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AECOM
About
At AECOM, we believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone – uplifting communities, improving access and sustaining our planet.
We’re committed to managing our business with the upmost responsibility and to always strive for better — be that reducing emissions, creating social value or diversifying our senior leadership and workforce.
We understand both the urgency of the challenges facing our society and our responsibility to act in an impactful and enduring way. We’re leading the change towards a more sustainable and equitable future, partnering with those who want to make a positive difference in the world.
We’re listening to clients and the communities we serve in order to improve lives and livelihoods, and to create sustainable legacies for generations to come.
Thinking without limits is what keeps us at the vanguard. Ideas have no borders, and this ethos is embedded in our culture. The full scope of our global expertise is available to anyone who needs it, wherever they are based.
We’re trusted advisors — planners, designers, engineers, consultants and program and construction managers — delivering professional services spanning cities, transportation, buildings, water, new energy, and the environment. Working throughout the project lifecycle, we’re one team driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.
Fields of Expertise
Building Automation Control Systems; Construction / Contractor; Cost Consulting; Engineering, Multi-discipline; Environmental Engineering; Environmental Protection; Landscape Architecture; Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing; Project Management; Structural Engineering; Transportation / Urban Infrastructure; Urban Design
Buildings
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RANK
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Name
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Status
Completed Architecturally Topped Out Structurally Topped Out Under Construction On Hold Proposed Vision Never Completed Demolished Competition Entry Canceled Proposed Renovation Under Renovation Renovated Under Demolition |
Height
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burj Khalifa | 828 m / 2,717 ft | |
| 2 | Shanghai Tower | 632 m / 2,073 ft | |
| 3 | Ping An Finance Center | 599.1 m / 1,965 ft | |
| 4 | One World Trade Center | 541.3 m / 1,776 ft | |
| 5 | Tianjin CTF Finance Centre | 530 m / 1,739 ft | |
| 6 | Lakhta Center | 462 m / 1,516 ft | |
| 7 | Jin Mao Tower | 420.5 m / 1,380 ft | |
| 8 | CITIC Plaza | 390.2 m / 1,280 ft | |
| 9 | 30 Hudson Yards | 387.1 m / 1,270 ft | |
| 10 | Shun Hing Square | 384 m / 1,260 ft |
Awards
Ctbuh Leaders
CTBUH Expert Peer Review Committee, 2014 – Present
Geoffrey Lynch
CTBUH New York City Chapter, 2021 – Present
CTBUH United Kingdom Chapter, 2023 – Present
Videos
17 November 2020
When Buildings Give Back: A Positive Tower Paradigm
Zero, neutral, negative—these kinds of terms usually inform approaches to building performance since new construction is generally understood to be a burden in terms of...
Research
05 July 2023
We All Love to Get High: Optimizing Observation Deck Design
Height is aspirational, and having the best view from that height has become a driver in contemporary tall building design. Likewise, observation decks are a...
Global News
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08 March 2022
Former John Hancock Center Seeking Medical Tenants in Chicago
Chicago-based real estate firm Hearn is looking for medical providers to move into the former John Hancock Center, now formally known as 875 North Michigan...
Associated companies
AECOM Tishman Construction (2010)
CityMark Architects and Engineers
Davis Langdon (2013)
EDAW (2009)
Maunsell Consultants Asia Ltd.
John A. Blume and Associates (1970)
Huber Hunt & Nichols (2014)
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RANK
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Name
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Completion
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Height
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Floors
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Function
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| 1 | Burj Khalifa | Dubai | 2010 |
828 m / 2,717 ft |
163 | Office / Residential / Hotel |
| 2 | Shanghai Tower | Shanghai | 2015 |
632 m / 2,073 ft |
128 | Hotel / Office |
| 3 | Ping An Finance Center | Shenzhen | 2017 |
599 m / 1,965 ft |
115 | Office |
| 4 | One World Trade Center | New York City | 2014 |
541 m / 1,776 ft |
94 | Office |
| 5 | Tianjin CTF Finance Centre | Tianjin | 2019 |
530 m / 1,739 ft |
97 | Hotel / Serviced Apartments / Office |
| 6 | Lakhta Center | St. Petersburg | 2019 |
462 m / 1,516 ft |
87 | Office |
| 7 | Jin Mao Tower | Shanghai | 1999 |
421 m / 1,380 ft |
88 | Hotel / Office |
| 8 | CITIC Plaza | Guangzhou | 1996 |
390 m / 1,280 ft |
80 | Office |
| 9 | 30 Hudson Yards | New York City | 2019 |
387 m / 1,270 ft |
73 | Office |
| 10 | Shun Hing Square | Shenzhen | 1996 |
384 m / 1,260 ft |
69 | Office |
| 11 | Nanning Logan Century 1 | Nanning | 2018 |
381 m / 1,251 ft |
82 | Hotel / Office |
| 12 | 1 Corporate Avenue | Wuhan | 2021 |
376 m / 1,234 ft |
73 | Office |
| 13 | Bank of America Tower | New York City | 2009 |
366 m / 1,200 ft |
55 | Office |
| 14 | Spring City 66 | Kunming | 2019 |
349 m / 1,145 ft |
61 | Office |
| 15 | The Center | Hong Kong | 1998 |
346 m / 1,135 ft |
73 | Office |
| 16 | 875 North Michigan Avenue | Chicago | 1969 |
344 m / 1,128 ft |
100 | Residential / Office |
| 17 | One Shenzhen Bay Tower 7 | Shenzhen | 2018 |
341 m / 1,120 ft |
71 | Residential / Hotel / Office |
| 18 | Tianjin World Financial Center | Tianjin | 2011 |
337 m / 1,105 ft |
75 | Office |
| 19 | DAMAC Heights | Dubai | 2018 |
335 m / 1,099 ft |
88 | Residential |
| 20 | Shimao International Plaza | Shanghai | 2006 |
333 m / 1,094 ft |
60 | Hotel / Office / Retail |
Statistics
Average Building Age*
14 Years
Most Common Function*
Office (44%)
Most Common Material*
Concrete (57%)
* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database
Based on 271 buildings over 150 m height
with a function
Based on 250 buildings over 150 m height
with a material
Building Completions Timeline
Building Map
Construction Time Chart
NOTE: Construction start time is not available for all buildings. The average construction time is only displayed if there is three or more buildings with construction start and complete data in that year.
Create your own charts using the Explore Data tool.
Designated Experts
Ctbuh Leaders At AECOM
CTBUH United Kingdom Chapter, 2023 – Present
Alan Cronin
Director - Head of Vertical Transportation EUR-UK & Ireland, AECOM
CTBUH Awards Best Tall Building Oceania Jury, 2024
Marc Colella
Global Building & Systems Engineering Lead, AECOM
Videos
17 November 2020
When Buildings Give Back: A Positive Tower Paradigm
Zero, neutral, negative—these kinds of terms usually inform approaches to building performance since new construction is generally understood to be a burden in terms of...
22 October 2018
The Future of Tall Building Technology
Since their earliest form, tall buildings have stood as technological marvels, reflecting the latest advancements in materials, methodologies, and tools. These two technologies continue to...
09 July 2018
Five Minutes With: Carla Swickerath
Carla Swickerath, Partner, Studio Libeskind, sat down with CTBUH to discuss the design approach and urban impact of the World Trade Center complex in New...
31 May 2018
The Axis Mundi of the Pearl River Delta Megacity
The Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center (PAFC) is a transit-integrated, 600-meter-tall building that occupies a major node in the increasingly connected megacity of Hong Kong-Shenzhen-Guangzhou....
31 May 2018
A Milestone in Supertall Construction
Ping An Finance Center (PAFC) is an extraordinary project, which responds to the challenges of constructing in dense urban environments. PAFC advanced nearly every dimension...
30 October 2017
Quay Quarter Tower: Humanizing the High-Rise
Quay Quarter Tower (QQT) will create a stunning new building on the Sydney skyline that sets new benchmarks in office tower design globally and creates...
30 October 2017
Vertical Schools – Are They on the Up?
The purpose of this presentation was to convey the lessons learned in delivering vertical schools, through experience from around the world as well as the...
30 October 2017
A 24-Hour City
Twenty-four-hour cities provide opportunities for the city to grow, meet the needs of the people, and provide innovative solutions to tackle the existing density issues...
30 October 2017
CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference - Session 3A: Urban Scale Infrastructure Q&A
Clare Swan, Director, JBA Urban Planning Consultants Pty, chairs the question and answer session with Laurane de Gendre, Transport Planner, AECOM; Douglas Voigt, Partner, Skidmore,...
30 October 2017
CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference - Session 4C: Vertical Schools Q&A
Monday 30 October, 2017. Sydney, Australia. Karen Wong, Associate Director, Bates Smart, chairs the question and answer session with Shu-Hsin Soong, Technical Director & Education...
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Research
05 July 2023
We All Love to Get High: Optimizing Observation Deck Design
Terri Meyer Boake
Height is aspirational, and having the best view from that height has become a driver in contemporary tall building design. Likewise, observation decks are a...
16 May 2023
The Economics of Record-Breaking Height
Jason Barr & Peter A. Weismantle
This paper reviews the development history of record-breaking skyscrapers to better understand their economics. Given how tall they are, the supposed reason for their construction...
22 August 2022
Structural Design of Iconic Tower, Egypt: Culmination of a Concrete Optimization Process
Tarek Hassan, Yehia El-Ezaby & Charles Malek, rector Dar Al Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners)
This paper presents an overview of a process of optimizing concrete mixture for tall buildings, culminating in the design of the Iconic Tower, the key...
22 August 2022
The World’s Highest Pools: A Deep Dive
S. Isaac Work & Shawn Ursini, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Tall building design has diversified and adapted to accommodate increased demand for distinctive amenities at a range of heights. Swimming pools are a classic feature...
03 January 2022
Interactive Study on Tall Buildings in 2021: A State of Current Construction
CTBUH Research
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has released its annual report, CTBUH Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2021, part of the Tall...
17 September 2021
Sustainable Tall Building Design Exemplars
Will Miranda & Daniel Safarik, CTBUH
Some 97 cities worldwide, including most of the world’s megacities with a population of 10 million or more, have signed onto the C40 Cities Climate...
23 September 2020
The Structural Engineering Design And Construction Of The Tallest Building In Europe Lakhta Center, St. Peters
Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Vladimir Travush, PhD, Alexey Shakhvorostov, PhD, et al., Samsung C&T
The 2020 National Building Code of Canada (NBC) and the 2021 International Building Code (IBC) both include Tall Wood Buildings (TWB) and are hailed as...
25 June 2020
Curtain Wall Façades on the New Generation of Supertall Buildings Present and Future Directions
Sae Hwang Oh, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Beginning in the late 19th century, construction of skyscrapers spread throughout Chicago, New York City, and then the world as demand of space in buildings...
20 March 2020
Tall + Urban Innovation 2020: Dominant Trends
CTBUH Research
Providing a global overview of tall building development, design and construction, the CTBUH Awards Program and related Tall + Urban Innovation Conference annually survey projects,...
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Global News
08 March 2022
Former John Hancock Center Seeking Medical Tenants in Chicago
Chicago-based real estate firm Hearn is looking for medical providers to move into the former John Hancock Center, now formally known as 875 North Michigan...
02 September 2020
Skydeck Reopens in New York City With New Health Measures
Edge, among the highest outdoor sky decks in the Western Hemisphere, announced that it reopened to the public on 2 September 2020 at Noon. The...
30 July 2020
CTBUH In The Media: The Future of Skyscrapers: A Mile High, Slimmer Than Ever and Made from Wood
History does not want for dizzying fantasies of tall buildings. From the Tower of Babel onwards, humanity has dreamed of ever-more wondrous skyscrapers, whether we...
09 March 2020
New York City’s Highest Outdoor Skydeck Set to Open
The opening of Edge, the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere, offering 360-degree views of New York City’s iconic skyline will be celebrated...
08 July 2019
Plans for 101-Story Apartment Building Revealed in Moscow
The 405-meter One Tower in Moscow is set to become one of the tallest residential buildings in Europe, the deputy mayor of Moscow announced as...
15 April 2019
New Architects Brought in for Manchester’s St. Michael’s Tower
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been brought in to deliver Hodder + Partners’ controversial Saint Michael’s tower in Manchester, with the local practice kept...
15 March 2019
New York City’s Hudson Yards’ Shops, Restaurants, Officially Open to The Public
At noon on March 15, 2019, New York’s newest neighborhood ceremonially opened for business. Hudson Yards‘ first public-facing attractions, the Shops & Restaurants and Thomas...
01 March 2019
As One Chicago Lakefront Project Gets a New Deadline, Another is Announced
The owner of the Chicago Spire site could have another year to begin developing the lakefront site, four months after a downtown alderman rejected a...
21 January 2019
“Tower Fifth” Could Become New York City’s Second-Tallest
For decades, the New York City skyline was dominated by one building, the 1,250-foot-tall (381-meter) Empire State Building. But 17 “supertall” skyscrapers — defined as...
CTBUH Initiatives Involving AECOM
CTBUH China: Smart City, Intelligent Building
07 November 2019
This CTBUH International Symposium brings together innovators from the fields of information technology, architectural design, structural technology, materials and equipment, and more.
CTBUH NY Chapter Holds Demolition Seminar
25 September 2019
Over 50 attendees enjoyed a networking reception followed by engaging presentations and Q&A with panelists, discussing demolition strategies in New York City.
CTBUH Australia's Melbourne Committee Presents: 80 Collins Street
17 April 2019
Join CTBUH Australia's Melbourne Committee for a tour and presentation of 80 Collins Street, one of the largest mixed-use projects in Melbourne.
CTBUH Brisbane Hosts Successful Cities Seminar: Valley Vision
21 March 2019
The CTBUH Australia Chapter’s Brisbane Committee held its first seminar in the 2019 series on “Successful Cities,” featuring the Valley Vision development.
“Sustainable Vertical Urbanism: Towards 2050” Report
23 May 2018
The work of a CTBUH/IIT collaborative design studio on the sustainability and resiliency of urban habitats was presented at the final review.
CTBUH-IIT Design Research Studio Midterm Spring Review
07 March 2018
During a semester of intense work assisted by the CTBUH and supported by AECOM, IIT architecture students presented their design research studio projects in Crown Hall.
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