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Unpacking Composite Construction: Global T...

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 ...

2017 Sets Records for Geographical Diversi...

The 2017 Tall Building Year in Review / Tall Buildings in Numbers data analysis report shows that more buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed in 2017 than in any other year, with a total ...

Vertical Construction Equipment - Concrete...

To arrest cost and time overruns for project delivery to end-customers as per the new regulations in the real estate sector, and faced with a paucity of funds by developers, contracting companies are striving to meet their ...

COMPARITIVE STUDY OF G+30 MULTISTOREYED ST...

In this present paper the comparative study of G+30 steel concrete composite, steel and RCC building is done using dynamic analysis i.e. time history analysis. Etabs structural package is used for the analysis ...

Torre Reforma: An Eye-catching Addition to...

Designed by Mexican architect L. Benjamin Romano Arquitects (LBRA) and engineered by Arup, ‘Torre Reforma,’ an iconic triangle-shaped tower, the tallest in Mexico, is not only striking in appearance, but also ...

India’s Towering Aspirations - A Reality...

Sky City

Sky City by Oberoi Realty located at Borivali (E) is a masterpiece par excellence, with thoughtfully chosen amenities, grand design aesthetics, beautifully carved out landscapes and acres of open spaces ...

Challenges and Opportunity in Vertical Hos...

Vertical Hospital Design

Vertical healthcare design is an emerging field with its own particular set of benefits and challenges. This building type will become more desirable and popular for reasons including the location of health ...

An Ambitious Project in Mumbai

Bhendi Bazaar Planned Redevelopment

Realizing the need for a more holistic approach to redevelopment, the Government of Maharashtra established new regulations in 2009. These norms laid the foundations of Cluster Redevelopment in the city ...

GYS Vision- Interweaves Open Social and Cl...

GYS Vision

With the rapid increase of urban density in our cities and land being a major constraint, we need to look for solutions that allow the city to expand. High-rise is a response to the paucity of land, with a direct ...

Sustainable Techniques and Technologies in...

Highrise Buildings

Industrialization and Urbanization has triggered the movement of population shift from rural areas to urban areas. Thus, one can easily estimate the humongous pressure on the urban areas in terms ...

Smart Cities Development - Importance of P...

Smart Cities Development

The Smart Cities Mission is a laudable initiative by the Government of India (GoI) to drive economic growth and improve the quality of life of people by enabling local development and harnessing technology as ...

Unraveling the Smart Conundrum

Smart Conundrum

Urban planning and urban development is a thoroughly engrained discipline in India, irrespective of its success or failure. Every state in India has a 'Town Planning Act' or its equivalent at ...

Urban Issues and Architectural Interventio...

Urban Issues

Creating planned cities according to human requirements is a trend that started with these civilizations. A well-planned street grid at the time when there were no vehicles and an elaborate drainage system hint ...

Developments in Tall Steel Buildings

Tall Steel Buildings

World's first tall, steel framed building is the 10-storey, 42 m tall The Home Insurance Building, which was built in Chicago (Fig.1), Illinois, USA during 1884. It was designed by engineer William Le Baron Jenney ...

Smart Cities – A Critical Appraisal

Smart Cities Environment

A 'smart city' is an urban region that is highly advanced in terms of overall infrastructure, sustainable real estate, communications and market viability. It is a city where information technology is the principal ...

Smart Cities as Business Hubs

Smart Cities Business Hub

As per the Ministry of Urban Development report, it is estimated that at present 31% i.e. 377 million people are living in urban areas of the country. In the next 15 years, this will increase by another 157 million ...

Smart Building Components for Smart Cities

Smart Building Components

In 2009, in a report titled "Buildings & Climate Change: A Summary for Decision-makers", Sylvie Lemmet, the then Director, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, UNEP observes, "The building sector ...

How to build a Smart Home with Internet of...

Smart Home

In the last two decades it has been noticed that computers, cell phones, cars, HAVC systems and numerous other devices have developed into smarter and more resourceful but our buildings are more or less ...

Embodied Carbon in Our Future Cities

Embodied Carbon

Innovative planning for cities of the future is essential. Cities are the solution to responsible habitation as issues of the environment gain increasing importance. Even early at planning stages, cities, districts ...

A Case Study for Vertical Sustainable Urba...

Docklands Melbourne Australia

This paper explores a range of design principles for achieving a socially sustainable residential community in a very tall environmentally responsive building. The goal of this study is the exploration of possibilities ...

Psycho-Analysis of Tall Building Habitants...

Kingfisher Tower Bangalore

India is poised to embrace high-rise buildings as it leaves behind traditional low-rises to make room the growing population. Due to the re-development boom, a substantial part of Mumbai's population ...

Rethinking the Skyscraper in the Ecologica...

Rethinking the Skyscraper in the Ecological Age

This paper investigates tall buildings from an aesthetic and social, as well as commercial and environmental viewpoints; as contributing elements in the fabric of a city. Against a backdrop of the large-scale ...

Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Ba...

Sustainable Infrastructure Development

As economy, particularly the manufacturing sector, is getting ready for a major push under "Make in India" initiative of the government, the need for sustainable infrastructure development ...

Dawning of the Supertall

World Tallest Residential Tower

A Potain MR 415 helped build the world's tallest residential tower in New York City, reports Damian Joseph. When lifting at heights up to nearly 427 m (1,400 ft), it's all about line speed. Such was the ...

Equipment Makers Bracing Up For High-rise ...

Equipment Makers Up For Highrise Construction

The restricted and limited availability of construction area in metro, non-metro cities and peripheral areas is resulting in increased proliferation of vertical constructions. P.P. Basistha takes a look ...

High Rises Not A Tall Order

DDA 120 Floor Building

With 20 delivered last year and over 50 in line for completion by the next couple of years, India seems to be fully geared up for the skyscrapers as the trend of vertical development is catching up across the country ...

Countdown to Opening of Shanghai Tower, Se...

Shanghai Tower

The countdown is on, with only a few days left until the opening of the 632-meter (2073 feet) tall Shanghai Tower, China's tallest building and the world's second-tallest. Scheduled to open in May 2015, the Tower ...

The Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering an Era of...

Tallest 20 in 2020

Within this decade, we are likely to witness not only the world's first 1 kilometer-tall building but also the completion of a significant number of buildings over 600 meters (around 2,000 feet) – that's twice ...

Porsche Design Tower, Miami World’s Firs...

Porsche Design Tower

World has seen the launch of ultra-luxury, 60-story 'Porsche Design Tower' at Sunny Isles Beach in Miami recently which is world's first condominiums where elevators will take residents directly to their ...

Absolute World Towers, Toronto

Absolute World Towers

Absolute Towers is a striking example of a private/public approach to development in a city that was perhaps unaware of the extent an architectural design could impart conversation, energy, and vitality ...

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