Zak World of Façades Saudi Arabia 2026

Zak World of Façades Saudi Arabia is the Riyadh stop of a long-running international conference series on façade design and engineering. The 2026 meeting is the series' 238th edition worldwide and its seventh in Riyadh, and it packs a day of expert talks, panel debates and a supplier tabletop exhibition into one programme aimed at the people who specify, design and build building envelopes for the Kingdom's large projects.

Who attends

The programme is written for building specifiers and the teams that deliver façades on site, from the owner's side through to fabrication.

• Architects and developers
• Main contractors and façade contractors
• Façade, structural, sustainability and fire consultants
• Glass processors
• Cost consultants and quantity surveyors
• Project management consultants

What's on the programme

Three sessions run from 10:00 to 16:50, after delegate registration from 09:00, with networking breaks and a closing networking hour. Talks cover an owner's view of envelope value, aerodynamic and automotive-inspired building design, self-cleaning anodised aluminium, acoustic laminated glass, U-values, fire-safe façades for supertall buildings under Saudi codes, and Snøhetta's work on contemporary Saudi architecture.

• Panel: Designing at Mega Scale, the façade of the Qiddiya Performing Arts Centre
• Panel: Localizing the Envelope, in-Kingdom manufacturing and the circular façade economy
• Owner's view of building envelope value at portfolio scale
• Fire-safe façades for Saudi Arabia's supertall and complex buildings

Exhibition and partners

A curated tabletop exhibition runs alongside the talks, with Koemmerling as presenting partner and associate partners including Dow, Kuraray, Saint-Gobain Glass, seele, Siderise, Vitro, Jansen and Al Obeikan AGC showing systems and materials for the building envelope.

Tickets & passes

• Complimentary seat — Free: Limited, for qualifying architects, consultants, developers, contractors and officials; subject to approval
• Supplier delegate — USD 500: Per person, for product/material suppliers and testing firms, subject to availability