Shonn Mills

CTBUH Chairman

Whitby Wood Mills, Managing Director | Singapore, Singapore

About

A long-standing champion of design and innovation, Shonn Mills has more than 30 years of experience in the design and management of large-scale building and transport infrastructure projects. He began his career as a bridge designer, working on several long-span bridges in California and the West Coast of the United States. After relocating to London in 2007, his focus shifted to building engineering, which involved a wide range of long-span projects, such as stadiums, airports, and metro stations, in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. This led to designing complex, multi-discipline building structures, including high-rise buildings.

In 2014, Mills relocated to Singapore to start the Ramboll Buildings Asia operation, where he continued to apply his experience on tall building structures, modular buildings, and prefabrication. Four years later, he assumed the role of Global Director of…

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Shonn Mills

CTBUH Designated Expert

CTBUH Roles

CTBUH Chairman (2023 – Present)

Working Group: Smart Building Technology (2018 – Present)

South East Asia (SEA) Chapter, Board Member (2023 – Present)

Annual Conference, Presenter (China 2016; Australia 2017; Middle East 2018)

Chapter Vice-Chair, Scandinavia (2018 – 2019)

Annual Conference, Session Chair (Middle East 2018; Chicago 2019)

Annual Conference, Steering Committee (Chair 2020)

Videos

06 August 2020

The Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Modular Construction

The wider development and construction industry now recognize that the adoption of offsite or modular manufacturing for on-site assembly is a key part of the...

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Research

23 September 2020

New Solutions for the New Normal

Shonn Mills & Andy Brahney & Stuart Mackay, Ramboll

The COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted social and economic global norms and accelerated many of the key trends shaping the building industry. The ongoing aftermath of...

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Research

17 October 2016

Nimit Langsuan: High Performance High-Rise – Columns of Curved Glass

Richard Shonn Mills, Ramboll Group; Vanich Nopnirapath, Beca Group

Nimit Langsuan Residences project, located in Bangkok, Thailand, is a 210-meter-tall high end residential with over 50,000 square meters of accommodation. The tower will be...

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5 August 2020

The Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Modular Construction

As the world rethinks what the future of construction looks like, a panel of global experts share approaches to construction automation, factorization, and modularization.

20 October 2018

Record Numbers Convene at 2018 Leaders Meeting

CTBUH Leaders convened on Day 1 of the 2018 Middle East Conference for updates on the year's developments and to plan for 2019.

20 October 2018

Smart Building Technology Working Group Meets at 2018 Conference

The CTBUH Smart Technology Working Group held its first meeting at the CTBUH 2018 Middle East Conference, with the goal of producing a document on smart technologies for tall buildings.

19 October 2018

Four New Chapters Formed in 2018

In 2018, CTBUH established four new Chapters in Hong Kong, Philadelphia, Scandinavia and Seattle, more than have ever been established in a single year.

19 October 2018

Robotics Research Project Holds First Meeting

The CTBUH Robotics in Tall Building Construction research project steering committee held its initial kickoff meeting, just ahead of the 2018 Middle East Conference.

28 January 2016

Debating Tall: Modular as Homogenizing Force?

In the CTBUH 2016 Journal Issue I, two experts debate on the impact that modular construction will have in cities and whether it shall be used in all future skyscrapers.

06 August 2020

The Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Modular Construction

The wider development and construction industry now recognize that the adoption of offsite or modular manufacturing for on-site assembly is a key part of the...

23 September 2020

New Solutions for the New Normal

Shonn Mills & Andy Brahney & Stuart Mackay, Ramboll

The COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted social and economic global norms and accelerated many of the key trends shaping the building industry. The ongoing aftermath of...

17 October 2016

Nimit Langsuan: High Performance High-Rise – Columns of Curved Glass

Richard Shonn Mills, Ramboll Group; Vanich Nopnirapath, Beca Group

Nimit Langsuan Residences project, located in Bangkok, Thailand, is a 210-meter-tall high end residential with over 50,000 square meters of accommodation. The tower will be...

28 January 2016

Debating Tall: Modular as Homogenizing Force?

Shonn Mills, Ramboll; Philip Oldfield, University of New South Wales

The persistent interest in prefabricated modular construction has now turned into high-rise reality, though the results have been inconsistent. Earlier experiments with the approach resulted...

26 October 2015

Breaking The Pre-fabricated Ceiling: Challenging the Limits for Modular High-Rise

Shonn Mills & Dave Grove, Ramboll Group; Matthew Egan, Modularize

Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMa) technologies including Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC) have become a viable and sometimes preferred approach in select building sectors....

16 September 2014

Integrating Vertical Cities and Transport Infrastructure

Shonn Mills, Abhijeet Kulkarni & James Clay, Ramboll

One of the key factors of success in sustainable urbanization is the integration of public transport. This paper explores the challenges and merits of integrating...