Technal Facade Webinar Series - Episode 3
Date: Monday, May 4
Time: 15:00 Dubai / 07:00 Eastern (EDT)
Hosted by AIA Middle East
Description
Technal, a part of the Hydro group, is the market leader in architectural aluminium systems for windows, doors, and facades. Celebrating its 60th year, Technal is proud to launch its facade webinar series which will tackle key topics on Facades and Building Envelopes specially tailor-made for architects, facade consultants, metal builders, designers, developers, and industry stakeholders.
Episode 3 is titled 'Facades For High Rise Buildings'
About the Webinar:
As per United Nations data, 68% of the world population is projected to live in urban areas by 2050. As urban areas get crowded the only option left is to build high rise buildings (vertical cities) to accommodate this mass urbanisation. High rise buildings have a higher surface area of the building envelope than low rise buildings when put into a ratio with the specific ground area use.
This increase of surfaces can be used to integrate more features into the building skin than before, for comfort of the occupiers of buildings and also for better urban planning for city developers.
Episode 3 will address this transition of cities into ‘vertical cities’ of tomorrow. The core focus of the webinar will be on the building envelope of these vertical cities which will have to answer specific challenges of ‘compressed’ urban spaces, where more and more people will live per square kilometre.
How will the facades designed and engineered for the vertical cities of tommorow ? Join the webinar to know more.
Agenda in UAE Time:
3:00 PM - How to design and construct façades for super tall towers – Ways to make them happening by Douglas Sum, Associate, Built Environment, Aurecon
3:30 PM - City Of The Future – Impact Of The Building Envelope by Dr Werner Jager, Director Technology & Marketing, Hydro Building Systems, DACH
4:00 PM - Q & A Session moderated by Arvind Kumar and Esha Sharma- MarCom and Business Development, Technal Middle East and India
4:15 PM : End Of Session
Speakers
Douglas Sum
Associate, Built Environment @Aurecon
Douglas has more than 15 years of global façade engineering consultant and contractor experience. He has undertaken various world-class projects globally and particularly interested in super-tall towers, such as Burj Khalifa and the most recent Dubai Creek Harbour Tower. His recent interest is using the advanced technologies to ‘redefine’ façade engineering practice.
Dr Werner Jager
Director - Technology & Marketing @Hydro Building Systems DACH
From August 2017, Werner Jager took over the position as Director Technology and Marketing for Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) at Hydro Building Systems. Dr.-Ing. Werner Jager has known the industry and the environment for more than 25 years. Between 1992 and 2013, he held various management positions at what was then Hydro Building Systems GmbH in Ulm. As a member of the executive board, he headed the company's research and development departments. The focus of his work was, among other things, consulting and implementation of projects in the areas of research, innovation and technical IT in facade construction, market analyzes and quality assurance in construction. Building physics analyzes, simulations and measurement of building envelopes with focus on sound and aeroacoustics, heat and moisture protection were part of the further spectrum of his engineering office.
Arvind Kumar
Business Development and Pre Sales Manager @Hydro Building Systems Middle East & India
You co-host for the evening
