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Claudio Raviolo is an architect and partner of the Milan-based architecture and interior design practice ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel.

Graduating in architecture from the University of Genoa, he joined ACPV ARCHITECTS in 2004, becoming partner in 2012. He has been leading design teams on internationally recognized projects across a range of sectors including mixed-use, workplace, residential, hospitality and infrastructural developments.

The most recent projects he has followed as partner-in-charge include: the “I Portali” office tower in Milan (Italy); the masterplan for Rome’s former trade fair area “Ex Fiera”; the “Lian Palace” luxury residential tower in Taichung (Taiwan); and the new Milan headquarters and office tower of Italian multi-utility company A2A.

ACPV ARCHITECTS works worldwide, developing complex projects and ranging in various scales of intervention, in synergy with a qualified network of specialists.

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Extensive project management experience in relation buildings and bridges projects. Throughout his career Alberto worked in many fields of civil engineering as buildings, highways, railways, fire safety, hydraulics, playing different roles as structural analyst, project director, site director and manager. Specialist knowledge in relation to structural and facades engineering. He is also a specialist for complex shells and high-rise building; furthermore has large experience in the structural renovation of existing buildings. Actually, he is the founder, managing director and technical leader of FACES ENGINEERING, local partner of RAMBOLL for all the activities in Italy on building sector and he coordinates the design process for all the multidisciplinary services provided, leading in structural and facades engineering disciplines.

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Tommaso is responsible of the Reynaers Italian team: a young, dynamic and ambitious team involved in supporting local stakeholders to deliver elegant, efficient and cost effective façade solutions, as well as anticipating the future technical challenges to transform them into opportunities.

He is a building engineer and architect graduated at Politecnico of Milan with laudem; he is registered as Member of the Italian Order of Engineers as well as Member of the Society of Façade Engineering and Member of Cibse in United Kingdom.

In his work experiences, spent in Paris, London and Brescia, he has been involved on a wide range of projects located around the world spanning from small to large scale development, from concept stage till construction. He is a strong believer of team working and only having a holistic view and working together with all stakeholders he thinks is possible to turn technical challenges into poetic solutions.

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After graduating in Structural Civil Engineering at the University of Bologna, Konrad began his career at an international company focused on the design and production of special facade systems for buildings. In 2015 he joined the Arup facade design group at the Milan office where he currently holds the role of Senior Engineer. In recent years he has been involved in facade design and engineering embracing the multidisciplinary design approach. He has experience at all stages of facade design including conceptual design, definition of design intent for architects, detailed design and construction design for facade contractors. He is familiar with all typical facade systems including curtain walling, tension structures, ventilated cladding facades, stone cladding and structural glass. His role also involves design coordination and management. During his professional career he has had the opportunity to delve into topics related to structural and energy calculations of the facade as well as aspects of sustainable design.

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Silvia Ilardi is a Senior Architect. She joined Arup in 2008 currently being part of the Building Envelope team in Milan office, is also part of the Facade Access & Maintenance UK team and Europe Region point of contact for Facade Access & Maintenance queries and jobs. She has worked on iconic projects of Towers like CityLife, Museums, Airports like Baku, Shopping mall, Luxury shops and Stadiums like Florence and Milan Arena. Currently she is working on a range of projects in Italy, Spain and UK where she uses her experience in both Facades and Access and Maintenance. Her communication and technical skills allow her to develop compelling and accurate design solutions for complex project.

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Ana Cecilia Montiel, Architect and Industrial Designer, since 3 and a half years acts as Specification Leader for Axalta Italy, working together with Specification team EMEA.

Since her university years, Ana has always been very sensitive to the topic of sustainable architecture, accumulating during her career a long path of studies on color, finishes and innovative technologies.

Ana participates directly in international construction projects, supporting architects and facialists to find the right powder coating solution to meet the most demanding specifications regarding coated surfaces.

With over 150 years of experience in the coating industry, Axalta is the world’s second-largest supplier of powder coatings and provides sustainable solutions to protect and improve the aesthetics of facades and other metal elements, both indoor and outdoor, of buildings.

With extensive experience worldwide, our offer meets the highest requirements in terms of finishes and quality. Axalta products are featured in iconic buildings around the world.

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I started in 1987 with DuPont have worked for more than 38 years in the industrial markets such as passive components, photopolymer for the printed circuits board market, PET for electrical insulation and packaging, automotive and architectural glass lamination. I covered many positions (sales, marketing, product development, project management). Since 2014 I have been working in Kuraray as Sales and Market Development Manager for the Architecture market. My main responsibilities besides sales is to develop relationships with customers and ADECs by helping them find solution through product awareness.

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Marco Capelli is the Head of the Façade Engineering, LEED and BECx team at Open Project since 2009. After his architectural engineering degree in 1997, he worked on iconic buildings such as London Westfield Stratford, Bologna Municipality Offices and London 30 Gresham Street, respectively as a Senior Façade Engineer (Buro Happold Engineers Ltd), Executive Architect (Mario Cucinella Architects), Façade Engineer (Focchi Spa).

At Open Project, he worked on various projects in Milan (Mind 3.1 Molo), Florence (The Social Hub Firenze Belfiore), Bologna (Teatro Comunale, Prometeia HQ, The Social Hub Bologna) and Valenza (Manifattura Bulgari), and he is currently working on student housing projects and the façade for the new terminal of Bologna Airport. His work at Open Project also comprises LEED building enclosure commissioning activities and research works on embodied carbon.

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A graduate in Management Engineering from Milan Politecnico in 1992, he has always been in the construction industry, and has been an industrial manager since 2001. He has worked for PICHLER since 2006, first as sales manager and then as director of the Italian market, with responsibility for the sales and executive areas of the market itself.

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Nicola Greco is a Building Engineer, with almost 20 years of work experience within the construction industry and a multidisciplinary background, with specialist expertise in açade design and building physics. During the years 2006-2012, he has been working for UK (London based) multidisciplinary engineering companies (Whitbybird, Buro Happold and Thornton Tomasetti) on a wide range of European and Asian projects with worldwide architects, developing high expertise in designing building skins. His educational background includes a 5-year Bachelor degree in Building Engineering and a PhD in Façades and Building Physics, both at the Polytechnic of Bari (Italy). He has been chartered in Italy as Building Engineer since 2003 and he is a member of the Chartered Engineers Institute in Bari since 2005. He has been also a chartered member of ICE in UK since 2009. Since 2012 he has been working as façade consultant for Deerns and is currently leading the façade group. Deerns façade group is involved in different major projects in Milan.

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Michael Stumm is the Vice President of Montanstahl SA and has more than 30 years’ of technical sales experience. Montanstahl was established 1983 in Stabio, Switzerland, and ranks among the worldwide market leaders for custom-tailored special profiles in steel and stainless steel. Steel profiles are very versatile and are used in a wide variety of sectors, from high end architectural projects to industrial equipment that must operate in extremely hot, cold or corrosive environments. In 2006 Mr. Stumm founded a spin-off company with the goal to promote eye catching steel profiles into high end commercial and residential architecture. The inhouse developed laser welding technology gave a significant contribution to establish sharp corner steel profiles into the world of architecture. Today, laser welded profiles can be found as mullions & transoms in hundreds of high end steel-glass facades or as structural design elements in architecturally exposed steel structures. Together with his team of highly trained sales managers, he supports architects and façade engineers around the world, to design distinctive buildings that stand out of the crowd.

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Saverio is Head of Façades at Skanska U.K., a leading construction company and developer. He provides building envelope technical leadership while overseeing and coordinating the façade package management on all projects.

Three decades of varied experience in the facade industry are supported by an MSc in Façade Engineering.

Saverio is the Chairman of the CWCT, he is a Chartered Engineer with CIBSE of which he is a Fellow, and he is also a Fellow the SFE of which he has been Chairman.

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As Senior Facade Engineer in our Milan office, Chiara brings a wealth of experience having worked in both the UK and Italy. Her background spans a wide variety of industries, project types and sizes across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia – working from concept through to detail design. Chiara has a keen interest in business development and combines unparalleled technical expertise with a passion for growing strong relationships with clients, developers, architects and contractors.

Chiara is a Chartered member of the Order of Engineers in Italy as well as a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in the UK.

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Francesco is a Senior Architectural Designer at Hawkins\Brown, where he leads the firm’s Italian business development strategy. An experienced architectural speaker, he has been invited to present at several international events and prestigious universities including the Pisa Biennale, Istituto Europeo di Design and the University of Westminster. Francesco is particularly interested in the potential of existing asset retrofit as a methodology for positive urban regeneration and the interplay between building envelopes and our relationships with our urban surroundings.

At Hawkins\Brown since 2016, Francesco has developed a strong experience on different project scales, stages, and sectors. He has been involved in the design of major retrofit and new build projects for the practice, including Here East, Hallsville Quarter Phase III and Haringey Civic Centre.

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Chartered Engineer Carmen Spagnoli is Sustainability Director at Lombardini22, a leading Italian architectural and engineering company. She manages multidisciplinary teams of engineers and architects providing ESG and environmental design consultancy covering the main internationally recognised sustainability certifications and CAM application in the public sector. Prior to joining Lombardini 22 she gained significant experience in Italy and internationally on projects such as the Doha metro in Qatar and the new headquarters of NATO in Belgium. In addition to these activities, she has served for three years as advisor of the Lombardy Chapter for GBC Italy and since January 2022, she has been elected in the Technical Advisory Group of USGBC for the water efficiency section. Carmen attained a honors degree in Building Engineering- Architecture U.E. at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2013, and in 2018, was awarded a Master degree in Energy Management of Buildings and Infrastructures at the Politecnico di Milano.

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Since joining the global, award-winning engineering design firm Eckersley O’Callaghan in 2014, Alessandro has been pivotal in the firm’s growth, helping set up the Milan office which he now leads.

With a strong multidisciplinary background, he has amassed extensive experience in facade engineering with a portfolio of clients and projects across the world. His approach to design is underpinned by a passion for sustainability and attention to technical detail, allowing him to operate successfully across different markets and sectors.

Chartered as an Architect and Engineer in the UK (MCIBSE), he is also member of the Order of Engineers in Italy. Alessandro has published several research papers and presented at international facade and glass conferences. He currently leads the research and development stream for the practice’s Facade Engineering group, promoting a strong focus on innovative construction technologies, circularity and low carbon facade design.

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Luca Berdini is a highly experienced Senior Project Manager with over 15 years in project and construction management, specializing in real estate development. Currently leading projects at Stoneweg Italy (previously Cromwell Property Group), he oversees technical projects from planning to execution and delivery, ensuring compliance with business objectives, costs, and quality standards.

Previously, he worked at Artelia Italia and Intertecno, managing complex developments. His expertise extends to high-profile projects in office refurbishment, logistics, and luxury retail.

Luca holds a master’s degree in architecture from Politecnico di Milano and is a licensed architect. His skill set includes project and construction management, program scheduling, budgeting, and design coordination. He is also highly skilled in building and leading efficient teams, ensuring seamless collaboration and project execution. His passion for architecture, technology, and sustainability drives his commitment to delivering innovative, high-quality projects.

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Eric Claeys holds a degree as Civil Engineer in Construction from KU Leuven, Belgium, a degree in Industrial Engineering in Public Works from KU Leuven, Belgium, and graduated with a Master in Business Administration from the Vlerick Business School, Belgium. Eric has 40 years of experience in façade technologies and consulting and was involved in hundreds of prestigious projects by the most famous architects in more than 30 countries worldwide. Since the very beginning, value engineering has been his driving force, along with the belief that “ It always seems impossible until it’s done”. Out-of-the-box thinking is not just in his DNA; it is his DNA.

Eric is the inventor of “hybrid” curtain wall systems, an innovative combination of stick and unitized CW systems. The technologies are covered by an extensive patent portfolio in more than 70 countries worldwide.

“Innovating is critical, but it is not enough. The Fassada steel curtain wall technologies are carefully engineered to revolutionize the market, setting a new standard to eliminate problems and enable the impossible.”

Eric is co-founder of Fassada Steel SA, which is a Switzerland-based joint venture between the Swiss Montanstahl AG and the Belgian Fassada Group, the parent company of Fassada Technologies.

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Lorenzo Boddi joined BIG in 2012, he became Associate in 2017 and Partner in 2021. He has been a part of several winning competitions, including LEGO House in Billund, Denmark, MÉCA arts cultural center in Bordeaux, France, OMNITURM, a 186m mixed-use tower in Frankfurt which were completed in 2020 and a 80,000 M2 mixed-use tower in Berlin, Germany currently in construction. As Project Manager, Lorenzo has worked on several residential projects in Scandinavia, a mixed-use development in Sydney, Australia as well as the OMNITURM tower in the financial district of Frankfurt where he was the design leader from the competition phase to completion. Lorenzo joined BIG’s London office in 2016 to work on the new Google Headquarters at King’s Cross. He is currently leading CityWave Milan, a new 53.000m2 development in Milan, Italy that will soon begin construction. Lorenzo received his Master of Architecture from the University of Florence, Italy, where he complemented his studies with teaching positions in Architectural Design.

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Paolo is a façade engineer and project manager specialized in technical and computational design of complex façade systems. Experienced in building envelopes, project management for all design phases and technical review of construction documents. He specialises in façade design, 3D modeling, computational and parametric design. Skilled in energetic-environmental analysis using computational and parametric tools and softwares with regards to building envelopes and urban context. He has high capabilities in modelling complex geometries and surfaces and is currently working as Project Manager, Façade Engineer and Computational Designer at FACES ENGINEERING, local partner of Ramboll UK for all the activities in Italy.

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Paolo Brescia graduated in Architecture from Milan Polytechnic with Pierluigi Nicolin in 1996 after studying at the Architectural Association in London. He worked with Renzo Piano until 2000, when together with Tommaso Principi he founded OBR with the idea of investigating new ways of living, creating a network between Milan, London and Mumbai. With OBR he develops urban projects, promoting - through architecture - the sense of community and individual identities. He is invited to give lectures at various universities such as Aalto University in Helsinki, the Academy of Architecture of Mumbai and FIU University in Miami. With OBR Paolo has been awarded the honourable mention AR Award Emerging Architecture at RIBA, Europe 40 Under 40 in Madrid, WAN Residential Award in London, Overall Winner LEAF Award in London, the American Architecture Prize in New York and the MIPIM Award 2024.

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Graduated in Architecture at University of Genoa in 1995, he has been qualified to practice the profession since 1996.

After experiences as a freelancer and in the commercial area of Multinational Companies in the construction world, since 2006 he is in charged in PICHLER, as sales manager for the Italian market, focused on architectural projects in Milan.

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Steven Van Leynseele was born in Belgium and has worked and lived abroad since 2002. He has 14 years of experience with Renson, a Belgian family-owned company specialised over 110 years in natural ventilation, sun protection and outdoor systems, in different countries and continents. Starting as a representative for the Scandinavian market building up the network, then moving on to Switzerland where he worked on expanding the network and Renson product range. Since 2019 he’s active in South East Asia and based in Singapore.

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Peter Gilbert holds a master’s degree in electro-mechanical engineering and has been active in facade engineering since the beginning of his career. For the past 15 years, he has been the driving force behind customized solutions at Renson Ventilation and Sun Protection, a family-owned Belgian company with over 100 years of existence and a global presence today. Peter is passionate about the product development process, both for the Renson product portfolio and for project-specific applications.

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Massimo Roj graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the Politecnico di Milano in 1986. Since 1987, he has been a Registered Architect. He worked for Architects such as Spinelli, Morisi and Helg. In 1994, he founded Progetto CMR in Milan, today the Italian leading integrated design firm, where he holds the position of Managing Partner and Global CEO. He is the Co-Founder of the EAN(European Architects Network), the largest design network all over Europe that associates several firms of architects IN getting together more than 800 professionals. After opening offices in Rome, Athens and Barcelona, 2002 was the time for diversification and the exploration of new markets. He turned his attention to Asia, opening offices and establishing branches in Beijing, Tianjin, Chennai, Singapore, Jakarta, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Since 2016, Massimo is Ambassador of Italian Design in the World, nominated by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Stefano Belingardi Clusoni, born in Milan in 1987, graduated cum laude from the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, receiving the prestigious SIA Award for the best graduation project. Following international experiences at EMBT in Barcelona, CZA in Milan, and Studio Libeskind, he worked in Berlin and Shanghai before returning to Italy in 2016 to establish Stefano Belingardi Architects (formerly Studio BE.ST Belingardi Stefano). The studio, renowned for its innovative approaches and interdisciplinary collaborations, merges architecture and urban planning, pushing beyond traditional boundaries. Key projects include the Satispay headquarters, iconic buildings at Fondazione Prada and in the Isola district, a social housing masterplan in Lorenteggio, the restoration of Teatro Smeraldo in Porta Garibaldi, and a landmark building in Piazza Clotilde. Recognized among Italy's top architects under 40, his work was showcased at Milan’s Triennale. From large-scale projects to furniture design for Poliform and Viabizzuno, his pieces have been presented at Salone del Mobile.

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Kenneth Zammit, is a director in Thornton Tomasetti’s Façade Engineering practice responsible for accelerating the team’s growth in the U.K. and the European region. He leads the innovation drive for the façade engineering team globally and is part of the R&D oversight board allocating investment across the firm.

Kenneth is a committee member of the British Standards Institution, and a contributor to its upcoming CEN/TS 19100 “Design of glass structures”. He is also a member of the Centre for Window and Cladding Technology’s technical board and a board member of the Society of Façade Engineering.

He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Cambridge, a master’s degree in façade engineering from the University of Bath and a bachelor’s degree in architecture and engineering from the University of Malta. He is also a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a chartered engineer.

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Alice Torricelli studied Construction Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. She specialised in the field of building envelope design with a thesis on the definition of the best strategies for the energy requalification of buildings. She has been working at Technoform Bautec Italia for 10 years in the development of new products for the thermal break of windows and facades. She is currently in charge of the technical team responsible for developing solutions from the first prototype to the market lauch, including testing, certification, thermal and mechanical calculations, and pilot production. She is responsible for training, technical support, regulatory updates and also the local contact person for R&D of innovative solutions in the Technoform group.