C-BIP Brooklyn Think Tank

Participants have been asked to rethink the future of the building industry in four 60-minute sessions of short presentations followed by roundtable discussions. The first session,  "The Specialization of Practice" will focus on the spawning of new consultancies, as diverse as facades, energy, environment and acoustics and the extent to which the AEC industry is becoming increasingly defined by specialized tasks that extend far beyond the traditional triangle of practice made up of architects, engineers and contractors. The second session, "The Design of Design Software" will explore the gaps in architectural software and how they can best be addressed. Session three, "Building Accountability" will examine the increasing amount of data and planning now required to account for a building's energy efficiency and sustainability. The final session, "Buildings: Infrastructure: Cities" will look at the realignment of working and living environments to meet the demands for more end user requirements, performance and government regulations that are poised to change the way we view energy and carbon in the built environment.

PHILLIP ANZALONE Director, Building Science and Technology Sequence, Columbia University GSAPP/ Moderator; JAKE BARTON Principal and Founder, Local Projects; DAVID BENJAMIN Director, Living Architecture Lab, Columbia University GSAPP/ Moderator; SHANE BURGER Director of Design Technology, Woods Bagot; AGNES CHUNG Creative Technologist, New York Times; PEGGY DEAMER Principal, Deamer Architects, Professor, Yale School of Architecture; DAVID FANO Partner, Case; EDWIN B. HATHAWAY CEO, Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope™; WIILIAM HORGAN Principal, Grimshaw Architects; JESSE KEENAN Director, CURE, GSAPP Columbia University; LAURA KURGAN Director, Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia University GSAPP/ Moderator; NADINE MALEH Architect, Community Solutions; SCOTT MARBLE Partner, Marble Fairbanks; Director of Integrated Design, Columbia University GSAPP / Moderator; MUCHAN PARK Designer, Kohn Pedersen Fox; WILL PICKERING Principal, Parallel Development Ltd.; S.BRY SARTE Principal, Founder, Sherwood Design Engineers; CRAIG SCHWITTER Managing Director for North America, Buro Happold; MARC SIMMONS Partner, Front Inc.; MARK WIGLEY Dean, Columbia University GSAPP; MELISSA WRIGHT-ELLIS Chief of Staff, Division of Energy Management, Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS).