Day 2, Session Block D3
08:30 New Forms of Concrete for the Building Envelope
Chair: Robert Schmitz, RPS Structural Engineering, LLC, Brookfield, United States
Concrete curtain walls - Status, benefits and visions
- High-performance carbon-concrete panels
- From small-scale to large-scale façade panels
- Future development in carbon-concrete panels
Fabric-formed concrete structures
- Advantages for using fabric forming
- Past, present, future
- Obstacles
Ultra-high performance concrete and carbon tendons for façades
- Filigree pre-stressed architectural façades
- Sandwich walls and ventilated façades
- Ultra-high performance concrete and carbon fiber reinforced
Green Roof 2.0
- Paradigm shift - a new generation of green roof
- Integrated approach vs additive approach
- Biodiversity and water retention in deep soil layer
New development for a pre-stressed façade panel
- Serial panel production for efficiently closing the building
- Alternative to the brick main layer at competitive cost
- BIM to control the work process, costs, quality
Brief Presentations
Glassfibre reinforced concrete
Innovation in brickwork – The next generation of brick façades
10:00 Coffee Break