China World Hotel, Beijing, China “The skyscraper establishes the block, the
block creates the street, the street offers
13th & 14th September 2010 itself to man.”
Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French literary theorist, philosopher and critic
Integrating sustainable design and construction methods with commercial acumen and
efficient management to achieve greater returns on investment and create successful
Tall Buildings
Key international presentations & distinguished speakers:
Robert Forest Founding Principal David Malott Senior Associate Principal Ahmad Abdelrazaq Executive Vice President –
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, Kohn Pedersen Fox, USA Highrise & Complex Buildings
US Samsung C & T Corporation, Korea
Bruce Kuwabara Founding Principal
Richard Smith Group Chair – Carbon Critical KPMB Architects, Canada Dr Han Jihong Vice-Director of Building
Buildings & Technical Director – Middle East Technology
Atkins, Dubai Donald Davies Partner Shanghai Research Institute for Building
Magnusson Klemencic Associates, US Sciences (SRIBS)
Michael Barnes Director – China Administrative Vice Director of Green Building R&D
Altus Page Kirkland, China James Zheng Partner Centre
Goettsch Partners, China Ministry of Housing & Urban-Rural
Mingchun Luo Fire Safety Expert, Director of Development (MOHURD), China
Consulting Jeffrey Heller Founding Principal
Arup, Hong Kong Heller Manus Architects, US Cathy Yang Assistant Vice President
Taipei 101, Taiwan
David Littler Group Director – Building Services Senior Representative
Buro Happold, Hong Kong KONE, China Stefan Krummeck Principal Director
TFP Farrells, Hong Kong
Ahmad Kasem Chief Development Officer Ma Yan Song Founding Principal
Cayan Investment & Development, Dubai MAD Architects, China Dominic Bettison Principal
Wilkinson Eyre Architects, UK
Tan Jee Long Director of Development Cho Minsuk Founding Principal
China World Trade Centre, Beijing, China Mass Studies, Korea Wong Mun Summ Founding Director
WOHA, Singapore
Greg Sang Director – Projects Ian Milne Design Principal – Asia
Emaar Properties, Dubai RMJM, Hong Kong Patrick Daly Principal
Woods Bagot
Featuring international case studies on iconic Tall Building projects:
Burj Khalifa, Dubai (World’s Tallest Building) • Manitoba Hydro Place (CTBUH Best Tall Building, Americas, 2009) • Shanghai Tower (Shanghai’s next Tallest Building)
• China World Trade Centre, Beijing (Tallest Building in Beijing) • Infinity Tower, Dubai • Taipei 101, Taipei (Aiming for the World’s Tallest Green Building) • Boutique
Monaco, Seoul (CTBUH Best Tall Building, Asia & Australasia Finalist, 2009) • The Met, Bangkok (World Housing Development of the Year, World Architecture Festival
2009) • Kingkey Finance Tower, Shenzhen (Shenzhen’s Tallest Building) • 1080 East Dondaming, (1st Pre-certified LEED-CS Gold Building in Shanghai)
Featuring an exclusive site tour to China World Trade Centre Tower III!
The recently completed 74 storey China World Trade Centre (WTC) Tower III is the latest addition to the China WTC group. Standing at 330m high, it is the tallest
building in Beijing. The site tour will take delegates behind the scenes into the internal operations system to see what makes the tower tick as well as to admire
the magnificent views of Beijing from the observation deck.
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0830 Registration and morning coffee
0900 Opening and welcome remarks from the Chairperson
0915 Plenary One – Welding sustainability into Tall Buildings whilst addressing the economic considerations and ecological concerns for better urban planning
1000 Plenary Two – Uncovering the latest technological advances in Tall Building design and engineering for better construction planning
Ahmad Abdelrazaq Executive Vice President – Highrise & Complex Buildings
Samsung C & T Corporation, Korea
1045 Morning refreshments
1115 Plenary Three – Implementing LEED certification in Tall Buildings - Calculating the ROI for developers and building owners
1200 Plenary Four – Case Study – Green Star Certification of the Shanghai Tower
Dr Han Jihong Vice-Director of Building Technology
Shanghai Research Institute for Building Sciences (SRIBS)
Administrative Vice Director of Green Building R&D Centre
Ministry of Housing & Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD), China
1245 Networking luncheon
Stream One Stream Two Stream Three
Design & Construction I Commercial Aspects I MEP Engineering & Facilities Management
1400 Chairperson’s opening remarks 1400 Chairperson’s opening remarks 1400 Chairperson’s opening remarks
1405 Case Study: Exploring the sustainable design
1405 Assessing the commercial considerations in 1405 Probing MEP design step changes needed
features of the Manitoba Hydro Place
the design and operation of mixed-use Tall for differing height and mix density to
• How to organise an effective Integrated Design Buildings examine why Tall Buildings are not scalable
Process
• Acknowledging the need for diversification of risks in • Clarifying the increased trend for mix-use building
• Examining the relationship of real time energy the selection of the usage type of Tall Buildings construction
modeling with the building design
• Exploring the design considerations in terms of floor • Examining the key factors in successful MEP design
• Maximising integrated passive building systems to efficiency, transportation systems and ceiling heights for supertalls
reduce energy consumption in order to maximise the value of the investment • Determining the added installation and fitting
• Analysing critical factors in organising a working • Best practices in the management of a mixed-use Tall challenges in implementing MEP designs for mixed-
environment for 2000 people in a vertical campus Building use Tall Buildings
Bruce Kuwabara Founding Principal Tan Jee Long Director Richard F Smith Group Chair – Carbon Critical
KPMB Architects, Canada China World Trade Centre Buildings & Technical Director, Middle East and India
Atkins
1450 Meeting the challenges of designing tall,
sustainable and commercially viable 1450 Maximising developer’s Return on
buildings amidst congested urban settings Investment (ROI) through design 1450 Tackling the challenges of vertical
optimisation and demographical targeting transportation in Tall Buildings to ensure
• Elaborating on the need for increased densification
• Identifying the issues that are most important to efficient service and reduced wait times
and the cultural factors involved behind building tall
in China tenants in search for the perfect property • Examining sustainable building transport technologies
• Investigating how developers can effectively engage in depth - How vertical transportation contributes to
• Balancing the need for new modern design with
across sectors to deliver cost-effective solutions greening your buildings
historic influences in order to create culturally
sensitive iconic towers • Examining cash flow considerations and the impact • Capitalising on evolutionary space-saving
of mixed-use models to determine the viability of the technologies for buildings with high traffic demand
• Creating breathing spaces and communal points for
investment to improve floor efficiencies
the creation of a healthy environment in the building
• Easing travel times for occupants via an Intelligent
Ma Yan Song Founding Principal
1535 Afternoon refreshments Traffic Management system for Tall Buildings
MAD Architects, China
Senior Representative
1535 Afternoon refreshments KONE
1600 Greening your Tall Building as an
innovative marketing technique to attract
1600 Examining the cost drivers behind Tall 1535 Afternoon refreshments
new tenants and retain existing ones
Buildings
• Understanding the developer’s rationale in carrying
• Establishing the project’s feasibility on projected
out LEED certification – What is the ROI? 1600 Case Study: Fire safety design for Super
revenue and expected expenditure
• Carefully assessing the work and costs necessary to High-rise Buildings
• Optimising the cost drivers in order to determine the
upgrade Taipei 101 to meet LEED standards and • Addressing the egress and people movement with
construction method and appropriate structure
evaluate the return period for the investment the extended vertical travel distance in order to
• Moving beyond building and land cost to see the ensure occupant safety
• Scheduling and monitoring the upgrading process to
value created in a Tall Building project
minimise disruption to existing tenants and shoppers • Overcoming the challenges of increased occupancy
• Understand the risks associated with the building and and fire load due to the multiple stacking of floor
Cathy Yang Assistant Vice President
how by building tall these risks are intensified and so upon floor
Taipei 101, Taiwan
drive costs
• Assessing the present alternative options for
• Assessing the role cost drivers play in the overall protection without evacuation
1645 Quantifying the costs and benefits of LEED
building life cycle
Certification in attracting tenants and Mingchun Luo Fire Safety Expert, Director of
Michael Barnes Director – China Consulting
reducing operational costs
Altus Page Kirkland Arup
• Clarifying the market demand for LEED Certified
1645 Case Study: A series of Matrix studies buildings in Asia to determine whether new
related to Boutique Monaco developments should be certified 1645 Examining the trend of zoning within Tall
• Moving past the hype of LEED certification into hard Buildings and the impact on MEP systems
• Elaborating on the “Systematic Heterogeneity”
numbers of tenant take-up rates in LEED certified design with the goal of maximising
concept that is the key idea in the designing of
buildings comfort and management
Boutique Monaco
• Keeping track of the building’s operational costs to • Comparing and contrasting the benefits of spreading
• Magnifying the concept of “Vertical Urbanity” as a way
see whether they are meeting the designed cost mechanical floors throughout a building versus
to resolve the densification issue faced within cities
savings concentrating them
• Establishing the increased need for communal spaces
• Elaborating on the challenges in designing MEP
within Tall Buildings as a means to improve the
1730 Chairperson’s closing remarks systems on multiple floors
habitability of buildings and integrate them with their
environments • Examining successful examples of buildings with
1740 End of Day One zoned MEP systems
Cho Minsuk Founding Principal
Mass Studies, Korea
1730 Chairperson’s closing remarks
1730 Chairperson’s closing remarks
1740 End of Day One
1740 End of Day One
Day 2
Tuesday 14th September 2010
0830 Registration and morning coffee
0900 Opening and welcome remarks from the Chairperson
0915 Plenary One – Evolution of the Skyscraper – Examining future trends in the design of Tall Buildings
David Malott Senior Associate Principal
Kohn Pedersen Fox, USA
1000 Plenary Two – Tapping into cultural, environment and location specific influences to design an iconic Tall building that fits into the urban landscape whilst
gaining acceptance by the people
Wong Mun Summ Founding Director
WOHA, Singapore
1045 Morning refreshments
Stream One Stream Two Stream Three
Design & Construction II Commercial Aspects II Energy Efficiency
1115 Chairperson’s opening remarks 1115 Chairperson’s opening remarks 1115 Chairperson’s opening remarks
1120 Case Study on the unique design attributes 1120 Retrofitting Tall Buildings to boost 1120 Going for Gold in Shanghai - The City’s first
of Kingkey Finance Tower aesthetics, attract new clientele and improve Gold Pre-certified High-Rise
• Context Driven: Response to the environment, profitability over the building life cycle • Expanding on sustainability as a motivating force for
culture, demand, patronage and scale • Scrap or Retrofit? Key considerations in deciding both the client and the city of Shanghai.
• Elaborating on design and construction challenges - whether to go ahead with the refurbishment of a Tall • Comparing and contrasting green building standards
Geometry of the tower, vertical transportation, Building – Why the LEED system was used in this project
viewing deck and façade • Estimating the increased value of refurbished Tall • Exploring the rationale and added benefits behind
• Strength and Capability: Visual and technical Buildings to new and existing clients the move from LEED-Silver to LEED-Gold certification
solutions for wind, seismic load and sustainability • Financing the improvements – Identifying cost- • Facts and figures – A detailed analysis
considerations efficient improvements which deliver the fastest Jeffrey Heller Founding Principal
Stefan Krummeck Principal Director returns on investment Heller Manus Architects
TFP Farrells, Hong Kong
1205 Case Study on the Infinity Tower: Infinity 1205 Utilising building simulation tools to create
1205 Examining innovative uses of outrigger Marina Front Diaphragm Wall Breach and energy models to minimise energy
trusses as an aesthetic tool and for the impact to the commercial viability of consumption in Tall Buildings
stabilising Tall Buildings from high winds, the project
• Enhancing building environmental design through
earthquakes and typhoons • Discussing the unknown existing conditions and simulations
• Tracking the increased frequency of earthquakes and structures together with the impact as part of the
• Improving façade design through modelling to improve
wind related events in the region Diaphragm Wall Breach
energy efficiency
• Exploring successful implementations of trusses in • Examining the utilities corridor alongside the plot
• Leveraging on energy models to estimate energy
seismic and wind resistant construction of Tall Buildings limits and the culvert that crosses under the Marina
efficiencies associated with plant, systems and
• Form and function - Examining the aesthetic to feed the other side of the development
renewable technologies
contribution of trusses in iconic buildings • Expanding on remedial works and all construction
David Littler Group Director – Building Services
James Zheng Partner challenges to complete the Infinity Tower
Buro Happold
Goettsch Partners Ahmad Kasem Chief Development Officer
Cayan Investment & Development 1250 Networking luncheon
1250 Networking luncheon
1250 Networking luncheon 1400 Case Studies: Sustainable Tall Buildings – An
1400 Evaluating the use of BIM systems to MEP perspective
reduce costs, prevent wastage and enable 1400 Bringing best practices in the project
• Integrating building systems with the overall design in
better project management in constructing management of Tall Building construction
order to achieve sustainable goals
Tall Buildings to minimise costs and build faster – A
• Exploring in depth how design can contribute to
• Best practices and technologies for the design of developer’s perspective
make MEP systems more effective
high-rise structures: Building Information Modelling • Identifying risks early to the construction completion
• Focusing on several successful examples of
(BIM) and simulation software solutions process to manage schedules and build contingency
architectural input in MEP design for Tall Buildings
• Achieving better coordination between stakeholders: plans to ensure the project runs on schedule
Ian Milne Design Principal – Asia
BIM solutions for complex projects • Providing an overview on site management,
RMJM
• Exploring the power and benefits of the BIM and manpower training and development of team
future potential applications for Tall Buildings management skills in the project
1445 Working closely with MEP engineers to
Patrick Daly Principal • Ensuring potential issues are dealt with early through ensure building systems match with the
Woods Bagot constant communication to minimise delays to the proposed design objectives
construction schedule
• Maximising building efficiency in design to achieve
1445 Performance Based Seismic Design (PBD) for Greg Sang Director – Projects environmental performance objectives
Tall Buildings – Opportunities and challenges Emaar Properties
• Setting parameters for operational efficiency of the
• Performance Based seismic engineering offers greater building
building reliability, and freedom in design - What’s 1445 Analysing the latest trend of achieving
phased occupancy whilst construction • Optimising building and system design for maximum
the catch?
continues to reap better economic returns efficiency and predicting the performance of building
• Citing case study examples in US for both structural systems
steel and concrete PBD towers in high seismic regions • Identifying when and how to best project manage
the ongoing construction process with minimal Dominic Bettison Director
• Summary of recent PBD research and practical design Wilkinson Eyre Architects
disruption
lessons learned
• Getting the necessary approvals to have the building
• Opportunities in China to advance the state of the
let out and occupied whilst work continues
practice - Are we focusing on the right things?
• Handling the challenges in ensuring building safety
Donald Davies, P.E., S.E. Partner
and occupant comfort levels
Magnusson Klemencic Associates, US
1530 Afternoon refreshments
1600 Plenary Three – Arcologies - Tackling the problem of urban densification by creating a vertical city within a Tall Building
Robert Forest Founding Principal
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP
1645 Plenary Four – Getting the right equilibrium between Tall Buildings developments and heritage considerations to boost a city’s investment environment
and economic strength
1730 Chairperson’s closing remarks
1740 End of Day Two
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Why you cannot miss this event?
This regional conference is designed to attract the following:
Tall buildings have always been symbolic of a city’s economic and financial
• Building Owners
strength. Despite the economic woes that have plagued the world recently,
• Facilities and Property Management Directors / Managers tall building construction has proceeded at an unprecedented pace.
• Architects & Designers According to the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, 2010 will see
• Developers, Contractors & Funders over 100 buildings 200m or taller completed, with over half of these in the
Asia Pacific and 30% in China alone.
• Legal advisors
• Financial Advisors / Bankers However with the construction of so many tall buildings, there has been an
• Property / Real Estate Agents increased scrutiny on their commercial and financial viability, not to
• Insurers mention the sustainability aspect in their construction. It has become
increasingly important for architects, engineers and developers to create
thriving communities within the Tall Building environment that
Local Government, Government Departments, Agencies & Authorities: incorporates the best in technological advances, engineering skill and
• Director Planning / Planning Services commercial know-how in order to ensure that these massive skyscrapers
• Statutory Planning Director / Manager are sustainable both to the environment and to the people who live in
them.
• Urban Designer
• City / Town Planner Covering the entire life cycle of a tall building from its design and
• Environmental Strategist construction to its finance and operations, the 4th Annual Tall Buildings
conference aims to expound on the commercial aspects of tall buildings
• Policy & Project Director / Officers
whilst retaining its strength in focusing on selected case studies featuring
the latest in design and engineering these mega-structures of the future.
Engineers, Consultants, Project Managers and Contractors involved in: Join this conference to discover the key challenges and solutions to help
• Structural/Electrical/Plumbing/Mechanical prepare Tall Building professionals to succeed and gain an edge in this
highly competitive market.
• Heating & Ventilating
• Air Conditioning
Follow your own agenda with a choice of six streams over 2 days:
• Lighting/Environment
• Construction Stream I Design & Construction I
• Wind Stream II Commercial Aspects I
• Fire/Alarm Stream III MEP Engineering & Facilities Management
• Communication systems Stream IV Design & Construction II
• Exit & Evacuation systems
Stream V Commercial Aspects II
Stream VI Energy Efficiency
Manufacturers and Suppliers of:
• Building Materials
• Raw Materials
• Pre fabricated Materials Attending this premier marcus evans conference will
enable you to:
• Assessing the commercial considerations in the design and operation
Geographical market of delegates: of mixed-use Tall Buildings
• China / Korea / Taiwan / Japan 45% • Greening your Tall Building as an innovative marketing technique to
• India / South East Asia 40% attract new tenants and retain existing ones
• Australia / New Zealand / Middle East 10% • Bringing best practices in the project management of Tall Building
• America / Canada / Europe 5% construction to minimise costs and build faster – A developer’s
perspective.
• Analysing the opportunities and challenges of Performance Based
Seismic Design for tall buildings
• Uncovering the latest technological advances in Tall Building design
and engineering for better construction planning
• Utilising building simulation tools to create energy models to minimise
energy consumption in Tall Buildings
• Tapping into cultural, environment and location specific influences to
Acknowledgement design an iconic Tall building to improve fit into urban landscape and
marcus evans would like to thank all the world-leading visionaries, solution adoption by the people
providers, associations, operators, end-users and delegates who have contributed to
and supported the marcus evans 4th Annual Tall Buildings regional event. We • Meeting the challenges of designing tall, sustainable and commercially
would particularly like to mention our speakers for their help in the research behind the viable buildings amidst congested urban settings
event and also our sponsors for their continued support and commitment.
• Networking and benchmarking opportunities with some of the
On behalf of marcus evans we hope you have a rewarding, enjoyable and productive
leading names in Tall Buildings and construction sector.
time. We personally look forward to meeting you all and working with you at our
future regional events planned in 2010. See you in September!
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