High Rise Building Guide

[ml13]

Anyone have any recommendations on a design guide or text book dealing with the design of high rise buildings? I am not necessarily looking for a material-specific book, but will gladly check those out, too.

Thanks.

 

[JAE]

Gaylord and Gaylord have a Structural Design Handbook (try Googling for it) that has a section in the back on high-rise fundamentals.

 

[SlideRuleEra]

If you are looking for non-technical material for planning purposes, rather than "hard-core" structural, here is an example from a site that may be of help

http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.tcl?document_id=3835

You will have to look around some, but the price is right, free .pdf downloads.

 

[Jatfuentes]

Hi ml13,

There are two very good books, try it in your local library.
They are :

1.-Tall Building structures - Analysis and Design - by Bryan Stafford Smith and Alex Coull

2.- Multi-Storey Buildings in Steel by Hart, Henn and Sontag

For Concrete Buildings there is a Chapter in The Handbook of Concrete Engineering , by Mark Fintel.

JatFuentes