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17 September 2021
Tall Buildings And Life Cycle Approaches: A Debate That Must Be Started
Dario Trabucco & Martina Belmonte, CTBUH
By means of life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) analyses, the authors assess the environmental and economic impact occurring during the life...
01 March 2021
The Ropeless Elevator: New Transportation Systemfor High-rise Buildings (and Beyond)
Martina Belmonte & Dario Trabucco, CTBUH
The paper reports the result of a 2-year long research conducted by CTBUH on the design possibilities enabled by the Ropeless and Multidirectional elevator systems,...
01 February 2021
Construction Robotics: Current Approaches, Future Prospects
Alberto Balzan, Claudia Cabrera Aparicio & Dario Trabucco, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
In recent years, robotics has entered strongly in a large number of industrial sectors, especially the automotive, manufacturing, aeronautical and agriculture sectors, having a major...
30 January 2020
Evaluating the Modal Response of Linked Tall Buildings
Federico Caldi, et al
Aesthetic characteristics, new materials, structural configurations, and construction technologies are pushing the boundaries of the built environment. At an urban scale, planners are increasingly considering...
28 October 2019
Robotics in Construction: The Next 50 Years
Dario Trabucco, CTBUH
Although As the construction industry responds to emerging technologies, the way buildings are designed, built, and managed will continue to shift. Parametric design, BIM, and...
29 July 2019
Wind Effects on Permeable Tall Building Envelopes: Issues and Potentialities
Andrea Giachetti, University of Florence; Gianni Bartoli, University of Florence; Claudio Mannini, University of Florence
A comprehensive conclusion about the effects of wind on permeable building envelopes (PBEs) remains elusive. The external layer permeability, the gap width, and the internal...
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