CTBUH Platinum Member

RWDI

About

Member Since: 1986

Member Offices: Guelph, Kuala Lumpur, London, Miami, Milan, Milton Keynes, Shanghai, Singapore, Thiruvananthapuram

Website: http://www.rwdi.com/

RWDI’s 50-year legacy is built on finding innovative solutions to complex engineering challenges. Our performancecentered
approach combines innovative thinking, collaborative problem solving, and a passion for expanding the boundaries of the possible to achieve results.

We’ve built a team of over 800 engineers, scientists, and sustainability specialists over 30 offices across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. With deep technical expertise, we drive success on ambitious building, industry, and infrastructure projects – enhancing performance, resiliency, and efficiency.

Our goal is simple: to help clients overcome any design or operational challenge to meet ambitious goals while ensuring projects exist in harmony with their natural environment.

Fields of Expertise

Engineering, Other; Environmental Engineering; Wind Engineering

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 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 Lotte World Tower
554.5 m / 1,819  ft
5 One World Trade Center
541.3 m / 1,776  ft
6 Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre
530 m / 1,739  ft
7 CITIC Tower
527.7 m / 1,731  ft
8 TAIPEI 101
508 m / 1,667  ft
9 International Commerce Centre
484 m / 1,588  ft
10 Lakhta Center
462 m / 1,516  ft

Awards

111 West 57th Street

Winner: 111 West 57th Street

Best Tall Building, by Function, Residential or Hotel 2022

Ctbuh Leaders

Anton Davies

Anton Davies

CTBUH Canada Chapter, 2013 – Present

Toronto

Xiangdong Du

Xiangdong Du

CTBUH Expert Chinese Translation Committee, 2014 – Present

Shanghai

Duncan Phillips

Duncan Phillips

CTBUH Working Group: MEP, 2018 – Present

Ontario

Building Completions Timeline

Videos

10 April 2019

Ceremonial Influences Form a Modern Flagship Building for Beijing’s CBD

China Zun is the flagship building of Beijing’s comprehensively planned 30-hectare central business district core. Its gently rising and curving form embodies the historic capital’s...

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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

Motioneering (2000)

RANK
Name
Height
1 Jeddah Tower

1,000 m / 3,281 ft

2 Burj Khalifa

828 m / 2,717 ft

3 Wuhan Greenland Center

636 m / 2,087 ft

4 Shanghai Tower

632 m / 2,073 ft

5 Ping An Finance Center

599 m / 1,965 ft

6 Lotte World Tower

555 m / 1,819 ft

7 One World Trade Center

541 m / 1,776 ft

8 Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre

530 m / 1,739 ft

9 CITIC Tower

528 m / 1,731 ft

10 Dalian Greenland Center

518 m / 1,699 ft

11 TAIPEI 101

508 m / 1,667 ft

12 International Commerce Centre

484 m / 1,588 ft

13 Chengdu Greenland Tower

468 m / 1,535 ft

14 R&F Guangdong Building

468 m / 1,535 ft

15 Lakhta Center

462 m / 1,516 ft

16 Petronas Twin Tower 1

452 m / 1,483 ft

16 Petronas Twin Tower 2

452 m / 1,483 ft

18 Suzhou IFS

450 m / 1,476 ft

19 Wuhan Tower

443 m / 1,454 ft

20 World One

442 m / 1,450 ft

21 111 West 57th Street

435 m / 1,428 ft

22 432 Park Avenue

426 m / 1,397 ft

23 Trump International Hotel & Tower

423 m / 1,389 ft

24 Princess Tower

413 m / 1,356 ft

25 Two International Finance Centre

412 m / 1,352 ft

26 23 Marina

392 m / 1,287 ft

27 30 Hudson Yards

387 m / 1,270 ft

28 PIF Tower

385 m / 1,263 ft

29 Shun Hing Square

384 m / 1,260 ft

30 Burj Mohammed Bin Rashid

381 m / 1,251 ft

31 Federation Tower

374 m / 1,226 ft

32 The Address Boulevard

370 m / 1,214 ft

33 Almas Tower

360 m / 1,181 ft

34 Hanking Center

359 m / 1,177 ft

35 Greenland Group Suzhou Center

358 m / 1,175 ft

36 OKO - Residential Tower

354 m / 1,162 ft

37 Forum 66 Tower 1

351 m / 1,150 ft

38 Comcast Technology Center

339 m / 1,112 ft

39 Mercury City Tower

339 m / 1,112 ft

40 Hengqin International Finance Center

338 m / 1,108 ft

41 Wilshire Grand Center

335 m / 1,100 ft

42 DAMAC Heights

335 m / 1,099 ft

43 Thamrin Nine Tower 1

334 m / 1,094 ft

44 3 World Trade Center

329 m / 1,079 ft

45 Three Sixty West Tower B

260 m / 853 ft

Statistics

Average Building Age*

10 Years

Most Common Function*

Residential (34%)

Most Common Material*

Concrete (53%)

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Based on 307 buildings over 150 m height with a function
 
Based on 293 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

Xiangdong Du

Technical Director, RWDI

John Kilpatrick

Practice Area Leader Winder Effects, RWDI

Bujar Morava

Senior Technical Director & Principal, RWDI

Chiara Pozzuoli

Regional Manager of Europe, RWDI

Ctbuh Leaders At RWDI

CTBUH Canada Chapter, 2013 – Present

Anton Davies

Founding Partner, RWDI

CTBUH Expert Chinese Translation Committee, 2014 – Present

Xiangdong Du

Technical Director, RWDI

CTBUH Working Group: MEP, 2018 – Present

Duncan Phillips

Principal, RWDI

10 April 2019

Ceremonial Influences Form a Modern Flagship Building for Beijing’s CBD

China Zun is the flagship building of Beijing’s comprehensively planned 30-hectare central business district core. Its gently rising and curving form embodies the historic capital’s...

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,...

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

Vertical Village as National Symbol

Joining the ranks of the world’s top ten tallest buildings, the 123-story Lotte World Tower rises to 555 meters and offers one of the world’s...

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...

28 March 2018

Building Tall Skyscraper Lecture Series: Naturalizing the Vertical Realm

Thursday, February 1, 2018. Chicago, United States of America. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) held...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

12 January 2021

Interactive Study on Tall Buildings in 2020: COVID-19 Contributes To Dip in Year-On-Year Completions

CTBUH Research

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has released its annual report, CTBUH Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2020, part of the Tall...

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

Interactive Study on The Tallest 20 in 2020: Then and Now

CTBUH Research

This research paper undertakes a review of the 2012 report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, “Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the...

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...

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 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....

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...

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...

28 February 2019

Regulatory Hurdles Cleared for Seoul’s Next Tallest Building

The administrative procedures have been completed to erect what could be the new tallest building in Korea, after Hyundai Motor Group applied for the construction...

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 RWDI

CTBUH Canada: Vertical Building Additions Breakfast Event

25 September 2019

CTBUH held a breakfast seminar on vertical building additions, featuring presentations from prominent local firms profiling vertical building addition technologies.

CTBUH Canada Future Leaders Tours RWDI Facilities

21 November 2018

The CTBUH Canada Future Leaders Committee visited RWDI's facilities, including the company's model shop, wind tunnels, and water flume, and viewed several engaging presentations.

CTBUH Canada Hosts Discussion: Modular Design & Construction

12 September 2018

The CTBUH Canada Chapter hosted a discussion on Modular Design and Construction, featuring an overview of existing modular implementations as well as future implications.

CTBUH Canada Hosts "Future Leaders" Committee Inaugural Event

25 July 2018

The CTBUH Canada "Future Leaders" Committee held its inaugural event. Following a series of presentations, emerging professionals networked and planned future initiatives.

CTBUH Canada Tours YC Condos

21 March 2018

The CTBUH Canada Chapter held a construction tour of YC Condos, a 66-story tower development in downtown Toronto.

Fourth Building Tall Lecture Series: Greening Tall

01 February 2018

The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) and CTBUH hosted a panel discussion on the movement to incorporate green features into tall buildings.