Antony Wood
Executive Director
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Wednesday, November 25, 2009, Noon
The Tower Club, 20 North Wacker Drive - 39^th Floor
Chicago, Illinois

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is an international not-for-profit organization to facilitate information exchange among all involved in the planning, design, construction and operation of “tall buildings”.  Founded in 1969, the Council is based at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.  The Council’s mission is to disseminate information and sustainable urban environments and to make the latest knowledge available to such professionals.  The Council is supported by architects, engineers, planners, and developers, as well as construction professionals.

The Council has working groups that include seismic designs, sustainability, fire and safety, legal aspects, construction logistics and finance and economics.  The sustainability working group specifically looks at whether or not the concentration of the population in high density areas through the use of tall buildings is a sustainable economic and environmental model.

Antony Wood has been the Executive Director of the Council since 2006.  He is responsible for the day to day running of the Council and is also an Associate Professor in the College of Architecture at IIT.  Previously he was an Associate Professor/Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, and has worked as an architect in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and London.

Mr. Wood will report on the conference held in Chicago in October 2009 entitled, “Evolution of the Sky Scraper: New Challenges in a World of Global Warming and Recession”.

The luncheon is a noon, at the Tower Club, 39th floor, 20 North Wacker Drive, Chicago. The cost of the lunch and program is $35 for EDC members and $50 for non-members. There is no charge for EDC Corporate and Sustaining Members.