CTBUH Meetings & External Events


Marshall Gerometta wins the 1st CTBUH Golf Tournament
June 4 , 2010

On June 4th, the first CTBUH’s Annual Golf Tournament took place. After all score cards were turned in and adjusted for personal handicaps, CTBUH's database editor Marshall Gerometta emerged as the overall winner with an excellent score of 89 ... more

First regional meeting of the CTBUH Qatar Chapter a success
May 31, 2010

On May 31, 2010, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat organized the first regional meeting of the CTBUH Qatar Chapter. This event was held at the Tornado Tower, winner of CTBUH Best Tall Building in the Middle East for 2009. The meeting was attended by 60 people. ... more

NAE Grand Challenges for the 21st Century: Chicago Summit 2010
April 21-22 , 2010

CTBUH Executive Director, Antony Wood, participated in the NAE Grand Challenges for the 21st Century: Chicago Summit 2010, held on April 21-22, 2010 in Chicago. Antony was a member of a panel session on the subject of Urban Sustainability...more

CTBUH Running Up Skyscrapers
March 27, 2010

CTBUH's communication manager Jan Klerks and CTBUH volunteer John Lindbloom participated in the annual Fight-For-Air Climb, involving all four skyscrapers of the Presidential Towers complex in Chicago. With a combined 180 floors and 2,340 steps...more

CTBUH 2009 Leaders Meeting
October 21, 2009

Preceding the 2009 CTBUH conference, 55 leaders within the CTBUH organization, representing 23 countries and various working groups and committees, had gathered to discuss current developments, progress on projects and new ideas and initiatives...more

CTBUH Fire and Safety Working Group Inaugural Meeting
May 18-19, 2009

The CTBUH’s  Fire & Safety Working Group convened for a one and a half day meeting at the offices of Schirmer Engineering on 18th-19th May, to discuss the direction and intended output of the group.  Co-Chairs Dan O’Connor and Jose Torero led the meeting that was well attended by 16 members of the Committee from the US and UK...more

CTBUH Seismic Working Group Workshop
April 30 , 2009

Michael Willford, Andrew Whittaker and John Hooper led a session at the 2009 ASCE SEI Congress in Austin, Texas, on the seismic design of high-rise buildings. The session, which attracted more than 50 engineers, focused on the CTBUH Recommendations for seismic design... more

CTBUH Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group Third Meeting      Third Meeting of the CTBUH Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group
February 26, 2009

The third meeting of the CTBUH Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group took place on February 26th 2009, at the Chicago office of Environmental Systems Design. The meeting was led by co-chairs Sadhu Johnston (City of Chicago) and Antony Wood (CTBUH)...more

Board of Trustees Meeting      Inaugral Meeting of the CTBUH Board of Trustees
January 21, 2009

The first meeting of the newly formed CTBUH Board of Trustees (Chairman, David Scott; Vice-Chair, Ron Klemencic; Executive Director, Antony Wood; Treasurer, Charles Killebrew; Secretary, William Maibusch, Trustees, Sabah Al Rayes and William Baker) took place on January 21, 2009...more

Board of Trustees Meeting Seminars/Meetings with the Australian Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat
November 9th-15th, 2008

After a week of seminars and meetings in Australia, from the 9th – 15th November 2008, Executive Director of CTBUH, Antony Wood reports that together with the Dutch and Korean Councils, the Australian Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (ACTBUH) is perhaps the most active regional ‘chapter’ of the Council ...more

CTBUH Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group Second Meeting   Second Meeting of the CTBUH Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group
October 2nd, 2008, Office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Chicago

Discussions at this meeting centered on the creation of a significant  new publication “The CTBUH Guide to Sustainability for Tall Buildings in Urban Environments”. Among the issues discussed by the group were how retrofitting of tall buildings should be incorporated into this publication and whether carbon or energy should be utilized as the benchmark unit in comparing tall building case-studies...more

CTBUH Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group Meeting  

Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group - Inaugural Meeting 
August 1st, 2008, Chicago Center for Green Technology, Chicago

The inaugural meeting of the Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group took place at the LEED Platinum rated Chicago Center for Green Technology. The meeting produced a draft structure for the ‘CTBUH Guide to Tall Buildings and Sustainability’ and identified which working group members should be responsible for the various sections of the publication....more


CTBUH 2008 Steering Group Meeting   Steering Group Meeting, 2008
March 2nd, 2008, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Dubai

Held on the eve of the CTBUH 8th World Congress in Dubai, the Steering Group members gathered to celebrate the many achievements of the Council and to discuss future growth and initiatives...more


CTBUH Steering Group Meeting, 2007   Steering Group Meeting, 2007
October 25th, 2007, McCormick Tribune Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

CTBUH Steering Group members from around the world gathered in Chicago to oversee the Council’s progress, discuss new initiatives and advise on its future direction...more


CTBUH Height Committee Meeting   Height Committee Meeting, 2007
May 24th, 2007, McCormick Tribune Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Attended by 27 representatives from 5 countries, discussions were extremely lively and interesting; consensus on some issues was hard to reach, typifying the complex factors involved in the determining of height, and the title of ‘the world’s tallest’...more



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