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This track focuses on technical innovations that will propel the industry forward, featuring design proposals and visions that that will soon shape our cities, skylines, and push existing technical and structural limits.  

Topics in this track include: 

• The most promising projects on the drawing board today 

• Systems design approaches that will make a difference in operational performance 

• Innovations in materials, products, and methodologies that will improve the way we build in the near future 

See all Track B sessions here.

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The Best Tall Building Award recognizes projects that have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment, and that achieve sustainability and human well-being at the highest and broadest level.  

Topics in this track include: 

• A global array of envelope-pushing tall building case studies 

• Developers’ and architects’ perspectives on the project arc, from conception to construction 

• The public role in, and perception of, tall building projects from around the world 

See all Track C sessions here.

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This track spans the globe, embracing fundamental questions of tall buildings’ ongoing viability amidst a variety of challenges.  

Topics in this track include: 

• Considerations that should be taken after a new-build or renewal construction program completes 

• The real-life performance of tall buildings in their first decade of operation 

• The validation of functional and interior space design choices in key tall buildings, over time 

• Highlighting existing tall buildings exemplary work through adaptive re-use, renovations, functional changes, and the like 

See all Track D sessions here.

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Practitioners face mission-critical choices about balancing economic and environmental sustainability in their projects, including material and operational choices, as well as the degree to which natural elements can balance their carbon equations.  

Topics in this track include: 

• Cutting-edge research into technologies and methodologies for reducing the construction industry’s carbon impact 

• Recognition of technical achievements in construction, including demonstrable carbon-footprint reduction efforts 

• Improvements to mechanical systems to improve operational performance 

• Examination of methods for more meaningful incorporation of nature into cities 

See all Track E sessions here.

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The “New or Renew” question extends beyond buildings to the urban scale. The overall quality of life in cities is affected by city and regional planning and infrastructure decisions, as well as consequential, catalytic projects with a significant impact on their surroundings. 

Topics in this track include: 

• Recognition of quality execution of urban sites and district-scale projects 

• Realization of Environmental and Sustainability Goals (ESG) in the tall building industry 

• Important Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) efforts in the tall building industry 

• Improvements to infrastructure and improved integration with private development 

• Building an entirely new city to absorb functions of an existing city 

See all Track F sessions here.

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In addition to hosting the Best Tall Building by Region: Americas Award session, this track features several unique, dynamic sessions dedicated to social and environmental issues, and the civic impact of development decisions. 

Topics in this track include: 

• The economics of renewal in Latin American city centers 

• Density rebuilding in the aftermath of urban disasters

• New or Renew: local approaches to building tall in the Americas

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This track incorporates the Best Tall Building Award, by Region sessions for Europe, Asia, and Middle East & Africa, as well as several region-specific sessions on how the “New or Renew” question has been approached by the top practitioners in the field.  

Topics in this track include: 

• How to adapt existing iconic, record-holding tall buildings to meet contemporary demands 

• The role of mass timber in extending existing buildings 

• District-wide renewal sparked by strategic project investments 

• Adaptive reuse and repositioning in the European context 

See all Track H sessions here.

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Presenters in this track represent top specialist experts in fields critical to the sustainable construction and operation of tall buildings, including MEP systems, façade engineering, geotechnical engineering, and structural engineering.  

Topics in this track include: 

• Façade and curtain-wall solutions that are efficient, cost-effective, and replicable 

• Excellence in structural engineering 

• System improvements made to reposition aging projects