The CTBUH UK Chapter hosted a successful panel discussion posing the question "Does London need tall buildings?" at Grimshaw's Clerkenwell studio.

A new course at Cardiff University focusing on the sustainable analysis and design of "mega-buildings" has been accredited by the CTBUH.

Cloud Talks are a series of lectures that brings visiting architects and academics to speak to students in IIT Architecture Chicago’s innovative Cloud Studio.

Dr. Philip Oldfield delivered a presentation on "Rethinking the Tall Building: Opportunities in the 21st Century Metropolis" as part of the ongoing IIT Cloud Talk series.

This session brought building environmental performance issues to the forefront in building design, a field that has been criticized in the past for its resource-heavy construction.

See the highlights from the second day of the CTBUH 2013 London Conference including The Shard Networking Reception.

See the highlights from the first day of the CTBUH 2013 London Conference including the Opening Plenary and Conference Dinner.

The University of Nottingham welcomed Executive Director Antony Wood to meet the students, view their latest work and to discuss the development of the Masters Course in Sustainable Tall Buildings.

The assembly of the CTBUH Research, Academic and Postgraduate Working Group in Shanghai was the fifth official meeting of group since it formed in Venice in June, 2010.

More than 50 students from eight countries participated this month in the IUAV University of Venice's second annual Venice Tall Building Workshop, Tall on the Water.

Tall building industry leaders from around the globe met at the seminal Dongbu Financial Center tower for the 2011 CTBUH Leaders Meeting.

The University of Nottingham welcomed CTBUH Executive Director Antony Wood as part of the annual CTBUH accreditation of the Masters Course in Sustainable Tall Buildings.

The University of Nottingham, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, welcomed CTBUH Executive Director Antony Wood on Tuesday July 19th.

The 2011 Isover Competition focused on the creative approach in the concept of energy efficient construction for high-rise buildings.

The Council has secured research project funding from Korea as part of the establishment of its new research division.

CIB, CTBUH and UNESCO are pleased to announce the formation of an international working group to deliver a ‘Roadmap’ on the research needs of buildings.

The Research Working Group met to discuss the planned activities and strategies to move forward with multiple initiatives.

The inaugural meeting of its Research, Academic & Postgraduate Working Group attracted much attention from both academia and industry.

The CTBUH have accredited the newly established 'Masters in Sustainable Tall Buildings' architectural course at the University of Nottingham.

India’s largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). It is home to more than a million people.

The course, coordinated by Philip Oldfield and David Nicholson-Cole at the University of Nottingham, explores the sustainable design of tall buildings.

CTBUH staff Antony Wood, Jan Klerks and Philip Oldfield were involved in the reviews of the "Mock Firms National Skyscraper Challenge" organized by Chicago Architecture Today.

The culmination of a semester of intense work for the students and tutors involved in the CTBUH-IIT ‘Tall & Green: The Remaking of Mumbai’ advanced architectural studio.

The Working Group have announced the chapter plan for a 200-page, richly illustrated book, entitled the ‘CTBUH Guide to Sustainabilty for Tall Buildings in Urban Environments’.

Discussions at this meeting centered on the creation of a significant new publication “The CTBUH Guide to Sustainability for Tall Buildings in Urban Environments.”

The meeting took place on August 1st, at the LEED Platinum rated Chicago Center for Green Technology and was attended by some of the world’s leading experts on tall buildings.

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This paper examines the significance of embodied energy and carbon in tall buildings. It presents the life-cycle carbon analysis (including both operational and embodied emissions)...

Whilst there have been numerous categorisations of high-rise buildings according to their function, architectural style, height or structural strategy, historically little work has been undertaken...

The year 2008 will long be remembered as the start of an economic crisis that has gripped the entire globe - a year that may...

The paper analyses High-rise building through four key factors - land prices, global icons, sustainability and collapse of the World Trade Centre towers, especially focuses...

This paper aims to rectify this by examining the history of energy use in tall buildings, from their origins in North America in the late...

This paper analyses the skybridge links of the numerous re-design proposals for the World Trade Centre Towers, with the aim of establishing their advantages and...

This paper proposes to analyse in detail the skybridge links of the WTC replacement designs – impact on evacuation, structure, façade, tower operation etc –...