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Testing of the QUIC-plume model with wind-tunnel measurements for a high-rise building

open access: green, 2004
M. D. Williams   +4 more
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Adaptable High-Rise Buildings

IABSE Reports, 2010
<p>This paper presents an innovative concept that allows a flexible use of high-rise buildings by incorporating adaptable structural components, thus contributing to a sustainable development by extending the building's service life. The focus lies on vertical adaptability which implies a structural conception for different floor heights and for ...
Thomas Von Borstel, Viktor Sigrist
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Monitoring of High‐Rise Buildings

Journal of Surveying Engineering, 1988
Tall buildings have mushroomed in Boston as they have elsewhere. Modern technology has made high‐rise construction efficient and architects more daring. The surveying engineer faces many adversities during the translation process from blueprint to construction site.
Gunther Greulich, Clifford E. Rober
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Explosion in a High-Rise Building

Structures Congress 2005, 2005
Progressive Collapse Prevention of a high-rise building at the design stage under abnormal loading conditions is a very important subject in structural design. This article contains three major parts: 1. Code requirements regarding Progressive Collapse Prevention; 2. Design criteria for progressive collapse prevention under abnormal loading conditions,
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RADON ACTION LEVEL FOR HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS

Health Physics, 1999
Radon and its progeny are the major contributors to the natural radiation dose received by human beings. Many countries and radiological authorities have recommended radon action levels to limit the indoor radon concentrations and, hence, the annual doses to the general public.
Ho, CW, Tso, MYW, Leung, JKC
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Soil beds of high-rise buildings [PDF]

open access: possibleSoil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, 2009
Methods employed to investigate and determine design parameters of the soil beds of high-rise buildings are examined.
Z. G. Ter-Martirosyan   +1 more
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High Rise Buildings

2016
There are two categories of high rise buildings that will be discussed in this chapter. There are your regular high rise buildings, and then there are your super high rise buildings. From a fire protection standpoint, the regular high rise buildings are the ones where the fire department is not going to be able to fight the fire from the ground.
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High-Rise Building Structure

2019
In addition to the design documental requirements or other high-rise structures that are required to be monitored during construction.
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