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15th Conference on Advanced Building Skins
26-27 October 2020, Bern, Switzerland

International platform for architects, engineers, scientists and the building industry

The aim of the Conference on Advanced Building Skins is to achieve a multi-disciplinary, integrated planning approach with architects, engineers, scientists, manufacturers and the building industry to reduce energy consumption of buildings. The annual international conference attracts 800 participants from over fifty countries. The Conference will be held at the Congress Center Kursaal in Bern, Switzerland, 26-27 October 2020.

The conference will be held in English.

15th Advanced Building Skins Conference, 26-27 October 2020 takes place as a Webinar

The Council of the Canton of Bern has taken further measures to contain Covid-19, and as of Sunday 25th October, events with more than 15 people, including conferences and exhibitions are now prohibited.

Therefore the 15th Advanced Building Skins Conference 2020 will be held exclusively as a webinar. Our speakers will be presenting from the Kursaal Conference Centre in Bern, Switzerland without participants on-site.

For those that were due to attend, rest assured that we will credit all paid registration fees to our 16th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo in 2021, which will take place from 21-22 October and we look forward to seeing you then in Bern.

In the meantime, please stay safe and healthy!

Kind regards, Andreas Karweger

President of the Conference Committee
CEO Advanced Building Skins GmbH

The Conference Committee

Cinzia Abbate, AeV Architetti, Rome, Italy
Rachel Becker, Director, National Building Research Institute, Haifa, Israel
Ben Bridgens, School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, UK
Steve Burroughs, University of Canberra, Australia
David Frey, HOK Los Angeles, and HOK Engineering, San Francisco
Michael Garrison, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Andreas Hempel, International Academy of Architects; former President Association of German Architects BDA
Hans-Martin Henning, Head of Thermal Systems and Buildings, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Germany
Eckhart Hertzsch, President, Joanes Foundation, Germany
Andreas Karweger, Managing Director, Advanced Building Skins GmbH, Switzerland
Leo Lau, Director, Green Energy and Green Manufacturing Technology R&D Center, Chengdu, China
Zhenjun Ma, Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia
Carl Maywald, Head of Research & Development, Vector Foiltec, Bremen, Germany
Dieter Moor, Ertex-Solar, Austria
Fabian Ochs, Unit for Energy Efficient Buildings, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Valentina Puglisi, Architecture Building and Construction Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Christian Renken, CREnergie, Switzerland
Michiel Ritzen, Faculty of Science & Technology, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Ramkishore Singh, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Wolfram Sparber, Director, Department of Renewable Energies, European Academy, Bolzano, Italy
Mitsuhiro Udagawa, Prof. Emeritus, Department of Architecture, Kogakuin University, Japan
Stephen Wittkopf, Technology & Architecture, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland

Organizer

Advanced Building Skins GmbH
Zentralstr. 44
CH-6003 Lucerne
Switzerland
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