CTBUH Gold Member

Motioneering, Inc.

About

Member Since: 2024

Member Offices: Guelph

Website: https://www.motioneering.ca/

Advances in damping technology are enabling buildings and structures to be higher and more ambitious than ever before. From landmark skyscrapers to long-span bridges, our field-leading wind engineers and motion-control specialists design and deliver Performance-Based Damping solutions necessary to achieve outstanding technical performance and business success.

Fields of Expertise

Wind Engineering

Buildings

RANK
Name
Height
2 Shanghai Tower

632 m / 2,073 ft
4 Triumph Tower

544 m / 1,785 ft
5 One World Trade Center

541 m / 1,776 ft
6 TAIPEI 101

508 m / 1,667 ft
7 Central Park Tower

472 m / 1,550 ft
8 Petronas Twin Tower 1

452 m / 1,483 ft
8 Petronas Twin Tower 2

452 m / 1,483 ft
10 Suzhou IFS

450 m / 1,476 ft
11 111 West 57th Street

435 m / 1,428 ft
12 One Vanderbilt Avenue

427 m / 1,401 ft

Building Completions Timeline

Videos

22 October 2018

Beauty and Finance: Post Mannerism in Skyscraper Design

Building design and devlopment started with small scale conceptual research projects where inspiration and effectiveness, art and technology, and beauty and finance not only co-existed,...

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Research

22 December 2023

Remembering Charles H. Thornton, 2012 Fazlur Khan Lifetime Achievement Awardee

This edition of Talking Tall is an interview from the CTBUH archives. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat would like to remember Charles...

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Global News

15 September 2023

Firms Race to Finish the World’s Tallest Tower in Jeddah

The company responsible for constructing the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia has restarted work on the project and has compiled a list of contractors who...

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Associated companies

RWDI (2000)

RANK
Name
Height
1 Jeddah Tower

1,000 m / 3,281 ft
2 Shanghai Tower

632 m / 2,073 ft
3 Chicago Spire

610 m / 2,000 ft
4 Triumph Tower

544 m / 1,785 ft
5 One World Trade Center

541 m / 1,776 ft
6 TAIPEI 101

508 m / 1,667 ft
7 Central Park Tower

472 m / 1,550 ft
8 Petronas Twin Tower 1

452 m / 1,483 ft
8 Petronas Twin Tower 2

452 m / 1,483 ft
10 Suzhou IFS

450 m / 1,476 ft
11 111 West 57th Street

435 m / 1,428 ft
12 One Vanderbilt Avenue

427 m / 1,401 ft
13 432 Park Avenue

426 m / 1,397 ft
14 JPMorgan Chase World Headquarters

423 m / 1,388 ft
15 Princess Tower

413 m / 1,356 ft
16 CITYMARK CENTRE

388 m / 1,274 ft
17 Qingdao Hai Tian Center

369 m / 1,210 ft
18 The St. Regis Chicago

363 m / 1,191 ft
19 STH BNK by Beulah Tower 1

356 m / 1,169 ft
20 Comcast Technology Center

339 m / 1,112 ft
21 Hengqin International Finance Center

338 m / 1,108 ft
22 The Brooklyn Tower

325 m / 1,066 ft
23 The One

309 m / 1,012 ft
24 Comcast Center

297 m / 974 ft
25 220 Central Park South

290 m / 950 ft
26 15 Hudson Yards

279 m / 914 ft
27 Baku Tower

276 m / 906 ft
28 NEMA Chicago

273 m / 896 ft
29 Taipei Nanshan Plaza

271 m / 891 ft
30 One Barangaroo

271 m / 890 ft
31 Trump World Tower

262 m / 861 ft
32 262 Fifth Avenue

262 m / 860 ft
33 M3

260 m / 854 ft
34 Park Tower

257 m / 844 ft
35 One Bennett Park

255 m / 836 ft
36 STH BNK by Beulah Tower 2

252 m / 827 ft
37 56 Leonard

250 m / 821 ft
38 One Sydney Harbour Tower 1

247 m / 810 ft
39 Victoria One

247 m / 810 ft
40 Bloomberg Tower

246 m / 806 ft
41 The Centrale

245 m / 803 ft
42 111 Murray Street

240 m / 788 ft
43 520 Park Avenue

238 m / 781 ft
44 One Sydney Harbour Tower 2

230 m / 754 ft
45 One Penn Plaza

229 m / 750 ft
46 Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences, One Dalton Street

228 m / 748 ft
47 World Crest

225 m / 737 ft
48 Ten York

224 m / 735 ft
49 Newfoundland Place

220 m / 721 ft
50 100 East 53rd Street

217 m / 711 ft
51 M4

216 m / 707 ft
52 180 George North Tower

213 m / 699 ft
53 The Beekman Hotel & Residences

209 m / 687 ft
54 Random House Tower

208 m / 684 ft
55 The Residences of 488 University Avenue

208 m / 681 ft
56 Barclay Tower

205 m / 673 ft
57 45 Park Place

203 m / 667 ft
58 M2

200 m / 656 ft
59 M1

199 m / 654 ft
60 W New York Downtown Hotel & Residences

192 m / 630 ft
61 888 7th Avenue

191 m / 628 ft
62 Collins House

190 m / 623 ft
63 Tour de la Bourse

190 m / 623 ft
64 1133 West Georgia

188 m / 616 ft
65 CASA II

185 m / 605 ft
66 The Laurel

183 m / 599 ft
67 Turkevi Center

171 m / 561 ft
68 Paragon

163 m / 535 ft
69 465 North Park

160 m / 525 ft
70 180 East 88th

160 m / 524 ft
71 825 Third Avenue

159 m / 522 ft
72 One Wall Centre

150 m / 491 ft
73 Four Seasons Mumbai

146 m / 479 ft
74 Harry Reid International Airport Air Traffic Control Tower

107 m / 352 ft
75 The Tower Hotel

99 m / 325 ft
76 Cancún International Airport Control Tower

97 m / 318 ft
77 Pearson International Airport Control Tower

66 m / 215 ft
78 97 Franklin Street

-
79 One Queen Street

-
80 Muscot Air Traffic Control Tower

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Statistics

Average Building Age*

11 Years

Most Common Function*

Residential (49%)

Most Common Material*

Concrete (58%)

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Based on 63 buildings over 150 m height with a function
 
Based on 62 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.

Designated Experts

Trevor Haskett

Technical Director: Damping Systems, Motioneering, Inc.
Toronto, Canada

Shayne Love

Technical Director, Motioneering, Inc.
Guelph, Canada

Jamieson Robinson

Vice President, Operations, Motioneering, Inc.
Guelph, Canada

Bujar Morava

Senior Technical Director, Motioneering, Inc.
Guelph, Canada

Chien-Shen (Tom) Lee

Technical Director, Motioneering, Inc.
Guelph, Canada

Videos

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22 October 2018

Beauty and Finance: Post Mannerism in Skyscraper Design

Building design and devlopment started with small scale conceptual research projects where inspiration and effectiveness, art and technology, and beauty and finance not only co-existed,...

21 October 2018

A Monument to the World: Dubai Creek Tower

The Dubai Creek Tower’s monumental design is influenced by the natural forms of the lily and evokes the shape of a minaret, a distinctive architectural...

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

Constructing the ‘Jenga’ Building Was No Game

56 Leonard has been called the “Jenga” building due to its cantilevered floors, as well as the irregular spacing and location of the balconies throughout...

30 May 2018

Efficiently Sublime: The Tall Building in the Modern City

From its inception, Comcast Center was designed to exude a heightened sense of innovation and public engagement – qualities that align with both the tower’s...

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

Urban Policy Towards Tall Buildings Globally: The Architect’s Perspective

Tall buildings have an important role in defining the character of the City and they help reduce urban sprawl. However, when a building rises above...

30 October 2017

Rethinking CTBUH's Height Criteria in the Context of Tall Timber

Recent developments in the design and construction of progressively taller buildings using engineered timber as a structural material raise important questions about the language that...

30 October 2017

Interview: Chris Wilkinson

Chris Wilkinson of Wilkinson Eyre Architects is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2017 CTBUH Australia Conference.

16 March 2017

Building Tall Skyscraper Lecture Series: How High Can We Go?

Thursday, March 16, 2017. Chicago, United States of America. Hosted in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the first lecture of the series Building Tall...

Research

22 December 2023

Remembering Charles H. Thornton, 2012 Fazlur Khan Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Charles Thornton & Richard Tomasetti

This edition of Talking Tall is an interview from the CTBUH archives. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat would like to remember Charles...

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...

16 May 2023

World Surpasses 2,000 Buildings of 200 Meters or Greater Height

CTBUH Staff

This report shows that 147 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed in 2022, a 25 percent increase from 2021, when 118 such...

09 March 2023

City Building: The Most Complicated Game

Blair Kamin

Blair Kamin, the architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune from 1993 to 2021 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1999, has delivered...

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...

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

Livable Density: The Hybrid Office Building

James von Klemperer & Andrew Cleary, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

The recently completed One Vanderbilt Avenue tower has become the standard bearer for one of New York City’s most ambitious zoning initiatives of the past...

15 August 2022

Measuring the Economic Premium for Height

Grant Mosey & Brian Deal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

In this study, the authors examine the sale and rent prices for units in the 10 tallest for-sale and for-rent residential buildings in Chicago. Statistical...

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...

Global News

15 September 2023

Firms Race to Finish the World’s Tallest Tower in Jeddah

The company responsible for constructing the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia has restarted work on the project and has compiled a list of contractors who...

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...

18 September 2019

Two Supertalls Top Out in New York City

The Grand Central Terminal-adjacent supertall One Vanderbilt officially topped out this week, reaching its full 1,401-foot (427-meter) height. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the tower...

09 August 2019

Taipei 101 Damper Experienced Record Movement Due to Earthquake

The tuned mass damper in the Taipei 101 skyscraper moved 15 centimeters due to an earthquake early Thursday, 8 August, according to the building management....

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...

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...

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...

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...