With over 800 participants attending, Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo is the leading event on building envelopes in Europe, offering productive networking, high-calibre presentations and targeted marketing opportunities in the construction industry. The event will be held at the Congress Center Kursaal in Bern, Switzerland, on 26-27 October 2020.

More than 100 speakers are giving presentations. The topics of this year’s conference include:

• Parametric design and digital fabrication
• Responsive and adaptive building skins
• Complex faҫades for mega-structures
• Glass for advanced building envelopes
• Smart living building skins
• Solar façades
• Building membrane cladding systems
• Materials and technologies for building retrofits.

Detailed program: https://ams.abs.green/program-2020.

Covid-19: On 19 June the Swiss Federal Council eased restrictions on events to allow conferences to take place. In the unlikely event that the conference will not take place, or if the participant is not allowed to travel, paid registration fees will be credited to next year’s conference.