Dubai-based freezone operator DMCC has announced that the foundation works for the first super tall tower at its Uptown Dubai district have been completed. The construction of the Uptown Dubai ...

When finished, Salesforce Tower will be the tallest ... It took eight iron workers to lift each 45-foot segment into place. That cagework will act as the foundation’s skeleton, but during ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) -- San Francisco is calling for stricter building safety codes focusing on making high rises safer during earthquakes. The new guidelines, formally known as the Tall ...

such as occurred when Downtown Brooklyn was rezoned in 2004 to encourage office construction but developers built apartment towers instead. Similarly, lifting the cap on residential projects could ...

Then construction of the actual lift began. First, using the rock crusher, they crushed rock at each tower location, mixed cement and built the tower foundations. The lift was designed by Bob Heron ...

The 555-meter-tall ... Tower, in Paris; and the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. Boasting twice the capacity of a conventional elevator – each cabin holds 52 passengers – the tower’s lift directly ...

The bridge appears shiny and silvery in the drawings, with a tall vertical tower ... foundations, which allows the current bridge to operate during construction, according to DOT. Also, the ...

At its maximum speed the state-of-the-art lift travels at 18 meters a second. The Shanghai Tower is set to be 632-metre tall, second only to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai which stands at 829.8m.

There are around a dozen towers in downtown Spokane higher than 12 stories tall, with the largest being ... City leaders hope that temporarily lifting these restrictions altogether could spur ...