Middle East
20 September 2021
Towards the Carbon-Neutral High-Rise: The Role of Embodied Carbon
Ali Amiri & Neshat Sakeena, Ramboll Middle East
The built environment sector is responsible for some 39 percent of global carbon emissions. Therefore, decarbonizing the building industry is one of the most effective...
01 February 2021
Value Engineering of Barrette Foundations for Tall Buildings in the Middle East
Sujatha Manoj, Mott MacDonald Group; Deepankar Choudhury, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay; Akash Sharma, Fugro
Large-diameter piles and barrettes are the two most common foundation types for tall buildings in the Middle East region, where ground conditions are challenging due...
28 October 2019
State-of-the-Art Engineering for Supertall Residential Buildings
Murali Guruvappan & Nicholas Antoni Byczynski, WME Consultants
When completed at 471 meters, the SRG Tower in Dubai will be one of the world’s slenderest residential towers. The 111-story supertall tower will be...
31 January 2019
Does A Large-Scale Fire Propagation Test Ensure A Fire-Safe Cladding?
Abhishek Chhabra, Thomas Bell-Wright International Consultants
Substantial tall-building façade fires have continued to take place, even after the world was shocked by the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London in 2017. Much...
31 January 2019
Debating Tall: Tall and Utility-Neutral by 2029?
Kenneth Turner, CallisonRTKL; Mehdi Jalayerian, Environmental Systems Design Inc.
It has long been argued that net-zero-energy skyscrapers are possible. The conversation is now moving beyond the theoretical, as several high-profile commitments have been made...
20 October 2018
Royal Atlantis, Dubai: A Permeable and Polycentric Urbanism
James von Klemperer & Elie Gamburg, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
The Royal Atlantis innovates on typical high-rise hotel and residential design by introducing substantial areas of true open space into all areas of the tower...
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