CTBUH News
Starting with the most recent coverage, CTBUH News reports on the Council's initiatives and activities, including chapter, committee, and other leader activity; research project updates; data study outputs; publication launches; award announcements; signboard ceremonies; conference and event reports; and more.
UK Chapter Regenerative Roundtable Summary
On 27 September 2023, committee members for the regenerative design group, along with other leaders and experts in the industry, met at the Ramboll headquarters in London to have a roundtable discussion. From this dialogue, a document was produced summarizing the event and looking at the status quo, potentials, and steps forward for regenerative design.
CTBUH Seattle Future Leaders Presents: 35 Stone—Mass Timber Commercial Office Tour
Join the CTBUH Seattle Future Leaders for their first event of 2024, a tour of 35 Stone followed by happy hour networking. Telling a timber story of sustainability, 35 Stone celebrates Seattle’s origins with its mass timber framework and an industrial inspired form.
CTBUH India 2024 City Walk: MUMBAI METROTHON
CTBUH India's annual city walking tour, popular with students, was organized for 2024 around Transit oriented development, with a focus on the under construction Metro Works. 120 Students from engineering & architecture colleges joined the tour, walking 300m inside the tunnel to experience TBM activity.
New City Advocacy Forum
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habit announced a new City Advocacy Forum for 2024. This program was developed to identify and explore key topics, opportunities, and challenges facing global cities today—including density, climate resiliency, and social equity and access. It will take shape as a series of activities, events, and conversations with the initiative's first public event held at the CTBUH 2024 Americas Conference, "Future Downtown: Density and Resiliency in Cities Across the Americas," 22 & 23 February, in Miami.
CTBUH Staff Retreat at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
On 22 January, the annual staff retreat was set against the backdrop of CTBUH's longtime collaborator and partner, the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, hosted at the Institute of Design (ID) in the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship.
CTBUH 2023 Tall Building Year in Review
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has released its annual report, CTBUH Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2023, which reveals the state of tall building construction across the globe.
New Assemblies and Committee for 2024
Three new assemblies/committees around the topics of SMART technologies, tenants, and adaptive reuse are being launched by the Council for 2024. CTBUH Assemblies form a large umbrella around a topic, akin to a special interest group. They are intended to be multidisciplinary and facilitate discussion and outputs regarding best practices and the latest innovations.
CTBUH Nordic Presents: Sustainable High-rise Construction: The Nordics Perspective
The CTBUH Nordic Chapter in cooperation with Ramboll and Peikko is pleased to announce a half-day conference with evening reception at Original Sokos Hotel Tripla in Helsinki. Join CTBUH President Dr. Antony Wood for the opening keynote presentation and launch of the CTBUH 2024 International Conference, 23–27 September.
CTBUH 2024 International Conference Planning is Off to a Running Start
In January, CTBUH President Antony Wood chaired the 2024 International Conference Steering Committee meetings held in both London and Paris.
Setting the Standard: Ilkay Can-Standard Named Chair of CTBUH NY Chapter
Taking on the role of Chair for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) New York Chapter, Ilkay Can-Standard brings nearly two decades of experience in architecture, construction and technology, revolutionizing build processes. With international assignments across multiple countries, Ilkay has identified recurring challenges in various project stages, inspiring her mission to minimize redundancy within the AEC industry.
CTBUH India Presents: Seminar on Tall Buildings
The CTBUH India Chapter presents a half-day seminar on tall buildings in collaboration with IIT Hyderabad. CTBUH India members Gautam Bhasin, Amitabh Kumar, and Jay Shah will speak at the event.
CTBUH India Presents: Transit Oriented Development for Sustainable Urban Habitats
CTBUH India hosted their first event of 2024 on Transit Oriented Development on 19 January in Mumbai with over 100 attendees.
CTBUH Seattle Presents: Tour of Third & Battery
The CTBUH Seattle Chapter organized a tour of the 3rd and Battery project in Seattle on Jan 17th as an educational event for the chapter board and future leaders. Located in downtown Seattle, this 15-story, 112-unit residential project is more than just Seattle's greenest apartment building and the world's first net zero apartment high-rise. 303 Battery (aka Third & Battery) also represents the innovative and tenacious spirit of its design team.
CTBUH Chicago Chapter at BuiltX
Several times a year, the Master of Science in Executive Management for Design and Construction (EMDC) program hosts Northwestern’s Built Environment Exchange (BuiltX) - an idea forum and networking event for members of the built environment – which benefits both EMDC students and professionals working in the built environment. In partnership with CTBUH Chicago, the January 17 event will feature the panel discussion, “Reactivating the Loop.”
MTBVU 2023 Fall Program
In its second successful year, the Masters of Tall Buildings and Vertical Urbanism (M.TBVU), a collaboration between the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), had an enrollment of 13 students in the Fall 2023 semester design studio, as well as 28, and 35 students in the elective courses of Talking Tall I, and Tall Building Technologies I, respectively.
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