Data Studies
The Research & Thought Leadership division of the CTBUH performs objective research at all scales and distributes findings in the form of data studies that highlight critical issues facing tall buildings and future cities.
Latest Study
17 September 2021 | Tall Buildings in Numbers
Emissions-Reduction Strategies
The construction sector accounts for 39 percent of all global emissions, but to avoid catastrophic climate-related disasters, these emissions must be reduced significantly, with many predicting that all buildings must be net-zero carbon by 2050 to meet our climate goals. Strategies have been deployed internationally to reduce a building’s emission...
All Studies
20 March 2020 | CTBUH Journal 2020 Issue II
Interactive Study on The Tallest 20 in 2020: Then and Now
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 Era of the Megatall,” assessing the...
12 December 2019 | CTBUH Journal 2020 Issue I
Interactive Study on Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2019
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 is the second consecutive year...
11 October 2019 | CTBUH Journal 2019 Issue IV
Tall Buildings in Numbers: 50 Years of Tall Building Evolution
The default image of the skyscraper for the past 50 years in the public imagination has likely been the extruded, rectilinear corporate “box,” derived from the postwar model of min...
29 July 2019 | CTBUH Journal Issue III
Highest Special-Purpose Spaces
Since humans first began constructing tall buildings, history has been cluttered with claims of all manner of “highest” records. In this study, we examine those claims to unconvent...
25 April 2019 | CTBUH Journal 2019 Issue II
Tall Buildings in Numbers: World's Tallest Offset-Core Buildings
There has long been an interest in separating the service cores of tall buildings from the main programmed areas – to create more column-free, easily-configured floor space; to sym...
31 January 2019 | CTBUH Journal 2019 Issue I
Interactive Study on Tall Buildings in Numbers: 2018 Year in Review
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 brings the total number of 200-me...
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