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Awards Committee
The Awards Committee is appointed annually to determine the CTBUH Awards. The Committee, led by the Awards Chairman, is responsible for determining the year’s regional Best Tall Building winners.
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Competitions Organizing Committee
The Competitions Committee is appointed annually to organize and oversee the CTBUH annual international student tall building design competition. |
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Finance & Economics Working Group
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Fire & Safety Working Group
This working group is concerned with leading the industry, globally, towards a consensus on designing safe buildings, taking account of modern forms of risk, when and where appropriate.
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Foundations Working Group
Foundation and building behaviour is highly interactive, with movements of the foundation resulting from the building loads, and these movements in turn influencing the behaviour of the building...
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Height Committee
The CTBUH is the arbiter of the criteria upon which tall building height is measured, and thus the title of “The World’s Tallest Building” determined. The Height Committee, composed of prominent international professionals meets regularly to accurately maintain these criteria.
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Legal Aspects of Tall Buildings Working Group
This working group combines the inextricably linked areas of planning and construction and will report on legal issues and trends on planning and procurement.
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Outriggers Working Group
Outrigger systems have been widely used in super tall buildings constructed since the 1980’s, eclipsing the tubular frame systems previously favored. However, the outrigger system is not listed as a seismic lateral load resisting system in any code, and design guidelines are not available...
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Progressive Collapse Working Group
The approach to Progressive Collapse varies substantially around the world. Many countries, for example, do nothing. This working group has been established to review design philosophy, produce best practice guidance, and identify what further research is needed...
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Research, Academic and Postgraduate Working Group
This working group aims to bring together all those who are undertaking formal, funded research in multi-disciplinary aspects of tall buildings internationally. The group aims to help coordinate that research, maximize output and analyse research gaps and possible future funding opportunities...
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Seismic Design Working Group
There is a resurgence in the construction of high rise buildings around the world, including in many seismically active regions. This working group has released a guide that sets out best practice for the seismic design of high-rise buildings for use in any seismic region of the world...
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Sustainability Working Group
This working group sets out to define and investigate the many aspects of the oft-used word ‘sustainability’, in the context of tall buildings. In doing this, it sets out to dispel the myths associated with sustainability and determine exactly what the issues are and how they can be addressed....
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Wind Engineering Working Group
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