High-rise Construction Research Articles

Fiber-Reinforced Composites in Operative Dentistry (A Literature Review)

Fiber-based composite materials have gotten a lot of interest because of their strength, toughness, corrosion resistance, and lightweight.By functionally modifying the fiber components, fiber-based composite materials can preserve their original qualities while enhancing or overcoming the drawbacks of any single material.Composites constructed from modified fibers are highly suited for usage in a range of industries, including aerospace, high-rise construction, bridge and highway building, and maritime infrastructure, because of their excellent mechanical qualities, impact resistance, wear resistance, and fire resistance.Offering a solid scientific basis for the synthesis of fiber-based composites and their practical applications is the aim of this research.

Analyzing morphologic dynamics in poor urban areas through earth observation: The case of the Purulia, West Bengal, India

The slum is the shadow of urbanization, representing a lack of essential services, substandard housing, a congested, unhygienic environment, and poverty. Slum morphology depicts the structural arrangement of a slum area, including the road network, building arrangement, cultural artefacts, etc. Slums in megacities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, etc, have developed naturally or as a result of urbanization. However, apart from megacities, only some areas or few towns, particularly those serving as headquarters of the districts, have a considerable impact on their hinterlands. Purulia town, as the district headquarters, acts as a pull factor, which stimulates the growth of the slum area of its hinterland. Hence, Purulia was selected as a study area. The focus of this study is the morphological dynamicity of slums in Purulia, therefore the temporal analysis is necessary. Additionally, it aims to apprehend the trend and pattern of slum expansion over time in Purulia municipality. This study uses satellite images and secondary data sources (DPR for BLC under Housing for All in slums, Purulia Municipality, 2015–2016) to analyze the dynamicity of slum morphology. Structural appurtenance of the area was measured using spatial variables including, the number of buildings, and the size of the building, building orientation, building density, and heterogeneity. This spatiotemporal analysis depicts inter and intra-slum variation and detects distinct but predominantly high morphological transformation throughout the eight slums. A compact building structure with a particular heterogeneous pattern is shown in many slums. However, some slums remain almost static, experiencing minimal but haphazard morphological transformation. Street patterns, including lane-to-lane, road-to-lane, house-to-house connections, water bodies' presence, and urban planning regulations such as zoning restrictions on high-rise construction etc., influence the slum growth and transform the morphological dynamicity. Apart from structural morphology, it also reflects solid social bonding and cohesion among slum communities. Overall, this research emphasizes the intricate interplay of factors driving morphological dynamicity within the slum area, encompassing socio-economic conditions, population dynamics, neighborhood characteristics, and governmental policies. It emphasizes the need for extensive policy planning for slum upgrading and creating strategies for dwellers to secure land ownership. It also implements a systematic approach to constant monitoring of poor slum areas to capture morphological dynamicity using very high-resolution Earth observation data. This may provide a better understanding of morphological transformations over time and guide policy-making decisions.

Identification of Occupational Hazard in High-Rise Building Construction Projects

Identification of Occupational Hazard in High-Rise Building Construction Projects

Research on the Safety Management of High-Rise Building Construction Based on BIM Technology

Research on the Safety Management of High-Rise Building Construction Based on BIM Technology

Study on Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete High-Rise Building with Buckling Restrained Braces Dissipation Devices

Performance-based Seismic Engineering is the modem approach to Earthquake Resistant Design to control lateral deflection and inter-story drifts. It is a significant challenge to overcome in the execution of high-rise buildings. Since structures are subjected to lateral loads, the Utilization of dissipation devices such as the bracing, shear wall, and dampers are a possible method to enhance the structural performance of the high-rise building under load cases. These cases are varying to static and dynamic ones as Response Spectrum. Properly designed and detailed structures with dissipation devices have exhibited excellent performance during a severe earthquake. Lateral forces due to will be resisted in its plane. In continuation studies of reinforced concrete structure compared to the absorbing devices, Three essential reinforced concrete buildings were taken for analysis G+ 30 floors to cover the broader spectrum of high-rise building construction. Software ETABS carried out seismic analysis through Response Spectrum Analysis. The result highlights how structural damper systems perform much better than other systems with accuracy and exactness through the parameters of Displacement, Drift, Base shear, and Stiffness. Damper structures are more suitable for high-rise buildings and earthquake zones due to this study's results; maximum height of systems could be possible, which must be economically less expensive than steel structure of the same height.

Issue of Slums in India: High Rise Constructions as Solutions

Issue of Slums in India: High Rise Constructions as Solutions

Implementation of the HIRADC Method in Risk Analysis of Diaphragm Wall Work Projects

The decreasing land area in big cities makes construction progress develop not only vertically upwards, but also downwards. This is done to optimize the land use. One of the things is the construction of a basement as a parking lot, storage space, and other functions to be neatly organized and safe. There are numerous employment risks in basement work that can result in building failures that hinder other construction activity. This research was conducted at a company that focuses on the business of guitar manufacturing, retaining walls, and soil improvement in three high-rise building construction projects that are currently building, and experiencing difficulties in identifying the main risks in diaphragm wall work. The soil conditions are different at each project site, which is not the same as the superstructure work. It is more typical and the quite large project value reaching more than 100 billion than can be classified as a major construction project. The risks that will be encountered in its implementation will also be large. The steps involved in the research were risk identification, risk qualitative analysis, and extreme risk response planning by experts. There were sixty-four (64) identified risks relevant to the project construction phase, classified into eleven categories. The risk was then simulated to obtain high risk and control risk plans that would be carried out when the high risk occurs. There are four high risks, namely the damaged or non-compliant construction materials, inaccurate specifications, delays in the execution of constructor work, and slope failure during excavation.

Identification and Prioritization of Decision-Making Aspects on High-Rise Fast-track Buildings – A Pilot Study

For decades, the construction industry has been facing time overrun challenges on almost all mega projects. Rarely there are no schedule slippages. Schedule compression is an approach, applied to meet the tight project deadlines and overcome time overrun issues. Fast-track and crashing are the two techniques used for schedule compression. Worldwide, fast-track has been used on projects for more than 50 years, but Pakistan is yet to adapt it as a construction norm in a scientific way. This reluctance on behalf of the client, the contractor and the consultant is primarily due to the inherently uncertain and risky nature of fast-track projects which requires dynamic decision-making. Moreover, these dynamic decision-making aspects have never been identified and parameterized to develop a decision-making model which can lead to project success in relation to time, cost, and quality. The aim of this research is to identify and parameterize the decision-making aspects into a research questionnaire which can further be used to develop a comprehensive decision-making model for high-rise construction in Pakistan. After an extensive literature review, initially 41 fast-track decision-making aspects were identified which were reduced to 37 after consultation with research community. The refined questionnaire containing 37 decision-making aspects was used for pilot survey in Pakistan’s construction industry to check its validity. Based on the input from the respondents, 19 most important decision-making aspects were discussed. The questionnaire consisted of a 5-point Likert scale, used to study the impact of each identified decision-making aspect on time variance, cost variance, scope variance and quality variance. This questionnaire will act as a stepping-stone for further development of a 3C’s (client, contractor, and consultant) decision-making model for fast-track high-rise projects in Pakistan using structural equation modelling (SEM).

Low vs. high income: The impact of high-rise buildings on prevalence of obesity

The relationship between health, proxied by the prevalence of obesity, and the level of income is well documented. Based on the CDC report at a US statewide level between 2011 and 2020, the current study extends this discussion by exploring the impact of urban environments, proxied by the number of skyscrapers, on this relationship. In this context, the question that still remains open is what is the extent of urban development that can reduce the dimensions of the obesity pandemic to a minimum and whether this effect is different across poor versus rich populations. Consequently, the contribution of this study is the use of the quadratic model, which permit non-monotonic relationships between obesity prevalence and the number of skyscrapers. We also examine the incremental change in the number of skyscrapers. The global aspect of our study may be described as follows. For countries with per-capita GDP higher than $75,000 (lower than $25,000) – urban development of skyscrapers is expected to be beneficial on obesity prevalence up to 142 (126) skyscrapers. Compared to poor countries, the incremental impact of high-rise construction on obesity prevalence at the downward domain of the U-shaped curve is expected to be much more beneficial among rich countries.

Design and Application of New Support and Power System of Residential Building Machine

In recent years, with the transformation and upgrading of national development and the acceleration of urbanization, the construction mode of high energy consumption, high pollution and high labor intensity in the construction industry can no longer meet the development needs. The State Council and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development have successfully issued policies and initiatives to improve industrialization and intelligent construction. In 2021, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued a building height limit order, and it has become a trend that aerial building machines have begun to diversify into ordinary high-rise residences. The "14th Five-Year Plan" construction industry development plan issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development proposed accelerating the coordinated development of intelligent construction and new building industrialization and promoting digital design, intelligent production and intelligent construction. In response to the national policy guidance and leading the development of the industry, solve the inherent problems in the construction industry, learn from the application concept of super high-rise heavy-duty construction equipment integration, create a "factory-like" construction environment for ordinary high-rise through lightweight, standardization and intelligent and other innovative technologies, and explore a construction integration platform suitable for high-rise residences, called "high-rise building industrialization construction lightweight construction operation integration platform" (referred to as "building machine"). Based on the first generation of building construction machines, continuous improvement and replacement, the supporting power system has dramatically improved in support capacity and lightweight. The effective combination of a support column, hydraulic cylinder, and pump station has been realized, which is more convenient and faster, and the construction is more efficient.

Energy Consumption and Intensity at Building Construction Industry

Based on the research at developing country, 30 to 40% of natural resources were exploited by construction industry which are 50% of energy be used for heating and cooling the building. If energy demand can be reduced or industry delayed, energy usage will be reduced. As a result, that energy consumption guideline must be established to control the usage of energy. The objective of this research is to know the energy consumption and intensity at construction industry. For this research, it will focus on the specification of the project site based on contract sum, location, and environment before know on how to reduce energy. The case study for this research covers several high-rise building construction industries. Selected data have been taken from the case study which are manpower, energy used, plant machinery and master work program. All the data given have been analyst and come out with their total floor area result have been tabulated. Technically, construction can be divided into six stages which are initial construction, coordination, implementation, critical, testing and commissioning and handover stage. At the end of the research, a new method to measure Energy Consumption Guideline for Building Construction Industry have been established.

Structural Behavior Comparison on Earthquake Resistance of High-Rise Mall Building (Framed Structure,Flat Slab and PT Flat slab)

The rate of urban population growth and the amount of available space had a significant impact on the construction of high-rise mall buildings in developing countries like the USA, UK, Australia, and Hong Kong. These high-rise mall constructions may be constructed using a variety of structural techniques. Today, RC Frame structures are often employed in constructing. Usually, these structures are employed to counteract the sizeable moments brought on by applied stresses. On the other hand, flat slab structural systems, in which the slab is directly supported by columns, have lately been adopted in many buildings because they have the advantage of greater clear floor-to-floor heights to satisfy the economical, easier form-work, quicker construction duration, and architectural needs. On the other hand, with a post-tensioned slab, the PT flat slab Structural System uses high-strength tensioned steel strands to compress the slab, maintaining the bulk of the concrete in compression. When compared to RC framed structural system, this results in a very efficient construction that minimizes partial consumption and reduces the economic span range. Three cellar+Ground+9 higher floors structural models of a high rise mall building with RC framed structure, flat slab, and PT flat slab structural system arrangement are taken into consideration in the current study. The study is completed by taking into account seismic zone II and type I soil condition, and it takes into consideration the susceptibility of purely RC framed structures, solely flat slab, and completely PT flat slab systems. The structural behavior of an RC-framed structure, a flat slab, and a PT flat slab are being compared for earthquake loads. The response spectrum approach is used to do the analysis.With the use of analytical tools, parameters such as storey displacement, storey drift, base shear, and storey shear are calculated. The findings are then compared between three structural system.

Enhancing the fire-resistant performance of concrete-filled steel tube columns with steel fiber-reinforced concrete

Due to their excellent mechanical features, concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) columns are usually employed in high-rise constructions; it is also significant to consider fire safety while designing buildings. The fire-resistance performance of fibre-reinforced CFST columns is superior to that of unreinforced CFST columns under identical conditions. The post-peak behavior of CFST columns can be enhanced by incorporating fibres to reduce the brittleness of concrete. The research on this topic is limited and considerable research gaps are available in the literature. This research examines the structural performance of steel fibre-reinforced concrete (SFRC) filled steel tubes exposed to ambient and elevated temperatures. For this purpose, fourteen CFST columns were investigated and separated into two groups. The first group of CFST columns was filled with three diverse grades of conventional concrete with and without fibres, which was subjected to ambient temperature. The second group is identical to the first group except all columns are exposed to a temperature of 1050 ℃. The parameters examined were the mechanical properties of concrete, load-carrying capacity, load-deflection response, axial load, and axial strain and ductility ratio. Furthermore, using different codes, a comparison was made for the column's empirically determined load-carrying capacity with the theoretical value. Besides, the morphological characteristics of concrete were examined using energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), scanning electron microscope (SEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). The findings show that the SFRC-filled column has superior structural qualities when subjected to elevated temperatures. At high temperatures, calcium hydroxide decomposes, and the steel tube yields, causing the column to fail by premature local bucking.

Türkiye'de İnşaat İşçilerinin İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği Konusunda Bilgi, Davranış ve Tutumlarının Değerlendirilmesi

This study was planned as a descriptive cross-sectional study to evaluate the knowledge, behavior, and attitudes of workers working in the construction industry about occupational health and safety. The research was conducted with 356 workers employed at randomly selected nine high-rise residential construction sites between January and July 2021 in Turkey. It was found that 36.3% of the workers wore seat belts while working at heights of seven meters and above. According to 98.4% of the workers, occupational safety meant "life safety". It was stated that the most important reasons for occupational accidents were carelessness at a rate of 66.3% and not taking safety measures at a rate of 33.7%. In addition, 61.8% of the workers thought that occupational health and safety training was necessary. It was determined that as the working experience of the workers increased, the workers found the occupational health and safety training given before starting work more useful (p<.0001). It was determined that the workers who experienced work accidents most were those with low education levels and less work experience.

Tent-cities: A resilient future urban solution to live and mitigate earthquake damages

Earthquakes are expected to increase in intensity and frequency in regions like Anatolia, Arabia, Persia, and North Africa due to intensive oil extraction over decades. This highlights the need for innovative approaches to effectively address and mitigate the consequences of such seismic events. Here, I propose the development and utilization of tent as a cost-effective and viable alternative to traditional and high-rise cement-based constructions, aiming to reduce earthquake damages. With a rich history in nomadic practices, tents can be strengthened by integrating cutting-edge technologies that make them adaptable, climate-responsive, and earthquake-resistant solutions. By using natural materials like wool and cotton enhanced with waterproof and fireproof properties, tents can provide both comfort and versatility in various weather conditions. The goal of habitation is to furnish a secure and comfortable living space with essential amenities for safety and well-being. Tent-based communities could present an eco-friendly housing alternative and reduce the impact of destructive earthquakes by minimizing debris and rubble. In warm regions, tents can serve as year-round habitable spaces. Establishing tent cities or villages in such areas can effectively mitigate earthquake damages while also promoting sustainability and a healthy lifestyle. Skillfully extrapolating and adapting traditional urban design to tent-based materials could offer the potential to construct fully functional smart-tent cities that provide contemporary living comforts and safeguard against earthquakes and climate challenges. With modern manufacturing capabilities and urban planning, tents can benefit from advanced design principles to deliver safety, comfort, and an enduring ability to weather adverse climate conditions and earthquake damages.

ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATION OF SERVICE FACILITIES LOCATED AT TRANSPORT AND TRANSFER NODES

The article examines the advantages of high-rise construction at significant transport and interchange nodes at the entrance to cities using the example of the analysis of the Urban Planning Concept for the Placement of High-rise Buildings and Structures in Kyiv, developed by the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture and Projects of Kyiv Architects. According to the concept developed under the leadership of the president of UAA V.G. Stolka, the placement of new high-rise dominants should be aimed first of all at creating a clear architectural and urban planning and volume-spatial composition of the main urban planning nodes at the intersection of city highways.
 The method of forming the dominant composition of the buildings of the transport and transfer hub is considered, using the example of the environment of the metro station "Livoberezhna". Brovarsky Avenue is an important highway for entering and leaving Kyiv. Modern investors in Ukraine consider increasing the number of floors of buildings in order to rationally develop territories. In the urban planning aspect, high-rise compositions emphasize important planning nodes. The construction regularities of the volumetric-spatial composition of high-rise buildings are divided into types and the characteristics of each of them are given. The historical aspect of the formation of compositional ensembles is taken into account on the example of the Livoberezhna metro station in Kyiv. The regularities of the construction of the volumetric-spatial composition of high-rise buildings are divided by type: a single object; a high-rise complex with several tower-type buildings connected by horizontal volume-spatial parts; a building in a group of volumes of different shapes and heights, spatially connected and located at a certain distance from each other. The search for iconic compositional and artistic qualities of high-rise buildings and optimal functional and planning solutions requires architects to use and combine various planning techniques, one of which is the design of atriums in the structure of high-rise buildings in extended stylobates, etc. The historical analysis of one of the nodes showed how the relationship to the stylistic characteristics of architecture changes in connection with the development of certain stylistic currents in the world.

Profiling of Aedes Mosquito Breeding Sites at Residential Construction Sites in Malaysia

Introduction: Poor waste management led to mosquito breeding grounds. Previous research found that construction sites are the mosquito breeding area thus it’s important to understand how construction sites affect mosquito breeding. Methods: This study utilized a prospective study to determine the characteristic of breeding preference in residential construction sites. On-field breeding preference survey was conduct in the selected project site in 12 weeks (1st October 2021 until 31st December 2021). Wet container inspection was carried out according to types of the residential construction building and progress of the site. All possible wet materials and containers was inspected and record accordingly in the form during the surveillance. Results: Result shows that the most preferred containers found was building floor (41.68%), others such as planter box that use for landscape purpose, drainage system, building mould and lift wells. The results of the research indicate that prospective containers with water and breeding sites at high rise construction sites were found to be more than those at low rise construction sites. Conclusion: Overall, substantially fewer water containers were discovered in low rise projects compared to high rise projects. Construction management need encourage all the workers to do best management practice such as proper waste disposal and removal of the water and possible wet container and conduct awareness among the workers.

Ensemble deep learning enabled multi-condition generative design of aerial building machine considering uncertainties

The Aerial Building Machine (ABM) is a complex construction equipment used in high-rise building construction, facing challenges due to environmental uncertainties. This paper introduces a multi-condition generative design framework to improve ABM's visualization, operability, and intelligence. It seamlessly integrates real-time data between geometric and physical models and employs an ensemble deep learning model for objective value prediction, using a snapshot strategy. Combining structural reliability concepts with Latin hypercube sampling-based stochastic optimization, an optimal design scheme is obtained for uncertain loads. An ABM case study in China illustrates the approach's feasibility, showing it meets reliability requirements across different conditions and achieves significant improvements (16.59% under normal conditions and 16.91% under extreme wind conditions). Additionally, ensemble deep learning outperforms existing methods for ABM structural reliability estimation. Identifying optimal designs and evaluation options, this paper contributes a multi-condition optimization approach for enhanced structural reliability and establishes an efficient generative design workflow and system for exploring a vast solution space.

Building a one level 3D control network ensure the geodetic work in high-rise building construction

Super high-rise buildings are being built more and more in the world and in Vietnam. Currently, foreign experts are presiding over most of the geodetic work during the construction of super high-rise buildings in Vietnam. Vietnamese technicians are only allowed to participate in the implementation at the request of these experts. Therefore, in Vietnam, it is necessary to have a full research on geodetic work in the process of building super high-rise buildings. This article presents the research results of a group of lecturers in the Geodetic Department, Hanoi University of Civil Engineering on the ability to combine terrestrial and satellite measurements, which are measured by total station and GNSS, in geodetic work when building super high-rise. The research results are the process of building and data processing one-level spatial networks, determining three-dimensional coordinates in a unified coordinate system, step by step ensuring accuracy throughout the construction process, exploiting super high-rise buildings.

Vertical Farm: from Agriculture to a New City Architecture

The paper deals with the architectural theme of high-rise construction by cross-referencing it with that of soilless agriculture, recognizing new typologies and critically identifying the strengths and weaknesses of a new relationship between architecture, city and agriculture. From a disciplinary point of view, the text is organized in four distinct topics. The first part deals with height construction from a theoretical and disciplinary point of view. An excursus identifies in the high-rise buildings a human archetype that today defines certain features of architecture and landscapes in the age of globalization. The second part delves into the subject of soilless agriculture in terms of agronomic technique, with the aim of understanding its origin, efficiency and potential, but also its limits and weaknesses. The analysis is carried out by investigating the production factors at play, such as land, labor and capital, in relation to the revolutions that have characterized the agricultural production sector since the 16th century. The third part analyses three different cases of vertical farms from an architectural perspective because they are alternative to each other and paradigmatic. The skyscraper model is transformed. Agricultural activity, housing models and aggregated urban functions give rise to complex buildings. The first case is Richard Rogers' 2015 Skyfarm, the second is Carlo Ratti's Jian Mu Tower designed in Shenzen in 2021, the third example is Chris Precht's 2019 Farmhouse. The last part addresses a broader picture: food, cities, social justice, but also urban regeneration, recovery and recycling. Vertical farms are observed from an urban planning angle and considered as a useful element for guiding development and growth in cities and rewriting the relationship between architecture and the countryside. An opportunity to reinvent the multifunctional tall building, open to new ways of living and to redefine the design of the city