Tall Buildings

This comprehensive guide to the design of foundations for tall buildings outlines various foundation options followed by the general principles of foundation design applied to tall buildings. It differentiates the preliminary, detailed and final design stages.

Explains the fundamental principles and technologies that are required to build vertical structures as sound as they are eloquent. This book offers a practical perspective on various aspects of reinforced concrete used in the design of these structures.

Written by The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, experts in tall building technologies, this new edition updates the need for design guidelines, based around the role and impact of outrigger systems in tall buildings.

Engines of industry, expressions of ego or will, tall towers are nonetheless, when they pierce the shared skies, intensely public. This volume offers a comprehensive vision of an ecological future, in which towers, perhaps supertalls, would necessarily play a crucial role.

Explore 36 outstanding new skyscrapers from all over the world that are pioneering, innovative and beautiful.

"This book relies on creating continuum models for the structural analysis of multi-storey buildings and presents the theoretical background and the governing differential equations (for researchers) and simple closed-form solutions (for practicing structural engineers)"--