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08:00
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Registration and Coffee
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08:35
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Opening Remarks From The Chairman
Ken Livingstone, Former Mayor of London, UK
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08:45
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Special Opening Address:
Rashad Mohammed Bukhash, Director of Architectural Heritage Department, Dubai Municipality, UAE
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09:00
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Keynote Address:
Ken Livingstone, Former Mayor of London, UK
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| Strategies For New Urbanism |
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09:50
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Keynote: A Commentary On New Urbanism From
Pritzker Prize Laureate
Thom Mayne, Principal, Morphosis, USA
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10:50
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Networking And Refreshment Break
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11:15
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Integrating Urbanity With Lifestyle
- Lifestyle - what are the demands?
- Urbaninity - what are the constraints?
- Design strategies to attain intelligent and enjoyable living
- Social life and achieving a healthy urban community
Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Partner in Charge of Urban Design and Planning, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, USA
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12:00
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Achieving Caring Cities By Design
- Design approaches
- Positive airflows
- Green spaces
- The importance of achievable pedestrianisation
- Master planning cohesive public spaces
Donna Sultan, CEO, KEO Consultants, UAE
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12:45
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Reflecting The New Hybrid Identity In Urban And Architectural Design
- Understanding contemporary identities
- The relevance of traditional Arab/Islamic heritage
- Depictions/historic theming - a critical evaluation
- Expressing evolving identities through urban and architectural built form
- The multi-dimensional approach: towards a design synthesis
Wael Al-Masri, Partner and Director of Urban Planning and Architectural Design, Dar Al-Omran, Jordan
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13:30
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Lunch for Delegates And Speakers
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| Tall Buildings – Latest Schools Of Thought |
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14:30
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Iconic Towers - Getting The Right Balance
- Balancing between
- architecture and engineering
- aesthetics and efficiency
- form and function
- simplicity and complexity
- Challenges posed by articulated towers – the scale and the magnitude of loads they carry
- A more integrated approach
- efficient, buildable and cost effective complex shapes
- design solutions for unusual towers - from the economic to the absurd
- Innovative tall building design solutions
- A patented structural design solution for the twisting tower
David Scott, Chairman, Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and Principal, Arup, USA
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15:10
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Keynote: Supertall, Super Sustainable
- What is sustainable high-rise design?
- The impact of sustainable design on the cost and schedule of development
- Reducing the impact of the tall building on local and global ecology and society
- Passive strategies
- Supporting the existing infrastructure
- Conviviality and movement - how to promote an opportunity matrix and socialisation
- Is there a winning formula? - The Burj Dubai; a development we can learn from
- Achieving efficiency - zoning out
- Achieving a durable and flexible internal environment
- A life-cycle perspective
Adrian Smith, Partner, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, USA
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16:00
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Networking And Refreshment Break
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| Sustainability – The Reality |
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16:30
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High Performance Green Buildings - International Inspiration And Impact
- Building beyond beyond Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
- Energy, water and indoor environmental quality - the key drivers
- Emirates Green Building Council guidance
- The demand for environmental responsibility
- The need for ecology data
- Applying LEED and and Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM)
- Establishing a standards rating system - the latest position
Mario Seneviratne, FI Mech., P.Eng., Director, Green Technologies FZCO, Founder and Secretary to the Board, Emirates Green Building Council and Board Member and Chairman – Tools & Projects Committee, World Green Building Council, UAE
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17:10
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Keynote: New Construction Technologies For Sustainability - The Rotating Towers
An up-to-the-minute analysis and discussion from the architect of one of the most innovative designs globally:
- Practically useful techniques
- Cutting edge advances
- Energy saving construction methods
- Technological breakthroughs
- New materials you should know about
David Fisher, Chairman, Dynamic Architecture, Italy
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17:45
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Chairman's Summary Of Day One
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17:50
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Close of Congress Day One
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