U-Kon High Performance Facades

Our popular series exploring:

 * Systems thinking 

* Design Precision and value engineering 

* Bespoke Systems 

* Innovation e.g. Passive House 

* Proper specification 

* Case Studies

Alex Mirilenko U-Kon Systems will be joining me

This blew my mind. Cast GFRC offers affordable, extremely creative, constructable choices for remarkable facades. 

Get this. It is in our back yard. This project is at Yonge and Ellerslie 

Mahmoud owns Petra Cast, with more than 30+ years in the GFRC business. This is a very well known technology in Europe and the Middle East. We are scaling it here.

This webinar will cover

What is GFRC, How is it used, and Case studies

Explain form construction, pour, QC, release and subsystem

Walk through cost drivers. 

Q&A

Mahmoud Alfayez of Petra Cast will join me

Why wouldn't you want colour? Basic shading, to wild and fanciful. We need it. Did you notice the colour that has enhanced our street scape recently. We can get there. We will investigate this important area.

We want to provide something novel too: reuse. Have you thought about building a facade, and in the future taking those panels off and reusing them on a new or revised facade? Let's think about that.

And sustainability, embedded carbon.

And back to colour.

Steni is a FRP with a crushed limestone core, making a 6mm panel very strong. It has been in Canada for over 60 years, has a 60 year warranty, has stone, matte, gloss and supergloss finishes, and offers custom graphics and colours to take your design to a whole new level - affordably.

We will cover case studies in schools, mid rise and commercial projects. 

Joseph D`Élia of Steni will join me.

Terra Cotta or Extruded Ceramic has been around for decades. Of course fired clay is timeless. FSI represents Argeton, the world's largest terra cotta system provider. People assume it must be expensive if it looks so amazing. But savings in waste and cost to install result in a very affordable solution.

I have been wondering how it could replace the ubiquitous aluminum. Now carbon footprint issues might just drive that. 

Let's talk about that.But there are a lot of choices that add significantly to design freedom. Size, shape, colour, glaze or no glaze, special effects, panels, baguettes or barros... you name it. These 'brushes' in your palette mean you can get what you want at affordable prices.

The learning objectives are:

• Understand how Terra Cotta panels are made
• Talk about embedded carbon
• Explore shapes, sizes, finishes etc. 
• Explain how terra cotta systems are ordered
• Learn how construction works
• Learn how fabrication works
• Learn what makes a successful project
• Case studies

Kris Johnson of Telling Architectural will join me.

When you think of fibre cement I bet you are thinking about flat sheets that have about 25 colours. Not.

We'll explore Ceraclad because it is a system, has hundreds of textures and colours, and is amazingly affordable

The webinar will cover

• What is fibre cement and what it is not.
• Where does Ceraclad fit in the landscape of fibre cement and facade materials in general.
• Explain 'system'
• Go over layout choices [and touch on colours]
• Case studies
• Q&A

Alana Evans for Ceraclad will join me

This blew my mind. Cast GFRC offers affordable, extremely creative, constructable choices for remarkable facades. 

Get this. It is in our back yard. This project is at Yonge and Ellerslie 

Mahmoud owns Petra Design, with more than 30+ years in the GFRC business. This is a very well known technology in Europe and the Middle East. We are scaling it here.

This webinar will cover

What is GFRC, How is it used, and Case studies

Explain form construction, pour, QC, release and subsystem

Walk through cost drivers. 

Q&A

Mahmoud Alfayez of Petra Design will join me