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Sara Beardsley
SCB, Associate Principal | Chicago, United States
About
Sara Beardsley, FAIA, is an Associate Principal and senior technical architect at SCB. She has over 20 years of experience working on high performance design of tall and supertall buildings. Her projects include 1234 W. Randolph; the 1000m Jeddah Tower; the 95-story 401 N. Wabash; the renovation of Mies' Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago; FKI Headquarters in Seoul, Korea; and 830 Brickell Plaza in Miami. She specializes in high performance exterior walls and has a keen interest in reducing carbon emissions and embodied energy attributed to buildings. Her publications and research include contribution of the CTBUH Tall Buildings Reference Guide; Supertall, Megatall: How High Can We Go?; Resi-density and the Chicago De-Carbonization Plan. She has also contributed to CTBUH Journal including "The Design of Akhmat Tower" and the special issue, "Voices of Women in Tall Buildings."
CTBUH Designated Expert
CTBUH Initiatives
Fourth Building Tall Lecture Series: Greening Tall
01 February 2018
CTBUH Supports High-Rise Conference at Samara State University
04–07 September 2017
2017 Global Walking Tours: The Space Within Tall Buildings
21 June–07 July 2017
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
27 April 2018
Technical Considerations for Akhmat Tower
Alejandro Stochetti, Sara Beardsley & Marc Cerone, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture; John Peronto, Thornton Tomasetti
The 435-meter Akhmat Tower in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, will be shaped to refer to the Nakh tower, a traditional watchtower typology in the region. A...
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Research
08 August 2017
ASPECT: RATIOS – Voices of Women In the Tall Building World
Ilkay Can-Standard, GenX Design & Technology; Martina Dolejsova, Studio Libeskind
ASPECT: RATIOS is the outgrowth of a program developed by the CTBUH Young Professionals Committee in New York, beginning in 2016. The purpose of the...
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CTBUH Initiatives
1 February 2018
Fourth Building Tall Lecture Series: Greening Tall
The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) and CTBUH hosted a panel discussion on the movement to incorporate green features into tall buildings.
7 September 2017
CTBUH Supports High-Rise Conference at Samara State University
22 speakers discussed the state of high-rise design & construction at this conference, a partner event between the CTBUH and Samara State Technical University.
7 July 2017
2017 Global Walking Tours: The Space Within Tall Buildings
The CTBUH Urban Habitat / Urban Design Committee organized its fourth annual Global Walking Tours, which took place in 15 cities around the world.
7 July 2017
CTBUH UH/UD 2017 Global Walking Tour
The CTBUH Urban Habitat / Urban Design Committee will be holding another set of worldwide walking tours, this time focused on The Space Within.
25 August 2016
Global Twilight Walking Tours
The CTBUH UH/UD Committee organized its third annual Global Walking Tours in 13 cities around the world, examining public spaces in a twilight setting.
19 May 2015
First Meeting for CTBUH Damping Technologies Research
More than 40 industry and academic experts convened at CTBUH Chicago to mark the launch of the Bouygues Construction-funded damping initiative.
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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...
Research
27 April 2018
Technical Considerations for Akhmat Tower
Alejandro Stochetti, Sara Beardsley & Marc Cerone, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture; John Peronto, Thornton Tomasetti
The 435-meter Akhmat Tower in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, will be shaped to refer to the Nakh tower, a traditional watchtower typology in the region. A...
08 August 2017
ASPECT: RATIOS – Voices of Women In the Tall Building World
Ilkay Can-Standard, GenX Design & Technology; Martina Dolejsova, Studio Libeskind
ASPECT: RATIOS is the outgrowth of a program developed by the CTBUH Young Professionals Committee in New York, beginning in 2016. The purpose of the...
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