The 3rd US-China Tall Buildings Symposium

PRE-SYMPOSIUM EVENTS ON THURSDAY APRIL 21, 2016

9:00 AM       ChinaSF Forum - Development Opportunities & Planning Entitlements in San

                    Francisco 
                    Location: SOM Office, 1 Front St, San Francisco

                    Trends of Chinese Real Estate Investments into San Francisco
                    Darlene Chiu Bryant, Executive Director of ChinaSF

                    Development Agreement in San Francisco
                    Ken Rich, Development Director, Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce

                    Development

                    Planning Entitlements Process in San Francisco
                    Andrea Wong, SOM 

                    Panel Discussion of Overcoming Entitlement Challenges in SF
                    Ellen Lou & Mark Schwettmann, SOM
                    Dan Kingsley, SKS
                    Alexa Arena, Lendlease

11:00 AM     Tour of construction sites of Transbay Center District, guided by San Francisco

                    Planning Department
                
12:30 PM     Lunch

2:00 PM       Oakland Forum - Development Opportunities & Urban Growth in Oakland 
                    Location: SOM Office, 1 Front St, San Francisco

                    City’s Vision on Oakland’s Growth
                    Mark Sawicki, Director of Economic and Workforce Development, City of Oakland

                    Development Opportunities in Downtown Oakland
                    Patrick Lane, Development Manager, City of Oakland 

                    Panel Discussion of Downtown Oakland’s Growth
                    Javier Arizmendi of SOM
                    Signature Homes
                    Cushman & Wakefield

4:00 PM       Tour of SOM Office

SYMPOSIUM ON FRIDAY APRIL 22, 2016
Stanford University, Huang Engineering Center, 
Mackenzie Room 300, 475 Via Ortega, 
Stanford, CA 94305

MORNING SYMPOSIUM
8:30 AM      Check in / Coffee
8:50 AM      Welcome and Introduction, 
                    Gregory Deierlein, John A. Blume Professor at Stanford University
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
                    Transit Center District Plan - San Francisco’s New Downtown Core 
                    John Rahaim, Planning Director of City of San Francisco,

                    The Transformational Effect of Transit Based Urban Development: The Transbay

                    Transit Center and Salesforce Tower
                    Fred Clarke, Sr. Principal of Pelli Clarke Pelli,

                    Climate Culture of High Rise Buildings and Its Practice in China 
                    Linxue Li, Professor of Tongji University, 
10:30 AM     Break
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
                    Beyond the Automonument 
                    Renee Chow, Professor of UC Berkeley, 

                    Towers Responding to Environment 
                    Michael Duncan, Design Director of SOM, 

                    Panel Discussion
                    Moderated by 
                    John King, Urban Design Critic of San Francisco Chronicle

WORKING LUNCH
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM     
                    Between Icon and Excess - The Challenge of Tomorrow’s Skyline 
                    John King, Urban Design Critic of San Francisco Chronicle
AFTERNOON SYMPOSIUM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
                    Engineering Trends in Tall Buildings 
                    Todd See, Sr. VP of WSP, 

                    Use of Protective Technologies to Achieve Seismically Resilient Tall Buildings 
                    Stephen Mahin, Professor of UC Berkeley

                    Structural Design Research on T1 Tower of Shenyang Baoneng Financial Center 
                    Fu Xueyi, Chief Engineer of CCDI
3:00 PM    Q/A 
3:15 PM    Break 
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
                    Validating the Structural Response and Behavior of Burj Khalifa under Wind and

                    Seismic Forces 
                    Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Samsung C&T, 

                    Enhancing Performance of High-Rise Buildings in Seismic Zones with Structural

                    Metal Dampers 
                    Li Guoqiang, Professor of Tongji University, 

                    Structure Inspired by Nature 
                    Mark Sarkisian, Partner of SOM
5:00 PM     Q/A 
5:15 PM – 6:00 PM
                    Networking Reception