Height and Data

On Monday, 24 June 2024 the CTBUH Height & Data Committee met for the first time since 2022, reinvigorating and relaunching this prestigious CTBUH committee under the leadership of the new Chair, Terri Meyer Boake, a CTBUH Fellow and Full Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo in Canada, who joined the CTBUH staff in Chicago for this milestone.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is reinvigorating its Height and Data Committee, seeking new members to join under the leadership of Terri Meyer Boake, from the University of Waterloo, who has been named the new Chair of the committee.

The CTBUH Height and Data Committee met to discuss several key definitions of structural types, as well as some urban-scale considerations.

CTBUH Leaders convened on Day 1 of the 2018 Middle East Conference for updates on the year's developments and to plan for 2019.

CTBUH is reinvigorating its Height and Data Committee, seeking new members to join under the leadership of Scott Duncan, SOM, who has been named the new Chair.

The Annual Leaders Meeting was held this year in conjunction with the 2016 Conference in China, bringing together the Council’s leaders from around the world.

After providing a snapshot of the Height Committee’s duties and past actions since its last meeting, Height Committee Chair Peter Weismantle led a discussion on a series of topics.

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CTBUH height criteria was used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Geodetic Survey to determine the true architectural height of the Washington Monument.

The following topics were addressed: co-joined buildings, criteria for completion, gross-to-net building height, and structural definitions.

The CTBUH Height Committee reached a consensus that One World Trade Center’s height to its architectural top is 1,776 feet (541.3 meters).

One World Trade Center have raised questions about the ultimate height of the tower, which is currently planned as the tallest building in North America.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has launched The Skyscraper Center, the world’s most comprehensive resource for data and information on tall buildings.

Within this decade we will likely witness not only the world’s first kilometer-tall building, but also the completion of a significant number of buildings over 600 meters.

Tall building industry leaders from around the globe met at the seminal Dongbu Financial Center tower for the 2011 CTBUH Leaders Meeting.

This article describes some of the events which took place in the Council's long, and sometimes complex, history of measuring tall buildings.

CTBUH announced a change to its height criteria, as a reflection of recent developments with several supertall buildings.

Attended by 27 representatives from 5 countries, this meeting typified the complex factors involved in the determining of height, and the title of ‘The World’s Tallest.'