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WELCOME ADDRESS on ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on MULTIPURPOSE HIGHRISE TOWERS and TALL BUILDINGS in SINGAPORE, AUGUST 28Th -30Th 2019 WELCOME ADDRESS ON ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIPURPOSE HIGHRISE TOWERS AND TALL BUILDINGS IN SINGAPORE, AUGUST 28th -30th 2019. BY PROF.DR.ING.H.R.VISWANATH. PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR HIGHRISE STRUCTURES FORMER PRINCIPAL & EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF THE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION, BMS EDUCATIONAL TRUST, BANGALORE. 28th August 2019. It is my proud privilege to welcome on behalf of myself and International Federation for High-rise Structures all the luminaries from different countries who are present today in this august assembly for this inaugural function heralding the beginning of this unique 11th conference in Singapore with several tall buildings towering its skyline, in the series after our earlier successful conferences in Munich Germany, Abu Dhabi (UAE) Dubai (UAE), Toronto (Canada), Kuala Lampur (Malaysia), Madrid (Spain), London (U.K), Singapore & Bangalore (India) on Multipurpose High-rise Towers and Tall Buildings with the theme “Extreme Engineering” to be hosted by CI-Premier Conference Organisation, Conference Director, Er.John.S.Y.Tan, at Singapore, supported by Japan Prestressed Concrete Institute. The main objective of this conference is to generate new knowledge through Research, Assembling information on high-rise structures, and developing means of dissemination to all concerned. It will enable those involved in commissioning, planning and constructing safe sustainable, users friendly high-rise buildings reaching the skies, to share the experience with ideas of leading architects, engineers, researchers, and other specialists. IFHS, the only unique organization which includes the study of High-rise Structures in concrete, steel and composite material, is a non-profit, non-governmental association accredited to UNCHS (Habitat). IFHS belongs to all its active individual members who are Architects, Design Engineers, Constructors, Researchers, Educationalists, Clients, Financiers, Banking Institutions and University Faculties. IFHS is striving to bring the Architects, Designers, Engineers, Constructors and Developers together to join hands with perfect co-ordination and make the planning cost effective and feasible, the designs sound, the construction safe by incorporating the latest developments and techniques in the design and construction of future high-rise structures. Whenever one thinks of high-rise structures, the first three unique structures constructed in the world that come to the mind are the first tall building, the 10 storey Home Insurance Building constructed in 1884 in Chicago (USA) (fig-1), the world’s first 300 Mtr. Steel Eiffel Tower (Fig-2) constructed in 1889 in Paris (France) and the first 217 Mtr. Concrete Television Tower (fig-3) constructed in 1955 in Stuttgart (Germany) the 235 Mtr. Television Tower (fig-4) in New Delhi (first of its kind in India) in 1988 designed by H.R.Viswanath. Home Insurance Building Fig-1 Steel Eiffel Tower Fig-2 Chicago USA Paris, France Concrete Television Tower (Stuttgart, Germany) Fig-3 Television Tower in New Delhi Fig-4 Twenty breathtaking present millennium great structures completed and under construction ranging from 492 mtrs to 1000 mtrs are shown in figure 5 to Figure 24 - Kingdom Tower, Jeddah Burj Khalifa, Dubai Height: To Tip Height: To Tip 1000 m / 3,281 ft 829.8 m / 2,723 ft Height: Architectural Height: Architectural 1000 m / 3,281 ft 828 m / 2,717 ft Construction start 2013 Construction Start – 2004 Completion – 2019 Completion – 2010 Figure – 5 Fig ure - 6 Seoul Light DMC Tower Ping An Finance Center, Shenzhen Height: To Tip Height: To Tip 640.4 m / 2,101 ft 660 m / 2,165 ft Height: Architectural Height: Architectural 640.4 m / 2,101 ft 660 m / 2,165 ft Proposed 2009 construction start - 2010 Completion - 2016 Figure – 7 Figure - 8 Signature Tower Jakarta Wuhan Greenland Center Height: To Tip Height: To Tip 638 m / 2,093 ft 636 m / 2,087 ft Height: Architectural Height: Architectural 638 m / 2,093 ft 636 m / 2,087 ft Construction Start – 2014 Construction Start – 2012 Completion – 2020 Completion – 2017 Figure - 9 Figure - 10 Shanghai Tower Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel Height: To Tip Height: To Tip 632 m / 2,073 ft 601 m / 1,972 ft Height: Architectural Height: Architectural 632 m / 2,073 ft 601 m / 1,972 ft Construction start 2009 Construction Start - 2004 Completion – 2012 Completion 2015 Figure - 11 Figure - 12 Goldin Finance 117, Tianjin Lotte World Tower, Seoul Height: To Tip Height: To Tip 596.5 m / 1,957 ft 556 m / 1,824 ft Height: Architectural Height: Architectural 596.5 m / 1,957 ft 554.5 m / 1,819 ft Construction Start - 2009 Completion Start – 2011 Completion - 2016 Completion – 2016 Figure - 13 Figure - 14 Doha Convention Center Tower One World Trade Center, New York Height: To Tip Height: To Tip 551 m / 1,808 ft 546.2 m / 1,792 ft Height: Architectural Height: Architectural 551 m / 1,808 ft 541.3 m / 1,776 ft Proposed 2005 Construction star – 2006 Completion 2007 Completion – 2014 Figure - 15 Figure - 16 The CTF Guangzhou Tianjin CTF Binhai Center Height: Architectural Height: Architectural 530 m / 1,739 ft 530 m / 1,739 ft Height: Occupied Height: Occupied 494.5 m / 1,622 ft 452.3 m / 1,484 ft Height: To Tip Height: To Tip 530 m / 1,739 ft 530 m / 1,739 ft Construction Start - 2010 Construction start - 2013 Completion - 2016 Completion - 2018 Figure - 17 Figure - 18 Dalian Greenland Center Pentominium, Dubai Height: To Tip Height: To Tip 518 m / 1,699 ft 516 m / 1,693 ft Height: Architectural Height: Architectural 518 m / 1,699 ft 516 m / 1,693 ft Construction start – 2014 Proposed 2006 Completion – 2018 Start – 2008 Figure - 20 Figure - 19 Busan Lotte Town Tower Taipei 101 Height: To Tip Height: To Tip 510.1 m / 1,674 ft 508 m / 1,667 ft Height: Architectural Height: Architectural 510.1 m / 1,674 ft 508 m / 1,667 ft Construction start - 2011 Construction start – 1999 Completion – 2020 Completion – 2004 Figure - 21 Figure - 22 Kaisa Feng Long Center,Shenzhen Shanghai World Financial Center Height: Architectural 500 m / 1,640 ft Height: To Tip 494.3 m / 1,622 ft Height: Occupied 452.2 m / 1,484 ft Height: Architectural 492 m / 1,614 ft Height: To Tip 500 m / 1,640 ft Construction start – 1997 Proposed 2011 Completion – 2008 Figure - 24 Figure - 23 The above thrilling and marvelous structures encourage, architects, builders, constructors, designers and engineers, to go higher and higher for steel, concrete, pre-stressed concrete or composite structures, in planning sustainable high-rise towers and tall buildings in this present millennium for the sensitive worldly response to the complex needs of the human occupation to satisfy the containing needs of the work, ethnic balance with emerging demand of consumer/leisure life style. The designs of the above unique structures have posed the greatest challenge, in the wake of bringing down the World Trade Center by the murderous act of terrorism, burying thousands of innocent people as well as the sense of civilized life in the world’s financial city New York, in preparing the sustainable design and adopting safe construction. Recommendations from the investigation conducted into the factors that contributed to the collapse of WTC by US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are worth following in the new designs. The Sad Fates of the World's Twelve Tallest Unfinished Buildings are shown in Nakheel Tower : Pilings Begun India Tower Foundation under way Russia Tower – Digging Begun Fig- 25 Fig-26 Fig-27 Doha Convention Centre Tower Burj Al Alam – Pilings In place Palace of the Soviets : Building Started Foundation finished Fig- 28 Fig-29 Fig-30 560 mtrs B’lore sky tower Maharishi Vedic vishwa Prahasan Bionic Tower China 1228 mtr Fig-31 Rajadhani Brahamasthan Fig-32 vertical city Fig-33 Frank Lloyds Wright 2001 mtrs tokya dream tower Millennium Tower Tokyo, Japan 1.6 kmtrs tall building Fig-34 with 500 storey’s Fig 35 Fig-36 in Chicago Building a house is stressful. Building a skyscraper is a nuclear bomb of stress, problems, and carefully-coordinated chaos—chaos that is closely tied to the economy, and that is easily derailed by war, politics, and financial downturns. It's not an uncommon story. There are plenty of super-tall (over 984 feet) buildings that were proposed but never made it through to reality. Humans have a tendency towards bombast when it comes to skyscrapers. Below you'll find a few of the buildings & towers that, as proposed, would have become the world's tallest (or close to it). Nakheel Tower: Pilings Begun Nowhere was the 2008 financial crisis quite as visible as Dubai, where dozens of high-profile projects ground to a halt. One of those was Nakheel Tower, a proposed 3,300-foot-tall skyscraper with 156 planned elevators. Nakheel was designed to be the visual and economic focal point of the man-made Palm Jumeirah, the fake series of islands off of Dubai that is now experiencing extreme erosion and other environmental problems. India Tower: Foundation Under Way India Tower, on the other hand, was a purely post-Recession idea. The 2,356-foot tower was planned for Mumbai in 2010, but was halted the following year after construction had begun. It's currently on hold. Russia Tower: Digging Begun Yet another victim of the 2008 crisis: The 2,008-foot Russia Tower was already under construction when the downturn hit the following year, and the building's developer announced he'd be unable to put up the $3 billion needed for the building work. The construction site was turned into parking. Doha Convention Center Tower: Foundation Finished At 1,808 feet, this tower in Doha was destined to become one of the world's tallest buildings. Just one problem: It was so tall, officials worried it would make it tough for pilots landing and taking off from the new airport.
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