The tallest timber building in the world will rise in Perth, if approved, after a $350-million development application was lodged by Melbourne’s Grange Development The developer has submitted plans with the City of South Perth for a 50-storey hybrid timber tower comprising 245 apartments at 6 Charles Street . Continue →

A modular apartment block has taken shape in just 28 hours in what the Chinese developer claims is a world first, The Urban Developer reports Chinese company Broad Group released vision of the tower that was lifted into place and bolted together in 28 hours and 45 minutes, in what the company claims is the “shortest construction period” for a building of that scale. Continue →

The old-school way of capturing location data within a building relies on legacy tools like distance meters and notepads, a slow process and ripe for human error Things move as the building goes up. Continue →

Head of Pacific for AVEVA, Damien McDade, shares his top five tips on how and why your Unified Engineering approach is critical to success In many of today’s Capital Projects, there is a disconnect between Front End Engineering Design (otherwise known as FEED) and detailed engineering design. Continue →

A $1 billion timber tower as part of the Sydney central station tech and innovation hub revealed earlier this month joins a growing number of major multi-storey timber projects internationally The Urban Developer The lightweight timber structures use a hybrid construction method to push height boundaries with a concrete core to stabilise them against the wind. Continue →

This year’s results of the Annual Skyscraper Awards show once again that height is not everything when it comes to skyscrapers. Continue →

The world of the engineer is changing more rapidly than ever. Continue →

One of China’s latest property developers Shiamo Group has revealed designs for China’s tallest building set to be located as the centrepiece to the Shenzhen Longgang master plan Once completed the Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Centre located in Shenzhen will be the world’s third tallest building building behind SOM’s 828m Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the 1,000m tall Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia. Continue →

Paris-based XTU Architects have big plans for the Chinese city of Hangzhou, The Urban Developer reports The vision: to address issues in climate change, sustainable urban development, and water security. Continue →

Engineering New Zealand has launched a reconciliation service to overcome the problem of widely differing seismic assessments “Seismic assessments require significant professional judgement,” Engineering New Zealand Chief Executive Susan Freeman-Greene explains. Continue →

One of Asia’s largest real estate development companies has broken a world record in Chongqing, China with development that bridges a number of skyscrapers with the world’s longest horizontal tower Four 250m-tall skyscrapers hold up Capitaland bridge-like structure, creating a horizontal skyscraper 400m above sea level. Continue →