https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/ Engineering explainers and project updates on the world's tallest buildings. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/greyson-facade-structural-coordination/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/greyson-facade-structural-coordination/ News Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Jersey City tower required close coordination of structural supports, equipment openings and facade joints. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/zin-brussels-international-high-rise-award/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/zin-brussels-international-high-rise-award/ News Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Brussels project combines retained structures with new mixed uses. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/villa-miami-topping-out-structural-design/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/villa-miami-topping-out-structural-design/ News Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT The engineer reports topping-out while completion remains targeted for late 2027. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/one-brickell-riverfront-full-height/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/one-brickell-riverfront-full-height/ News Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT DeSimone explains the expansion joint separating the two towers. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/wasl-tower-structural-engineering-awards/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/wasl-tower-structural-engineering-awards/ News Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The engineer links new recognition to its work developing a more buildable structural scheme. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/standardx-times-square-hotel-announcement/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/standardx-times-square-hotel-announcement/ News Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hyatt targets a second-half 2028 opening for the Times Square project. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/rcbc-plaza-elevator-modernization/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/rcbc-plaza-elevator-modernization/ News Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT The October announcement describes an ongoing modernization project in Makati. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/waterline-electrical-building-services-coordination/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/waterline-electrical-building-services-coordination/ News Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new contractor account examines coordination across the Austin tower’s hotel, office and residential uses. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/350-park-avenue-financing-construction/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/350-park-avenue-financing-construction/ News Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Financing closes for the planned 66-storey Manhattan tower. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/roma-tower-warsaw-construction-contract/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/roma-tower-warsaw-construction-contract/ News Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT STRABAG and TKT Engineering will deliver the planned Warsaw residential tower. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/thornton-tomasetti-daylight-glare-facade-guidance/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/thornton-tomasetti-daylight-glare-facade-guidance/ News Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An October 15 technical article explains why glazing, shading and building geometry need to be assessed together. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/60-wall-street-renovation-engineering-update/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/60-wall-street-renovation-engineering-update/ News Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An October 14 contractor update explains how the tower renovation combines structural alterations with building-services upgrades. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/kpf-tall-buildings-summit-urban-connections/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/kpf-tall-buildings-summit-urban-connections/ News Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new KPF report highlights the relationship between towers, their ground floors and surrounding public space. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/som-singapore-skywaters-density-design/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/som-singapore-skywaters-density-design/ News Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT SOM’s Singapore event examined how tall buildings can combine workplaces, homes and green public spaces. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/skyscraper-plumbing/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/skyscraper-plumbing/ Plumbing Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT How do you deliver a reliable shower hundreds of metres above the street, then safely remove the wastewater? An engineering guide to the water systems hidden inside tall buildings, with worked calculations and practical design tradeoffs. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/one-leadenhall-community-impact-report/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/one-leadenhall-community-impact-report/ News Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The contractor reviews community outcomes from the London tower project. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/wasl-tower-inclined-columns-load-transfer/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/wasl-tower-inclined-columns-load-transfer/ News Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The engineer’s new explanation connects Dubai’s sculpted tower geometry with forces in its floors and core. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/burj-azizi-kone-elevator-contract/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/burj-azizi-kone-elevator-contract/ News Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The order includes a planned 631.5-metre single elevator journey and speeds up to 10 metres per second. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/mandarin-oriental-miami-towers-groundbreaking/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/mandarin-oriental-miami-towers-groundbreaking/ News Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The development combines 66-storey and 33-storey towers above a shared amenity podium. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/aura-melbourne-square-construction-start/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/aura-melbourne-square-construction-start/ News Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Southbank residential tower is the third stage of Melbourne Square, with completion targeted for early 2030. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/citi-london-tower-redevelopment-opening/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/citi-london-tower-redevelopment-opening/ News Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Canary Wharf tower has welcomed its first returning employees following a redevelopment that began in 2023. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/kone-one-week-elevator-modernization/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/kone-one-week-elevator-modernization/ News Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The approach retains major existing components while updating controls, wiring and passenger fixtures. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/outriggers-and-belt-trusses/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/outriggers-and-belt-trusses/ Structure Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT As towers grow taller, wind and stiffness, not gravity, decide the structure. This guide explains how outriggers connect a stiff core to perimeter columns and why that connection is so effective. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/wind-tunnel-testing-skyscrapers/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/wind-tunnel-testing-skyscrapers/ Wind Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Wind is the force that grows fastest with height, and it can make a tower sway in ways simple formulas cannot predict. This guide explains how wind-tunnel testing turns an idea into a shape. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/earthquake-design-supertall-buildings/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/earthquake-design-supertall-buildings/ Seismic Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Earthquakes impose a different kind of demand from wind, and they are best resisted by a structure that can deform without breaking. This guide explains the tools engineers use in seismic zones. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/how-supertall-towers-are-built/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/how-supertall-towers-are-built/ Construction Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A supertall tower is a factory that builds itself upward. This guide follows the real sequence, from the foundations below ground to the curtain wall and commissioning at the top. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/fire-and-life-safety-supertall-buildings/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/fire-and-life-safety-supertall-buildings/ Safety Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fire safety in a very tall building is a system, not a single device. This guide explains how protection, evacuation and structural design work together when the fire service cannot simply climb the stairs. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/embodied-carbon-of-tall-buildings/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/embodied-carbon-of-tall-buildings/ Sustainability Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every tall building carries a carbon debt in its materials before it ever opens. This guide explains embodied carbon, why height increases it, and how designers are reducing it. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/how-tall-buildings-are-measured/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/how-tall-buildings-are-measured/ Records Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Height looks simple until you try to rank buildings. Spires, antennas, occupied floors and vanity height decide the record, and the rules are worth knowing. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/structural-systems-compared/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/structural-systems-compared/ Structure Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every supertall tower needs a way to stand up against wind and gravity. This guide compares the main structural systems and the buildings that made them famous. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/sky-lobbies-and-building-services/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/sky-lobbies-and-building-services/ Services Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A supertall tower is a vertical city, and its services have to climb as far as its structure. This guide explains lift zoning, water, power, cooling and stack effect. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/history-of-the-height-race/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/history-of-the-height-race/ History Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The record for the world’s tallest building has changed hands many times, and every era of the race left behind a new way of building. This is the story of how height was won. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/robustness-and-progressive-collapse/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/robustness-and-progressive-collapse/ Safety Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A robust structure fails gracefully. This guide explains progressive collapse, the disasters that reshaped building codes, and the design measures that keep a local failure local. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/how-tall-buildings-are-demolished/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/how-tall-buildings-are-demolished/ Demolition Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building a supertall tower takes years; taking one down can be just as demanding. This guide explains how tall buildings are demolished without damaging their neighbours. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/skyscraper-foundations/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/skyscraper-foundations/ Foundations Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Piles, rafts, groundwater and settlement: why the most important part of a skyscraper may be the part you never see. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/wind-and-tuned-mass-dampers/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/wind-and-tuned-mass-dampers/ Wind Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explore wind excitation, stiffness, damping and occupant comfort, with Shanghai Tower and Burj Khalifa as contrasting examples. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/pumping-concrete-up-skyscrapers/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/pumping-concrete-up-skyscrapers/ Concrete Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pressure is only the beginning: explore concrete mixtures, delivery continuity, climbing forms and the construction cycle at extreme height. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/skyscraper-facade-engineering/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/skyscraper-facade-engineering/ Facades Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How glass, frames, joints and drainage work together while the structure moves and the weather changes. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/how-skyscraper-cranes-climb/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/how-skyscraper-cranes-climb/ Construction Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Follow the temporary load path, the lifting radius and the final dismantling sequence behind a tower crane at extreme height. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/310-washington-jersey-city-kpf-reveal/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/310-washington-jersey-city-kpf-reveal/ News Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Jersey City proposal names its design and construction team, with first-phase work targeted for 2027. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/jumeirah-residences-emirates-towers-cscec-contract/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/jumeirah-residences-emirates-towers-cscec-contract/ News Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The AED5 billion award covers two residential towers and a new corporate headquarters. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/structural-steel-skyscrapers/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/structural-steel-skyscrapers/ Steel Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How material properties, load paths and construction decisions shape the steel inside a supertall building. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/skyscraper-elevators/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/blog/skyscraper-elevators/ Elevators Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The mechanics and traffic engineering that make hundreds of occupied floors usable, from traction ropes to destination dispatch. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/z8-tower-beijing-construction-announcement/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/z8-tower-beijing-construction-announcement/ News Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A 140-metre mixed-use tower pairs planted atria with a shaded glass facade in Beijing’s business district. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/kone-elevator-modernization-half-year-2026/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/kone-elevator-modernization-half-year-2026/ News Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT KONE’s half-year report highlights aging equipment and energy efficiency as drivers of modernization. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/619-brickell-miami-design-reveal/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/619-brickell-miami-design-reveal/ News Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The June design announcement for 619 Brickell describes 75 stories, continuous balconies and five residential clusters. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/jeddah-tower-may-2026-progress/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/jeddah-tower-may-2026-progress/ News Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Newer construction imagery on the structural engineer’s project page documents the tower’s continuing build. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/burj-azizi-eversendai-steel-contract/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/burj-azizi-eversendai-steel-contract/ News Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Eversendai receives the structural-steel construction package for the planned Dubai megatall. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/8-shenton-way-singapore-january-2026/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/8-shenton-way-singapore-january-2026/ News Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT SOM’s January site account reports a 15th-floor milestone for Singapore’s planned 305-metre tower. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/400-lake-shore-som-2026-outlook/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/400-lake-shore-som-2026-outlook/ News Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT SOM’s annual outlook highlights a planned topping-out milestone and a unitized reinterpretation of Chicago’s bay window. https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/jeddah-tower-kone-elevators/ https://tallestbuildingintheworld.com/news/jeddah-tower-kone-elevators/ News Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The supplier’s October 2025 announcement explains a planned journey exceeding 630 metres and the use of UltraRope.