Calculating the height of a building has always been notoriously difficult. Until now.
Short of reaching for an extremely long tape measure, it’s always been incredibly difficult to calculate the true height of a building. But not any longer.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has developed a tall building height calculator to assist in determining tall building heights when only the storey count is known. The calculator is divided into three categories representing the three major functions represented in tall buildings;
(i) Office
(ii) Residential/Hotel
(iii) Mixed-use or when the function unknown
The calculator will provide an approximate height for a single tall building, but as tall building characteristics vary significantly with location, structural material, form, profile, etc, in some instances estimates will vary considerably with actual building height. As such, the calculator is best utilised to determine heights in multiple building / statistical studies, where there are many unknown building heights. In these instances the greater number of buildings examined will reduce any overall variations.
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