Sustainable High-Rise Buildings: Design, technology, and innovation

Cities are building upward due to urban population growth, land prices, and preservation, urban regeneration, globalization, and climate change. Smart technologies are being integrated to create sustainable high-rise buildings that are energy-efficient, safe, and secure. This comprehensive edited book covers state-of-the-art research, innovations, and future perspectives towards sustainable high-rise buildings, including environmental systems, skybridges, curtain walling resiliency, tall timber buildings, structural engineering, core design, space efficiency, seismic design, mass-damping-based approaches, bio-polymeric agro-based materials, transit-oriented development, mobility and urban space networks, resilience thinking, and interdependence of tall buildings and the city.

Format: Hardback
Length: 672 pages
Publication date: 24 November 2022
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology

The rapid surge in urban populations, soaring land prices, and the urgent need for land preservation have propelled cities to construct towering structures. Urban regeneration, globalization, and climate change have further intensified this trend. While high-rises can be part of a sustainable solution, addressing the complex construction and engineering challenges before the commencement of construction is crucial. Smart technologies are being seamlessly integrated into the digital realm to enhance energy efficiency, safety, and security while optimizing the health and well-being of occupants.

Delivered by a team of esteemed experts, this comprehensive edited book offers a cutting-edge exploration of advanced research, innovations, and future perspectives in sustainable high-rise buildings. Structured into three parts encompassing architecture, engineering, and city planning, it delves into sustainable environmental systems, skybridges, curtain walling resiliency, tall timber structures, sustainable structural engineering, core design, and space efficiency. Additionally, it covers seismic design, mass-damping-based approaches, innovative bio-polymeric agro-based materials, the comparison between high-rises and sprawl, transit-oriented development, mobility and urban space networks, resilience thinking, and the interconnectedness of tall buildings and cities.

Architects, engineers, researchers, energy and facility managers, urban designers, project planners, and developers, as well as faculty members, postdocs, advanced students, and professionals engaged in the fields of the built environment, building construction, system design, civil engineering, architecture, urban planning, smart cities, sustainability, resiliency, and environmental engineering, will find this new advanced reference invaluable and highly inspiring.

Weight: 1254g
Dimension: 166 x 243 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781839532801