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SFE Technical Committee Standards and Guidances

SFE Technical Committee Standards and Guidances

Spotlight Interview: Mark Pniewski

Spotlight Interview: Mark Pniewski

Mark is a Chartered Engineer, with 19 years in the Building Industry: 15 in engineering consulting + 4 years in the design, manufacturing and installation of innovative facade systems. Director at Thorp Precast, passionate about developing beautiful, sustainable and safe buildings. (https://www.thorpprecast.co.uk/). Responsible for the delivery of high quality structural solutions, ensuring alignment between design, manufacturing, and site operations. Driving complex consultative sales, technical innovation and sustainability. Formerly Head of the UK Building Specialist Division, at Ramboll, on the Buildings Board of Directors (Ramboll Ltd). Managed the P&L, growth and integration of over 50 engineering professionals across disciplines as diverse as Facades, Acoustics, Sustainable Solutions, Fire, Advanced Simulation, Computational Design, Vertical Transport and the digital start-up www.site-solve.co.uk. MBA thesis on introducing and scaling innovation into the market, based on live case studies while on the Ramboll Global Digital & Innovation team and Global Innovation Accelerator Selection Committee.

Spotlight Awards: The Refurbishment of a Grade II-listed Cable Net Facade

Spotlight Awards: The Refurbishment of a Grade II-listed Cable Net Facade

The iconic building of Channel 4 Headquarters in London, originally designed by Richard Rogers in the 1990s, is Grade II-listed with only a few of its kind around the world. It reflects an era of ‘design by testing’ where boundaries were pushed and technical excellence was defined. The result is a highly engineered 20-metre-high curved curtain wall façade that combines ground-breaking features such as suspended glass panels, shock-absorbing suspension springs and a pre-tensioned cable net fixed to an ingenious steel crown. After twenty-five years, the façade was showing its age and needed care and attention.

Women Shaping Façades: A Look at Gender Demographics

Women Shaping Façades: A Look at Gender Demographics

In celebration of International Women’s Day 2025 #IWD2025 which this year bears the tag #AccelerateAction, the Society of Façade Engineering has committed to increasing equality, diversity and representation of women in the industry.

SFE Hubs: What we have been up to March 2025

SFE Hubs: What we have been up to March 2025

The SFE Hubs have continued their busy schedule of events, providing SFE members with engaging content on an international scale.

SFE Technical Committee update Summer 2025

SFE Technical Committee update Summer 2025

The SFE are delighted to welcome Kevin Yin as the new SFE Technical Committee Chair

SFE Newsletter Spotlight Interview - Special Edition

SFE Newsletter Spotlight Interview - Special Edition

The SFE are delighted to bring you a special edition of our spotlight interview with Chair Kenneth Zammit and Immediate Past Chair Rimmy Vij

Spotlight Academia: Evaluating the safety of monolithic toughened glass as an infill panel in a balustrade

Spotlight Academia: Evaluating the safety of monolithic toughened glass as an infill panel in a balustrade

For 15 years, CWCT guidance for glazed balustrades has been to use laminated safety glass capable of providing containment. This guidance has been widely followed. The introduction of the ‘ban’ on combustible materials in certain buildings prohibits the use of laminated glass as a balustrade, with the risk that designers will instead turn to monolithic toughened glass, which does not provide containment when broken.

Spotlight awards: Airshade: A thermo-responsive shading system

Spotlight awards: Airshade: A thermo-responsive shading system

In an era where energy efficiency and sustainable design are becoming more central to architectural innovations, technologies like the Airshade system have emerging as practical solutions for improving comfort in external and internal environments.

Spotlight Façade Awards: Embracing Digital Innovation in Façade Engineering: FAT PAnDA by Ramboll

Spotlight Façade Awards: Embracing Digital Innovation in Façade Engineering: FAT PAnDA by Ramboll

Embracing Digital Innovation in Façade Engineering: FAT PAnDA by Ramboll

CWCT Update Summer 2025

CWCT Update Summer 2025

In this update, we will consider sustainability, H&S, the Building Safety Act, CWCT courses and our AGM.

SFE Hubs: What we have been up to Summer 2025

SFE Hubs: What we have been up to Summer 2025

SFE Hubs: What we have been up to Summer 2025

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