01 August 2020

Assessment of Risk Factors to Cost and Schedule in High-Rise Building Projects

Gunes Bardakci, AECOM

High-rise projects routinely suffer from delays and cost overruns, which can result in severe economic consequences, or even failure to complete. The lack of risk...

30 January 2020

Tall Building Predictions for 2020

CTBUH Research

The combined brains of the CTBUH editorial and database staff boldly predict what might happen across the global skyscraper industry in 2020. Check out our...

17 October 2016

Structural Challenges with the SOCAR Tower in Baku, a New Megacity in the Caspian Region

Hi Sun Choi & Onur Ihtiyar, Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.; Young Kyoon Jeong & Hyungsup Sim, Heerim Architects & Planners

Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, has been rapidly transforming into a hub of high-rise buildings and cultural centers in the Caspian region. Baku’s population now...

26 October 2015

SOCAR Tower: Starting Skyscraper City of Baku, Azerbaijan

Young Kyoon Jeong, Sung Mo Eu, Jin H. Roh & Hyungsup Sim, Heerim Architects & Planners

City of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, has transformed from its state of a traditionally low rise city to that of a modern skyscraper city...