Thursday / June 11, 2015 / 7:30 AM - 12:30 PM
People Movement in the High-Rise Building
Harris Bank Auditorium, 115 South LaSalle Street, 3rd floor, Chicago
High-rise buildings would not exist without the modern elevator. The introduction of the traction elevator in the early years of the 20th Century allowed for the rapid rise of building heights, and removing the limitations of having to physically climb a building using stairs (or less efficient types of vertical transportation), reversed the economics of property development by making the higher floors in a building, the more sought-after and expensive properties.
These economics have meant that elevators and escalators have had to continually make technological advances in speed and efficiency to serve the ever increasing building heights that architects, engineers and their clients are building.
But are there limitations to how high we can build? Are there issues to how fast and tall we can build elevators? By increasing the size and speed of vertical transportation, do our building cores create inefficient and unbuildable structures?
The Chicago Committee on High-Rise Building (CCHRB) 2015 Half-Day Seminar will address many of these issues by looking at the latest technologies available for Vertical Transit, how existing buildings can modernize their systems, and the technical limitations and engineering and architectural options for overcoming those limitations in our ever-increasingly tall buildings.
Who Should Attend: Architects, interior designers, engineers, contractors, subcontractors, developers, building owners, property managers, those involved in the planning, design, construction, and operation of buildings of all types and heights, but especially high rises.
Speakers:
John Urbikas, John J. Urbikas & Associates
Jay Popp and Eric Rupe, Lerch Bates, Inc.
Duncan Philips, RWDI
Trevor Haskett, Motioneering
Register with CCHRB for this program. Proceeds from this annual Half-Day Seminar help fund the CCHRB Scholarship program.
Please bring a photo ID and allow adequate time to go through Building Security.
7:15 am: Check-in and continental breakfast
8:00 am: Program begins and will conclude at 12:30 pm
