About

Member Since: 2009

Member Offices: Dallas

Website: http://www.cdc-usa.com/

CDC is a world leader in design and consulting services for state-of-the-art building envelope systems. Founded in 1973, CDC operates as a 100% Employee-owned and operated organization.

As a professional services firm, they provide design and engineering for some of the most well-known façade cladding manufacturers in the world, providing design support for established and tested systems, creating new systems, and assisting in development of innovative new approaches to cladding execution.

The quality distinction that CDC provides to clients is a product of their experienced staff and their dedication to excellence in their respective specialty.

Fields of Expertise

Façade Design / Engineering

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Makkah Royal Clock Tower

601 m / 1,972 ft

2 Lotte World Tower

555 m / 1,819 ft

4 Trump International Hotel & Tower

423 m / 1,389 ft

5 The St. Regis Chicago

363 m / 1,191 ft

6 Emirates Tower One

355 m / 1,163 ft

7 Burj Al Arab

321 m / 1,053 ft

8 Emirates Tower Two

309 m / 1,014 ft

9 Comcast Center

297 m / 974 ft

10 311 South Wacker Drive

293 m / 961 ft

11 NEMA Chicago

273 m / 896 ft

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Makkah Royal Clock Tower

601 m / 1,972 ft

2 Lotte World Tower

555 m / 1,819 ft

3 Busan Lotte Town Tower

510 m / 1,674 ft

4 Trump International Hotel & Tower

423 m / 1,389 ft

5 The St. Regis Chicago

363 m / 1,191 ft

6 Emirates Tower One

355 m / 1,163 ft

7 Burj Al Arab

321 m / 1,053 ft

8 Emirates Tower Two

309 m / 1,014 ft

9 Comcast Center

297 m / 974 ft

10 311 South Wacker Drive

293 m / 961 ft

11 NEMA Chicago

273 m / 896 ft

12 Bank of America Corporate Center

265 m / 871 ft

13 Aqua at Lakeshore East

262 m / 859 ft

14 Devon Energy Center

257 m / 844 ft

15 Highcliff

252 m / 828 ft

16 The Legacy at Millennium Park

249 m / 818 ft

17 181 Fremont

247 m / 810 ft

18 Chapultepec Uno R-509

241 m / 789 ft

19 609 Main at Texas

230 m / 755 ft

20 Dallas Arts Tower

225 m / 738 ft

21 River Point

223 m / 732 ft

22 FMC Tower at Cira Centre South

223 m / 730 ft

23 Ocean Resort Casino

219 m / 718 ft

24 Oceanwide Plaza Tower I

206 m / 677 ft

25 340 on the Park

205 m / 672 ft

26 1180 Peachtree

200 m / 657 ft

27 Millennium Tower

197 m / 645 ft

28 Duke Energy Plaza

192 m / 629 ft

29 Wynn Las Vegas

187 m / 614 ft

30 Cosmopolitan Casino Spa Tower

184 m / 604 ft

31 Cosmopolitan Casino Beach Club Tower

184 m / 604 ft

32 1144 Fifteenth

184 m / 602 ft

33 Aria Resort & Casino

183 m / 600 ft

34 The Concourse

175 m / 574 ft

35 One South Dearborn

174 m / 571 ft

36 Palmolive Building

172 m / 565 ft

37 Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas

164 m / 539 ft

38 Oceanwide Plaza Tower II

162 m / 530 ft

38 Oceanwide Plaza Tower III

162 m / 530 ft

40 Ayala Tower One

160 m / 525 ft

41 Arthaus

160 m / 525 ft

42 Torre Sofia

158 m / 518 ft

43 191 North Wacker Drive

157 m / 516 ft

44 Frost Bank Tower

157 m / 516 ft

45 Bellagio Resort & Casino

156 m / 511 ft

46 The Grand by Gehry

156 m / 511 ft

47 Al Khatem Tower

155 m / 509 ft

47 Al Maqam Tower

155 m / 509 ft

49 1450 BRICKELL

153 m / 500 ft

50 707 2nd Avenue South

152 m / 498 ft

51 235 West Van Buren

149 m / 490 ft

52 The Bristol

149 m / 488 ft

53 Prism Tower

145 m / 476 ft

54 Capital One Tower

143 m / 470 ft

55 Pacific Gate by Bosa

140 m / 458 ft

56 717 Texas Avenue

138 m / 453 ft

57 Caesars Palace Tower

133 m / 435 ft

58 La Nube

132 m / 433 ft

59 Al Sarab Tower

131 m / 430 ft

59 Al Sila Tower

131 m / 430 ft

61 Kō‘ula

129 m / 423 ft

62 Three Nationwide Plaza

124 m / 408 ft

63 United States Federal Courthouse

119 m / 390 ft

64 Sam Nunn Federal Center

118 m / 388 ft

65 Fubon Fuzhou Financial Center

118 m / 387 ft

66 Wynn Palace

115 m / 377 ft

67 JW Marriott Indianapolis Downtown

115 m / 376 ft

68 Equus 333 Torre 1

112 m / 368 ft

68 Equus 333 Torre 2

112 m / 368 ft

70 45 Province Street

112 m / 367 ft

71 Beau Rivage Casino Hotel

105 m / 346 ft

72 James M. Carter and Judith N. Keep United States Courthouse

102 m / 333 ft

73 Conrad Los Angeles

99 m / 326 ft

74 Fort Worth City Hall

99 m / 324 ft

75 Mickey Leland Federal Building

98 m / 320 ft

76 Equus 333 Torre 3

96 m / 316 ft

77 The Kensington

95 m / 313 ft

78 theWit Hotel

95 m / 311 ft

79 22 West Washington

84 m / 276 ft

80 800 Fulton Market

81 m / 265 ft

81 The Vendome

77 m / 253 ft

82 Turning Stone Resort Casino Tower

77 m

253 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 20 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 1,227 other buildings of the same Hotel function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
83 Hunt Oil Company Headquarters

75 m / 246 ft

84 Robert E. Coyle United States Courthouse

69 m / 226 ft

85 Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

67 m / 220 ft

86 Taipei Performing Arts Center

64 m / 209 ft

87 Mills Park Tower

60 m / 197 ft

88 Hall Arts Center Mixed Use Tower

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89 Hall Arts Center Residential Tower

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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.

International Journal of High-Rise Buildings Vol. 2 No. 4

01 December 2013

The International Journal of High-Rise Buildings, Volume 2: Number 4 includes 8 papers focusing on pure research content and investigations in tall building design.