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Brisbane Face to Face Event - Focused on Facades

Join us in Brisbane for a full-day face-to-face CPD workshop focused on façade design, performance, and innovation, exploring how daylight, energy-generating systems, and specification strategies are shaping the future of building envelopes.


This session is designed for architects, engineers, building designers, and façade professionals seeking practical insights into real-world façade applications and performance-driven design.


Photophilia - Daylight for Architectural Plantings


Presented by Carl Gray

 

Architects, allied professionals, and their clients have become increasingly ambitious in the incorporation of plants into the built environment.

Having mastered the simple ‘green wall in the lobby; plantings to ‘green facades’, ‘outdoor rooms’, ‘sky terraces’ and atria are becoming the norm.  An increased focus on street activation has led to more semi-indoor plantscapes.  And beyond just understorey shrubs, more demanding species such as trees and grasses are creeping in to planting palettes. 


At the end of this presentation attendees will be able to understand:

  • Understand plants’ lighting needs (amount, spectrum, and timing);
  • Know the metrics used to quantify plant-specific lighting.
  • Use simple tools and techniques to pre-assess daylight availability early in design;
  • Be aware of the tools and techniques for plant-specific daylight analysis.


Photovoltaic Glass for Buildings (BiPV)

Presented by Enver Kolac

 

It is unjust to call Building Integrated Photovoltaics just solar panels and it is partial to compare only one aspect of a BiPV solution with a rooftop system. Building Integrated Photovoltaics opens the “think outside the box” concept for the designers to be able to utilise photovoltaics in areas where they never thought it would have been possible. Customisable characteristics of Photovoltaic Glass with various sizes, shapes, forms, and configurations incorporating insulating values, shading coefficients and never before seen or even thought of possible colours (white, corten steel) will allow incorporation of photovoltaic solutions in many applications. Thinking about facades, cladding, skylights, shading elements, walkable floor tiles, canopies? Think about Building Integrated Photovoltaics.

At the end of this presentation attendees will be able to understand:


  • Explaining the difference between the types of photovoltaic technologies.
  • Understanding the components involved in a PV system.
  • Understanding the differences between a std PV panel and a building integrated photovoltaic solutions
  • Understanding the capabilities and fixing requirements of BiPV systems.
  • Learning about the capabilities of Photovoltaic Glass.

Designing High-Performance Facades: Spec the Edge

Presented by Vince Wardill

 

Have you ever wondered why we are so reliant in Australia on Air-Conditioning in Summer and Heating in Winter?

The frame of a window has a significant impact on the overall energy efficiency of any window and door – including that of double-glazed systems.

While double glazing is seen as a benchmark for energy efficiency, to select double glazing with a standard aluminium frame is only going halfway to achieving a high performing energy efficient window.

We expand on this topic and explain how important glazing is in the building envelope and to make our built indoor environment comfortable.

At the end of this presentation attendees will be able to understand:


  • What material is used for Thermal Breaks typically in the Window Industry.
  • What are the benefits of High-Performance Glazing?
  • What effect the edge and glazing has on the thermal comfort of our buildings.
  • Why it’s so important to Specify the Edge of your Glazed Component within the building envelope.

Event Schedule

  • 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
  • Registration
    Light lunch, tea & coffee
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
    Carl Gray – Graylight
    Photophilia: Daylight for Architectural Plantings
  • 1:10 PM – 1:20 PM
    Short break
  • 1:20 PM – 2:20 PM
    Enver Kolac
    Photovoltaic Glass for Buildings (BiPV)
  • 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM
    Short break
  • 2:40 PM – 3:40 PM
    Mahmood Khan / Steve Huxham (TBC)
    Fire Performance & Façade Compliance Solutions
  • 3:40 PM – 3:50 PM
    Short break
  • 3:50 PM – 4:50 PM
    TECHNOFORM
    High-Performance Façade Systems & Specification Solutions
  • 4:50 PM – 5:05 PM
    Live Façade Demonstration (METZ Team)
    Hands-on showcase of façade systems and practical applications
  • 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
    Event Closing
    Networking & informal discussions

DATE

30 June 2026

TIME

11:00 AM Sydney Time

COST

$ 45.00

LOCATION

Metz Ceramic Tile Gallery Brisbane

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