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20 September 2021
How to Ensure Tall Buildings Are Built to Last?
Marc Easton, Arup
It has been said that the most sustainable type of building is one that has already been built and doesn’t have to be demolished and...
19 May 2021
Fitting Form to Future Office Functions: Perspectives of a CTBUH Awards Jury Chair
Earle Arney, Arney Fender Katsalidis
Beginning in 2021, CTBUH introduced a new set of “functional” subcategories to the Best Tall Building Award, including Office, Mixed-Use, and Residential/ Hotel, each reviewed...
01 March 2021
Estimating Door Open Time Distributions for Occupants Escaping from Apartments
Charlie Hopkin & Michael Spearpoint & Danny Hopkin, OFR Consultants; Yong Wang, The University of Manchester
The door open time, resulting from occupants evacuating from apartments, is an important parameter when assessing the performance of smoke ventilation systems in high-rise apartment...
23 September 2020
The Pandemic-Resilient Office Tower
Dan Kaplan & Sara Davis, FXCollaborative
This paper examines architectural design strategies to create a “Pandemic-Resilient Office Tower.” In addition to incorporating a suite of measures to impede the spread of...
01 August 2020
Better Public Spaces: Developing Environmental Guidelines for the City of London
Ender Ozkan, RWDI; Gwyn Richards, City of London
The City of London is expected to see a significant growth in the number of tall buildings in the next decade, with several tall buildings...
19 March 2020
How to Make a Tall Building “Drone-Ready”?
Emma Humphreys, Charles Russell Speechlys
Given the convergent trends of increasing commercial use of drones and flying taxis on the near horizon, and that of increased high-density vertical development occurring...
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