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Pavements in the sky: the skybridge in tall buildings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2004

Antony Wood
Antony Wood
Affiliation:
School of the Built Environment, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK, [email protected]
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Since the World Trade Center Towers collapsed in full view of the watching world (FEMA, 2002), the improved safety of tall buildings has become of prime importance globally (Pearson, 2001). International groups such as the UK-based ‘Safety in Tall Buildings Working Group’ (Roberts, 2002), and Arups High Rise (Wainwright, 2002) which are considering these safety implications have made recommendations for improvement in three general areas:

  1. structural systems, especially with respect to progressive collapse

  2. fire proofing, to structure and fabric

  3. evacuation systems, concentrating specifically on vertical evacuation systems such as elevators and stairs.

Type
Urbanism
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 3-4 , September 2003 , pp. 325 - 332
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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