2026 Altiers’ Regional Building Envelope Forum

• Welcome, Sign-In, & Afternoon Apps and Refreshments (served 1:00-4:30 pm).

Introduction & Prize Drawing: LEE Building Products

• Explore the many facets of brick applications and wall systems.
• One of the oldest building materials known to man, clay has evolved with the millennia while also staying the same.
• Celebrate the history and evolution of brick use around the world.
• Explore purposes of brick as a thin unit, full bed unit, structural unit, and paver.
• Explore various brick wall systems including panelized, curtain wall, and perforated wall.
• Consider brick as solutions for sustainability, resiliency, and safety.
• Discover creative ways to incorporate sizes, textures, shapes, and patterns.
• Watch masons use augmented reality assistance to accurately install parametric walls.

Introduction & Prize Drawing: Metal Panel Systems/TitanTek Architectural Metal Panels

• This presentation explores how thermally efficient rainscreen attachment systems directly influence building envelope performance, occupant comfort, and long-term durability.
• Using real-world wall assembly examples, the discussion focuses on how continuous girt and intermittent thermally isolated bracket systems impact thermal bridging, effective R-value, condensation potential, and moisture control.
• Participants will review common detailing mistakes that compromise insulation continuity and learn practical strategies for designing framing systems that improve constructability, reduce risk, and support long-term building resilience.
• The program will also examine how early coordination between architects, structural teams, and specialty trades improves installation accuracy and overall wall performance.

Introduction & Prize Drawing: Pacific Clay Products / Yankee Hill Brick

• Designing with brick and precast and steps and procedures needed to produce a successful project.
• By a detailed review of the five leading wall systems embedded with thin brick, participants will be able to discuss and compare these systems' health, safety, and welfare advantages.
• The course will give participants insight into thin brick insulated panel wall systems, and the positive effect insulated panels have on building occupants and the environment.

Introduction & Prize Drawing: NexGen Metal Design Systems

• Industry professionals will share insights on design & construction best practices and reliable building envelope systems that protect occupants from unsafe building environments and reduce long-term risk of failure of components.
• Drawing on real-world experience, the presentation will explore practical strategies for moisture control, thermal performance, durability, and constructability while balancing aesthetics, cost, and safety.
• Evaluate the constructability and installation risks of major envelopes systems, including cavity walls, rainscreens, and prefabricated panels to ensure safer, more reliable field performance.
• Coordination challenges, improvements, and system selection to guide smarter system choices and strategies that will enhance occupant well-being, reduce risk during construction, and ensure the long term resilience of the building enclosure.
• Identify common building envelope failure points—panelists will highlight field experiences and real world installation challenges — to help practitioners prevent conditions that can lead to mold growth, material degradation, energy loss, and unsafe building environments and explain where common failure occurs which impact moisture control, thermal continuity, durability, and ultimately occupant health and welfare.
• Panelists will review strategies for early coordination among architects, contractors, and specialty trades to reduce installation errors, prevent unsafe conditions, and align envelope design with field realities and long term performance goals.

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Introduction & Prize Drawings: Interstate Brick & Altiers Architectural Products

• Dinner catered at 5pm
• Grand Prize Drawing at 7pm