Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to the 11^th edition ofThe Future Envelope– Conference on Building Envelopes, to be held on Thursday, 22^nd  June 2017, in the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft (NL)

Over recent years, we have observed new trends and legal requirements such as lifecycle concepts and the need for buildings that use nearly zero energy. User and comfort level are moving into the focus. This asks for new and integrated building and façade concepts.

Ultimately the question is how these new developments can get translated into viable business concepts for the future building envelopes. We believe that technological development needs to go along with innovations in legal and financial concepts for the building industry.

‘Next Business’ aims at answering the following questions: What are the trends that determine the future of the building envelope? Which business concepts can be found to react to these trends and what can we learn from other industries? What are the legal and financial implications for a different approach? How will new business concepts shape our façade products and services?

NEXT Business is organised by the Facade Research Group, Chair Design of Construction, TU Delft in cooperation with the European Façade Network (EFN)

Check out website for updates on speakers, sessions and registration

http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/en/about-faculty/departments/architectural-engineering-and-technology/organisation/design-of-construction/conferences/future-envelope-11/

We hope to see you all in Delft on the 22^nd June 2017

Kind regards

Ulrich Knaack

Tillmann Klein

Façade Research Group

Chair Design of Construction

Department AE+T

TU Delft / Faculty of Architecture and The Build Environment

Julianalaan 134

2628 BL Delft

P.O. Box 5043

2600 GA Delft
The Netherlands

T +31 (0)648272643

E FutureEnvelope-BK@tudelft.nl

W http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/en/about-faculty/departments/architectural-engineering-and-technology/organisation/design-of-construction/conferences/