14:00 Architectural Membranes for High-performance Building Skins
Chair: Stefan Lehnert, Vector Foiltec GmbH, Bremen, Germany
- Advantages of lightweight ETFE envelopes
- Environmental properties of ETFE façades
- Design, manufacturing and installations of ETFE structures
Paolo Beccarelli, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Life cycle assessment
- Building cladding systems
- Environmental, social, and economic sustainability
Carl Maywald, Vector Foiltec GmbH, Bremen, Germany
- Acoustics
- Membrane structures
- Novel structural skins
Monika Rychtarikova, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Integration of mass-loaded vinyl (MLV) membrane for sound insulation
- Impact of MLV membrane on panel performance
- Acoustic testing of multi-layered panels
Fin O'Flaherty, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
- New technology for water vapor permeable membranes
- Silane terminated polymers for building skin coatings
- Easyly applicable weather barrier system
Luc Peeters, Oevel-Westerlo, Belgium
- Frame-grid model for lightweight structures design
- Grid relaxation by the stretched grid method
Eugene Popov, Nizhegorodsky State Architectural and Civil Engineering University, Russia
Brief Presentations
Junta Nakano, Tokai University, Japan
15:30 Coffee Break