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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
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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
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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
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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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