CTBUH Meetings: Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, and Vietnam
October 2011
Professor Sang Dae Kim, CTBUH Country Representative Elena Shuvalova
and other CTBUH colleagues meet in Russia
CTBUH Chairman Professor Sang Dae Kim has recently held tall building lectures in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Russia with the dual purpose of promoting CTBUH and the 2011 CTBUH Seoul Conference. Professor Kim and his colleagues including Kwang Ryang Chung (Dong Yang Structural Engineers), Jong Soo Kim (CS Structural Engineering), and Ju-hwan Cho (CTBUH Representative of Korea and SIAPLAN), composed a series of lectures and seminars on various issues of tall buildings for each country. The lectures provided great opportunities for networking with tall building professionals and the dissemination of tall building information.
Professor Kim was well received in each country, and completed a number of interviews with newspapers, television companies, and magazines.
The CTBUH would like to thank the four Country Representatives including Tiyok Prasetyoadi (Indonesia), Elena Shuvalova (Russia), Pennung Warnitchai (Thailand) and Phan Quang Minh (Vietnam) for their help in organizing the events and putting together the following detailed reports.