Parker David - The Tall Buildings Reference Book

The Tall Buildings Reference Book

As the ever-changing skylines of cities all over the world show, tall buildings are an increasingly important solution to accommodating growth more sustainably in todays urban areas. Whether it is residential, a workplace or mixed use, the tower is both a statement of intent and the defining image for the new global city.

The Tall Buildings Reference Book addresses all the issues of building tall, from the procurement stage through the design and construction process to new technologies and the buildings contribution to the urban habitat. A case study section highlights the latest, the most innovative, the greenest and the most inspirational tall buildings being constructed today.

A team of over fifty experts in all aspects of building tall have contributed to the making of the Tall Buildings Reference Book, creating an unparalleled source of information and inspiration for architects, engineers and developers.

Dave Parker was Technical Editor of New Civil Engineer magazine for 12 years before leaving in May 2006 to become a freelance author and journalist. His interests include microgeneration and structural safety, and he successfully campaigned for the setting-up of the CROSS confidential reporting scheme in the UK.

Antony Wood is Executive Director of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and an Associate Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture. His field of specialism is the sustainable design of tall buildings. His PhD explored the multi-disciplinary aspects of skybridge connections between tall buildings.

The Tall Buildings Reference Book

Edited by

Dave Parker

and Antony Wood

First published 2013

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2013 selection and editorial material, Dave Parker and Antony Wood; individual chapters, the contributors

This book has been made possible in part with kind assistance from Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the contributors as authors of their individual contributions, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The tall buildings reference book / edited by Dave Parker and Antony Wood.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Tall buildings.

NA6230.T34 2012

720.483dc23

2012002547

ISBN: 978-0-415-78041-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-10646-4 (ebk)

Contents

Antony Wood, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Chicago, USA

Antony Wood, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Chicago, USA

Gail Fenske, Roger Williams University, USA

Chris Wilkinson, Wilkinson Eyre Architects, London, UK

Bob B. Brennan, Scott Thomson, Tom Akerstream and Mark Pauls, Manitoba Hydro, Canada

Steve Watts, Davis Langdon, London, UK

Sara Beardsley and Jeffrey Boyer, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, USA

Antony Wood, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Chicago, USA

Richard Keating, Jacobs, Los Angeles, USA

Stephen Engblom, AECOM, San Francisco, USA

Ken Shuttleworth, Make, London, UK and David Taylor, UK

Steve Hanson, AECOM, San Francisco, USA and Roger Courtenay, AECOM, Washington DC, USA

Jason Pomeroy, Pomeroy Studio, Singapore

Swinal Samant, University of Nottingham, UK

Dave Parker, UK

Rick Cook, Bill Browning and Chris Garvin, Terrapin Bright Green, USA

Russell Gilchrist, Roger Frechette, PositivEnergy Practice, USA and Dave Parker, UK

Richard Marshall, Buro Happold, Dubai, UAE and Graham Knapp, Buro Happold, Leeds, UK

S. Shyam Sunder, Jason D. Averill and Fahim Sadek, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Dave Parker, UK

Richard Tomasetti, Joseph Burns and Dennis Poon, Thornton Tomasetti, New York, USA

William F. Baker, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago, USA

Tony A. Kiefer and Clyde N. Baker, Jr., AECOM, Vernon Hills, IL, USA

Ron Klemencic, Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Seattle, USA

Peter Irwin, Rowan, Williams, Davies and Irwin, Guelph, Canada

Dave Parker, UK

Nicholas Holt, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, New York, USA

Werner Sobek, Thomas Winterstetter and Claus Peter Weller, Werner Sobek Stuttgart, Germany

Simon Lay, WSP Group, London, UK

Alistair Guthrie and Robert Henderson, Arup, London, UK

Steve Edgett, Edgett Williams Consulting Group, Seattle, USA

Ian Eggers, Rise, London, UK, Phil Solomon, Warren Alexander-Pye and Malcolm Hannon, Mace Group, London, UK

Antony Wood, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Chicago, USA

Tom Akerstream has more than 30 years of experience in energy management and was the Energy Advisor responsible for ensuring that Manitoba Hydro Place is the most energy-efficient and sustainable office tower in North America. Tom was recently awarded the prestigious Award of Merit by the CSA for his work in energy efficiency and sustainability.

Warren Alexander-Pye is a Senior Project Manager and a core member of the Mace Construction Management team. He spent three years working on the Shard at London Bridge Tower and also has experience on a number of project management, construction management and pre-construction commissions, including two years of construction delivery at Canary Wharf, London.

Jason D. Averill is the Leader of the Engineered Fire Safety Group in the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Since joining NIST in 1998, Mr Averill has focused his research on quantitative assessment of fire hazards to occupants and responders by blending numerical modelling with fire experimentation, ranging from bench to real scale.

Clyde N. Baker, Jr. is a Senior Principal Engineer with AECOM. He graduated with a BS degree in Physics from William and Mary College in Virginia and with both BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from MIT. Over the past 57 years he has served as the geotechnical engineer or consultant on most of the high-rise buildings in Chicago and six of the eleven tallest buildings in the world, including the Petronas Towers, Taipei 101 and Burj Khalifa.

William F. Baker is the Structural Engineering Partner for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Throughout his career, Bill has dedicated himself to the structural innovation of tall buildings, most notably developing the buttressed core structural system for the Burj Khalifa, currently the worlds tallest man-made structure. He was the 2008 recipient of the CTBUH Fazlur R. Khan Lifetime Achievement Medal.