DEADLINE: March 31, 2013
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is pleased to announce the “Call for Proposals” for its 2013 International Research Seed Funding – culminating with an award of US$20,000 to be recognized at the CTBUH 2013 International Conference to be held in London, UK from June 11-13, 2013. This seed funding has been made possible with the kind support of ARUP, through the London Conference Gold + Research Seed Funding Sponsorship Package.
The goal of the seed funding is to assist researchers in developing projects/ideas to a level to secure additional, more significant, funding – in conjunction with the CTBUH. Research proposals should directly relate to the tall building typology and/or urban habitat, but can come from any topic/discipline – including but not limited to: architecture, construction, energy issues, energy harvesting, environmental engineering, facades, financial & cost issues, fire & life safety, geo-technics, humanities, infrastructure, interiors, maintenance & cleaning, materials, MEP engineering, policy making, resource management, seismic, social aspects, structural engineering, systems development, urban planning, vertical transportation, wind engineering etc. There are no institutional or geographic restrictions.