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Ping An Real Estate Co Ltd
About
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (""Ping An"") was established in 1988 in Shekou, Shenzhen. The Group is the first insurance company in China to adopt a shareholding structure. Today, it has developed into a personal financial services group with three core businesses of insurance, banking and investment, enjoying parallel growth of its core and internet finance businesses. The Group’s shares are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Ping An has a comprehensive governance structure and is the first Chinese insurer to have foreign shareholders. Guided by its philosophy to fulfill its responsibility to the shareholders, customers, employees, society and partners, Ping An has been able to ensure that the Group as a whole is moving towards its goal, underpinned by a foundation that unites strategy, branding and corporate culture.
Fields of Expertise
Developer; Financial Industry; Owner (Buildings, Land); Property Management
Membership details
Membership Level
Platinum
Member Since
2014
Member Offices
Shenzhen
Buildings
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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 |
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599.1 m / 1,965 ft |
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286 m / 938 ft |
Awards
Winner: Ping An Finance Center
Best Tall Building 400 meters and above 2019
Award of Excellence: Ping An Finance Center
Fire & Risk Engineering Award 2019
Award of Excellence: Ping An Finance Center
Construction Award 2018
Award of Excellence: Ping An Finance Center
Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia 2018
Ctbuh Leaders
CTBUH China Office Board, 2017 – Present
CTBUH Future Leaders Committee, Shanghai, 2018 – Present
Building Completions Timeline
Videos
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....
Research
12 January 2021
The Global Tall Building Picture: Impact of 2020
The tall buildings completed in 2020 have pushed the global average height of the 100 tallest buildings to 399 meters. Across the year, 14 buildings...
Research
20 March 2020
The Tallest 20 in 2020: Predictions vs. Reality
In the first edition of the 2012 Journal, CTBUH published a Tall Buildings in Numbers study titled Tallest 20 in 2020: Era of the Megatall—The...
Associated companies
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660 m / 2,165 ft |
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378 m / 1,240 ft |
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299 m / 981 ft |
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286 m / 938 ft |
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200 m / 656 ft |
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190 m / 623 ft |
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180 m / 591 ft |
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150 m+ Buildings
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3 Years
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Office (50%), 1 Buildings
Most Common Material*
Composite (100%), 2 Buildings
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Videos
31 May 2018 | Chicago
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 | Chicago
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...
18 October 2016 | Shenzhen
Urban Development and Tall Buildings in Shenzhen
Tuesday October 18, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Chongguang Xu of Shenzhen Municipal Government, presents at the 2016 China Conference Session 7b: Shenzhen Bay Development. This presentation...
17 October 2016 | New York City
Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Zhizhe Yu of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; Yixin Chen of Shenzhen Urban Planning Bureau; Weiwen Huang of Shenzhen Public...
17 October 2016 | Shenzhen
Mega Size Mixed-Use Projects: Redefining Vertical Urbanism
Monday October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Dennis Poon of Thornton Tomasetti, presents at the 2016 China Conference Session 4c: Structural & Geotechnic Engineering. As the...
17 October 2016 | Shenzhen
CTBUH 2016 China Conference - Session 3c: Building Operation Q&A
Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Tim Neal, Arcadis; Samuel So, JLL; Joseph Chou, Taipei Financial Center Corporation; Zhao Ming Wang, CCDI answer questions at...
17 October 2016 | Shenzhen
The State of the Art (Technologies) Q&A
Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. David Malott, Kohn Pedersen Fox; Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Fing An Financial Centre; Karl-Ott Schoellkopf, Thyssenkrupp, answer questions at...
17 October 2016 | London
Panel Discussion: Future Cities: What are the Biggest Threats and Opportunities?
Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. A panel discussing the challenges of growing urban populations throughout the globe.
17 October 2016 | Shenzhen
Intelligent Advances in Ping An Tower
This presentation discussed client requirements on both functional and aesthetic aspects for four mega-scale gates on the Ping An Financial Centre (PAFC) north tower. The...
17 October 2016 | Shenzhen
X Information Modeling: Data-Driven Decision Making in the Design of Tall Buildings
This presentation outlined X-Information Modeling or XIM, a method of data-driven decision-making for the design of tall buildings. Developed over its application on more than...
27 October 2015 | New York City
Ping An: Insurance and Tall Buildings
The Ping An Finance Center is located at the commercial center of the Futian District in Shenzhen, on the southwest intersection of Fuhua Road and...
10 June 2015 | Shenzhen
The Shenzhen Ping An Financial Centre Construction and Development Co. Ltd. examines Ping An Finance Center and it's construction progress.
18 September 2014 | Shanghai
Interview: Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang
Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang of Ping An Financial Centre Construction and Development is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2014 CTBUH Shanghai Conference at the...
18 September 2014 | Shanghai
High-Performance Sustainable Ultra High-Rise: Case Study of Ping An Finance Center
The Ping An Finance Center that has adopted a low energy, high-performance sustainable building model. With a focus on effective elevator systems, an efficient façade,...
18 September 2014 | Shanghai
Engineering Contractor Management
Designing and planning for the construction of the Ping An Finance Center required a number of innovative engineering solutions regarding vertical shipping, labor allocation, large...
18 September 2014 | Shanghai
Power, Elevators & Customer Oriented Sustainability Strategies: PAFC
This presentation outlines the engineering design solutions that were used for the Ping An Finance Center in order to provide a reliable power supply, expedient...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Ping An Finance Center: The Development and Construction of a Megatall
The extraordinary megatall tower adopts extraordinary shape-optimization techniques and requires unprecedented levels of coordination to achieve its unique form.
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
2014 Shanghai International Conference - Ping An Tower Room, S3 - Q & A
2014 Shanghai International Conference Ping An Tower Room, S3 Questions & Answers session with speakers Wing Kan (Ken) Wong, Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center Construction...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
The Application and Management of BIM in Ping An Finance Center
BIM (Building Information Management) is an emerging technology that gives engineers a new way of expressing complex spatial representations in high-rise buildings. The Ping An...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
2014 Shanghai International Conference - Ping An Tower Room, Session 2 - Q & A
2014 Shanghai International Conference Ping An Tower Room, Session 2 Questions & Answers session with speakers Dennis Poon, Thornton Tomasetti, Yuqi Zhou, CSCEC1B, and Yinghou...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Some Aspects of Construction Management in Ping An Finance Center
There are several valuable construction management experiences from the Ping An Finance Center that are worth sharing. This presentation will discuss several studies performed for...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Project Management Outline and Difficulties of Ping An Finance Center
The project management requirements for supertall (300-meter) and megatall (600-meter) projects are vastly different – often requiring additional considerations in terms of construction costs, construction...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Cost Planning and Control of Tall Buildings: The Case of Ping An Finance Center
For tall buildings to be financially viable, effective cost planning and control of construction costs is essential in determining project feasibility. As demonstrated in the...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
The Structural Health Monitoring System for Ping An Finance Center
The Ping An Finance Center contains breakthrough structural health monitoring systems that make the building an important test platform for: the verification of various damage...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Key Technologies for the Structure Construction in the Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center
This presentation will introduce the key technologies used for the structural construction of the 660-metertall Ping An Finance Center: the deep foundation pit, large diameter...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Ping An IFC: Economical & Efficient Solutions
With the completion of the 500m+ Ping An Finance Center, our era presents the question of whether traditional structural systems and design approaches are still...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
2014 Shanghai International Conference - Ping An Tower Room, Session 1 - Q & A
2014 Shanghai International Conference Ping An Tower Room, Session 1 Questions & Answers session with speakers Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Designing China’s Tallest: DNA of the Ping An Finance Center
Rather than attempting to radically redefine how contemporary skyscrapers are designed, KPF architects prefer to adopt an approach of continuous refinement; drawing from successful high-rise...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Brief on the Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center Project Development
Targeted for completion in 2016, the Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center is a project that represents a significant triumph for the Ping An Group, who...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
2014 Shanghai International Conference - Opening Plenary - Q & A
2014 Shanghai International Conference Opening Plenary Questions & Answers session with speakers Antony Wood, CTBUH Executive Director / IIT / Tongji University, Jianping Gu, Shanghai...
16 September 2014 | Shanghai
Stainless Steel Claddings for High-Rise Architecture
Especially during the last 20 years stainless steel has become an approved and much valued cladding material for sophisticated architecture. Starting with the first architectural...
16 September 2014 | Shanghai
Dennis Poon of Thornton Tomasetti is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2014 CTBUH Shanghai Conference at the Jin Mao Tower. Dennis discusses the evolution...
11 June 2013 | London
Session 2: What Contributes Most to Sustainability in Tall Buildings?
The next generation of tall buildings will be judged on more than sheer height or aesthetic appearance. In the context of sustainability, they will also...
20 September 2012 | Shanghai
Interview: China's Future Tallest
David Malott of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates is interviewed by Jeff Herzer during the 2012 CTBUH Shanghai Congress at the Jin Mao, Shanghai. David discusses...
20 September 2012 | Shanghai
Ping An Finance Center: Pioneering China’s Tallest – Efficiencies of Form and Structures
Upon completion in 2015, the Ping An Finance Center will join an elite group of megatall buildings. This presentation discusses using the Ping An Finance...
19 September 2012 | Shanghai
Interview: Ping An Finance Center
Vincent Tse of Parsons Brinckerhoff is interviewed by Jeff Herzer during the 2012 CTBUH Shanghai Congress at the Jin Mao, Shanghai. Vincent talks about the...
18 September 2012 | Shanghai
Interview: Shanghai Tower and Ping An Finance Center
Dennis Poon of Thornton Tomasetti is interviewed by Jeff Herzer during the 2012 CTBUH Shanghai Congress at the Jin Mao, Shanghai. Dennis discusses two megatall...
11 October 2011 | Seoul
The Challenges for Supertall Building Structural Design and Sustainability Issues
Upon completion in 2014, the Ping An Tower will be the tallest tower in China, and the centerpiece of the growing Shenzhen skyline located just...
03 February 2010 | Mumbai
Symbiosis: Supertalls and Future Cities
KPF has designed some of the most iconic tall buildings around the world, including the Shanghai World Financial Centre which won the CTBUH 2008 Best...
31 May 2018 | Chicago
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 | Chicago
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...
18 October 2016 | Shenzhen
Urban Development and Tall Buildings in Shenzhen
Tuesday October 18, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Chongguang Xu of Shenzhen Municipal Government, presents at the 2016 China Conference Session 7b: Shenzhen Bay Development. This presentation...
17 October 2016 | New York City
Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Zhizhe Yu of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; Yixin Chen of Shenzhen Urban Planning Bureau; Weiwen Huang of Shenzhen Public...
17 October 2016 | Shenzhen
Mega Size Mixed-Use Projects: Redefining Vertical Urbanism
Monday October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Dennis Poon of Thornton Tomasetti, presents at the 2016 China Conference Session 4c: Structural & Geotechnic Engineering. As the...
17 October 2016 | Shenzhen
CTBUH 2016 China Conference - Session 3c: Building Operation Q&A
Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Tim Neal, Arcadis; Samuel So, JLL; Joseph Chou, Taipei Financial Center Corporation; Zhao Ming Wang, CCDI answer questions at...
17 October 2016 | Shenzhen
The State of the Art (Technologies) Q&A
Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. David Malott, Kohn Pedersen Fox; Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Fing An Financial Centre; Karl-Ott Schoellkopf, Thyssenkrupp, answer questions at...
17 October 2016 | London
Panel Discussion: Future Cities: What are the Biggest Threats and Opportunities?
Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. A panel discussing the challenges of growing urban populations throughout the globe.
17 October 2016 | Shenzhen
Intelligent Advances in Ping An Tower
This presentation discussed client requirements on both functional and aesthetic aspects for four mega-scale gates on the Ping An Financial Centre (PAFC) north tower. The...
17 October 2016 | Shenzhen
X Information Modeling: Data-Driven Decision Making in the Design of Tall Buildings
This presentation outlined X-Information Modeling or XIM, a method of data-driven decision-making for the design of tall buildings. Developed over its application on more than...
27 October 2015 | New York City
Ping An: Insurance and Tall Buildings
The Ping An Finance Center is located at the commercial center of the Futian District in Shenzhen, on the southwest intersection of Fuhua Road and...
10 June 2015 | Shenzhen
The Shenzhen Ping An Financial Centre Construction and Development Co. Ltd. examines Ping An Finance Center and it's construction progress.
18 September 2014 | Shanghai
Interview: Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang
Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang of Ping An Financial Centre Construction and Development is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2014 CTBUH Shanghai Conference at the...
18 September 2014 | Shanghai
High-Performance Sustainable Ultra High-Rise: Case Study of Ping An Finance Center
The Ping An Finance Center that has adopted a low energy, high-performance sustainable building model. With a focus on effective elevator systems, an efficient façade,...
18 September 2014 | Shanghai
Engineering Contractor Management
Designing and planning for the construction of the Ping An Finance Center required a number of innovative engineering solutions regarding vertical shipping, labor allocation, large...
18 September 2014 | Shanghai
Power, Elevators & Customer Oriented Sustainability Strategies: PAFC
This presentation outlines the engineering design solutions that were used for the Ping An Finance Center in order to provide a reliable power supply, expedient...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Ping An Finance Center: The Development and Construction of a Megatall
The extraordinary megatall tower adopts extraordinary shape-optimization techniques and requires unprecedented levels of coordination to achieve its unique form.
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
2014 Shanghai International Conference - Ping An Tower Room, S3 - Q & A
2014 Shanghai International Conference Ping An Tower Room, S3 Questions & Answers session with speakers Wing Kan (Ken) Wong, Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center Construction...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
The Application and Management of BIM in Ping An Finance Center
BIM (Building Information Management) is an emerging technology that gives engineers a new way of expressing complex spatial representations in high-rise buildings. The Ping An...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
2014 Shanghai International Conference - Ping An Tower Room, Session 2 - Q & A
2014 Shanghai International Conference Ping An Tower Room, Session 2 Questions & Answers session with speakers Dennis Poon, Thornton Tomasetti, Yuqi Zhou, CSCEC1B, and Yinghou...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Some Aspects of Construction Management in Ping An Finance Center
There are several valuable construction management experiences from the Ping An Finance Center that are worth sharing. This presentation will discuss several studies performed for...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Project Management Outline and Difficulties of Ping An Finance Center
The project management requirements for supertall (300-meter) and megatall (600-meter) projects are vastly different – often requiring additional considerations in terms of construction costs, construction...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Cost Planning and Control of Tall Buildings: The Case of Ping An Finance Center
For tall buildings to be financially viable, effective cost planning and control of construction costs is essential in determining project feasibility. As demonstrated in the...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
The Structural Health Monitoring System for Ping An Finance Center
The Ping An Finance Center contains breakthrough structural health monitoring systems that make the building an important test platform for: the verification of various damage...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Key Technologies for the Structure Construction in the Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center
This presentation will introduce the key technologies used for the structural construction of the 660-metertall Ping An Finance Center: the deep foundation pit, large diameter...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Ping An IFC: Economical & Efficient Solutions
With the completion of the 500m+ Ping An Finance Center, our era presents the question of whether traditional structural systems and design approaches are still...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
2014 Shanghai International Conference - Ping An Tower Room, Session 1 - Q & A
2014 Shanghai International Conference Ping An Tower Room, Session 1 Questions & Answers session with speakers Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Designing China’s Tallest: DNA of the Ping An Finance Center
Rather than attempting to radically redefine how contemporary skyscrapers are designed, KPF architects prefer to adopt an approach of continuous refinement; drawing from successful high-rise...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
Brief on the Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center Project Development
Targeted for completion in 2016, the Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center is a project that represents a significant triumph for the Ping An Group, who...
17 September 2014 | Shanghai
2014 Shanghai International Conference - Opening Plenary - Q & A
2014 Shanghai International Conference Opening Plenary Questions & Answers session with speakers Antony Wood, CTBUH Executive Director / IIT / Tongji University, Jianping Gu, Shanghai...
16 September 2014 | Shanghai
Stainless Steel Claddings for High-Rise Architecture
Especially during the last 20 years stainless steel has become an approved and much valued cladding material for sophisticated architecture. Starting with the first architectural...
16 September 2014 | Shanghai
Dennis Poon of Thornton Tomasetti is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2014 CTBUH Shanghai Conference at the Jin Mao Tower. Dennis discusses the evolution...
11 June 2013 | London
Session 2: What Contributes Most to Sustainability in Tall Buildings?
The next generation of tall buildings will be judged on more than sheer height or aesthetic appearance. In the context of sustainability, they will also...
20 September 2012 | Shanghai
Interview: China's Future Tallest
David Malott of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates is interviewed by Jeff Herzer during the 2012 CTBUH Shanghai Congress at the Jin Mao, Shanghai. David discusses...
20 September 2012 | Shanghai
Ping An Finance Center: Pioneering China’s Tallest – Efficiencies of Form and Structures
Upon completion in 2015, the Ping An Finance Center will join an elite group of megatall buildings. This presentation discusses using the Ping An Finance...
19 September 2012 | Shanghai
Interview: Ping An Finance Center
Vincent Tse of Parsons Brinckerhoff is interviewed by Jeff Herzer during the 2012 CTBUH Shanghai Congress at the Jin Mao, Shanghai. Vincent talks about the...
18 September 2012 | Shanghai
Interview: Shanghai Tower and Ping An Finance Center
Dennis Poon of Thornton Tomasetti is interviewed by Jeff Herzer during the 2012 CTBUH Shanghai Congress at the Jin Mao, Shanghai. Dennis discusses two megatall...
11 October 2011 | Seoul
The Challenges for Supertall Building Structural Design and Sustainability Issues
Upon completion in 2014, the Ping An Tower will be the tallest tower in China, and the centerpiece of the growing Shenzhen skyline located just...
03 February 2010 | Mumbai
Symbiosis: Supertalls and Future Cities
KPF has designed some of the most iconic tall buildings around the world, including the Shanghai World Financial Centre which won the CTBUH 2008 Best...
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Research
12 January 2021
The Global Tall Building Picture: Impact of 2020
CTBUH Research
The tall buildings completed in 2020 have pushed the global average height of the 100 tallest buildings to 399 meters. Across the year, 14 buildings...
20 March 2020
The Tallest 20 in 2020: Predictions vs. Reality
CTBUH Research
In the first edition of the 2012 Journal, CTBUH published a Tall Buildings in Numbers study titled Tallest 20 in 2020: Era of the Megatall—The...
20 March 2020
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...
30 January 2020
The Global Tall Building Picture: Impact of 2019
CTBUH Research
In 2019, 126 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This was a 13.7 percent decrease from 146 in 2018. The total number...
12 December 2019
Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2019
CTBUH Research
The year 2019 was remarkable for the tall building industry, with 26 supertall buildings (300 meters or taller) completed, the most in any year. This...
25 April 2019
Best Tall Buildings 2019: Dominant Trends
CTBUH
This year, CTBUH has vastly expanded its Awards program to consider the Best Tall Building category through several classes of height, rather than geographic regions,...
31 January 2019
The Global Tall Building Picture: Impact of 2018
CTBUH Research
In 2018, 143 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This is a slight decrease from 2017’s record-breaking total of 147, and it...
30 July 2018
World’s Tallest Buildings with Dampers
CTBUH Research
As tall buildings continue to be built in seismically-active and cyclone-prone areas, the need to augment the structures of these buildings with dynamic modification devices...
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05 February 2018
2017: Skyscraper History’s Tallest, Highest- Volume, and Most Geographically Diverse Year
This 2017 Tall Building Year in Review / Tall Buildings in Numbers data analysis report shows that more buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater...
01 February 2018
The Global Tall Building Picture: Impact of 2017
CTBUH Staff, CTBUH
In 2017, 144 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This is the fourth record-breaking year in a row, and it brings the...
17 October 2016
Coupling of Urban-Value & Mega High-Rise: Ping An Finance Center
Fang Xie & Xia Ai, CCDI Group
If the city is seen as a giant business, what is driving its market value? The height of the building is clearly one of the...
17 October 2016
Cities to Megacities: Perspectives
CTBUH 2016 Conference Speakers
The CTBUH 2016 International Conference is being held in the three cities of the Pearl River Delta, the world’s largest “megacity,” projected to have 120...
17 October 2016
Intelligent Advances in Ping An Tower
Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Ping An Financial Centre Construction & Development
This paper presents client requirements on both functional and aesthetic aspects for four mega-scale gates on the Ping An Financial Centre (PAFC) north tower. The...
17 October 2016
The Façade Lighting of Ping An Finance Center
Yuanhuan Meng, Panli Deng, Yongqiang Chao & Linbo Wang, Beijing Fortune Lighting System Engineering Co., Ltd.
Our Company, as the general contractor of the façade lighting engineering for this project, created a series of optimization designs in the process of implementation...
17 October 2016
Mega Size Mixed-Use Projects: Redefining Vertical Urbanism
Dennis Poon & Larry B. Giannechini, Thornton Tomasetti
As the draw to urban centers increases drastically with financial growth and global influence, emerging markets seek to develop salient markers of success and hope....
17 October 2016
Mixed Use Tall Buildings – The Challenges and Benefits of Vertical Urbanization
Samuel So, Colin Dowall & Michael George, JLL
China is the global epicenter of mankind’s mass urbanization and the exploding growth of global cities. China is the unrivaled leader in the development of...
26 October 2015
Ping An: Insurance and Tall Buildings
Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Ping An Financial Centre Construction & Development; Stephen Yuan, Ping An Casualty & Property Insurance Company of China, Ltd.
The Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen will become one of the most significant tall buildings in China and the world when completed in 2016....
26 October 2015
New Developments on Stainless Steel Façades with Regard to Reflectance, Corrosion and Aesthetics
Joern Teipel, Outokumpu
Stainless steel is a key material in modern skyscraper architecture, exploiting the material’s sustainability, functionality and aesthetics. After an outline on some general features of...
31 December 2014
Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2014
Daniel Safarik, Antony Wood, Marty Carver & Marshall Gerometta, CTBUH
An All-Time Record 97 Buildings of 200 Meters or Higher Completed in 2014 and 2014 showed further shifts towards Asia, and also surprising developments in...
16 September 2014
Dr. Jörn Teipel & Gert Weiss, Outokumpu EMEA GmbH
Especially during the last 20 years, stainless steel has become an approved and much-valued cladding material for sophisticated architecture. This chapter introduces the embossed stainless...
16 September 2014
Yuqi Zhou, Ruohui Sun, Gang Xue & Qiang Zuo, China Construction First Division Group Construction & Development Co., Ltd.
This chapter introduces the key technologies for the structural construction of the Ping An Finance Center from six perspectives regarding the deep foundation pit, large...
16 September 2014
Engineering Contractor Management
Jian Zhong & Zhengkai Huang, China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Second Installation Company
Megatall high-rise projects face difficulties that require innovative solutions in terms of material coordination, allocation of labor resources, large massing, complex multi-system engineering, noise control,...
16 September 2014
Key Aspects of Construction Management
Tak Hung Yung, Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center Construction & Development Co., Ltd.
In general, construction management embraces topics such as programs, progress, quality control, and construction methods, all of which somehow correlate to each other. During the...
16 September 2014
The Application and Management of BIM
Fang Xie & Jiang Qian, CCDI Group
BIM is increasingly being used in the architecture and engineering industries. Its three-dimensional representation, digital information management, as well as the platform model-sharing mode, brings...
16 September 2014
Project Management Outline and Challenges
Wing Kan (Ken) Wong, Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang & Qi Ming (Andy) Liang, Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center Construction & Development Co., Ltd.
Design requirements between skyscrapers of 600 meters and 300 meters high are different, including construction costs, construction speed, construction technology, quality control and assurance, and...
16 September 2014
Advantages of Early Design Consultant and Contractor Coordination
The Ping An Finance Center required a tremendous effort to coordinate design/engineering and construction trades. This began very early in the design process and will...
16 September 2014
Ping An Finance Center: The Development and Construction of a Megatall
Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Shenzhen Ping An Financial Center Construction & Development
The extraordinary megatall tower adopts extraordinary shape-optimization techniques and requires unprecedented levels of coordination to achieve its unique form.
16 September 2014
Economical & Efficient Structural Solutions
Dennis Poon, Yi Zhu, Steve Pacitto & Steve Zuo, Thornton Tomasetti Inc.
With the completion of the Ping An Finance Center (PAFC) in 2016, one of the tallest towers in China and the world will be unveiled....
16 September 2014
Designing China’s Tallest: DNA of the Ping An Finance Center
David Malott, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
The Ping An Finance Center is the next generation of the prototypical Asian skyscraper: megatall, hyper-dense, and highly connected. Encoded in the design of PAFC...
16 September 2014
The Structural Health Monitoring System
Qiusheng Li & Yinghou He, City University of Hong Kong; Wang Hui & Kailin Ju, Hunan University
A sophisticated and comprehensive structural health monitoring (SHM) system was designed to monitor the Ping An Finance Center (PAFC)’s continuous static and dynamic response to...
16 September 2014
Power, Elevator and Customer-Oriented Sustainability Strategies
Tony Lau, J. Roger Preston Limited
Being a world-class skyscraper with international corporate tenants, reliable power supply, expedient elevatoring service and customer-oriented sustainability pose formidable challenges on a building like PAFC....
16 September 2014
Kenneth Kwan, Rider Levett Bucknall Ltd.
This chapter looks at the major cost drivers of tall buildings such as the overall design planning, foundation and substructure, structure, façade, architectural works, interior...
16 September 2014
A Balancing Act for the Curtain-Wall Design
Joe Theodore Khoury, ALT Limited
This chapter provides a general overview of designing the curtain wall system of a high-rise structure. The past years have borne witness to the transformation...
16 September 2014
Designing a High-Performance Sustainable Megatall
Sai Yau (Vincent) Cheng, Chun Kuen (Jimmy) Tong & Wai Ho Leung, Arup
This chapter summarizes the characteristics of high-rise development and related considerations on building energy during design. The chapter introduces the Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center...
14 September 2014
Towards Sustainable Vertical Urbanism
Daniel Safarik, CTBUH
The survival of humanity on this planet relies on a radical repositioning of our cities. In the face of unprecedented global population growth, urbanization, pollution...
01 September 2014
Innovative High Efficient Construction Technologies in Super High Rise Steel Structure Buildings
Lixian Dai & Biao Liao, China Construction Steel Structure Corporation
The super high rise building construction is characterized by a large quantity of engineering works and structural components, high demanding of construction technology and complex...
23 September 2012
The Tallest 15 Cities in China
CTBUH Research
With over 1.3 billion citizens and a rapidly urbanizing population, China is developing tall buildings more than any other country globally. Currently it has 239...
19 September 2012
Ping An Finance Center: Pioneering China’s Tallest – Efficiencies of Form and Structures
David Malott & Zhizhe Yu, KPF; Dennis Poon & Torsten Gottlebe, Thornton Tomasetti
Upon completion in 2015, the Ping An Finance Center - set to become the second tallest structure in the world and the tallest in China...
18 January 2012
The Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the Era of the Megatall
Nathaniel Hollister & Antony Wood, CTBUH
Within this decade we will likely witness not only the world’s first kilometer-tall building, but also the completion of a significant number of buildings over...
12 January 2021
The Global Tall Building Picture: Impact of 2020
CTBUH Research
The tall buildings completed in 2020 have pushed the global average height of the 100 tallest buildings to 399 meters. Across the year, 14 buildings...
20 March 2020
The Tallest 20 in 2020: Predictions vs. Reality
CTBUH Research
In the first edition of the 2012 Journal, CTBUH published a Tall Buildings in Numbers study titled Tallest 20 in 2020: Era of the Megatall—The...
20 March 2020
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...
30 January 2020
The Global Tall Building Picture: Impact of 2019
CTBUH Research
In 2019, 126 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This was a 13.7 percent decrease from 146 in 2018. The total number...
12 December 2019
Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2019
CTBUH Research
The year 2019 was remarkable for the tall building industry, with 26 supertall buildings (300 meters or taller) completed, the most in any year. This...
25 April 2019
Best Tall Buildings 2019: Dominant Trends
CTBUH
This year, CTBUH has vastly expanded its Awards program to consider the Best Tall Building category through several classes of height, rather than geographic regions,...
31 January 2019
The Global Tall Building Picture: Impact of 2018
CTBUH Research
In 2018, 143 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This is a slight decrease from 2017’s record-breaking total of 147, and it...
30 July 2018
World’s Tallest Buildings with Dampers
CTBUH Research
As tall buildings continue to be built in seismically-active and cyclone-prone areas, the need to augment the structures of these buildings with dynamic modification devices...
05 February 2018
2017: Skyscraper History’s Tallest, Highest- Volume, and Most Geographically Diverse Year
This 2017 Tall Building Year in Review / Tall Buildings in Numbers data analysis report shows that more buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater...
01 February 2018
The Global Tall Building Picture: Impact of 2017
CTBUH Staff, CTBUH
In 2017, 144 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This is the fourth record-breaking year in a row, and it brings the...
17 October 2016
Coupling of Urban-Value & Mega High-Rise: Ping An Finance Center
Fang Xie & Xia Ai, CCDI Group
If the city is seen as a giant business, what is driving its market value? The height of the building is clearly one of the...
17 October 2016
Cities to Megacities: Perspectives
CTBUH 2016 Conference Speakers
The CTBUH 2016 International Conference is being held in the three cities of the Pearl River Delta, the world’s largest “megacity,” projected to have 120...
17 October 2016
Intelligent Advances in Ping An Tower
Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Ping An Financial Centre Construction & Development
This paper presents client requirements on both functional and aesthetic aspects for four mega-scale gates on the Ping An Financial Centre (PAFC) north tower. The...
17 October 2016
The Façade Lighting of Ping An Finance Center
Yuanhuan Meng, Panli Deng, Yongqiang Chao & Linbo Wang, Beijing Fortune Lighting System Engineering Co., Ltd.
Our Company, as the general contractor of the façade lighting engineering for this project, created a series of optimization designs in the process of implementation...
17 October 2016
Mega Size Mixed-Use Projects: Redefining Vertical Urbanism
Dennis Poon & Larry B. Giannechini, Thornton Tomasetti
As the draw to urban centers increases drastically with financial growth and global influence, emerging markets seek to develop salient markers of success and hope....
17 October 2016
Mixed Use Tall Buildings – The Challenges and Benefits of Vertical Urbanization
Samuel So, Colin Dowall & Michael George, JLL
China is the global epicenter of mankind’s mass urbanization and the exploding growth of global cities. China is the unrivaled leader in the development of...
26 October 2015
Ping An: Insurance and Tall Buildings
Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Ping An Financial Centre Construction & Development; Stephen Yuan, Ping An Casualty & Property Insurance Company of China, Ltd.
The Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen will become one of the most significant tall buildings in China and the world when completed in 2016....
26 October 2015
New Developments on Stainless Steel Façades with Regard to Reflectance, Corrosion and Aesthetics
Joern Teipel, Outokumpu
Stainless steel is a key material in modern skyscraper architecture, exploiting the material’s sustainability, functionality and aesthetics. After an outline on some general features of...
31 December 2014
Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2014
Daniel Safarik, Antony Wood, Marty Carver & Marshall Gerometta, CTBUH
An All-Time Record 97 Buildings of 200 Meters or Higher Completed in 2014 and 2014 showed further shifts towards Asia, and also surprising developments in...
16 September 2014
Dr. Jörn Teipel & Gert Weiss, Outokumpu EMEA GmbH
Especially during the last 20 years, stainless steel has become an approved and much-valued cladding material for sophisticated architecture. This chapter introduces the embossed stainless...
16 September 2014
Yuqi Zhou, Ruohui Sun, Gang Xue & Qiang Zuo, China Construction First Division Group Construction & Development Co., Ltd.
This chapter introduces the key technologies for the structural construction of the Ping An Finance Center from six perspectives regarding the deep foundation pit, large...
16 September 2014
Engineering Contractor Management
Jian Zhong & Zhengkai Huang, China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Second Installation Company
Megatall high-rise projects face difficulties that require innovative solutions in terms of material coordination, allocation of labor resources, large massing, complex multi-system engineering, noise control,...
16 September 2014
Key Aspects of Construction Management
Tak Hung Yung, Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center Construction & Development Co., Ltd.
In general, construction management embraces topics such as programs, progress, quality control, and construction methods, all of which somehow correlate to each other. During the...
16 September 2014
The Application and Management of BIM
Fang Xie & Jiang Qian, CCDI Group
BIM is increasingly being used in the architecture and engineering industries. Its three-dimensional representation, digital information management, as well as the platform model-sharing mode, brings...
16 September 2014
Project Management Outline and Challenges
Wing Kan (Ken) Wong, Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang & Qi Ming (Andy) Liang, Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center Construction & Development Co., Ltd.
Design requirements between skyscrapers of 600 meters and 300 meters high are different, including construction costs, construction speed, construction technology, quality control and assurance, and...
16 September 2014
Advantages of Early Design Consultant and Contractor Coordination
The Ping An Finance Center required a tremendous effort to coordinate design/engineering and construction trades. This began very early in the design process and will...
16 September 2014
Ping An Finance Center: The Development and Construction of a Megatall
Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Shenzhen Ping An Financial Center Construction & Development
The extraordinary megatall tower adopts extraordinary shape-optimization techniques and requires unprecedented levels of coordination to achieve its unique form.
16 September 2014
Economical & Efficient Structural Solutions
Dennis Poon, Yi Zhu, Steve Pacitto & Steve Zuo, Thornton Tomasetti Inc.
With the completion of the Ping An Finance Center (PAFC) in 2016, one of the tallest towers in China and the world will be unveiled....
16 September 2014
Designing China’s Tallest: DNA of the Ping An Finance Center
David Malott, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
The Ping An Finance Center is the next generation of the prototypical Asian skyscraper: megatall, hyper-dense, and highly connected. Encoded in the design of PAFC...
16 September 2014
The Structural Health Monitoring System
Qiusheng Li & Yinghou He, City University of Hong Kong; Wang Hui & Kailin Ju, Hunan University
A sophisticated and comprehensive structural health monitoring (SHM) system was designed to monitor the Ping An Finance Center (PAFC)’s continuous static and dynamic response to...
16 September 2014
Power, Elevator and Customer-Oriented Sustainability Strategies
Tony Lau, J. Roger Preston Limited
Being a world-class skyscraper with international corporate tenants, reliable power supply, expedient elevatoring service and customer-oriented sustainability pose formidable challenges on a building like PAFC....
16 September 2014
Kenneth Kwan, Rider Levett Bucknall Ltd.
This chapter looks at the major cost drivers of tall buildings such as the overall design planning, foundation and substructure, structure, façade, architectural works, interior...
16 September 2014
A Balancing Act for the Curtain-Wall Design
Joe Theodore Khoury, ALT Limited
This chapter provides a general overview of designing the curtain wall system of a high-rise structure. The past years have borne witness to the transformation...
16 September 2014
Designing a High-Performance Sustainable Megatall
Sai Yau (Vincent) Cheng, Chun Kuen (Jimmy) Tong & Wai Ho Leung, Arup
This chapter summarizes the characteristics of high-rise development and related considerations on building energy during design. The chapter introduces the Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center...
14 September 2014
Towards Sustainable Vertical Urbanism
Daniel Safarik, CTBUH
The survival of humanity on this planet relies on a radical repositioning of our cities. In the face of unprecedented global population growth, urbanization, pollution...
01 September 2014
Innovative High Efficient Construction Technologies in Super High Rise Steel Structure Buildings
Lixian Dai & Biao Liao, China Construction Steel Structure Corporation
The super high rise building construction is characterized by a large quantity of engineering works and structural components, high demanding of construction technology and complex...
23 September 2012
The Tallest 15 Cities in China
CTBUH Research
With over 1.3 billion citizens and a rapidly urbanizing population, China is developing tall buildings more than any other country globally. Currently it has 239...
19 September 2012
Ping An Finance Center: Pioneering China’s Tallest – Efficiencies of Form and Structures
David Malott & Zhizhe Yu, KPF; Dennis Poon & Torsten Gottlebe, Thornton Tomasetti
Upon completion in 2015, the Ping An Finance Center - set to become the second tallest structure in the world and the tallest in China...
18 January 2012
The Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the Era of the Megatall
Nathaniel Hollister & Antony Wood, CTBUH
Within this decade we will likely witness not only the world’s first kilometer-tall building, but also the completion of a significant number of buildings over...
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CTBUH Initiatives Involving Ping An Financial Center Construction & Development
CTBUH China Hosts Tall Building Symposium
19 June 2018
CTBUH China held its board meeting at Tongji University in Shanghai, which was followed by a half-day symposium titled "The Future of Vertical Cities"
CTBUH 2016 Conference Diamond Sponsor
16–21 October 2016
Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism takes place progressively across three Chinese cities: Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong.
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.
Inaugural Steering Committee Meetings in All Three Cities
10–20 January 2016
Plans for the 2016 CTBUH Conference are now well underway, beginning with initial meetings of the Conference Steering Committee in all three cities.
CTBUH China Office Kicks Off
18 March 2015
The CTBUH China Office / Asia Headquarters officially launched at CAUP at Tongji University with the inaugural board meeting and a reception
Shenzhen Regional Tour Report
21 September 2014
In Shenzhen attendees toured the sky lobby of Ping An Finance Center. Attendees enjoyed a traditional Chinese lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel before continuing to KK100.
CTBUH 2014 Shanghai Conference Diamond Sponsor
16–19 September 2014
The survival of humanity relies on a radical repositioning of our cities to develop them beyond a collection of disparate icons, towards a vision of a Sustainable Vertical Urbanism.
CTBUH Leaders Tour Ping An Tower
18 October 2013
Executive Director Antony Wood and Trustee David Malott were treated to a high-octane tour of the under-construction Ping An Financial Center tower by its developer’s CEO.
Ctbuh Leaders At Ping An Real Estate Co Ltd
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