CTBUH Announces 2022 Best Tall Building Innovation Winners

Since announcing an initial round of 2022 Best Tall Building Award of Excellence winners in various building height and other categories, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has revealed winners in the Innovation category. They are: Gainesville, Florida-based Adaptex, Inc., which designs, modifies and builds wheelchair-accessible homes; Hydroskin, a solution developed by Washington, D.C.-based Hickok Cole Architects that addresses three building-façade needs — attachment to an existing façade, horticultural lifecycles in urban settings and building embellishment through illumination; the Holon Building from Changsha, China’s BROAD Group, distinguished by modular design, production, transportation, installation and 100% factory prefabrication; a system for optimization of post-tensioned concrete described simply as “responsive tendon patterns PT Optimization”; SpeedCore, a “revolutionary” concrete-filled composite steel plate shear wall; and Bedford, U.K.-based Vision Modular Systems UK Ltd., which manufactures modules for the construction industry using Lean processes and techniques. Winners will now go on to compete in the next stage of the awards program distinctions during the 2022 CTBUH International Conference in Chicago on November 9-12.