The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings:
CTBUH Special Edition, Issue 1, December 2007
(Volume 16, Number 4, Pages 333-533).

Editor's Note
Antony Wood, CTBUH Executive Director and Special Edition Editor

It is with great pleasure that we see the inaugural edition of this seminal publication come to fruition— the results of several years of collaborative dialogue between journal editor Gary Hart, myself at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, and John Wiley & Sons, the Publishers of the journal The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings. Over the past 15 years, Gary and the Publishers have crafted this journal to be the foremost research-scholarly journal focused on tall buildings in existence. In fact, with the exception of our own CTBUH Journal—a professional/association journal—there are very few journals focused on tall buildings in existence internationally. Given the resurgence of money and effort being poured into built tall buildings internationally in the past decade or so—in intellectual and research terms as well as physically—this is additionally surprising. A desire from the CTBUH to promote more outlets for the publication of scholarly research work in the field of tall buildings was thus the driving point behind the dialogue with the Publishers. Further, though, there is an increasing need for more multidisciplinary dialogue, especially as the boundaries of what is possible in tall building design increase, the impact on one discipline on another becomes more signifi cant, and the major challenge which binds us all together—how to create more sustainable cities and patterns of life—becomes more pressing. This inaugural edition of the CTBUH special issue of The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings is thus somewhat of an experiment in the multidisciplinary journal field. As well as including several involved structural papers, these sit alongside forays into architecture–design, fire engineering and even tall building economics. The result is a snapshot of current best practice in the tall building industry, and an indication of where the field is perhaps heading.

Antony Wood   Editor's Note
Antony Wood

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Peter Weismantle   Burj Dubai: an architectural technical design case study (p 335-360)
Peter A. Weismantle, Gregory L. Smith, Mohamed Sheriff

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William Baker   Burj Dubai: engineering the world's tallest building (p 361-375)
William F. Baker, D. Stanton Korista, Lawrence C. Novak

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Bob Halvorson   Structural design innovation: Russia Tower (p 377-399)
Robert Halvorson, Carrie Warner

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Antony Wood   Sustainability: a new high-rise vernacular? (p 401-410)
Antony Wood

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Ken Yeang   Designing the ecoskyscraper: premises for tall building design (p 411-427)
Ken Yeang, Robert Powell

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Richard Smith     Bahrain World Trade Center (BWTC): the first large-scale integration of wind turbines in a building (p 429-439)
Richard F. Smith, Shaun Killa

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David Scott   The effects of complex geometry on Tall Towers (p 441-455)
David Scott, David Farnsworth, Matt Jackson, Matt Clark

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Steve Watts   The economics of super-tall towers (p 457-470)
Steve Watts, Neal Kalita, Michael Maclean

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Tracy Kijewski-Correa   Dynamic behavior of tall buildings under wind: insights from full-scale monitoring (p 471-486)
Tracy Kijewski-Correa, J. David Pirnia

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Simon Lay   Alternative evacuation design solutions for high-rise buildings (p 487-500)
Simon Lay

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Rob J Smith   The damped outrigger concept for tall buildings (p 501-517)
Rob J. Smith, Michael R. Willford

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Clive Robinson   Structural BIM: discussion, case studies and latest developments
(p 519-533)
Clive Robinson

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