Unpacking Composite Construction: Global Trends
Terri Meyer Boake, Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
Introduction
The construction of tall buildings has had a marked shift away from a North American dominance that has lasted from the first steel skyscrapers in New York and Chicago in the early 1900s until the emergence of a new globalized field that is seeing a clear ascendancy in China and the Middle East in terms of quantity and height.
This research study is about the invention that has occurred in structural design to support the desire to build taller, and more specifically to the growing shift towards the use of composite construction and away from more traditional all-steel buildings.
Introduction
The construction of tall buildings has had a marked shift away from a North American dominance that has lasted from the first steel skyscrapers in New York and Chicago in the early 1900s until the emergence of a new globalized field that is seeing a clear ascendancy in China and the Middle East in terms of quantity and height.
This research study is about the invention that has occurred in structural design to support the desire to build taller, and more specifically to the growing shift towards the use of composite construction and away from more traditional all-steel buildings.
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NBM&CW April 2018
