About

Member Since: 2009

Member Offices: Beijing

Website: http://www.cabr.com.cn/

Founded in 1953, China Academy of Building Research (CABR) is the largest and most diverse research institution in building industry in China.

As the largest comprehensive research and development institute in the building industry in China, CABR carries out its mission in catering to the needs of building and construction industries nationwide, putting forward solutions for the key technical problems met in engineering based on applied research and development, providing technical development and consulting services, and undertaking building design and construction activities.

It carries out common, basic and public technical researches required in this industry. CABR is responsible for the development and management of the major engineering construction and product standards of China.

Fields of Expertise

Research Institute

Buildings

RANK
Name
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
1 Shanghai Tower
632 m / 2,073  ft
2 Ping An Finance Center
599.1 m / 1,965  ft
3 CITIC Tower
527.7 m / 1,731  ft
4 Dalian International Trade Center
370.2 m / 1,214  ft

Awards

CITIC Tower

Winner: CITIC Tower

Best Tall Building, by Height, 400 meters and above 2021

Ctbuh Leaders

Ziguo Xu

Ziguo Xu

CTBUH Expert Chinese Translation Committee, 2014 – Present

Beijing

RANK
Name
Height
1 Suzhou Zhongnan Center

729 m / 2,392 ft

2 Shanghai Tower

632 m / 2,073 ft

3 Ping An Finance Center

599 m / 1,965 ft

4 Global Financial Center Tower 1

568 m / 1,864 ft

5 CITIC Tower

528 m / 1,731 ft

6 Dalian International Trade Center

370 m / 1,214 ft

7 Xiamen Cross Strait Financial Centre

344 m / 1,128 ft

8 Mandarin Oriental Hotel Tower A

333 m / 1,093 ft

CTBUH Initiatives Involving China Academy of Building Research

Skybridges: Bringing the Horizontal into the Vertical Realm

02 July 2020

This symposium gathered many successful practitioners sharing their experiences and discussing the recreation of the urban realm in the sky through connections between buildings at height.

Ping An Finance Center Now Fourth Tallest Building in the World

27 March 2017

CTBUH has certified the completion of Ping An Finance Center. At 599 meters it is the tallest building in Shenzhen, second tallest in China, and fourth tallest worldwide.

Composite Megacolumns Report Now Available

12 January 2017

The summary of the research project on composite megacolumns, sponsorsed by ArcelorMittal, and is now available on the CTBUH Shop.

Top Company Rankings: The World’s 100 Tallest Buildings

13 October 2016

The Council is pleased to announce the Top Company Rankings for numerous disciplines as derived from the list of projects appearing in 100 of the World’s Tallest Buildings.

Interesting Results from Second Round of Megacolumn Tests

27–29 July 2015

CTBUH research division members attended the second round of tests in Beijing related to the Megacolumn Research project, sponsored by ArcelorMittal.

First Composite Megacolumns Test a Big Success

05 February 2015

The large research team working on the composite megacolumns research project gathered in Beijing to start the test campaign on the first megacolumn samples.