When the foundations are finished sometime this week or next, Tullis said, helicopters will be used to lift and lower the towers into place. RECOMMENDED•oregonlive.com We stayed in a tiny house ...

Miami’s Waldorf Astoria residential tower ... foot tall building to withstand hurricane-force winds and remain stable near sea level. Developers broke ground on the building’s foundation ...

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 ...

In earthquake-prone San Francisco, crews are digging the city's deepest foundation piles for an 802-ft-tall office-residential tower that is on course to be the city's second-tallest structure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.