Climate change and increasingly extreme disaster scenarios have forced Vietnam’s Architecture – Construction industry to change its mindset from “passive response” to “proactive adaptation”. At the scientific seminar “Adaptive Architecture & Disaster Prevention: Solutions from Planning to Building Design” organized by the Vietnam Association of Architects in coordination with the People’s Committee of Da Nang City, scientists frankly pointed out that traditional solutions are gradually reaching their limits against the severity of nature. In that context, the participation of building materials manufacturers such as Viglacera carries the message: Surface materials are no longer passive finishing layers – they must become a core component in the proactive defense system right from the design and specification stages of building materials for construction works.