Welcome to DESIGN-OCH KONSTRUKTIONSDAGEN 2014 Monday 24 November

HIGH-RISE CITIES

Arranged by Structural Engineering Centre at Chalmers A joint event between Chalmers, Samhällsbyggarna and Brosamverkan DESIGN-OCH KONSTRUKTIONSDAGEN 2014

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HIGH-RISE CITIES The Structural Design Day (Design- och konstruktions- Yasemin Kologlu will be assisted by Dimitri Stuart, dagen) is an annual activity that aims at providing engineer also from SOM and Christian Cold, architect inspiration and incentives for design and engineering and director of Entasis in Copenhagen, both partners in reflecting the needs of modern societies for sound and the Polestar project. sustainable development. This year's theme is “High Rise Cities” with special focus on the social sustainability of Gert Wingårdh, one of Sweden’s most influential archi- the public spaces below and the ecological sustainability tects, will speak on public spaces below the high-rise of energy, transport and land use. buildings from the context of the Polestar project. Francis Aish, engineer and head of research at Foster + The seminar will provide information and knowledge Partners, will address sustainability and high-rises on the history of tall builsings combined with the latest explicitly. Gothenburg, will frame the Polestar project advances in their design and construction. Aspects in the context of the city. Moderator of the seminar will related to city planning, architecture and structural be Morten Lund, Chalmers. design will be covered addressing new challenges in design, sustainability as well as requirements on The seminars will provide a good view of the current comfort and durability. The seminar presentations will situation and the latest achievements in the field of be given by experienced architects and engineers to design and construction of high-rise buildings, with cover the complexity involved with the design and special focus on the interaction between decision construction of high rise buildings. makers, city planners, architects as well as designers and construction engineers. Yasemin Kologlu, architect from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in London will be the keynote speaker. SOM is one of the world's leading offices in the field of design of tall buildings, which is also leading the Polestar project on Lindholmen in Gothenburg.

. DESIGN-OCH KONSTRUKTIONSDAGEN 2014 17.00 16:00 15:30 15:00 14:30 13:15 13:05 13:00 12:30 The StructuralDesignDay,Runanauditorium,MondayNovember24,2014 Registration Welcome, Our UrbanSpaceBelow Skidmore,Owings&Merrill - DesigningthePolestarTower - LegacyandInnovation Legacy toPolestar, The context, ige ih ncs Mingle, lightsnacks A criticalconversationbetween: Panel: Sustainable Towers Coffee, StudentExhibition

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Karin Markides,Chalmerspresident HIGH-RISE CITIES

Agneta Hammer,DirectorGothenburgCityPlanning,

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Moderator: Fredrik NilssonDeanofArchitecture Karin Lundgren,Professorin CivilEngineering Francis Aish Christian Cold Yasemin Kologlu Agneta Hammer Christian Cold,Director,EntasisCopenhagen Associate Director-StructuralEngineering,SOM Dimitri Jajich,IStructE,SEPE Associate Director-Design,SOM Yasemin Kologlu,RIBA,LEEDAPBD+C, MortenLund

Images courtesy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Inc. DESIGN-OCH KONSTRUKTIONSDAGEN 2014

The seminar will take place at: KONSTRUKTIONSCENTRUM RunAn, Chalmersplatsen 1, Kårhuset The Structural Engineering Center at Chalmers “Kon- (Student Union Building). Chalmers, Gothenburg. struktionscentrum” is the main organizer of the event. The Registration Structural Engineering Centre is a collaboration body that The seminar is free of charge. Registration is necessary, aims at providing a platform for effective and broad however. Please register no later than 14/11 on interaction between research and education activities www.dkdagen2014.axaco.se performed at the university and industry, primarily in the Please indicate if you will attend the subsequent construction sector. The purpose is to develop and mingling with snacks. strengthen the theme of structural design. Members of the Documentation Structural Engineering Centre's are actors in the Available for members after completion of the seminar, construction sector and representatives of major stake- www.konstruktionscentrum.chalmers.se holders who, together with Chalmers, share the objectives of developing, support and promoting knowledge and Information skills in this area. This is done by targeted training, Further information can be obtained from: Mohammad Al-Emrani, tel 031-772 2258 research and seminars where participant persons and [email protected] entities are actively involved in both planning and imple- mentation of the activities in the center. Program comity Mohammad Al-Emrani, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chalmers Mohammed Hoseini, Public Roads Administration - Norway Martin Laninge, Brosamverkan Soren Lindgren, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chalmers Morten Lund, Architecture, Chalmers Anna Näsbom, market relations, Chalmers Karl-Gunnar Olsson, Architecture, Chalmers Roland Olsson, WSP Mario Plos, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chalmers Chalmers- platsen

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