CTBUH Silver Member

Laing O'Rourke

About

Member Since: 2012

Member Offices: London

Website: http://www.laingorourke.com

Laing O’Rourke is a privately owned, internationally focused engineering enterprise with world-class capabilities spanning the entire client value chain.

They invest heavily in research and development both academically with their university partnerships and at the operational level within their manufacturing and engineering facilities where they put the academic theory into practice.

Working collaboratively with their clients, they develop teams and solutions from concept through every stage of the project to completion, ensuring the best expertise and resources are deployed to achieve the required time, cost, quality, safety and sustainability outcomes.

Fields of Expertise

Engineering, Other

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Status

Completed

Architecturally Topped Out

Structurally Topped Out

Under Construction

On Hold

Proposed

Vision

Never Completed

Demolished

Competition Entry

Canceled

Proposed Renovation

Under Renovation

Renovated

Under Demolition

See all status definitions
Height
1 The Leadenhall Building
224.5 m / 737  ft
2 Newfoundland Place
219.7 m / 721  ft
3 One Park Drive
204.9 m / 672  ft
4 100 Mount Street
151.8 m / 498  ft
5 Imperial West Tower
138.5 m / 454  ft
6 St. Michael's Tower
136.5 m / 448  ft
7 123 Albert Street
127 m / 417  ft
8 Two Fifty One
125.2 m / 411  ft
9 CHUM
112.1 m / 368  ft
10 HQ
110.1 m / 361  ft

Awards

Paddington Square

Winner: Paddington Square

Façade Award 2024

Ctbuh Leaders

Angus McFarlane

Angus McFarlane

CTBUH Expert Peer Review Committee, 2014 – Present

David Scott

David Scott

CTBUH Working Group: Fire Performance of Façades, 2018 – Present

London

Associated companies

Expanded Ltd

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 The Leadenhall Building

225 m / 737 ft
2 Newfoundland Place

220 m / 721 ft
3 One Park Drive

205 m / 672 ft
4 100 Mount Street

152 m / 498 ft
5 Imperial West Tower

139 m / 454 ft
6 St. Michael's Tower

137 m / 448 ft
7 123 Albert Street

127 m / 417 ft
8 Two Fifty One

125 m / 411 ft
9 CHUM

112 m / 368 ft
10 HQ

110 m / 361 ft
11 Oxygen Towers

110 m / 359 ft
12 Ultra Broadbeach

100 m / 328 ft
13 Paddington Square

97 m / 320 ft
14 Atlantis, The Palm East Tower

88 m

289 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 23 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 1,211 other buildings of the same Hotel function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
14 Atlantis, The Palm West Tower

88 m

289 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 23 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 1,211 other buildings of the same Hotel function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
16 Unity

86 m / 282 ft
17 Kings Health Cancer Centre at Guys

73 m / 240 ft
18 Brunel Building

71 m / 233 ft
19 The Mill and Jerwood Dance House

71 m / 233 ft
20 Al Wasl Plaza Dome

67 m / 221 ft
21 One Park West Tower 1

56 m / 184 ft
22 Rove Expo City North Tower

55 m / 180 ft
22 Rove Expo City South Tower

55 m / 180 ft
24 One Park West Tower 2

50 m / 165 ft
25 Al Wasl Plaza Building 1

50 m / 163 ft
25 Al Wasl Plaza Building 3/10

50 m / 163 ft
25 Al Wasl Plaza Building 5

50 m / 163 ft
28 Timber Square West Building

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29 Timber Square East Building

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CTBUH Initiatives Involving Laing O'Rourke

CTBUH Board of Trustees Travels to Hawaii

22–24 March 2018

The CTBUH Trustees from Chicago, New York, London, Mumbai, and Hong Kong gathered to attend the main annual Trustees meeting.

CTBUH Leaders Connect at 2017 Conference

29 October 2017

The Annual Leaders Meeting was held the day before the start of the CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference, bringing together the Council’s leaders.

50 Delegates Attend Modular High-Rise Construction Workshop

29 October 2017

The Modular High-Rise Construction workshop comprised five prominent speakers and covered the challenges, developments, and future trends of modular construction.

The Leadenhall Building Technical Tour Report

13 June 2013

Developed by British Land and Oxford Properties, The Leadenhall Building is an exceptionally complex, 52-story engineering project undergoing construction in the heart of the City of London.

Activity at the CTBUH London Conference: Day Two

12 June 2013

See the highlights from the second day of the CTBUH 2013 London Conference including The Shard Networking Reception.

CTBUH 2013 London Conference Gold Sponsor

11–13 June 2013

In the midst of two decades of unprecedented tall building development globally, Europe has increasingly embraced the skyscraper, even in cities seen as “anti-tall.”