TALL BUILDINGS HIGH PERFORMANCE ENTUITIVE IS COLLABORATING WITH DEVELOPERS, ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS TO DESIGN AND ENGINEER HIGH PERFORMANCE TALL BUILDINGS THAT ARE DEFINING CITY SKYLINES Urban centres around the globe are experiencing unprecedented growth. With limited land resources, cities are increasingly building towers – both for commercial and residential developments. Entuitive’s Tall Buildings team consists of structural engineers, building envelope specialists and technologists with decades of experience in delivering high-rise buildings through innovative and value driven solutions. DELIVERING VALUE It’s our ambition to help clients realize the best performing buildings that support their vision and commercial objectives. Through a holistic, integrated and highly collaborative approach, we draw on the wide-range of expertise wielded by Entuitive’s professionals to develop advanced structural and envelope solutions that deliver multiple dimensions of building performance with greater life-cycle economies. OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE With extensive experience in tall buildings, deep knowledge of the latest building materials and construction methods, and sophisticated modeling techniques, our engineers and building envelope specialists focusing on solutions that enhance building performance. We strive to deliver a high degree of occupant comfort by mitigating the effects of wind-induced vibration. Our designs consider building resilience to natural and man-made events including seismic, extreme weather and blast. And we consistently optimize our structural and envelope solutions with an eye to improving efficiency at every stage while minimizing costs. AN ADVANCED APPROACH We use BIM and the latest technologies to enhance collaboration and coordination in order to deliver projects on-time and on- budget. We also go beyond BIM and utilize computational design and parametric modelling to assist architects in unleashing their creativity while optimizing the building structure – affording greater constructability, cost-savings and reduced time to market. CHALLENGING URBAN SITES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Urban sites are becoming increasingly Sustainability is a process, not an add-on challenging for development when dealing – working smartly and efficiently means with issues that include proximity to rail, minimizing waste and using innovative transit or aging infrastructure, small site materials and technologies, all toward cost footprint, adjacency to busy city streets and savings for our clients. Our LEED® accredited existing utilities, and difficult excavation staff are committed to a structural and conditions. We have extensive experience envelope design process that uses materials developing innovative solutions to and resources wisely, meeting project overcome these urban challenges with needs with reduced-waste impact on our multi-disciplinary capability. the environment. SERVICES STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING PEER REVIEW BUILDING ENVELOPE FAÇADE ENGINEERING RESTORATION STRUCTURAL GLASS ENGINEERING WIND ENGINEERING BIM COORDINATION SEISMIC AND VIBRATION DESIGN COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN BLAST DESIGN PARAMETRIC MODELING FIRE ENGINEERING ENERGY MODELING RESILIENT DESIGN BUILDING HIGHER Developers and architects continue to push the limits on height – with buildings that are higher and more slender than ever before. Challenges associated with building higher include mitigating wind turbulence, reducing building movement and developing grids that effectively accommodate mixed-use programs. With decades of high-rise experience, a deep understanding of materials and construction methods across various markets, and expertise in advanced modeling we can help ensure maximum occupant comfort and performance in high-rise developments. FEATURED PROJECTS BROOKFIELD PLACE LOCATION: Calgary, Canada SERVICE: Structural Engineering; Building Envelope 247M TALL HEIGHT: East Tower – 56 floors | 247m; West Tower – 41 floors | 178m CLIENT: Brookfield Properties ARCHITECT: FKA Architecture + Interiors The 56-storey East Tower is set to be Calgary’s tallest office The below grade structure consists of reinforced concrete building and second only to Toronto’s First Canadian Place columns, slab and wall construction. The development in all of Canada. The two towers will contain reinforced will comprise a fully city block in downtown Calgary and concrete cores with structural steel floor framing and consist of 2.8 million square feet of leasable office space. exterior columns. COMCAST INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER AND TECHNOLOGY COMCAST INNOVATION LOCATION: Philadelphia, USA SERVICE: Building Envelope 341M TALL HEIGHT: 59 floors | 341m CLIENT: Liberty Property 18th and Arch LP ARCHITECT: Foster and Partners The mixed-use tower will be the tallest in Philadelphia, The building’s facades are animated by panoramic glass and the 8th tallest in the U.S. integrating office, hotel and lifts and a series of thirteen three-storey sky gardens, retail with a 220-room Four Seasons Hotel, high-tech which rise up through the eastern elevation, linking a research and development spaces, loft-like work spaces continuous strand of greenery through the building. and state-of-the-art television studios for NBC. BAY ADELAIDE CENTRE EAST TOWER LOCATION: Toronto, Canada SERVICE: Structural Engineering; Building Envelope; 185M TALL Heritage Integration HEIGHT: 44 floors | 185m CLIENT: Brookfield Properties ARCHITECT: KPMB Architects; Adamson Associates At 44-storeys including an eight-storey podium, Toronto’s We prevented disruption to tenants, cars and PATH Bay Adelaide Centre East is a LEED® Platinum project users by locating tower columns so the structure could that demands significant structural innovation to bring clear span the main areas. The heritage component of to fruition. the project involved preserving and relocating façades of a four-storey stone and brick structure built in 1850. BAY ADELAIDE CENTRE WEST TOWER LOCATION: Toronto, Canada SERVICE: Structural Engineering; 218M TALL Heritage Integration HEIGHT: 51 floors | 218m Project led by Barry Charnish, David Stevenson, Ferdo Simov, and Mike Hillcoat while employed at a previous firm. CLIENT: Brookfield Properties ARCHITECT: WZMH Architects The first tower of a larger development consisting of three The structure’s reinforced concrete core combines with office towers, the West Tower takes the modernist form composite truss floor framing to maximize the number of of a sheer tower of glass highlighted by elegantly notched floors while respecting City of Toronto shading guidelines. corners. It became Toronto’s first high-rise office building The building incorporates three large heritage façades, to receive core and shell LEED® Gold certification. including the stone façade of the National Building built in 1926. MIRVISH+GEHRY LOCATION: Toronto, Canada SERVICE: Peer Review; Scheme Design; 305M TALL Heritage Integration HEIGHT: 92 floors | 305m; 82 floors | 275m CLIENT: Mirvish Productions ARCHITECT: Gehry International The Mirvish+Gehry project is a bold mixed-use project The towers includes 92 and 82-storey residential towers featuring signature design by renowned architect, Frank each featuring an irregular form and dramatic cantilevers. Gehry, to be located in the heart of downtown Toronto and At street level, the complex will include a new art gallery will be among the tallest buildings in Canada. and space for the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD). 385 YONGE LOCATION: Toronto, Canada SERVICE: Structural Engineering; 257M TALL Heritage Integration HEIGHT: 73 floors | 257m; 62 floors | 225m CLIENT: Kingsett Capital ARCHITECT: Quadrangle Architects 385 Yonge is comprised of two striking residential towers An enhanced core solution allowed the concrete walls containing over 1,100 residential units, rising above between the suites to be reduced in thickness increasing a 9-storey podium, with heights of 73 and 62-storeys sellable space. The enhanced core’s “box” shape also connected by a two-storey amenity skybridge at the 51st provided inherently superior resistance to building and 52nd floors. The facades of two heritage buildings on twisting movements and acceleration. the site will be integrated into the new development. THE BOW LOCATION: Calgary, Canada SERVICE: Structural Engineering 237M TALL HEIGHT: 58 floors | 237m Project led by Barry Charnish, Brock Schroeder, David Stevenson, CLIENT: H&R REIT and Ferdo Simov while employed at a previous firm. ARCHITECT: Foster and Partners; Zeidler Roberts The 58-storey crescent-shaped office tower is the six-storey atrium areas. The tower’s lateral load-resisting headquarters of EnCana Corporation and Cenovus Energy system consists of a series of unique truss tube frames, and the second tallest building in Canada. The tower’s or diagrids, which are exposed in the perimeter cladding unique shape and building orientation on the site was system and coupled with conventional steel braced frames dictated by the desire to maximize natural daylight in its and moment frames. office areas, the three large internal sky lobbies and the TAIPEI 101 TAIPEI LOCATION: Taipei, Taiwan SERVICE: Wind Engineering 508M TALL HEIGHT: 101 floors | 508m Project led by Brian Breukelman while employed CLIENT: Taipei Financial Centre Corporation at a previous firm. ARCHITECT: C.Y. Lee & Partners Taipei 101 is the fourth tallest building in the world and is A 660-tonne tuned mass damper, the largest damper designed to withstand the typhoon winds common in that sphere in the world,