Peter Weismantle

AS+GG, Director of Supertall Building Technology | Chicago, United States

About

Peter A. Weismantle, Director of Supertall Building Technology, is responsible for overseeing the development of AS+GG’s supertall projects from onset to completion. He works in collaboration with the project team to develop the design of such technical elements as the building envelope, vertical transportation and life safety systems, and to assure compliance with applicable building codes and standards.

Before joining AS+GG in 2008, Peter was an Associate Partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he served as Senior Technical Architect on several supertall towers, including Shanghai’s 88-story Jin Mao Tower and the 163-story, 828 meter (2,717 foot) tall Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building.

He also collaborated on Ludgate Development, Broadgate Development and parts of Canary Wharf, all large mixed-use developments in London, as well as the 94-story Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago.

Peter is a Fellow of both the American Institute of Architects and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, is the past-Chairman of the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings, President of the Safety Glazing Certification Council, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, member of the Architectural Advisory Group of Underwriters Laboratories as well as the National Fire Prevention Association’s High Rise Building Safety Advisory Committee.

His work at AS+GG includes Burj 2020, Wuhan Greenland Center, a 125 story, 600+ meter tall, mixed use building in Wuhan, China and Kingdom Tower, a 167 story, 1000+ meter tall, mixed use building in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia which, when completed, will be the tallest building in the world.

Peter has published widely on supertall building technology, including articles in Wiley InterScience Journal—The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, Structure magazine, and the Eighth World Congress Report and Journal of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Illinois, Northwestern University and the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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Awards Fire & Risk Engineering Jury (2020; 2021)

Expert Peer Review Committee, Member (2014 – Present)

Height and Data Committee, Member (2007 – Present)

Working Group: MEP (2018 – Present)

Advisory Group (2015 – 2018)

Advisory Group, Chair (2013 – 2015)

Working Group: Façade Access, Co-Chair (2012 – 2018)

Annual Conference, Presenter (Shanghai 2014; Middle East 2018; Chicago 2019)

CTBUH Initiatives

Two New CTBUH Technical Guides Released

08 November 2018

Record Numbers Convene at 2018 Leaders Meeting

20 October 2018

Height & Data Committee Meets at 2018 Middle East Conference

20 October 2018

Videos

18 September 2014

Measuring Tall Buildings: Has CTBUH got its Height Criteria Correct?

One of the roles of the CTBUH is to be a “voice of reason” as the arbiter of building height claims, and to be consistent...

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Research

28 October 2019

Fifty Years of Fire Safety In Supertall Buildings

Peter Weismantle, AS+GG; James Antell, Telgian Engineering & Consulting

As international design teams participated in the development of high-rise structures around the world, many of the concepts of fire-safe design first introduced in the...

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Research

01 March 2018

Challenges in the Architectural Technical Design of the New Generation of Supertall Buildings

Peter A. Weismantle, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

The design of a supertall building poses many challenges to the architect and engineer. Using Jeddah Tower as a case study; this paper intends to...

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