Tall-buildings experts, who are past chairs of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, are calling for more CTBUH research and development, better tools and greater building team collaboration to make high-rises more sustainable.
“We need a more intensive R&D focus on carbon,” said structural engineer David Scott, director, Laing O’Rourke, at the CTBUH’s Tenth World Congress, held Oct. 28-30 in Chicago. “What is the price we are paying in carbon, especially those towers that have heavier structures because of design constraints? We need the metrics to build sustainably,” Scott added.