Having recently reached a height of 113 meters, the contender for the title of the world’s tallest building is slowly growing up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Jerusalem officials have ordered Eden Tower, a planned mixed-use skyscraper adjacent to the city’s main outdoor market, to be reduced in height to 108 from 165 meters.
Conservationists are celebrating a new law in California that expands the state’s building energy-use benchmarking program to include multifamily housing and facilitates the implementation of the state’s log-jammed commercialbuilding benchmarking program.
Using a free Web application from Steel Central LLC, structural-steel buyers and sellers can enter the electronic age of commerce and speed their transactions.
Fremont will be the first U.S. skyscraper to use all elevators for evacuation. In a U.S. first, a high-rise, when completed by the end of next year, will contain an elevator system that operates during fires to evacuate occupants.