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Luke Leung is the Director of the Sustainability Engineering Studio at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. His work includes the Burj Khalifa, the world’s current tallest building, and four of the other top 20 tallest buildings in the world. Leung is a LEED Fellow; ASHRAE Task Force for Building Decarbonization ExCom; ASHRAE Directors-at-Large; ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force Commercial Team Leader; Carbon Leadership Forum MEP 2040 founding steering committee; City of Chicago Decarbonization Task Force; co-author of articles for the AIA COVID-19 Task Force, BOMA Toronto Health Committee Co-Chair; Expert Peer Review Committee for CTBUH; Former Board of Directors for USGBC, Illinois; Former Chairman of ASHRAE TC on Tall Buildings; ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer; and an Industry Advisory Board member for the IN2 start-up incubator program with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
CTBUH Roles
Expert Peer Review Committee, Member (2014 – Present)
Working Group: MEP (2018 – Present)
MEP Systems Committee, Member (2018 – Present)
Annual Conference, Presenter (Shanghai 2014; China 2016; Australia 2017; Middle East 2018; Chicago 2019)
Live-Streamed Conference, Presenter (2020)
Research Seed Funding Winner (2016)
CTBUH Initiatives
IIT Final Reviews and Annual Open House
03 May 2019
CTBUH Earmarks $85,000 to Support Research & Academic Programs
06 November 2018
Record Numbers Convene at 2018 Leaders Meeting
20 October 2018
Videos
28 March 2018
Building Tall Skyscraper Lecture Series: Naturalizing the Vertical Realm
Thursday, February 1, 2018. Chicago, United States of America. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) held...
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Research
21 June 2019
Energy Modeling of a Supertall Building Using Simulated 600 m Weather File Data
Ali Irani & Luke Leung & Marzia Sedino, Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill
Assessing the energy performance of supertall buildings often does not consider variations in energy consumption due to the change of environmental conditions such as temperature,...
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Research
31 January 2019
How Do Outdoor Pollutant Concentrations Vary Along the Height of a Tall Building?
Dr. Brent Stephens & Dr. Parham Azimi, Illinois Institute of Technology; Luke Leung, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
It is generally assumed that vertical pollutant dispersion can reduce exposures to ambient pollutants in tall buildings, as concentrations of some ground-source pollutants are diluted...
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