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Confirmed Papers

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Ahmad Abdelrazaq
"Construction Logistics for Tall and the World's Tallest"
Samsung Corporation


Samer Abu Ghazaleh
Skyscrapers in the context of Jordan
University of Jordon

Mir Ali

“Design Factors for High-Performance Tall
Buildings: Innovations and Technologies”
University of Illinois

Simon Allford & Paul Monaghan
"Contextual tall in UK Cities: Unity and other endeavours"
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris


Clyde Baker & Tony Kiefer   
The Role of Peer Review in the Foundation Design of the World's Tallest Buildings
STS Consultants   


William Baker
“Engineering the World’s Tallest”
Skidmore Owings and Merrill

Steve Baldridge
Tall Structural Sustainability in an island context: the Hawaii Experience
Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering, Inc.

Georges Binder
The 'International' Skyscraper: Observation
Buildings & Data

Richard Bukowski
“Emergency Egress from Ultra Tall Buildings”
NIST

Brenda Calvin
Selling in the luxury high-rise market; pre-sales through completion
The Calvin Group

Alastair Collins & Steve Watts
“The Economics of Sustainable Tall Buildings”
Davis Langdon

Andy Davids
“Postcard from the Gulf - Designing and
Constructing Some of the World's Tallest
Buildings”
Hyder Consulting

Johannes De Jong
"Advances in Elevator Technologies: Sustainable and Energy Implications"
KONE


Roy Denoon   
Wind energy harvesting in tall buildings: the use of wind tunnel testing and CFD
CPP 


Mahjoub Elnimeiri
"Dubai Towers; Tower 29"
Illinois Institute of Technology & TVS Internat.

Mike Ferreira   
Considering the Adverse Impact of Stack Effect on Stair Pressurization Systems
Hughes Associates  


David Fisher
"Rotating Tower Dubai"
Dynamic Architecture Group


Brian Ford & David Etheridge
"Natural Ventilation Strategies for Tall Buildings - Options and Limitations"
University of Nottingham


Robert Fox
LEED Platinum: Tall Sustainability in the US
Cook + Fox Architects


Roger Frechette & Russell Gilchrist
“Towards Carbon Neutral:
Pearl River Delta Tower”
Skidmore Owings and Merrill

Kerry Galbraith   
Structural Sustainability in the Gulf - Fact and Fiction
KEO International Consultants, Qatar  


Jeanne Gang
“Tall Buildings that Relate to Place”
Studio Gang

Alistair Guthrie
“Tall Buildings: Sustainability from the Ground Up”
Arup

Bob Halvorson
“Structural Design Innovation: Russia Tower
and Other Tall Collaborations”
Halvorson & Partners

Peter Head & Gary Lawrence
“A Tale of Two Cities: Dongtan &
Treasure Island”
Arup

Jeff Heller & Clark Manus
“San Francisco: Innovative Tall Buildings
though Government Inventives”
Heller Manus & San Francisco Planning Dept.

Lee Herzog
“Cleaning Systems for the Burj Dubai
and other Articulated Towers”
Citadel / Lerch Bates

Peter Irwin
"Friend or Foe? New Approaches to Considering Wind at Height"
RWDI

Martin Kealy
“Fire Engineering Super-Tall: Dubai, Chicago,
Seoul”
Schirmer Engineering
Ron Klemencic & John Lahey   
One Rincon Hill: Raising the Bar
MKA & SCB   


Rem Koolhaas
Tall Articulations: CCTV and other endeavours
OMA


Stefan Krummeck
“Tall Buildings in Rapidly Developing Cities”
Terry Farrell & Partners

Wayne Labar

“Tall Tales: A Century of Exhibiting
Tall Buildings”
Liberty Science Center

Peter Land
Innovations in Sustainability at height: Experimental Tall Buildings
Illinois Institute of Technology

Simon Lay
“Alternative Approaches to Fire Evacuation
Design”
WSP Group

Martin Kealy
“Fire Engineering Super-Tall: Dubai, Chicago,
Seoul”
Schirmer Engineering

Luke Leung & Peter Weismantle

“Sky Source Sustainability - How Super
Tall Buildings Can Benefit From Height”
Skidmore Owings and Merrill

Kamran Moazami
“Steel-Concrete-Steel: Unique Hybrids at
Londons Tallest”
WSP Group

Lee Morris
“Designing Sustainable Tall Buildings
in Desert Climates”
Atkins

Tatsuo Okamoto   
Mile High: Liquid Crystal Tower Qatar
Takenaka Corporation  


Matthias Olt & James Rothwell   
Sustainable Design in S. Korea/Vietnam: Referencing Culture Through Modern Architecture
Callison  


Ross Palmer
Acoustics and the Management of  Noise in High Rise Residential Buildings
Palmer Acoustics

Jason Pomeroy
Sky-courts: Axial Mapping
Broadway Malyan

Ahmad Rahimian
Hearst Tower: Sustainability and Environment
WSP Cantur Seinuk

Hani Rashid
“Unique Developments in Tall Building Form”
Asymptote

Peter Wynne Rees
Tall Sustainability in a European context: London
City of London


Stephan Reinke
“Tall Building Design Intelligence: An International
Perspective”
Woods Bagot

Martin Reiss & Fang Li
“Pearl River Tower: Fire Safety Strategies for
Energy-Efficient High Rise Buildings”
Rolf Jensen Associates

Leslie Robertson & Paul Katz
“Shanghai World Financial Centre:
The World’s Next Tallest”
LERA & KPF

Kyle Krall
"Structural Engineering the New York Times Building"
Thornton Tomasetti


Ken Shuttleworth   
Form & Skin: Antidotes to Transparency in High Rise Buildings
Make Architects


Werner Sobek
“Advances in Sustainable Tall Building
Structural Systems”
Werner Sobek Engineers

Robert Solomon
Measuring Optimum and Code-Plus Design Criteria for the High Rise Environment
NFPA


Christie Whitman
“Instant City: Planning and Implementing
Multiple Towers Simultaneously”
Whitman Strategy Group, for Gale International

Antony Wood
“Green or Grey? The Aesthetics of Tall Building
Sustainability”
Illinois Insitute of Technology

Ken Yeang
“Designing the Eco-Skyscraper”
Llewelyn Davies Yeang

Eric Ysebrant & Isidore Zielonka
Building, rebuilding or renovating sustainable tall buildings in Europe: Brussels
AAB Architects