Tall Buildings

The adaptive reuse and extension of a Sydney icon relied on wind engineering.

A collaborative means and methods design brought efficiency and safety to the reclad of the Empire State Building Floor 102 Observation deck.

Trust, but verify!” Russian proverb or political saying aside, how often do engineers look back and confirm whether their designs have achieved their objectives? For the structural engineers at Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA), asking and answering this question was top […]

We have been engineering mass and stiffness in tall buildings, but not damping.

Hancock’s “braced tube” structural system, devised by SOM engineer Fazlur Khan together with architect Bruce Graham, introduced a new era of efficient skyscraper design.

The University of Texas at Austin often touts the phrase, “What Starts Here Changes the World.” That is precisely what is happening with ATX Tower—the world’s first high-rise tower to incorporate the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Prestandard for Performance-Based Wind Design (PBWD)—under construction in Austin, Texas.