Indoor air quality (IAQ) in a building is a very important element to ensure the health and
comfort level of the building occupants. This is because work productivity may be interrupted …

Prompted by the high cost of building materials as well as the amount of dead load weight
generated by block wall on beams and columns in partitioning works most especially in high …

This work is related to some investigations carried out on composite steel concrete structural
shear walls with steel encased profiles subjected to vertical and horizontal loads, simulating …

The goal of this chapter is to showcase high-rise buildings in Cairo and assess their level of
sustainability. This chapter describes and argues how high-rise buildings can contribute to …

Tall building construction has increased rapidly in Turkey especially in metropolitans such
as Istanbul, Ankara, and Bursa. These buildings are subjected to different kinds of loads …

The tall building's height recently has exceeded a thousand meters. An appropriate lateral
load resisting system to drift-control seems necessary. Considering that the lateral …

Özet Hızlı kentleşme, bilimsel ve teknolojik ilerleme ile ekonomik gelişmelerin ortak kesişim
noktasında yer alan yüksek yapılar başta birer ofis yapısı iken günümüzde sayıları giderek …

One of the most important points of interest for designers in the construction of the tall
building is to create a large entrance to the lower floors of the building. The need for such …

The effect of high-rise fires on building code changes is illustrated through three cases
studies: one in Philadelphia and two more recent in Chicago. An indepth statistical analysis …