Secret Engineering Crisis at the Citicorp Building
[Via Building Big] Over the span of two decades the CitiCorp Building in Manhattan had secret repairs made to its structure. Without them the skyscraper may have toppled.
Design Development of the Shanghai Tower
Lecturing at The Skyscraper Museum in 2009, Dennis Poon, structural engineer of the Shanghai Tower, gave an informative and humorous explanation of how his team met the challenges of engineering China’s tallest building. Also featured in the 100-minute presentation were Jun Xia, project architect, and Douglas Mass, MEP engineer. [Via the Skyscraper Museum]
Climbing the Shanghai Tower
Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov, daredevils who recently attracted a good deal of attention for climbing the great pyramid of Giza, have just posted a video in which they scale the entirety of the Shanghai tower, including the 60 foot crane atop the structure. It’s unlikely that Dennis Poon, the lead structural engineer on the Read the full article…