Thornton Tomasetti Irvine Principal Leonard Joseph, P.E., S.E. and New York Senior Principal Hi Sun Choi, P.E., LEED AP have been named co-chairs of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s Outrigger Design Working Group.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, has been selected as structural engineer for Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which when completed will be the world’s tallest building at 1,000+ meters.

Dennis Poon has been named one of the 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business for 2010.

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).

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.

Thornton Tomasetti received Diamond and Platinum Awards for Engineering Excellence from the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC New York) Engineering Excellence Awards for the structural design of Comcast Center in Philadelphia and Carrasco International Airport in Uruguay.

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.

“Tall and Supertall Buildings: Structure and Skin Performance” will be a feature topic at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, at the Renaissance Hotel & Convention Centre, Mumbai, February 3 – 5.

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.

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.

On May 21, 2009, Tower B, completed in 2008, was honored with the prestigious International Real Estate Federation “FIABCI Prix d’Excellence” award in the office building category, awarded to Mirax Group – Federation Tower’s well known Russian developer.

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

Poised to become the second tallest building in the world and featuring structural design by Thornton Tomasetti, Incheon 151 Tower-a 151-story mixed-use tower in Incheon, South Korea-has broken ground.

Shelbourne Development Group, Inc. announces its team to build “The Chicago Spire,” a landmark 2,000 foot tower on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago. The building, designed by famed international architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava, will be the world’s tallest residential skyscraper.

It takes some seriously smart engineering to build so high. Here are the key challenges for the Kingdom Tower as its builders go for the record.

An American firm approaches the design of its 121-story, mixed used tower now rising in Shanghai as a vertical collection of neighborhoods.

The three Zenith towers top out at 988 feet, but their wide stance and butterfly-shaped core walls shrug off blasts from storms over the China Sea.

Construction is ready to begin on the $1.2bn Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, says Adrian Smith, the lead architect. The building, to be the world’s tallest, will include a six-storey “sky palace”.

Advances in BIM and software interoperability are helping propel a boom in supertall building construction.

Speaking to ConstructionWeek, Bob Sinn, principal at engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti, said: “At extreme heights, the main challenges are along practical and architectural lines, not material or structural.

WTTW talks with Chicago architect Adrian Smith, who, along with his firm, has been picked to design the world’s tallest building — to be built in Saudi Arabia.

The 1km-high Kingdom Tower to be built in Jeddah represents “an evolution and a refinement of an architectural continuum of skyscraper design,” according to Gordon Gill from Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG).

Saudi Arabia unveiled plans Tuesday to build the world’s tallest tower — a mixed-use structure that will rise two-thirds of a mile high — in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah.

Taipei 101, one of the world’s tallest buildings, is also now the world’s greenest skyscraper.

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.

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”.

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.

Construction of the Zenith Towers in Busan, South Korea which began in 2007, is nearing completion.

Mirax Group will continue the construction of a Moscow skyscraper set to be one of the tallest buildings in Europe, an executive said on Wednesday.

Always famous yet never in the limelight, John Portman, 86, is an architect who made his stamp on the world through hotel atriums and Atlanta’s Peachtree Center.

Located in downtown Philadelphia right above the Suburban rail station, the Comcast Center has been awarded the title of “tallest LEED certified building in the US” after earning a Gold Certification for LEED-CS (Core & Shell).

Striking a balance between value and cost was paramount to the architects and designers of the Zenith Towers, an innovative, supertall, mixed-use development that features an 80-story, 984-foot tower as the centerpiece of a 6.1-million-square-foot complex located on the waterfront of Busan, South Korea.

Soaring 58 stories and 975 feet above downtown Philadelphia, the new Comcast Center, which was recently awarded LEED Core and Shell Gold Certification, now has the distinction of being the tallest certified green building in the United States.

Brad Malmsten provides an update on our work on Moscow’s Federation Tower, the tallest building in Europe, on page 34.

At a 975-foot height, Comcast Center is Philadelphia’s tallest building—a distinction that should last at least as long as the recession.

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

Built From Disaster is a six part documentary series about man-made structures – and how engineers and designers across the world have learned the lessons from tragic disasters of design.

Students and faculty at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business have spent the last few weeks settling into a gleaming new $145 million state-of-the-art building on the Ann Arbor campus.

Until recently, no buildings in Moscow surpassed the 240-meter Moscow State University—the tallest of the city’s “Seven Sisters” towers built at sites throughout the city during Stalin’s era. But a few years ago, Russia’s new wealth from natural resources started an upward rush.

Many different applications of concrete were used in the design of the tower within a framework of uncomplicated detailing and repetition of elements explain Tanya de Hoog, Les Postawa and Ben John of Thornton Tomasetti.

A 151-story mixed-use tower under development in Incheon, South Korea, is poised to become one of the world’s tallest buildings when completed, in 2014.

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.

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.

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.

A consortium led by Portman Holdings in partnership with Samsung C&T Corp., Hyundai E&C, and SYM-Associates is financing the development of a 151-story, 2,000-foot mixed-use tower in Incheon, South Korea, that, when completed, could stand as the world’s second-tallest building. Designed by Atlanta-based John Portman & Associates with Thornton Tomasetti as structural engineer, Incheon 151 Tower will feature 30 floors of commercial offices, a 300-room hotel, apartments and condos, observation levels at 118 and 119, and sky restaurants at the top of the tower.

The planned 587-meter 151 Incheon has started the journey toward becoming one of the world’s tallest buildings. If all goes as planned, the 151-story mixed-use skyscraper, which broke ground in late June and is scheduled for a 2014 finish, would rank as the world’s second-tallest. But that is only if it beats the 609-m-tall Chicago Spire, which has a leg up on Incheon but is not yet out of the ground. The Spire’s finish, originally set for 2010, may be up in the air thanks to economic woes, say observers.

The 5.7-million-sf Incheon Tower, expected to be complete by 2014, is part of the $35 billion Songdo International Business District.

This announcement represents the accomplishment of a major milestone in the Tameer Towers project, a joint venture between Tameer Holding Investment LLC and Sorouh Real Estate PJSC.

Not long ago, the block between 17th and 18th Streets on JFK Blvd. in downtown Philadelphia was a parking lot. But thanks to positive market conditions and an increased demand for top-tier commercial development in this vibrant office district, the site was ripe for a world-class office building.

Tameer Holding, one of the region’s leading real estate developers, awarded an AED 170 million contract to Arabian Foundations Engineering LLC, to carry out enabling works on its flagship “Tameer Towers” project in Abu Dhabi.

Tameer Holding, one of the region’s leading real estate developers, awarded a Dh170 million contract to Arabian Foundations Engineering LLC, to carry out enabling works on its flagship Tameer Towers project in Abu Dhabi.

Not too many years ago, Moscow’s skyline consisted of little more than the onion domes of the Kremlin and the Gothic spires of the Stalin-era buildings known as the Seven Sisters. But today, a forest of cranes dominates a 250-acre stretch along the Moscow River, where the 93-story Federation Tower — soon to be Europe’s tallest — is rising.

Recipe for a structural challenge: take on basic office tower, ‘super size’ to world’s-tallest proportions, carve into a unique shape, fan (in typhoons) and shake well (in earthquakes)….serves thousands (of tenants and visitors)…this is Taipei 101 in Taiwan, Republic of China.

St. Petersburg native Sergei Tchoban doesn’t think his design for Europe’s tallest building will violate Moscow’s vertical integrity.

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The high-profile public ceremony in Moscow on February 9 officially set off construction on the “Federation” towers in the city’s future financial district. The “Federation” will be the kernel of the planned Moscow-City, an area four kilometers northwest of the Kremlin where most government and business activity will be relocated by 2010.

The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, now the tallest buildings on earth, are among the architectural wonders of the world. The story of their construction is one of many challenges, and the resulting design, by Cesar Pelli & Associates, reflects a melding of East and West.

A 508-meter-tall skyscraper nearing completion in Taiwan’s capital has grabbed the title of world’s tallest building from the 452-m-tall twin Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Around the world, structural steel is the material of choice for innovative designs and tight construction schedules. From parking structures to chemical plants, bridges to tall buildings, steel is everywhere.

Taipei’s 508-meter-tall tower, destined to grab the record from Kuala Lumpur’s twin Petronas Towers when it opens late next year, is the safest place in town, says its structural designer.

Over many months, reams of analysis have piled up — a sometimes competing mix of calculation and deduction that suggests an array of answers to the questions of why and how the steel skeletons of the twin towers suddenly came apart in raging fires on Sept. 11. And with that increased understanding, the storms of emotion surrounding the grim, disturbing questions have quieted some.

But as scientists and engineers have gained these hard-won glimpses into the mechanics of a tragedy, there is one other question that almost all of them have carefully avoided asking: could another building, indeed any building, no matter how stoutly or cleverly built, have stood longer than the twin towers did, let more people escape or perhaps never collapsed?

In the decades since the World Trade Center was built, however, new materials and building techniques — some used on the more recent super skyscrapers like the Petronas Towers — may have given people more time to escape.