’Ten Facades for the Future – Concretise your Utopia’ was a design competition for the facade system of the future in the pursuit of new and creative ideas, which was organised as a part of ICBEST Istanbul 2017. It was open worldwide to undergraduate and master…

efnMOBILE Workshop: TEXTILE BUILDING SKIN…

You are cordially invited to the 11^th edition of The Future Envelope – Conference on Building Envelopes, to be held on Thursday, 22^nd  June 2017, at the Aula of Delft University of Technology. Attached you can find the flyer.

The Future Envelope conference is organised by the Façade Research Group.

We are glad to announce that the registration is now open. Please visit the conference website for updates and online registration. The…

Vuelve el Master de Arquitectura en Fachadas Ligeras trasladando su sede de la ETSA de Donostia-San Sebastián a la de la Madrid.

The Light Facade Master will be launched again in 2017 moving from Donostia-San Sebastian to Madrid School of Architecture.

Tras las primeras ediciones del Master en la Universidad del País Vasco, se ha decidido trasladar el master a lal Universidad Politécnica de Madrid para facilitar la asitencia al alumnado que procede en gran medida de empresas…

I would like to invite you to take part in a survey designed within Cost Action 1403 Adaptive Facades Network (http://tu1403.eu/).



The aim of the survey is o create a public database of building adaptive envelope solutions including materials, components or buildings able to adapt to the changing environmental…

Description of the company:

Newtecnic is a multidisciplinary building engineering firm based in London and Cambridge with an established and continuously growing international presence. Working on large schemes with complex geometries, the team works on some of the most exciting and ambitious architect-led projects and provides highly resolved, coordinated, and innovative design solutions using emerging technologies. The company works closely with the Glass and Facade Technology Research…

For the first time, the building glass façade and window industry represented by European Aluminium, EuroWindoor, European Solar Shading Organization and Glass for Europe come together to call for a modernised EPBD to unleash the energy savings potential of high performing windows.

http://www.es-so.com/new/321-joint-position-paper-epbd

Façade Engineering

‘Facades have become complicated beyond the skills of architects, structural and mechanical engineers. Facades require a dedicated engineer with a particular range of skills and experience, who understands their behavior and can undertake their design, manufacture and installation better, more efficiently and more comprehensively than can a traditional architect,…

On the occasion of the new launch of the Light Facade Master in Madrid, driven by Benito Lauret, Xavier Ferres writes a retrospective about the previous history of this master in his blog:

http://facfacade.blogspot.com.es/

From September 20th to 23rd the European Facade Network (efn) in cooperation with the Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Architecture (HS OWL) and the TU Delft have hosted the workshop 'Form Finding Fabrication' and the Symposium 'Digital Methods' at the glasstec 2016 trade fair in Düsseldorf. Workshop and symposium have been the semester kick-off for Detmold's new master students and have been led by Prof.i.V. Hans Sachs and Dipl.-Ing. David Lemberski.…

Hello.

My name is Pablo Ochoa. I have being working in the glass and fenestration industry for more than 5 years, I have a bachelor degree on civil engineering. im looking forward to study a master in facade, fenestration or glass, the only university by the moment that has a MS Facade is Lippe in DETMOLD Germany, could anyone recommend if there is some other option or if the MS Facade is worth it, any comments will help.

To extend our Facade Engineerings team, we are searching for a FACADE DESIGN ENGINEER for our offices in Brussels, Ghent or Charleroi:

Check our vacancy:

http://www.vkgroup.be/en/career/facade-design-engineer-mf/

PhD Studentship Computational analysis and optimization of innovative solar shading concepts

Eindhoven University of Technology is looking for an excellent and highly motivated PhD candidate – Computational analysis and optimization of innovative solar shading concepts and automation strategies.

Effective daylight utilization and smart use of passive solar gains are essential for achieving low-energy buildings with comfortable indoor conditions. There is…

Dear all,

I thought you might wish to know of some positions that are being advertised in sustainable design and architectural design technologies in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney.

AD POSTING - 2396/1115 - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Design

Link - http://bit.ly/1Pw0J36

Closing date: 2 March 2016

AD POSTING –

2398/1115 -…

EFNmobile Workshop in Detmold

Where? Campus Emilie in Detmold _ When? November 23th – 26^th in 2015

Facadetronics…

Here you can find information about a vacancy in Tecnalia.

KAWNEER - the ALCOA facade system house is looking for 

Designers junior and senior. Experience in facade design and planning is compulsory, such as Autocad.

German language is optional for the job (it would help in daily life though)

http://www.kawneer.com/kawneer/germany/de/careers/careers.asp

Just refer to me.

We just published a new job offer in our Career Opportunities section. Go to News (you need to sing in or sing up).

There is a new job offer for Facade specialists in Toulouse (France) just published in our Career Opportunities section (go to "news" in the main menu). 

3.3 Documentation: EFN Workshop in San Sebastian

8 mock-ups were presented at the International Conference of Architectural Envelopes ICAE in San Sebastian.

Low carbon – high architecture…