We are honored to share with you the attached news on the recent ground-breaking for the Thornton Tomasetti-engineered Shanghai Tower.

Richard Tomasetti and Dennis Poon will both be presenting to this year’s Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s “Evolution of the Skyscraper” Conference in Chicago, IL.

Dennis Poon, managing principal of Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, will be a featured speaker at the “Shanghai Skyline” lecture series at the Skyscraper Museum in New York City.

John Barry and Alexandra Iannitelli of Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, were recently named two “New Faces of Civil Engineering” by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Dennis Poon, managing principal of Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, will be a featured speaker at The 3rd Annual Ultra High-rise Building Summit in Shanghai.

Dennis Poon, managing principal of Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, will be a featured speaker at American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in New York City.

Several engineers at Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, are featured speakers at the 2010 North American Steel Construction Conference (NASCC).

Thornton Tomasetti’s Dennis C.K. Poon, P.E., managing principal, has been named one of the 25 Top Newsmakers of 2010 by the editors of Engineering News-Record magazine for his influence on China’s building codes regarding supertall structures.

Thornton Tomasetti Vice Chairman Dennis C.K. Poon, P.E. has been named to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s Board of Trustees.

Thornton Tomasetti is mentioned as the structural engineer for the Shanghai Tower in their article titled “Gensler unveils China’s tallest building at Mipim”

Shanghai Tower, a 632-meter (2,074 foot) building designed by Gensler, a leading global architectural design firm, advances sustainable design strategies and gives prominence to public spaces.

Defying signs that the global economy is in a major downturn, the 2,074-foot-tall Shanghai Tower, designed by Gensler, broke ground on Friday, November 28. The mixed-use glass-and-steel tower is slated to be the tallest building in China.

Groundbreaking ceremonies held today marked the start of construction of the Shanghai Tower, the city’s latest super-tall building. The 632-meter building, which as things stand will be China’s tallest, was designed by global architecture firm Gensler who say they have used sustainable design strategies and have given prominence to public spaces.

Designers of the 121-story Shanghai Tower, with its record-tall composite steel-and-concrete structure, are helping craft China’s first superskyscraper building code.

The Korean CTBUH Conference 2010 was held at Seoul Olympic Parktel Olympia Hall and hosted by CTBUH Korea on August 27, 2010. The conference was deemed a success with 350 experts and professionals participating from a variety of disciplines, including academia, architecture, and building construction. Many tall buildings, such as “Shanghai Tower”, “Kingley Finance Tower”, and “Incheon 151 Tower”, were discussed under the conference topic “A New Generation of Tall Buildings in Asia”.

The 121-story Shanghai Tower is more than China’s next record-setting building: It’s an economic lifeline for the elite club of skyscraper builders.