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Conference: 25 - 26 April 2012 | Resort World Sentosa Site Visit: 24 April 2012
Technical Workshops: 27 April 2012 | Venue: Singapore
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ABOUT YOUR
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Twin Tree Towers, Seoul, S. Korea
Shenzhen Tower, China
The Vertices, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
KEN TTDI, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Taipei Performing Arts Centre, Taiwan
Riyadh Financial Academy, Saudi Arabia
UTS Tower, Sydney, Australia
Foguang Foundation Monastery, Malaysia
Putrajaya Lot L2C5, Malaysia
Spire Edge, India
Wintergarden Art Façade, Australia
The Atrium, Singapore
Meridian Energy Building, New Zealand
Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore
2012’S EVENT ALSO
INCLUDES:
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ADVISORY BOARD
6 MEMBERS
TECHNICAL
4 WORKSHOPS
SITE VISIT TO
WORLD
1 RESORTS
SENTOSA
SPEAKERS FROM
10 COUNTRIES
14 CPforD
Points
All Engineering
Disciplines
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AGENDA AT-A-GLANCE
AGENDA AT-A-GLANCE
Pre-conference site visit: 24 April 2012
Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore - addressing the challenges in combining
a variety of façade materials for different performance criteria
Led by: Mathieu Meur, Managing Director & Timothy Soebroto, Façade Consultant,
MEINHARDT FAÇADE TECHNOLOGY, Singapore
Conference day 1: 25 April 2012
The role of efficient envelopes in aesthetic
and commercial building developments
0845-1800: Developers, regulators, architects and engineers discuss the need for
sustainable building performance and the role of envelope design/engineering
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2DEFINE ARCHITECTS
AEDAS
ATKINS GLOBAL
ARUP
AURECON
BEAM SOCIETY, HONG KONG
BECA
BENOY
• BYOUNG SOO CHO ARCHITECTS
• CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
DEVELOPMENT BOARD, MALAYSIA
• KARAN GROVER
• MEINHARDT FAÇADE
TECHNOLOGYASSOCIATES
• PARSVNATH DEVELOPERS
• YUANDA
1810 onwards: Cocktails and networking reception
Conference day 2: 26 April 2012
0850-1800: Best practices in the design and engineering
of high performance envelopes
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BROADWAY MALYAN
GLASS & GLAZING FEDERATION
JAMES LAW CYBERTECTURE
KOHN PEDERSEN FOX
LABORATORY FOR VISIONARY
ARCHITECTURE
• OFFICE OF METROPOLITAN
ARCHITECTURE
• STUDIO 505
• T R HAMZAH & YEANG
• UN STUDIO
• WSP GROUP
Post-conference workshops: 27 April 2012
Workshop A: 0900 - 1030: Use of unconventional façade materials in
Creating aesthetic and complex envelopes led by Chris
Bosse, Director, LABORATORY FOR VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE
Workshop B: 1100 - 1230: Addressing challenges in the design and
engineering of envelopes for super tall towers led by Marshall
Strabala, Director - Design, 2DEFINE ARCHITECTS
Workshop C: 1330 - 1500: Delivering stakeholders’ expectations for high
performance buildings through optimal material selection
and envelope engineering led by John C Perry, Managing
Director, YUANDA GROUP
Workshop D: 1530 - 1700: Optimal envelope engineering for ease of
access and maintainability - best practices and case studies
led by Mathieu Meur, Managing Director, MEINHARDT FAÇADE
TECHNOLOGY
Go to page 9 for further details on these topical workshops
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Advisory Panel /
Speakers for 2012
Byoung Soo Cho,
Principal Architect,
BCHO Architects
Chris Bosse,
Director,
Laboratory for
Visionary Architecture
Russel Cole,
Head - ESD and
Façade Engineering,
ARUP
Marshall Strabala,
Design Partner,
2DEFINE Architects
Dr Benny Chow,
Director - Sustainability,
AEDAS
Mathieu Meur,
Managing Director,
Meinhardt Façade
Technology
Confirmed Developers
Attending include:
• Hap Seng Land Sdn Bhd
• MCL Land Ltd
• SP Setia International (S) Pte Ltd
• Sime Darby Property Berhad
• Filinvest Group
• Capital Land
• Pontiac Land
• Keppel Land
• Wing Tai
• IJM
• Keppel Vietnam
…and many more.
CASE STUDIES
New for 2012
✱ ROI analysis achieved through efficient
building envelopes
✱ Evaluating Active and passive tools of
high building performance
✱ Regulations, rating standards and
stakeholder coordination for high
building performance
✱ Featuring 13 Successful case studies of
high performance buildings with
complex envelopes
✱ Trends in envelope systems, materials
and fabrication/installation techniques
Top architects
presenting
✱ Meeta Patel
Divisional Director, BENOY
Ken TTDI, Malaysia
Image courtesy of Broadway Malyan
Jason Pomeroy, Director at Broadway Malyan is presenting at the conference.
The Vertices, Malaysia
✱ Byoung Soo Cho
Principal Architect, BCHO Architects
✱ Marshall Strabala
Design Partner, 2DEFINE Architects
✱ Chris Bosse
Director, Laboratory for Visionary
Architecture
✱ Hannes Pfau
Associate Director, UN Studio
✱ Jason Pomeroy
Director, Broadway Malyan
✱ James Law
Chief Cybertect
James Law Cybertecture
✱ Jan Rehders
Director - Sustainability
T R Hamzah & Yeang
✱ Dirk Zimmerman
Director, Studio 505
✱ Karan Grover
Principal Architect
KARAN GROVER ASSOCIATES
✱ Sameer Kumar
Associate Principal
KOHN PEDERSEN FOX
✱ Adam Frampton
Associate
Office of Metropolitan Architecture
✱ Julian Sutherland
Head – Sustainability
ATKINS Global
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Ken TTDI is one of the most cutting
edge mixed use developments in
Asia and sets the benchmark for
24-hour sustainable commercial
communities. This is amplified by the
inclusion of skycourts and skygardens
that step up and through the building,
which encourage the health and well
being of the individual. The green
vertical landscape envelope seeks to
act as a second skin that counteracts
glare, solar heat gain and improves
thermal performance.
Vertices is a 40-storey sustainable tower in Kuala
Lumpur comprised of office and convenience retail
with a mid-level recreational sky garden and roof
top gallery and bar. The building’s architecture is
environmentally responsive, drawing its inspiration
from the motorcycle engine by employing fins to
help dissipate heat away from the building.
Jason Pomeroy, Director at Broadway Malyan is
presenting at the conference.
Image courtesy of Broadway Malyan
Twin Tree
Towers,
South Korea
Twin tree towers are located at the 600 year old
capital of Korea, Gyeongbuk Palace. Situated in
the historic junction of the city, the tower overlooks
impressive views of mountains and imposing
palace.
Image courtesy of BCHO Architects
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CASE STUDIES
Taipei Performing Arts Centre, Taiwan
Set in the Shilin District of Taipei, Taiwan and scheduled for
completion in 2015, OMA’s design for the Taipei Performing
Arts Center consists of three theaters with a total of 3,100 seats.
The theatres plug into a central cube, which consolidates the
stages, backstages and support spaces into a single and
efficient whole. The individual auditoria protrude outward
from the cube and float above this dense and vibrant part
of the city. While each theater can function independently,
this unique arrangement also allows stages to be merged,
effectively combining the theaters for unsuspected uses and
scenarios.
The building envelope consists of two primary materials:
corrugated glass wrapping the cube and aluminum cladding
for each of three auditoria.
The cube contains a range of different spaces with different
characteristics and requirements: the stages, backstages,
offices, rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, storage, and other
support programs. In typical theater design, these spaces
are often fully concealed or hidden behind an opaque
façade, reinforcing the misconception of the theater as an
inaccessible monument. In order to avoid this scenario and
create a relationship between the inner workings of the
theater and the city, the design team chose to use corrugated
glass to create the building envelope.
The corrugated glass reveals the perimeter mega-structure
of the cube and its packing of different internal volumes and
activities. At same time these elements are revealed, they
are also concealed through the diffraction of light by the
corrugated glass, creating an image of fragmentation and
multiplication of what is behind. The glass itself consists of
two layers of annealed, low-iron panes, laminated together
with a slightly grey intermediate film for solar shading and
energy control. Corrugated glass was chosen not only
because of its optical properties, but also because of its
inherent structural stiffness in resisting the forces of Taipei’s
environment, including seismic and typhoon lateral loads.
As such, individual panes of corrugated glass span 5m
between a series of layers of horizontal shelves that striate
the perimeter of the cube.
While the cube is illuminated and animated, the auditoria
projecting from it are intended to read like dark, opaque,
and mysterious elements. These auditoria have their focus
on the interior space and performance. Bare, large-format
aluminum cladding was chosen and applied. The marinegrade aluminum alloy is not coated or anodized, but
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Image courtesy of Office of Metropolitan Architechture
mechanically finished to maintain a matte expression of the
material itself.
The large format of aluminum enhances the mysterious
and volumetric reading of the floating auditoria, while more
conventional, intermediate joints would otherwise lend
scale and legibility. On two of the three auditoria, the Grand
Theater and Multiform Theater, the aluminum panels are
dimensioned up to 10m x 1.5m, in a vertical orientation, to
contrast with the horizontal orientation of the cube shelves. In
the middle, the Proscenium Playhouse has triangular panels
up to 19m x 14m x 11m. These dimensions exceed current
manufacturing and transport capabilities, so individual
pieces will be welded together on-site to create the large
panels. As the geometry of the Proscenium Playhouse is also
semi-ellipsoid and double-curved, ship-building technology
will be utilized for the precision cut of the cold-form panels.
Cumulatively, the different materials of the TPAC envelope
reinforce the overall relationship of parts. The corrugated
glass cube and aluminum auditoria also achieve a reversal
implicit in the initial diagram of the design: that the working
infrastructure of the theater takes a central position and
exhibits transparency in relation to the city, inviting the public
to participate in its machine-like aura.
Adam Frampton, Associate, OFFICE OF METROPOLITAN
ARCHITECTURE is presenting at the conference.
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CASE STUDIES
UTS Tower, Sydney
What initially began as a speculative proposal for a bold re-shaping of the
UTS tower on Broadway has evolved as a broader architectural system
for re-purposing inefficient and outdated buildings without the need to
demolish and rebuild. LAVA has developed a simple, cost effective and
easily constructed building skin that can transform the identity, sustainability
and interior comfort of an existing structure such as the UTS tower.
The ‘skin’ is a translucent cocoon that can create its own ‘micro climate’. It
can generate energy with photovoltaic cells, collect rainwater, improve the
distribution of natural daylight and it can use available convective energy
to power the building’s ventilation requirements.
A pre-existing building is wrapped with three-dimensional lightweight,
high performance composite mesh textile. Surface tension allows the
membrane to freely stretch around walls and roof elements achieving
maximum visual impact with minimal material effort. The skin is also an
intelligent media surface that can be used for dynamic animation and to
communicate information into the public realm – effectively integrating
principles of architecture, fashion, media and communication design into
a new hybrid typology.
latest digital fabrication technologies with the aim
of achieving more (architecture) with less (material/
energy/time).
The re-skin concept continues LAVA’s research into sustainable public
architecture by combining lightweight contemporary materials with the
Chris Bosse, Director at Laboratory for Visionary
Architecture is presenting at the conference.
Image courtesy of Laboratory for Visionary
Architecture
PUTRAJAYA - Lot L2C5, Malaysia
The façade of the building is a crystalline sculpture,
it consist out of a double skin facade system with
high performance DGU glazing on the inner side
and a ceramic fritted glass layer in traditional Malay
‘songket’ pattern on the outer skin.
The building integrates unique Green Design
Features like rainwater harvesting with 100 %
irrigation and flushing usage, several Bio swales
at perimeter landscaping, a landscaped central
Image courtesy of T R Hamzah & Yeang
promenade to enhance biodiversity and focus
for an intensified public realm and an integrated
building façade of vertical glass sun shading and
To be completed in 2013, the building is a mixed-commercial development
with two 14 storey tower blocks interconnected with a pedestrian sky
bridge. The tower accommodates retail at level 1 and part of Level 3, and
offices for level 2 to level 14. The building is a commercial development
that is distinguished by its sustainable ecological features and iconic
design.
horizontal maintenance catwalk access to address
the solar insulation along the entire perimeter of
the building, with integrated green balconies.
Jan Rehders, Head – Sustainability at T R Hamzah
& Yeang is presenting at the conference.
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CASE STUDIES
South Quarter, Jakarta, Indonesia
landscape in a natural environment. The
organic layout blends forms into each other
producing a fluid combination of internal and
external spaces promoting a healthy living
and working environment.
Sustainability was central throughout the
design approach, as was the development’s
contribution to South Jakarta’s public realm.
Image courtesy of
Atkins
The concept for the
project draws on the
philosophy that opposing
forces are interconnected
in the natural world
and takes inspiration
from natural Indonesia.
Elements of architecture
are reduced to minimal
shapes and geometry
creating
harmony
between buildings and
The magnificent ETFE dome with retail hub
below and multifunctional deck above forms
a key focal plaza for the whole development,
while carefully designed landscape elements,
al fresco dining areas on waterborne timber
pads create an alluring experience for the
visitor.
Analysing the balance of light and shade, the
overhangs and louvers were tuned according
to the orientation of the buildings and further
complemented by an innovative balustrade
overlay inspired by the ubiquitous hand
woven Indonesian baskets.
A solar orientation specific, shading calculator
was developed for the project and applied to
every glazed element to establish the correct
number of shading louvers with respect to the
variable overhang and solar exposure.
This ensured the solar gains were kept within
limits to enable the building to use low energy
environmental control systems. Passive building
elements are included in the environmental control
system, with thermal mass from the concrete
frame providing temperature stability and a
high performance thermal envelope to reduce
infiltration and thermal conduction gains.
This innovative organic facade design contributed
to an overall reduction in energy demand by 35%
in comparison to typical buildings of this type in
Jakarta.
The primary aim is to reduce water consumption
with high efficiency, low flow and high quality
fittings. This in combination with the high rainfall
rates and a grey water recycling system has
reduced fresh water demand in excess of 25%.
The rainwater recovery system uses the extensive
green roofs and landscape realm to collect water
in subterranean tanks integrated with the building
foundations.
These two features alone make this development
one of the most sustainable in Jakarta and at
the forefront of the Greenship rating system of
Indonesia.
Julian Sutherland, Head – Sustainability, ATKINS
Global is presenting at the conference.
Louis Vuitton Maison, South Korea
Image courtesy of
BCHO Architecs
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The form of the facade is a series of continuous
concave and convex curvatures with slight
angles which will diffract light with consistently
changing distortions. These will create almost
cinematographic perspectives which will
highlight the Louis Vuitton collection and
ever changing line of fashion, art, and travel
items. These differing geometries generate
facetted reflections, which enable viewers,
both inside and outside the building, to see
constantly changing pictures of Louis Vuitton
products, the city and themselves. Integrated
with the stepped arrangement of the show
floors, the users of the building will have
various changing views of the urban context.
tunnel to allow natural ventilation and provide the
retail spaces a unique ambiance for customer.
Two concrete masses provide enclaves of
entry and rest within a miniature public park.
The building is punctured with a light and air
Byoung Soo Cho, Principal Architect of BCHO
Architects will be presenting on the above projects.
The materials of the building are both artificial
and natural. The glass, concrete, fiberglass, and
stainless steel will contrast with materials like
leathers, rough sawn woods, and plants. The
East Facade is composed of a combination of
undulating engraved and polished glass from 300
to 200 mm thick and 10 mm moulded plate glass.
These combinations of different types of glass
dramatically lower the overall cost of the facade
while keeping those effects of both interior and
exterior distortions at eye level.
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CASE STUDIES
The Pavilion at London Olympics, UK
Square. With an electrifying exterior
façade stretching 375 square meters,
Olympic Pavilion X offers functional
features of information center, souvenir
shop and administration office at the tip
of its three separate corners.
Image courtesy of James Law
Cybertecture
Inspired by the fluid shape of a raindrop
splash, Olympic Pavilion X becomes a
modern iconic landmark to inject both
fun and flair to the monumental Trafalgar
In stunning style, Olympic Pavilion X
captures the moment of the Olympic
summer games to augment a vibrant
and intense sporting atmosphere for the
crowd. Infused with visual technology
innovations, the core auditorium contains
an internal 360 degrees display screen,
whilst three external visual devices
composing hundreds of minuscule LCD
monitors are designed to relay and
display live Olympic games real-time.
James Law, Chief Cybertect of James
Law Cybertecture is presenting at the
conference.
What is New in Building Envelopes Asia 2012?
High performance envelopes characterise efficient buildings. Buildings that are
sustainable to construct and operate, invariably provide better ROI, higher sales value,
increased occupant comfort, better maintainability and hence longer service life.
Building Envelopes Asia 2012 is the only regional summit examining trends in
developing efficient envelopes. Developers, architects, façade engineers, regulators
and material and technology suppliers discuss the need for high performance
envelopes and the design/engineering techniques..
This year, Building Envelopes Asia 2012 will examine:
✱ ROI analysis for sustainable buildings achieved through efficient
envelopes
✱ Active and passive tools of high building performance
✱ Regulations, rating standards and stakeholder coordination for high
building performance
✱ Successful case studies of high performance buildings with complex
envelopes
✱ Trends in envelope systems, materials and fabrication/installation
techniques
For the first time the summit is also featuring panel discussions focused on new
envelope materials and combinations such as media wall, mesh and fabrics,
films, FRC and NALC.
The summit, also for the first time, includes 14 under construction building
case studies presented by global architectural and engineering firms.
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SPEAKER’S BIO
Adam Frampton
Associate
OFFICE OF METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE
Adam Frampton joined OMA in 2006 and became Associate in
2010. He currently leads the design and development of the Taipei
Performing Arts Centre, which won an international competition in
2009 and is set to be completed in 2015. Before joining OMA Hong
Kong, he was based in the Rotterdam office as a project leader for
the concept design of various projects and competitions in the
U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and India. He was also involved in the
competition design of the Taipei Performing Arts Center from OMA
Beijing in 2009.
His independent work on Hong Kong urbanism, in collaboration
with Jonathan Solomon and Clara Wong, was exhibited in the 12th
International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2010).
The continuation of this research is to be published in 2012 as a
book entitled Cities without Ground.
Prior to joining OMA, his analysis on the structural design of the
World Trade Center, in collaboration with Guy Nordenson, was
exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and has been
acquired into its permanent collection. His independent design
work has also been exhibited at the Center for Architecture, New
York, and the Van Alen Institute, New York.
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Jason Pomeroy
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Prof. Jason Pomeroy is an award winning architect and academic
at the forefront of the Asian built environment green agenda.
He graduated with distinction from the Canterbury School of
Architecture before gaining a masters degree at Cambridge
University. His research at Cambridge considered the socio-spatial
functions of skycourts and skygardens within the vertical city model
of the 21st century. He continues to pursue this vein of research in
addition to that of carbon zero development.
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Pomeroy joined the London office of Broadway Malyan in 2005 to
lead the sustainable agenda, and in 2008 relocated to Singapore to
establish this region’s design practices. In 2010, Pomeroy founded
Broadway Malyan’s Research and Development studio – a specialist
group that bridges the gap between academia and professional
practice by applying academic research to commercial projects in the
interests of sustainability and innovation. Projects of note transcend
scale and discipline and include the award winning Idea House: the
first carbon zero prototype house in South East Asia; Vision Valley
Malaysia: an 80,000 acre Network Garden City extension of Kuala
Lumpur; the Green Plot Ration guidelines: a method that provides
a quantifiable ecological measure to landscaping within the built
environment, and continued research into the role of the skycourt
and skygarden in the urban habitat.
es and publishes widely,
use in SE Asia. He is an
and Mapua Institute of
niversity. He also sits on
ban Habitat.
In addition to co-directing the Singapore office, he lectures and
publishes widely, and is the author of Idea House – the first carbon
zero house in SE Asia. He is an adjunct professor at University
Technologi Malaysia and Mapua Institute of Technology; and
honorary professor of the Nottingham University. He also sits on the
editorial board of the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
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Agnes Ng
Chairman
BEAM SOCIETY, Hong Kong
Agnes Ng graduated from the School of Architecture, University of
Hong Kong in 1983. She is the Fellow member of HKIA, Registered
Architect in HK, and also qualified as the Class 1 Registered
Architect in PRC.
She was the former Managing Director and Global Board Director of
Aedas Limited, managed the architectural practice in 11 countries.
Ms Ng has more than 25 years of working experience in HK, PRC
and Asia.
Ms Ng has been the fellow member of Hong Kong Institute
of Architecture (HKIA) since 2001. Ms Ng is also the founding
Chairman of Hong Kong Architecture Centre, which is a charitable
organization aimed at providing a platform to bridge our general
public and the local architecture. In addition, as the Chairman
of Beam Society Limited and the Director of Hong Kong Green
Building Council, Ms Ng has also devoted her time and effort to
promoting the sustainability of the built environment as well as the
green labeling of buildings in Hong Kong.
Chris Bosse
Director
LABORATORY FOR VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE
Chris Bosse is Asia Pacific Director of multinational firm Laboratory
for Visionary Architecture [LAVA], and is Adjunct Professor at the
University of Technology, Sydney and lectures worldwide. Educated
in Germany and Switzerland, Chris worked with several European
architects before moving to Sydney. Whilst Associate Architect at
PTW Architects, Bosse was a key designer of the Beijing Olympics
Watercube, winner of Atmosphere Award at the 9th Venice
Architecture Biennale. He was recognised as an emerging architect
by RIBA London in 2008.
Bosse bases his work on the computerized study of organic
structures and resulting spatial conceptions. His research lies in the
exploration of unusual structures, pushing the boundaries of the
traditional understanding of structure and architecture by means of
digital and experimental form finding.
Dylan Brady
Director
Studio 505
Dylan Brady and Dirk Zimmermann met whilst working closely
together on the Federation Square project in Melbourne, Australia,
respectively for LAB and Atelier One. Together they designed the
facades, folded glass foyers and atrium structures over a period
of 6 years. From 2003 the synergy of the combined architectural
partnership they have developed has maintained an engaged
passion that fuses artistic spirit with technical knowledge. This fusion
results in a rich and enthusiastic source of innovation for our clients
and ourselves in the many sectors and projects that studio505 has
had the privilege to work.
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SPEAKER’S BIO
Marshall Strabala
Director - Design
2DEFINE ARCHITECTS
Marshall Strabala has more than 25 years’ experience in largescale complicated projects. After 19 years as the Associate partner
in charge of Design with Skidmore Owings & Merrill in Chicago,
and 4 years as the Director of Design at Gensler, he founded
2Define Architecture in 2010. He is well known for his design work
in performing arts, convention centers, and supertall buildings. He
has designed three of the world’s ten tallest buildings including
Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Shanghai Tower and Nanjing Greenland
Financial Center in China. For his creative and innovative designs,
he has been honoured with several of the highest national and
international awards in the field of architecture. This includes
two AIA Honor Awards, the Burnham Prize from the Chicago
Architecture Club, and two ASHRAE Excellence in Engineering
Awards, and is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. In total,
he has designed more than 50 world-renowned projects in North
America, Korea, China, Europe, and the Middle East totaling more
than 2,500,000m2.
Timothy Soebroto
Façade Consultant
MEINHARDT FAÇADE TECHNOLOGY
Timothy has been in the façade industry for over 14 years. He has
been involved in diverse roles and positions in façade contractors
and consultants, from designing to managing façade projects;
including assisting architects in designing façade systems to
achieve the required aesthetic. He has extensive experience in the
designing and management of façade systems.
His experience in various project type, allows him to work under
pressure and solve problems on the spot, including understand both
the design, and production side as well as on site constructability,
managing a project to run smoothly from design through to
installation.
Jan Rehders
Director - Sustainability
T R HAMZAH & YEANG
Jan Rehders has been a Design Architect at T. R. Hamzah & Yeang
since 2008, and is currently the firm’s Sustainability Team Manager.
Originally from Germany, he has studied in Germany and the US
and practiced in Sydney, Hamburg, Chicago, London and Kuala
Lumpur. He currently lives in Kuala Lumpur.
T. R. Hamzah & Yeang is an international architecture and planning
firm with its HQ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. For over 30 years, T. R.
Hamzah & Yeang’s signature deep green buildings and master plans
have helped define the cutting edge of sustainable design. The
firm is best known for its pioneering designs for passive low-energy
tall buildings, known as ‘bioclimatic skyscrapers’. Their ecological
design approach goes beyond GreenMark, GBI, LEED and BREAM
green building accreditations, towards the ultimate objective of
integrating designed systems seamlessly and benignly within the
natural environment.
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Byoung Soo Cho
Principal Architect
BYOUNG SOO CHO ARCHITECTS
Byoung Soo Cho is an award winning architect. Ever since he started
practice in S. Korea and USA, his creations have won multiple
awards starting from 1998 for mixed use, cultural and residential
developments in the region. He also writes for global architectural
journals and teaches at various architectural schools around the
world.
For a detailed view of his bio-sketch, click here.
Meeta Patel
Divisional Director
BENOY
Meeta has wide ranging architectural experience covering
Commercial, Infrastructure and institutional buildings in various
parts of the world. She has worked with various large and small
architectural practices and as part of a client organization, the
Projects Team at Hong Kong International Airport. With her varied
experience across countries, organizations and building types, she
brings to projects an understanding of the complexity of delivering
buildings that have to not only meet aspirations of clients and users
but also work within commercial and cultural bounds.
Her training and work experience in India and England added to
work experience in Hong Kong, Singapore and the region give
Meeta a unique perspective on similarities and differences that
make the making of place unique to each region, while experiences
in one place can be used to inform design in another. Meeta heads
Benoy office in Singapore and oversees a large number of projects
in the region.
Dr Benny Chow
Director - Sustainability
AEDAS
Dr. Benny Chow is an award winning sustainable design expert
with worldwide project experience and a LEED AP BD+C (USGBC),
BEAM Professional (HKGBC), GBL Manager (China Green Building
Council), and a qualified ISO 14001 (Environmental Management
Standard) Lead Auditor. As the Director of Sustainability at Aedas
Hong Kong, Dr. Chow brings with him 16 years of experience in
Sustainable Design specializing in computer modeling and analysis,
urban wind environment, solar heat gain calculations, global
daylight illumination simulation, building energy modeling, and air
ventilation assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics, which
invaluably strengthened the architectural concept and designs of
more than 138 projects that he has worked on.
Dr. Chow is concurrently appointed as a part-time lecturer for the
Institute of Space and Earth Information Science at the CUHK, and
an Honorary Research Fellow of the Center for Emerging Infectious
Diseases (CEID), Faculty of Medicine at CUHK. Dr. Chow was also
a part-time lecturer for the Department of Mechanical Engineering
at HKU as well as a part-time Course Instructor for the School of
Architecture, and the Department of Geography and Resources
Management at the CUHK previously.
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Russell Cole
Russell has a background in façade and structural engineering and
specialises in the design, assessment and construction of all types
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of façade
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providing sub-contractor's details. The areas of investigations and
resolution of failing facades also form a large part of his work.
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curtain wall and other façade systems
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in London,
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Southampton, 1987
led the façade team for this major project, being closely
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before
settling in Russell
Singapore.
involved
in the selection and development of façade systems and
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glazing material to meet its demanding architectural intent. A
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Singapore Green Mark
Manager
groups.
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projects
in Singapore,
Southeast
Asia, India and the
feature. Russell
and the façade team have
engineered the canopy
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as an environmental filter – it interacts with the building form to
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create semi-enclosed spaces below it while its roof catches the
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wind and directs it throughout circulation spaces for ventilation.
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Glazing System Selection for
Tropical Climates, Russell Cole
&Majid Sapar, The Singapore
Engineer, March 2010, Singapore
Safety Considerations in Façade
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Karan Grover
Principal Architect
KARAN GROVER ASSOCIATES
Karan Grover has been passionately advocating the need to look
at ones culture and heritage for clues as to the direction for a
contemporary architecture and sustainable development relevant to
the Indian context today. He has enthused children in conservation
and been nominated a “social entrepreneur” as a Fellow of the
Ashoka Foundation, Washington. He almost single handedly won
India’s nominations for UNESCO’s World Heritage Site status for
Champaner after a 22-year old campaign.
In 2004, Grover became the first architect in the world to win the
USGBC “Platinum” Award for the greenest building in the world.
He also went on to win his second Platinum Award for the interior of
ABN AMRO Bank at Ahmedabad. Four more “Platinum” buildings
are in the pipeline. He was recently made the Permanent Honorary
Fellow of the National Academy of Environment at the hands of
former President Dr. Abdul Kalam in Delhi. He won the US GBC
Gold Award for the Keendiam diamond factory at Navsari as the
greenest factory in the world in 2008. He spoke at the Clinton
Global Initiative, New York at the personal invite of President
Clinton in 2006.
James Law
Chief Cybertect
JAMES LAW CYBERTECTURE
As the founder of Jame Law Cybertecture, James is a qualified
RIBA architect, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global
Agenda Council on Design Innovation, an adjacent professor at
Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and a board
member of the Hong Kong Design Center.
Accredited as a Young Global Leader 2010 by World Economic
Forum, James Law has won the CNBC International Architecture
Awards 2009 and achieved both HKICT Best Lifestyle Bronze Award
2011 as well as Design For Asia Bronze Product Award 2011 with his
innovative Cybertecture Mirror.
Mathieu Meur
Managing Director
MEINHARDT FAÇADE TECHNOLOGY
Mr. Meur, through his training as a multi-disciplinary engineer,
has developed a broad spectrum of expertise in fields as diverse
as structural engineering, material sciences, fluid mechanics,
thermodynamics, acoustics and optics. He has worked on numerous
major construction projects including The Reflections, The Dubai
Mall, Mapletree Business City, Changi Airport Terminal 1 and Resorts
World at Sentosa. At MFT, he provides façade engineering advice
on design, repair and maintenance of external building envelopes
such as curtain walls, claddings and skylights and has extensive
knowledge of local and regional regulations and codes of practice.
Julian Sutherland
Head – Sustainability
ATKINS GLOBAL
Julian has 20 years’ experience designing high performance
buildings and low carbon neighbourhoods around the globe.
Originally qualifying as a Mechanical Engineer from Auckland
University NZ, he later worked across a number of high profile
design practices. He heads up the Atkins Carbon Critical Buildings
Technical Network and sits on the UK Government Low Impact
Buildings Steering Group as well as UK Green Building Council
Policy Committee. Julian’s role across Atkins is to ensure solutions
are faster, smarter and low carbon.
Karan has been selected as the winner of the Green Globe Award for
Architect, Infrastructure Category from Green Globe Foundation.
The “CII–Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre” the first LEED US
Platinum Building in India has been selected as the 2009 winner of
the “Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Awards”, under the
NGO Category recently.
Julian is an advocate for sustainable design and has considerable
experience with passive and natural design techniques, producing
low energy buildings and cost effective services solutions. This is
complemented by excellent presentation and concept design skills
with a strong focus on brief development, definition and analysis.
Julian leads the Atkins building physics team, which focuses on
finding the most effective energy balance across the facade, thereby
creating low energy and comfortable indoor environmental control.
In 2009 Karan has been honoured with three more awards - the ACE
Award 2009 by Economic Times; Nirman Navratna Award 2009; and
CNBC AWAZ Award 2009 and was nominated as one of India’s top
10 architects consecutively for the last 5 years in Construction World
as well as being nominated the First Architect Fellow to the Indian
Plumbing Association for his contribution to the profession.
Julian was instrumental in the design and analysis of the facade for
the South Quarter Project in Jakarta, arguably the most sustainable
development in Jakarta at present. He has also recently been
working on London 2012 with London Organising Committee for
the Olympic Games on the industry leading approach to temporary
materials specification and carbon reduction for temporary venues.
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SPEAKER’S BIO
Hannes Pfau
Associate Director - Asia
UN STUDIO
John C Perry
Managing Director
YUANDA GROUP
Hannes Pfau graduated from the Technical University Vienna in
1996. He joined UNStudio in 1997. Since then he has been involved
in several key-projects of UN Studio from the initial design phases
towards the completion of projects, such as the Electrical Substation
in Innsbruck (1997-2001), the Music University and Music Theater
in Graz (1998-2008) and the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart
(2001-2006) and the Raffles City Project in Hangzhou (2008 - 2014).
With his integrated approach towards design and construction
he contributed on several projects to unique solutions on how
to materialize and strategically implement complex geometries
and construction progress. He especially developed his expertise
on the translation of double curved geometries into built form.
With his experience on aesthetically supervising construction
sites and his applied design skills, he has become a specialist on
bridging between strong design ideas and new methods of design
implementation. In Janurary 2010, Hannes has been promoted to
Associate Director and in this function he is leading the UNStudio
Shanghai office.
John has a detailed knowledge of a range of façade systems
including, precast concrete, GRC, stone, ceramics, metals, curtain
walls and glass structures, and has extensive project experience
throughout Australia and South East Asia. He has been involved in
a number of studies of premature failure in cladding and glazing
systems and has acted as an expert witness.
In recent years, John has been involved in coordinating multidisciplinary solutions for the sustainable design of building. John
has been involved in over 80 major curtain wall projects (including
20 in Singapore) four of which are over 50 stories each.
Deepak Mowar
Vice President - Retail Development
PARSVNATH DEVELOPERS
Deepak Mowar is currently spearheading the development of
hotels, retail, cinemas and as the vice president, he heads the
strategic planning for the real estate development.
He has vast experience in working with hospitality groups such as
Carlson Hotels Asia Pacific, Hilton International, The Park Hotels
and The Intercontinental Hotels in various challenging roles.
Haji Ir. Mukhtar Che Ali
General Manager - Safety, Health, Environment
and Quality (SHEQ) Division
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT
BOARD, MALAYSIA
Ir. Mukhtar Che Ali has obtained B. Eng from UPM (1982) and M.
Eng from UTM (2010). He is registered Professional Engineer with
BEM and also becomes a corporate member of IEM. Besides that
he is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and
registered with Project Management Institute (PMI). In addition
he has successfully attended Lead Auditor course for ISO 9001 as
well as ISO 14001. He began his career in Construction Industry
Development Board (CIDB) in 1997 as a Manager in Manpower
Development Division whereby he was heavily involved in
developing construction related skill training modules. He has been
working in CIDB Terengganu as State Director and CIDB Johor
as State Director. His current post in CIDB is General Manager in
Standard and Quality Division, Technology Development and
Innovation Sector. CIDB Head Office, Kuala Lumpur. One of his
current tasks is supervising the development of programs on
green technology in construction. He is also actively involved with
programs on promoting quality in construction such development
of standards related to quality, monitoring the implementation of
quality assessment tool known as QLASSIC, organized seminars
and roadshows as well as developed guide book on quality
management system.
He is credited for strategic alliance of Parsvnath Hotels with ITC
Fortune Park Hotels, Choice Hotels and Joint Venture with Royal
Orchid Hotels and Resorts. He is currently involved in developing a
chain of hotels in different categories, a multiplex cinema chain and
developing retail and commercial spaces all across India.
Alan Barbour
Technical Director – Green Buildings
BECA
Alan Barbour is the Technical Director of Sustainable Buildings at
Beca, based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Alan is an engineer
with over 20 years’ experience in green building design, building
simulation, and operational performance reviews having worked on
building developments in UK, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
He is a technical advisor for the New Zealand Green Building
Council, and has been the Environmentally Sustainable Design
lead on a number award winning building projects, including
Meridian Energy Building, NZi3 – ICT Innovation Institute,
Aorangi House Revitalisation. His well-considered approach
promotes architecturally-led responses which can also improve
the environmental performance and user affinity to the built
environment by using a ‘total project, total building’ approach.
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