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Conference Guide & Delegate List Conference Guide & Delegate List 30–31 MAY 2018 CHICAGO tallinnovation2018.com CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS MESSAGE Share your Experience Welcome to Chicago! We are pleased to present the inaugural Tall + Urban Innovation Conference, which brings together a critical cross-section of tall building owners, developers, occupiers, operators, designers, during the Event! engineers, and builders – along with the interested public – to investigate the cutting-edge in sustainable urbanism, as presented by the world’s foremost examples. #CTBUHAwards The event you will be experiencing over the course of the next two days is the result of an evolutionary process in our CTBUH Awards Program. The CTBUH Annual Awards Event was established in 2001 as part of a dinner in honor of Lynn S. Beedle, the Council’s founder. From that intimate beginning, it has become an immensely popular and influential program, covered by the global media. It has expanded the range of @CTBUH disciplines and projects recognized, to fully embrace the impact that tall buildings have on urban life. The Tall + Urban Innovation Conference reflects not only the expanding scope and influence of the Awards facebook.com/CTBUH program, but also the increasing pace of innovation in the industry. This two-day conference will see the owner/developer and design teams for 48 Finalist projects compete @CTBUH_HQ in front of an international audience and live juries, for winning distinctions across nine award categories. The presentations you will see acknowledge the wide scope of disciplines involved in bringing skyscrapers youtube.com/CTBUH from concept to reality. They address the approaches and built examples that can help guide us through the challenges we face, where climate change and urbanization collide, presenting significant challenges to the built environment, and to humanity itself. The expertise and inventiveness demonstrated by these projects and people provide inspiration and show the great potential offered by “city shapers” to solve the Connect with us! problems of today and tomorrow. We sincerely hope you enjoy the next two days! Get the latest updates and share with Chair of Main Jury Steve Watts Karl Fender colleagues through our CTBUH Chairman / CTBUH Advisory Group Member / Partner, alinea Consulting, Director, Fender Katsalidis Architects, social media channels. London, UK Melbourne, Australia Antony Wood Chair of Technical Jury CTBUH Executive Director / Abrar Sheriff Studio Associate Professor, CTBUH Trustee / President & CEO, Illinois Institute of Technology, Turner International LLC, Chicago, USA New York City, USA Continuing Education Credits The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is a registered American Institute of Chair of Urban Habitat Jury Architects (AIA) Continuing Education Credits (CES) provider. Registered professionals could James Parakh expect to accumulate up to 10.5 hours of CES Urban Design Manager, City of Toronto credits during the two-day event (including Planning Department, AIA Health, Safety & Welfare and Sustainable Design credits). A Certificate of Completion will Toronto, Canada 2 be provided to registrants upon request. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! WHAT’S INSIDE Platinum Sponsor Conference Overview & Venue Plan 4 Program Overview 6 Session 1 Gold Sponsors Opening Plenary 7 Sessions A 2A: Best Tall Building Americas 8 3A: Best Tall Building Europe 10 Silver Sponsors 4A: Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa 12 5A: Urban Habitat Award (Part II of II) 14 6A: Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia 16 (Part I of II) 7A: Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia 18 (Part II of II) Sessions B Table Sponsors 2B: 10 Year Award: 2007 Completions 9 Chair of Main Jury b KL 3B: 10 Year Award: 2008 Completions 11 ARCHITECTURE Karl Fender 4B: Urban Habitat Award (Part I of II) 13 CTBUH Advisory Group Member / Director, Fender Katsalidis Architects, 5B: Innovation Award (Part I of II) 15 Melbourne, Australia 6B: Innovation Award (Part II of II) 17 Moceri+Roszak 7B: Construction Award 19 Networking Receptions & Dinner 20 Awards Ceremony & Dinner Seating Plan 21 About the Awards Program & Juries 22 Supported by: CTBUH Fellows 25 Delegate List & Statistics 26 3 Key: Exhibition Booths: Coee/Lunch Station Escalator Delegate Bag/Material Pick-Up Stairs Elevators Toilets CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & VENUE PLAN Guest Room Access Elevators to Presentation Sessions & Space Allocations Day 2 Pre-Dinner Cocktail Reception After Wednesday’s Opening Plenary session, delegates will have a choice from two parallel tracks, each focused on a different award Help & Onsite Registration/Payments category and hosted in the ballrooms as shown in the venue plan Conference Bags/Material Pickup (right). The session details and speakers can be seen in theHotel Program Lobby Entrance Overview (see page 6). Name Badge Designations Registration Name Badge colors indicate important hierarchies within the CTBUH Collect name badges here network, and the conference itself, as outlined below. Please note that your name badge needs to be worn at ALL conference events: Blue: Speakers, Award Juries, and CTBUHHotel LeadersRestaurant Green: Sponsors & Supporting Partners Purple: CTBUH Members – organizational or individual level Atlantic Ballroom Yellow: Conference Delegates (non-CTBUH members)Interview Room at Level 2 Sessions Orange: Press and Media Please be quiet in the vicinity! Black: CTBUH Staff A Conference Materials CTBUH Upon registering, delegates will receive a Name Badge containing Exhibition Atlantic Ballroom the following: Chicago Conference Bag Ticket. All conference bags contain this Architecture Sessions Speaker Ready Room at Level 2 Foundation conference guide, including the delegate attendance list, and Exhibition Sponsor For the use of all speakers & other useful information. Material B session chairs. Deliver your final Secretariat (Private) Table VIP Reception Ticket:presentations Delegates musthere. have pre-registered for this event – your ticket, name badge, and ID will be required for entry. (see page 20 for more details) Up to Speaker Room & Atlantic Ballroom Interview Room When: Wednesday, 30 May, 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. For Coffee Break & Lunch Seating Where: Blue Cross-Blue Shield Tower, 30th-Floor Event Space Dinner Tickets: Delegates must have pre-registered for this event – your ticket will be required for entry to both the cocktail reception and dinner. (see page 20 for more details) When: Thursday, 31 May, 6:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Where: Atlantic Ballroom, Aqua Tower, Chicago Key: Exhibition Booths: Coee/Lunch Station Escalator Delegate Feedback Delegate Bag/Material Pick-Up Stairs Please tell us what has worked well, and what might have been improved on, at tallinnovation2018.com/feedback. It really does help Elevators Toilets us make future events better. 4 Guest Room Access Elevators to Day 2 Pre-Dinner Cocktail Reception Help & Onsite Registration/Payments Conference Bags/Material Pickup Hotel Lobby Entrance Registration Collect name badges here Hotel Restaurant Atlantic Ballroom Interview Room at Level 2 Please be quiet in the vicinity! Sessions A CTBUH Exhibition Atlantic Ballroom Chicago Architecture Sessions Speaker Ready Room at Level 2 Foundation Exhibition Sponsor For the use of all speakers & Material B session chairs. Deliver your final Secretariat (Private) Table presentations here. Up to Speaker Room & Atlantic Ballroom Interview Room For Coffee Break & Lunch Seating VISIT THE CTBUH EXHIBITION BOOTH IN THE BALLROOM FOYER CTBUH Launches New Annual Skyscraper Book All projects submitted for this year’s awards are included in this publication. Tall Buildings + Urban Habitat, Volume I A global snapshot of tall building completion annually, featuring Audience detailed profiles of the winning, finalist, and nominee buildings, through images, drawings, and in-depth descriptions. Price: US$48.00* *CTBUH member price VOTE At the end of each session, you will have Get your the opportunity to vote copy now! via your cellphone for your favorite project in The CTBUH that session. Exhibition Booth is located Note: You can only vote once in the Ballroom Foyer, directly per session. across from Ballroom B. Standard text message rates apply. 5 PROGRAM OVERVIEW Day 1: Wednesday, 30 May Day 2: Thursday, 31 May 8:15 – 9:15 a.m. Registration & Coffee, sponsored by New World Development Session 4 Best Tall Building 4A 4B Urban Habitat Part I of II 9:15–10:45 a.m. Middle East & Africa See pgs Azrieli Sarona Tel Aviv Barangaroo South / International See following pages for details on each session. Towers Sydney 12-13 Beirut Terraces Beirut Greatwall Complex Wuhan Rothschild Tower Tel Aviv World Trade Center Master Plan Zeitz MOCAA Cape Town New York City 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Registration and Coffee, sponsored by Mori Building 10:45 – 11:15 a.m. Coffee Break, sponsored by M-Tech Session 1 Session 5 1 Opening Plenary 5A Urban Habitat Part II of II 5B Innovation Award Part I of II 11:30 a.m.– 11:15 a.m.– 12:45 p.m. 12:45 p.m. Welcome Steve Watts Oasia Hotel Downtown Singapore 3D-Printed Building See pg Setting the Scene: The CTBUH Awards Antony Wood See pgs SKYPARK Hong Kong CAST CONNEX 7 14-15 Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award Larry Silverstein SOHO Fuxing Plaza Shanghai Hickory Building Systems Fazlur R. Khan Lifetime Achievement Award Aine Brazil Hi-Res CFD 12:45 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch, sponsored by KPF 12:45 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch, sponsored by WSP Session 2 10 Year Award: Session 6 Best Tall Building 2A Best Tall Building Americas 2B 6A 6B Innovation Award Part II of II 1:45 – 3:15 p.m. 2007 Completions 1:45 – 3:15 p.m. Asia & Australasia Part I of II See pgs 35XV New York City Lumiere Sydney See pgs Chaoyang Park Plaza Beijing Hummingbird 8-9 150 North Riverside Chicago New York Times Tower New York City 16-17 International Towers Sydney Lean Core + Prefab Blade Wall System American Copper Buildings Poly Real Estate Headquarters Lotte World Tower Seoul MULTI New York City Guangzhou Ping An Finance Center Shenzhen Timber Construction at Tallwood Gaia Building Quito San Francisco Federal Building House San Francisco 3:15 – 3:45 p.m.
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