibull distribution for edge-line glass strength for structural use of glass NAOMI SCHLÖSSER, Eckersley O’Callaghan Naomi Schlösser has always been fascinated by the built environment.

She therefore started with a bachelor’s in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences at Delft University of Technology. Her desire to learn more about engineering resulted in the choice to complete a master’s degree in Building Engineering, also at Delft University of Technology. She currently works as a structural engineer at Eckersley O’Callaghan to combine her passion for design and engineering.

Presentations Glass Quality and Specification of Curved Panels NEBOJSA JAKICA, University of Southern Denmark Nebojsa Jakica is an Assistant Professor in Facade Design and Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark and a Visiting Professor of Architectural Design Studio at Politecnico di Milano. He holds a PhD in Performance-Based Design for Complex BIPV Façade Systems. He worked as a Computational and Environmental Architect at architectural studios in Milan and Berlin on projects worldwide. Nebojsa is, among others, member of IEA and European Façade Network.

Presentations Physically Accurate Visual Representation of Advanced Glass Facades

OLIVER NG, BG&E Facades (Facade Consultants) Over the last 25 years, Oliver has been involved in the management and design of facades, from concept to inception. Being trained as an Architect, his focus is in design of façade and façade systems. This includes schematic design ideas, system detailed development, façade prototype testing and implementation process. Currently he is working on the assessment of cladding on buildings and recladding where they are non-compliant. As the head of the facades group, he is still hands on and heavily involved in testing, research and fabrication of facades. He has had extensive experience in the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Some notable projects include the A$3 Billion New Royal Adelaide Hospital, the ITCC in Riyadh and the Australian award winning 35 Spring St by Bates Smart Architects. Oliver has also worked with many notable international architect firms such as Norman Foster, Grimshaw, Cesar Pelli, RTKL and WATG which has given him an insight into current ideas and updated technologies of other parts of the world.

Presentations Façade Performance – Real Time Sensor based Data collection OLIVIER BROUARD, Skidmore Owings and Merrill Olivier Brouard is the Sustainability Engineering Specialist team leader with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP’s San Francisco office focusing on building science. He supports the High Performance Design group and the Sustainable Engineering Studio in delivering and documenting high performance design strategies and predicted performance running detailed simulations including whole building energy modeling analysis, dew point prediction and façade performance to inform the magnitude impact of architectural design decisions.

Presentations Parametric Thermal Transmittance Numerical Modeling of a Curtain Wall Fenestration OSKAR STORM, Building Glass Polska With 20 years in the glass business Oskar has experienced controlling, production and sales before going into marketing and specification in 2014. O has worked a lot with indoor climate consultants, his competence cuts across from glass to facade and building simulation. The workshop is based on his booklet, that will be distributed for free as workshop documentation Presentations Designing facades for near zero energy buildings

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS PASCAL BUSKENS, Brightlands Materials Center / TNO Pascal Buskens is an expert in coatings. After receiving his PhD from RWTH Aachen University, he headed the Functional Coatings R&D group at DSM where he developed antireflective coatings for solar cover glass. Currently, he works at TNO and Brightlands Materials Center as program manager for Sustainable Buildings, and focuses on the development of functional coating for energy efficient glazing. He combines this position with a professorship at Hasselt University.

Presentations Solution processed thermochromic coatings for energy efficient glazing PEDRO BORGES DE ARAÚJO, Jofebar s.a. / panoramah!® Pedro Borges de Araújo (Porto, 1980) is an architect (FAUP, 2005) and TRIUM Global Executive Master of Business Administration (LSE London, NYU Stern, HEC Paris, 2018). He started his collaboration with Jofebar S.A. in 2005, being currently a managing partner and overseeing the International Sales and Distribution of panoramah!® minimalist door and window systems. He was responsible for the RedDot Best of the Best 2014 award given to panoramah!® skylight.

Presentations “The tallest, heaviest sliding glass door of all”: a case study Horizontal sliding glass doors and windows: from standard to efficiency Minimalist sliding windows: continuous product development through five case studies PETER LENK, Arup Presentations Next Step in Structural Glass - Digital Design and Fabrication Structural Glass walls - Gravity and Stability Elements

PETER POKOERN, Bohle AG Director Product Management Industrial Glass Processing at Bohle, joined the company in 1985.

For many years, he was engaged in application engineering in all aspects of processing glass, e.g. optimal manual glass cutting, thick glass cutting and UV bonding. In 2001 he became the Marketing and Product Manager especially for automatic glass cutting and ever since concentrates on this aspect of processing glass. The thorough knowledge of glass physics and the many years of experience in close cooperation with customer’s requirements have made Peter Pokoern a real expert when it comes to choosing the right wheel holder, the correct wheel angle and cutting force to obtain optimal results.

Presentations Glass Cutting and Grinding PETER SMITHSON, Smithson Associates Peter holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Melbourne and graduated with further major studies in materials science. Over more that 35 years he has specialised in: • The design, from concept to detailed design, of curtain wall high rise facades, • The chemical interactions between the various materials comprising glazing systems, and • The forensic investigation of various construction materials science matters resulting from chemical incompatibility. Today, Peter’s workload is almost entirely court expert witness work.

Presentations High Rise Facades: Managing Risk for Architects PHILIPPE THIEL, Siemens AG Philippe Thiel is Senior Manager Glass Industry in the Siemens Process Industries and Drives Division in Karlsruhe / Germany and provides digital consultancy services to glass manufacturers.

Presentations How can Glass manufacturers successfully manage their digital transformation journey?

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS POL D’HAENE, Eastman Chemical Company

RICHARD GREEN, Front Inc

Addressing the end-of-life challenges in facade design

Richard Green PE, MIE Aust CP Eng, M ASCE Richard Green is a façade specialist with almost 30 years’ experience. He has projects in over 20 different countries covering a wide range of building types. High rise towers include Mahanakhon with OMA/ Ole Scherin, Shenzen Stock Exchange with OMA, Brookfield Place in Calgary with AFK/Dialogue and Ten Hudson Yards in New York with KPF. He has worked significant airport extensions in Melbourne and Sydney in Australia, Changi Airport in Singapore and was the lead designer for the façade of the Main Terminal Building of Helmut Jahn’s Bangkok International Airport. Richard has worked on cultural facilities on six continents, including such iconic buildings as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center by Renzo Piano in Athens, Greece; the restoration of the Sydney Opera House, the Amazon Spheres with NBBJ; and, most recently, the refurbishment of the Seattle Space Needle with Olson Kundig. Richard is a Principal and the Global Technical Director for FRONT. His passion for design is enabled by his engineering expertise to assist some of the finest architects from around the world to fulfill their visions. Richard is also an international expert in glass design. He is currently the technical chair for the ASTM Structural Glass Committee, having also participated in the writing of the Australia Glass Standard (AS-1288), the ASTM Window Glass Standard (E-1300), a guest expert with participation in Eurocode 11 for Structural Glass Design, and currently represents the United States on ISO committees.

REIJO KARVINEN, Tampere University of Technology

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2050M Street, Washington DC - Utilizing cylindrical glass

Influence of cooling jets on stress pattern and anisotropy in tempered glass

Going beyond a design guide - the ASTM Glass Structures Standard

Chemical engineer Ph.D in flow properties of soft matter working for interlayer business for more than 20 year, in the technology domain.

Presentations Modelling laminated glass based on multi-layer interlayers: effective modulus approach REBECCA HARTWELL, University of Cambridge Rebecca Hartwell joined the Glass and Façade Technology research group in October 2017.

She graduated in Material Science and Engineering (MEng) at the University of Manchester in 2015; including a 1-year placement at Siemens Magnet Technology, Oxford. Subsequently, Rebecca continued to work as a research assistant at the International Centre for Advanced Materials – University of Manchester, to develop research in understanding the role of microstructure in the failure of insect cuticle using X-Ray Computed Tomography. In 2016, she joined the Future Infrastructure and Built Environment (FIBE) CDT at Cambridge, and is currently working to develop novel design strategies and technologies for improving the reuse and recyclability of building envelopes.

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REINHOLD SENFT, Grafotec Spray Systems Reinhold Senft is the managing director of Grafotec Spray Systems GmbH/Augsburg. He has more than 25 years of experience in the glass industry. His professional specialty is to design machinery used in the flat and bending process for applying dry and wet inter-leaving powder as well as liquid application machines to apply solutions (antistain liquid) or suspensions (liquid interleaving for gravity bending). All major glass producers worldwide and many of the smaller professionals are using machinery from Grafotec to improve their production efficiency.

Seattle Space Needle - Opening the Aperture on an Icon RIKU FÄRM, Glaston Riku Färm is working as a product manager at Glaston.

He joined Glaston in 2015 to do his Master’s thesis and stayed with the company after graduating. Currently he is responsible for Glaston Insight product family.

Presentations Automating Flat Glass Lamination Process Take your tempering process to the next level with data analysis & automatic quality measurement

Presentations Float glass processing: washing and anti-corrosion treatment

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS ROB NIJSSE, University of Delft Professor Building Engineering of the Technical University of Delft. Structural Advisor at the engineering company ABT in the Netherlands. Has built a lot of glass structures al over the world, especially corrugated glass facades like into Casa da Music in Porto and the Museum at the Stream (MAS) in Antwerp.

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SAGAR VANAPALLI, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Speaker is a Civil Engineer, a Master graduate from TU Dresden, Germany. Since 2016 he is working at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Dessau, Germany with Prof. Stefan Reich. He is experienced in FEM simulations and testing.

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The Glass Swing of the University of Delft

Impact on glass panes and the fracture energy equilibrium

ROBERT MOISY, Surface Design Consulting

SAMI KELIN, Glaston Finland Oy

Robert Moisy is a Senior Facade Engineer at Surface Design based in Sydney Australia. Robert leads the Façade Engineering team. Robert has developed a diverse background in facade technologies. His skills are underwritten by his structural engineering experience, Robert is a Chartered Structural Engineer and has worked on some of Australia’s leading projects including Crown Tower Barangaroo (77 stories), One Circular Quay towers (60 stories), Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, One Central Park, Sydney, 200 George Street for Mirvac, 100 Mount Street North Sydney, and Macquarie Banks USP. Presentations Cold Warped Glass Engineering and Durability ROBERT PRANGE, Dr. / Managing Director at Bystronic Maschinen AG (CH) Presentations High efficient processing of display glass for automotive applications RORY BACK, NSG Pilkington Glass Rory Back, from Liverpool, studied Chemistry at Durham from 20112014. He then joined NSG as a Technologist in the Thin Film Technology department, and was seconded to his current role in 2018 as the Incubator & Value-AddedProducts Technical Manager. Rory works within the Incubator to develop new technologies, applications, and SME partnerships for glass. Rory is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, including the Surface Coatings Interest Group.

Presentations Developing Active Windows and Façades through Innovation and Collaboration

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Sami Kelin is a product manager at Glaston. Mr Kelin has over 10 years’ practical experience in the tempering process and furnaces in several roles at Glaston.

Presentations Improving Tempered Glass Quality: Challenges and Solutions SARAH KUGLER, A+W Software GmbH Sarah is a software developer at A+W Software GmbH, the global market leader in software for glass and windows. She holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics with a focus on Optimization. In her time with A+W, she has met customers around the world, accompanied and optimized their production processes. She was also Business Development Manager in China. Today, she promotes tracking and tracing at A+W in close cooperation with customers.

Presentations Track and Trace Using State of the Art IoT Technology SEBASTIÁN ANDRÉS LÓPEZ, Universität Siegen Sebastián Andrés López studied civil engineering at Technische Universität Darmstadt. During his studies he worked as student assistant for Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG and osd GmbH & Co. KG. Since his master degree in 2015 he is research assistant on the Institute of Structural Design of Universität Siegen. His research focuses on the lamination of different materials as a laminated safety glass with enhanced properties in case of security.

Presentations Structural behaviour of Thin Glass-Polycarbonate Composite Panels

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS SENER OKTIK, Sisecam

SOPHIE PENNETIER, Enclos

Prof. Dr. Şener Oktik is an applied physicist with academic/industrial research technological development (RTD) and teaching expertise in material science and coating technologies. He obtain a Ph.D. from Durham University (UK) in 1982 and has worked at each level of academic, industrial RTD and their management. He has been the CTO at Şişecam Group since January, 2012 and is author/co-author of over 100 publications and inventor/co-inventor of several world patents

Sophie holds over 10 years of experience in the design of complex structures and facades. She joined Enclos in 2018. In her current role, Sophie is responsible for steering the Specialty Design team and its coordination with Enclos’ Sales and Engineering teams. Prior to joining Enclos, Sophie worked on international projects as a Senior Structural Engineer with Arup in New York where she contributed to the coordination of large design teams, complex geometry, big data management. Sophie also authored several research papers on structural glass and is actively involved in the development of US structural glass codes with ASTM.

Presentations Glass and Coatings SERHAT ORAN, OLBRICHT AUTOMATION GMBH Serhat Oran is an industrial engineer and has a varied management background. He has worked in nearly every continent and is leading the global Glass and Material Handling operations for OLBRICHT since it was acquired in 2017 by the ALTINAY Technology Group.

Presentations A comparison of various deairing methods for windshields, sidelites and sunroofs SILKE TASCHE, Technische Universität Dresden Presentations

Presentations Ultra-Thin Glass Projects STANISLAV CHESNOKOV, Glass Research Institute Standardisation and testing department of the Glass Research Institute is one of the oldest glass expert facilities in Russia.

I am working in the projects of the department for more than 25 years. My fields of expertise include numerical methods, mechanical testing, visual appearance testing etc. I took part as a speaker in all GPD Finland conferences from 2001 till 2015.

Presentations Challenging laminated glass projects in Russia

The KLEBTECH-network – SMEs join forces on quality management and damage-tolerance of adhesive bonding for glass constructions

SOCRATES ANGELIDES, University of Cambridge Socrates studied MEng Civil Engineering at Imperial College and worked for 3 years at DNVGL as a Structural Engineer in the Oil and Gas industry designing offshore structures. He joined in 2016 the Future Infrastructure and Built Environment CDT in the University of Cambridge and is currently in his 2nd year of his PhD researching the structural response of laminated glass panels subjected to blast loads.

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STANLEY YEE, DOW Silicones Corporation Stanley Yee, a LEED® Accredited Professional, is a facade design and construction specialist for Dow Silicones. Part of the Facade Engineering and Architectural Design Team, he works with industry stakeholders to collaboratively develop innovative applications and products that enable building enclosure design and performance. He has over 20-years experience in the building enclosure industry, working in curtain wall contracting and façade engineering/ consulting. He earned his Building Engineering degree from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and is an active member of various facade industry organizations and international Standards committees. Yee is currently a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Glass Association (NGA).

Presentations Transformational Use of 3D Printing in Facade Construction

Blast Response of Laminated Glass Panels

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS STEFAN GOEBEL, Arnold Glas

STEFFEN BORNEMANN, Folienwerk Wolfen GmbH

Stefan Goebel is the General Manager of Arnold Glas, Corp., an architectural glass firm with a strong focus on research and implementation strategies. Stefan heads up the N.A. branch of the Germany based firm and has more than 6 years’ experience in consulting architects and building owner on energy efficient and environmentally friendly architectural glass products in high performance buildings.

Stefan is a certified passive house consultant and a part time professor for glass technologies at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College NYC. He holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of applied Science, Cologne, Germany.

Steffen Bornemann holds a Ph.D. in Polymer chemistry. For more than 20 years, he worked in different positions in polymer processing. Since 2009, he is employed at Folienwerk Wolfen GmbH, a German company producing customized polymeric films. Currently, he is responsible for research, development and quality assurance. He is involved in several publications and patents in polymer science and applications.

Presentations Design coatings - a game with colours and patterns Glass and Coatings STEFAN GOEDDERTZ, Herzog & de Meuron Presentations Visual Quality of Glass - Anisotropic Effects - Status of the Guideline STEFAN LÜCK, Stefan Lück, born in 1968, is a gardener and owned a plant nursery founded by his father from 1993 to 2018. For 10 years he has been working on new, energyefficient construction methods in which vacuum is used as thermal insulation. He filed patents, which got granted and took part in an R&D project about modular greenhouses with low vacuum insulation.

Presentations Growing market indoor farming – LED or daylight?

STEFAN REICH, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Stefan studied structural engineering and building management. He has worked as a structural engineer for several consultants and was a senior researcher at Technical University Dresden, research fields in structural glass and facades. Since 2014 he has been a Professor in Structural Engineering at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences being the head of the building envelope research group of Anhalt University with research focus on glass and facades.

Presentations Phosphorescent Paint in Glass Laminates

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Presentations Controlling lamination result of EVA laminating films for several lamination processes STEFFEN MÜLLER-BRAUN, Technische Universität Darmstadt Steffen Müller-Braun, born in 1985 in Germany, studied Civil Engineering from 2006 to 2013 at TU Darmstadt with focus on structural engineering.

After successful completion he worked as engineer for the Fast+Epp GmbH. At the end of 2014 he returned to the TU Darmstadt as research assistant at the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design, led by Prof.

Dr.-Ing. Jens Schneider. His topics are edge strength of glass and curved glasses.

Presentations Egde strength: Crack system and possibilities of increasing the strength STEPHEN MORSE, Michigan Tech University Dr. Stephen Morse is an assistant professor at Michigan Tech University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has extensive experience in model scale and full scale testing, numerical modeling and software development related to window glass strength. For the past ten years Dr. Morse has served as a technical adviser on the ASTM subcommittee responsible for maintaining and updating the national window glass standard, ASTM E1300. He contributed and authored key provisions to the E1300 standard including the addition of a generalized analytical procedure, expanded NFL charts and updated examples. Dr. Morse recently became the Convener of Work Group 2 of ISO TC 160/SC 2 Strength of Glass in Buildings and a member of the US Technical Advisory Group.

Presentations Designing Glass for North America: a standardization overview Load Sharing of Insulating Glass Unit with Laminated Glass

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS THOMAS RAINER, HEGLA boraident GmbH & Co. KG Dr. Thomas Rainer is Head of Operation & Development of the HEGLA boraident. After studying at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg he specialized in the field of laser and glass science.

His specialty is laser-induced formation of nano particles in glass. From 2000 up to 2017 he was the managing director of boraident GmbH. 2017 boraident would a part of HEGLA Group, one of the leading machine building companies for glass processing.

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TOBIAS RIST, Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM Tobias Rist studied Material Science at the University of Bayreuth. He is now working for more than ten years at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials. There he leads the group “Machining Processes, Glass Forming”. His focus is placed on glass forming technologies, joining and severing glass and the evaluation of glass strength and failures.

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Laser – a tool for glass processing

Innovative glass bending technology for manufacturing expressive shaped glasses with sharp curves

TIM LESLIE, Batessmart

TOMAS LENKIMAS, GLASSBEL

Tim is a Studio Director at Bates Smart architects, a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and founding and current President of Open House Melbourne. He is passionate about the importance that architecture plays in creating successful cities and is a keen advocate in promoting architecture to the public. A particular interest of his is the poetics of light and the importance it plays in creating memorable architectural experiences.

In 2010 I have joined GLASSBEL Company. In 2012 achieved master degree in civil engineering and was first in Lithuania who made his master’s dissertation on laminated glass. Now I am head of R&D department consisting 5 specialists from different fields and this group works on new product development as well as deep investigation of rising challenges in rapidly accelerating glass market.

Presentations 171, A Three Part Exploration of Daylight and Glass TIMO SAUKKO, Finnglass Oy Timo has more than 10 years of experience from glass industry.

After 10 years of work in various positions, from international business to product and sales management at Saint-Gobain and Finnglass, he started as MBO, owner and CEO of Finnglass in 2017. He has specialized in electrically heated glass, its applications and technology.

Timo has worked in many challenging international projects with the leading facade contractors.

Presentations Glass igloos and large scale architectural case studies

Presentations 3D lamination – applications, challenges and possibilities Sound Insulating interlayers risks, challenges and solutions TYLER HERNANDEZ, Stanford University Tyler Hernandez is currently a PhD candidate in Chemistry at Stanford University and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Colorado – Boulder.

His research focuses on studying and engineering electrochromic technology based on reversible metal electrodeposition. His specific research interests include the design and characterization of reversible electrolytic systems and novel counter electrode materials for electrochromic applications. He has previously published on RME-based dynamic window technology and is dedicated to pursuing a career in emerging electrochromic technologies.

Presentations Optically Tunable Dynamic Windows based on Reversible Metal Electrodeposition

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS ULLRICH SIEBERATH, ift Rosenheim

VALÉRIE HAYEZ, Dow Silicones Belgium

Professor Ulrich Sieberath is director of the international focused Research and testing institute ift Rosenheim. Furthermore he is Honorary Professor at the technical University of Sciences Rosenheim.

He offers his 35 years competence in the field of windows, doors and facades as Convenor/ Chairman and member of several German and European committees such as NA 005-09-01 Mirror Committee of CEN TC33; CEN TC33 WG1 Windows and Doors; SG 06 D (Doors and Windows) and as member of mirror committee to the Advisory Group of Notified Bodies.

Valérie Hayez is Global Façade Engineering & Architectural Design Engineer for High Performance Building Solutions at Dow Silicones, based in Belgium. In her current role, she provides technical service to the design community, including façade system manufacturers, architects and engineers.

She is responsible for identifying and communicating industry needs to Dow‘s Research and Development Community and supporting the development and commercialization of new products

Presentations Large cavities between glass panes by pressureequalised insulating IGU URMILLA SOWELL, NGA Urmilla Sowell has 18 years of experience in the fenestration industry. She is the Technical and Advocacy Director for the National Glass Association with duties that include managing all technical activities and advocating for the glass and glazing industry. Ms. Sowell participates in several standardization bodies, such as ISO, ASTM International, ANSI and many others.

Presentations Designing Glass for North America: a standardization overview North American Market Trends and Drivers VALENTIN BALOG, Drees& Sommer Valentin Balog Senior Projektpartner / Teamleader facade design team Basel Drees & Sommer Stuttgart/Basel Presentations Advanced Facade Types - The Closed Cavity Facade

Presentations Maximizing façade transparency with crystal clear silicone spacers State of the art calculation methods for silicone structural glazing joint dimensioning Structural Silicone Joint Dimensioning: ETAG002 and beyond VAUGHN SCHAUSS, Kuraray Vaughn Schauss, Americas Technical Consultancy Manager for Kuraray’s Trosifol division, works with architects, structural engineers, façade consultants, and glass fabricators on the specification, design, and use of laminated glass in buildings. Vaughn began his career working with glass laminators providing expertise on the lamination process. Now, he concentrates his efforts on structural, security, acoustical, and hurricane applications for laminated glass, and is active in many industry organizations and standards committees.

Presentations Cantilevered Laminated Glass Balustrades – Comparing Testing and Calculations VESA JÄÄSKÖ, Aalto University Vesa Jääsko is awarded industrial designer and experienced concept developer as working with startups for generating new products and services. He is expert in customer value opportunity searching and analyzing, customer centered development, business concept planning, brand development and product designing. He has 25+ years of experience working with industry. He has worked as an expert of new business idea assessment in different venues such as in Tekes PreStart programme.

Presentations Printed Perotech - New architectural BIPV solution technology

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS VICENTE MONTES-AMOROS, CDC

VIVIANA NARDINI, Sika Services AG

Vicente Montes-Amoros, PE, MSc. Facade Engineer, LEED AP BD+C Vicente Montes-Amoros is a façade and structural engineer at Curtain Wall Design and Consulting (CDC) in CDC’s Virginia/Washington DC office. He joined CDC in 2005 and worked in the engineering division during his first years where he designed and engineered different building enclosure systems. He holds a Masters of Science in Façade Engineering from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom and a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering with a major in Structural. Mr. Montes pioneered CDC’s Solar Reflectivity technology and has given multiple presentations on this and other topics at national and international venues. His articles have been published in different journals, proceedings, and industry magazines.

Viviana Nardini has a degree in civil engineering and has been active in the facade industry for more than 12 years. After working as structural engineer for Permasteelisa and Yuanda Europe, in 2014 she joined the Corporate Façade Team of Sika.

In Sika, she provides technical support to global façade companies and insulating glass producers and fosters the development of new products and applications to meet industry needs. She is member of different Standardization Committees dealing with the design of adhesives and sealants in façade applications.

Presentations Advanced Calculation Method for Design of SSG Joints Mistral Tower: Solutions for SSG Joints Optimization in Cold Bent Units

Presentations Does glass manufactured abroad meet US code requirements?

VILLE STENIUS, Siemens Building Technologies Ville Stenius is Business Director for Building Automation & Performance in Finland and Baltics at Siemens.

Ville has over 10 years of experience in developing data-driven services for smart buildings and digital platform creation for peoplecentric services. He is a pioneer in the industry through virtual building management and analytics, predictive maintenance modeling, decentralized energy systems and services. Ville has been an accelerator in the virtual power plant investment aid project of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. His passion is in shaping the current building industry structures and business models through value creation in the digital era.

Presentations Turning building data into business value

VLADIMIR MARINOV, Define Engineers Ltd Vlad is a specialist structural engineer with strong analytical background and over 10 years of broad experience in traditional construction, complex geometry and innovative materials. He is regarded as one of the key designers and innovators in the glass industry and has designed and delivered a number of landmark and award-winning projects world-wide. Vlad enjoys collaborating on highly challenging briefs which involve first principle thinking combined with rigorous analytical approach Presentations The Gravity Project: “Innovative use of thin glass and adhesives structurally” WALTER HARTNETT, Thornton Tomasetti Walter Hartnett is a leader of the Façade Engineering practice.

He joined Thornton Tomasetti in 2017 and has more than 10 years of experience in design, analysis, planning and implementation of façade systems. His work spans across multiple market sectors and building types. As a structural engineer with an extensive background, he offers expert guidance on building envelope technologies and how best to integrate them into high-performance, resilient, design-driven enclosures.

Presentations The Hot & Cold of Free-form Glass Facades

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GPD FINLAND 2019 – THE PERFORMERS AT GLASS PERFORMANCE DAYS WILLIAM LINGNELL, Architectural Glass and Glazing Consultant and a licensed professional engineer. Mr. Lingnell is involved in engineering, design, and construction of projects throughout the United States, Canada and other countries. He consults for general contractors, manufacturers, fabricators, owners, developers, architects, and individuals relating to glass systems used on architectural projects. He consults to engineers, testing agencies, industry trade associations, insurance companies, building managers, window producers, curtain wall consultants, and the legal profession on matters concerning glass technology Presentations Designing Glass for North America: a standardization overview WILLIAM R. HALTER, Elkus Manfredi Architects Rob Halter is a Vice President at Elkus Manfredi Architects with 25 years of experience in architectural design for complex high rise residential, mixed-use, and institutional projects. Rob earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the School of Architecture & Environmental Design at Kent State University. Rob is a registered architect and member of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston Society of Architects, and the US Green Building Council.

Presentations We can dream it, can we deliver it… curved unitized glazing WIM STEVELS, Eastman Chemical Company Wim Stevels is currently Architectural Industry Support Manager for Eastman Chemical, responsible technically for the architectural use of Saflex and Vanceva interlayers in Europe.

This includes registration and qualification testing of Eastman’s interlayer portfolio. He is a member of various standardization bodies and has a broad interest in laminated safety glass with added functionality, and a particular interest in interlayer rheology and glass design.

Presentations Interlayer modulus properties in contemporary European standards

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AUTHORS DETAILS Intelligent Glass Solutions • Spring 2019

Christopher M. Hayward City of London Planning & Transport Guildhall London EC2P 2EJ United Kingdom Tel: +44 20 7606 3030 www.cityoflondon.gov.uk E-Mail: Christopher.Hayward@ cityoflondon.gov.uk UK Department for International Trade British Consulate General for Hong Kong & Macau 1 Supreme Court Road Hong Kong Tel: +852 2901 3361 Vivencio B.Dizon President & CEO Bases Conversion & Development Authority (BCDA) The Philippines www.bcda.org.ph Haim Dotan, Prof.

Haim Dotan Architects & Urban Designers Tel – Aviv, Israel & Shanghai China www.haimdotan.com

Jürgen Wax CEO Josef Gartner GmbH Gartnerstrasse 20 89423 Gundelfingen an der Donau Germany Tel: +49 (0) 9073 84 0 www.josef-gartner. permasteelisagroup.com E-Mail: gartner@ permasteelisagroup.com Vladimir Marinov Define Engineers Studio 13, The Trampery 1 Waterden Road London United Kingdom E15 2HB www.defineengineers.com E-Mail: vlad@defioneengineers. com Stephen Katz Senior Associate Gensler 11 E Madison St #300 Chicago, IL 60602 USA Tel: +1 312 456 0123 www.gensler.com E-Mail: Stephen_katz@gensler.com

Nancy Wang Tianjin NorthGlass Industrial Technical Co.Ltd Tianjin China Tel: + 86 22 592 800 88 www.northglass.global E-Mail: nancy@northglass.com Rainer Mahlamäki, Prof.

Lahdelma & Mahlamaki Architects Tehtaankatu 29, A FI-00150 Helsinki Finland Tel: +358 10 315 4300 www.lma.fi E-Mail: info@lma.fi Timo Saukko Finnglass Oy Asematie 46 FI-63400 Alavus Finland Tel: +358 6 5155 100 www.finnglass.com E-Mail: timo.saukko@finnglass. com

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