Day 3 - Welcome and Chair:
David Scott, CTBUH Vice-Chair / Arup, New York

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Ken’s work explores an appropriate typology for the sustainable green skyscraper which responds to both the unique cultural, climatic and ecological aspects of place. He discusses his design approach starting from the skyscraper as vertical urban design, bioclimatic strategy (as passive mode low energy design) which he advances to other ecological design considerations. In current developing markets such as India, where the import of the western, sealed air-conditioned skyscraper model without regard for the regionalist specifics of place is predominant, there are many valuable lessons to be learned in the work of this architect, at the vanguard of the sustainable high rise for the past 30 years.

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Taipei 101 was completed as the world’s tallest building at the end of 2004, at 509 metres. Recently it announced plans for a complete environmental upgrade of the building, to achieve LEED Gold status. The fact that such a building, only 5 years old, is considering such environmental upgrades illustrates the pace of advancement in green technologies and the industry as a whole. In this presentation we hear from the head of the building operation, on the plans to develop the tallest green building in the world.Lake.

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Alain has obtained notoriety as the French “spiderman” who has climbed many of the world’s tallest buildings without rope or climbing equipment, often to the disdain of building managers, design professionals and emergency personnel but to the delight of the onlooking public. Alain’s recountal of his experiences raises the very important question about the role of tall buildings in the urban domain, and who these buildings really belong to.

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