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.
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23 May 2022 | Tall Buildings in Numbers
Interactive Study - The State of Tall Timber: A Global Audit
This data study represents the significant recent momentum of the mass-timber movement worldwide. There are now 139 mass timber buildings around the world of eight stories or higher, either complete, under construction or proposed*. The data in this study has been collected over nearly a decade of scholarship, ranging from papers published in the C...
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31 December 2010 | CTBUH Journal, 2011 Issue I
Tallest Buildings Completed in 2010
In a year dominated by news coverage of the new “World’s Tallest Building” – Burj Khalifa, Dubai – one may be surprised to learn that, besides being the year in which a building fi...
13 November 2010 | CTBUH Journal, 2010 Issue IV
Tallest World Records
Includes records of the tallest buildings/structures according to function and structural material, the highest spaces according to function, and some lesser-known titles such as t...
9 October 2010 | CTBUH Journal, 2010 Issue III
The Economics of High-rise
Includes comparative studies of high-rise construction costs based on location and building function. Key high-rise cost drivers = shape & geometry, size & regularity of floor pla...
12 June 2008 | CTBUH Journal, 2008 Issue II
The Tallest Buildings in the World: Past, Present & Future
Over time, the average height of the 100 tallest buildings in the world has been steadily increasing. However, by 2010, this average height will have jumped to 349 meters, up from...
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