Articles Tagged with ''Tall Buildings''

In a world beset by troubles, supertall buildings, which measure from 984 ft to 1,968 ft, would not seem to rate high on a list of priority concerns.

The team building Salesforce Tower Chicago reports it reduced the embodied carbon in the 1.2-million-sq-ft speculative office high-rise by 19%.

Leslie E. Robertson, preeminent structural engineer of supertall buildings, died on Feb. 11—one day before his 93^rd birthday.

Financier Goldman-Sachs clouds future of Helmut Jahn-designed structure with 90-day review, first major city project to pause construction over COVID-19 economic impacts.

Tall-buildings experts, who are past chairs of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, are calling for more CTBUH research and development, better tools and greater building team collaboration to make high-rises more sustainable.

Help is on the way for structural engineers driving toward improving the efficiency, reliability and resilience of buildings through performance-based wind design.

To reduce seismic risk to new tall buildings, San Francisco should develop regulations to address foundation and geotechnical issues.

The team setting the stage in seismic Seattle for a 58-story composite steel frame calls the project “a game-changer”

Structure and architecture are one at the 530-ft-tall Poly International Plaza, located in earthquake-prone Beijing.