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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 Fellow; ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force Commercial Team Leader; ASHRAE Task Force for Building Decarbonization ExCom; ASHRAE Directors-at-Large; Carbon Leadership Forum MEP 2040 founding member; City of Chicago Decarbonization Task Force; AIA COVID-19 Task Force, BOMA Toronto Health Committee Co-Chair; ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer; Former Chair of ASHRAE TC 9.12 on Tall Buildings; Former Board of Directors for USGBC, Illinois; Industry Advisory Board for IN2 start-up incubator program with US National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
CTBUH Designated Expert
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
MEP Working Group Holds Kickoff Meeting at CTBUH 2018 Conference
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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CTBUH Initiatives
3 May 2019
IIT Final Reviews and Annual Open House
Final reviews were held for the “Sustainable Vertical Urbanism: Towards Net-Zero Carbon Skyscrapers”, undertaken by the IIT College of Architecture, with assistance from CTBUH and SOM.
6 November 2018
CTBUH Earmarks $85,000 to Support Research & Academic Programs
During the CTBUH 2018 Middle East Conference, awards were conferred in relation to five CTBUH Research and Academic programs that will produce a number of important future outputs.
20 October 2018
MEP Working Group Holds Kickoff Meeting at CTBUH 2018 Conference
The CTBUH MEP Working Group held its kickoff meeting as part of the wider annual Leaders Meeting at the CTBUH 2018 Middle East Conference in Dubai.
20 October 2018
Record Numbers Convene at 2018 Leaders Meeting
CTBUH Leaders convened on Day 1 of the 2018 Middle East Conference for updates on the year's developments and to plan for 2019.
9 July 2018
Sustainable Vertical Urbanism Forum
“Sustainable Vertical Urbanism” symposium held by CTBUH/Tongji with speakers including CTBUH Academic & Teaching Committee members.
1 February 2018
Debating Tall: Tall Buildings as Severe-Weather Shelters?
In the CTBUH 2018 Journal Issue I, two experts debate on whether tall buildings would provide safe shelter during severe-weather.
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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...
31 October 2017
CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference - Session 7B: Greening the Vertical Realm Q&A
Liz Westgarth, Principal, HASSELL, chairs the question and answer session with Alfredo Ramirez, Codes and Advisory Services Manager, Underwriters Laboratories; Luke Leung, Director, Skidmore, Owings...
31 October 2017
New Net-Zero Matrix – Including Nature in Tall Buildings
In the building design community, the most common definition of “Net-Zero Building” is a building that generates an amount of energy on-site that is equal...
03 October 2015
S. R. Crown Hall Roundtable: Tall Buildings
IIT Architecture hosted a series of four roundtables on October 2nd and 3rd to celebrate the opening of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The third roundtable...
17 September 2014
Monthly Video: Five Minutes with Luke Leung
Wednesday 17th September 2014. Shanghai, China. Luke Leung of SOM is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2014 CTBUH Awards Symposium at the Illinois Institute...
17 September 2014
Wednesday 17th September 2014. Shanghai, China. Luke Leung of SOM is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2014 CTBUH Awards Symposium at the Illinois Institute...
17 September 2014
2014 Shanghai International Conference - Session 08 - Q & A
2014 Shanghai International Conference Session 08 Questions & Answers session with speakers Antony Wood, CTBUH / IIT / Tongji University; Luke Leung, SOM; and Christopher...
17 September 2014
21st Century Metropolis and the System Thinker
The world is accelerating into the 21st century and will continue to be stressed by population increase. The metropolis must be part of the solution...
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,...
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...
27 April 2018
Debating Tall: Tall Buildings as Severe-Weather Shelters?
Ilana Judah, FXCollaborative; Luke Leung, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Recent strong weather events and heavy flooding in major coastal cities have prompted debate about where to shelter and what’s appropriate to build along coastlines....
31 January 2018
Debating Tall: Tall Buildings as Severe-Weather Shelters?
Ilana Judah, FXCollaborative; Luke Leung, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Recent strong weather events and heavy flooding in major coastal cities have prompted debate about where to shelter and what’s appropriate to build along coastlines....
02 June 2017
Transparency in Urban Environment
Luke Leung, Yue Zhu, Stephen Ray & Adri Jevtic, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
A generation of tall buildings has been dominated by International Style with full height glazing that is often vision glass. Large glass was intended to...
17 October 2016
Transparency in Urban Environment
Luke Leung, Yue Zhu, Stephen Ray & Adri Jevtic, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
A generation of tall buildings has been dominated by International Style with full height glazing that is often vision glass. Large glass was intended to...
17 October 2016
Transparency in Urban Environment
Luke Leung, Yue Zhu, Stephen Ray & Adri Jevtic, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
A generation of tall buildings has been dominated by International Style with full height glazing that is often vision glass. Large glass was intended to...
16 September 2014
21st Century Metropolis and the System Thinker
Stephen D. Ray & Luke Leung, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
The world is accelerating into the 21st century and will continue to be stressed by population increase. The metropolis must be part of the solution...
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