1. Sustainable Design

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• Global Scale: The influence on urbanity at the governmental / planning level:
• Urban Scale: The role of Tall Buildings in the creation of sustainable cities and the impact of tall buildings on the Urban environment.
• Building Scale: Sustainable tall building design approaches, energy consumption, the need for post-occupancy monitoring:
• Technological Scale: Individual technologies concerned with energy use reduction (in both material embodied energy and building operation) and energy generation (wind, solar etc).

2. Mega-projects

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•    The World’s Tallest Building(s)
•    The role of  concentrated Mega-projects in future sustainable cities:
•    The role of  ‘new’ cities, in the desert, delta, rain forest
•    Approaches to urban infrastructure

3. Tall, Articulated Towers

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• The new generation of skyscraper form: Tall and Articulated
• The ‘iconic’ versus ‘site specific’ design approaches.
• Technological challenges.

Important Dates

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• All speakers are required to register for the Congress before their paper is accepted and included in the printed congress proceeding.