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Pedestrian wind comfort near a super-tall building with various configurations in an urban-like setting. [PDF]
Build Simul, 2020 Zhang X +6 more
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Proposal for Defining a Tall Timber Building [PDF]
, 2016 In order to talk about ‘tall’ buildings and more particularly ‘tall, timber’ buildings, it is useful to clarify what is meant by a ‘tall’ and a ‘tall, timber’ building.
Foster, RM, Ramage, MH, Reynolds, TPS
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Buildings, 2021 Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is an innovative engineered timber product and has been widely used for constructing tall timber buildings due to its excellent structural performance and good strength with its multi-layers of boards in both perpendicular ...
Xuan Zhao +3 more
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Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat of the 21st Century: A Global Perspective
Buildings, 2012 The tall building is the most dominating symbol of the cities and a human-made marvel that defies gravity by reaching to the clouds. It embodies unrelenting human aspirations to build even higher. It conjures a number of valid questions in our minds. The
Mir M. Ali, Kheir Al-Kodmany
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Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 Tall buildings with irregular shapes and considerable heights are gaining popularity in creating the vertical cities around the world. They also considered one of the major energy consumers with little regards to sustainability.
Fadi Alkhatib +5 more
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Vibration control of super tall buildings subjected to wind loads [PDF]
, 1997 Excessive vibration due to wind loads is a major obstacle in design and construction of a super tall building. The authors recently introduced an innovative method for controlling the wind response of super tall buildings, which takes advantage of the so-
Chai, Winston, Feng, Maria Q.
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Typological diversity of tall buildings and complexes in relation to their functional structure
E3S Web of Conferences, 2018 The paper focuses on peculiarities of tall buildings and complexes, their typology and its formation in relation to their functional structure. The research is based on the analysis of tall buildings and complexes and identifies the following main ...
Generalov Viktor P. +3 more
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Buildings, 2012 The paper presents the features of Tall-building Projects Sustainability Indicator (TPSI)—a “Sustainability Rating System” that specializes in tall-building projects.
Hasim Altan, Binh K. Nguyen
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Evacuation egress in high rise building: Review of the current design evacuation solution
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 In the aftermath of the September 11th attack, design of tall buildings particularly in the aspect of safety systems and structural robustness, arguably the most crucial issues that is deliberated till to date.
Mansor Hazrina +4 more
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Voronoi-Like grid systems for tall buildings [PDF]
, 2018 In the context of innovative patterns for tall buildings, Voronoi tessellation is certainly worthy of interest. It is an irregular biomimetic pattern based on the Voronoi diagram, which derives from the direct observation of natural structures. The paper
Angelucci, Giulia, Mollaioli, Fabrizio
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