In a stunning comeback from near-collapse at the turn of the millennium, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is flourishing. Membership increased 672% from 2004 through 2014. There are 39 CTBUH chapters and committees across six continents. And the group’s activities are unprecedented.
A recent push involves drawing in not just the designers, contractors and suppliers that build the skyscrapers but also the clients that finance them. “We are involving more owners and developers in our dialogue,” said David I. Malott, a principal of architect Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC and CTBUH’s chairman, at the CTBUH’s 14th Annual Best Tall Building Symposium, held on Nov. 12 at the group’s headquarters, the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago.