The Jin Mao tower, Lujiazui financial and trade zone, Shanghai
Designed by US architects SOM, the Jin Mao is 88 stories high and has nearly 300,000 m2 of floorspace. It's 340.1m high, making it the tallest building in China. Each of more than 1000 piles runs 83.5m deep. The building weights 300,000 tons, of which 76,000 come from its steel. It boasts 79 lifts: the two fastest run at more than nine metres a second. Man days spent in construction: four million.
Picture: James Woudhuysen

Construction and cities

9 August 2006 | IT Week

UK energy rules leave managers cold

Systems to help firms obey the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive have a few shortcomings

7 August 2006 | spiked

Beware the New Parochialism

The summer 2006 Los Angeles love-ins on climate change – Blair and Schwarzenegger, Livingstone and Clinton – might look like a triumph for ecologically-minded internationalism. In fact, they celebrated the small, the local and the decentralised

24 July 2006 | IT Week

Why people feel aggrieved about public Wifi

More urban hotspots are not a human right – but they would aid mobility

13 April 2006 | IT Week

IT holds key to East London regeneration

The Olympics gives the government a golden opportunity to promote technology for urban renewal.

December 2005 | Rising East

From urban regeneration to social engineering

The world’s cities are engaged in renewed competitive struggles with each other. But the strategies surrounding urban regeneration face a crisis of creativity

October 2005 | Website of Thomas Cole Kinder

Of REITS and BIDS

Real estate investment trusts (REITs), like Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), won’t make leadership in property any easier.

October 2005 | Website of Thomas Cole Kinder

How to see critics off on costs

UK construction leaders will have to go on the offensive over their country’s planning system.

25 November 2004 | IT Week

IT gets behind the wheel

IT in cars may not create mobile offices, but there will be productivity benefits

14 June 2004 | spiked

Construction and transport: Victorian Britain lives on

Risk-aversion, short-termism and technophobia are holding back the UKs roads, railways and buildings.

30 April 2004 | The Times

Time to build a fresh, non-nimby approach to boosting new housing

We should have more stigma-free prefab homes.

Fall 1998 | From the archives

Pretty weighty

Review of Adriaan Beukers and Ed van Hinte, Lightness: The Inevitable Renaissance of Minimum Energy Structures, 1998

9 March 1992 | Management Today

No computers, no culture

London's cultural trade cannot alone restore the city's self-respect. What it needs is to exploit the wider 'culture' of IT

April 1985 | Designers' Journal

Trading places

Are retailers moving out of the High Street for ever?

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