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TALL BUILDINGS From Engineering to Sustainability Sixth International Conference on Tall Buildings, Mini Symposium on Sustainable Cities, Mini Symposium on Planning, Design and Socio-Economic Aspects of Tall Residential Living Environment Hong Kong, China, 6 - 8 December 2005 CONTENTS FRONT MATTER v Opening Address and Keynote Papers THE REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN CHINA QIDI WU 3 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF TALL BUILDINGS IN HONG KONG YIU-CHING LO 8 FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TALL BUILDINGS PETER AYRES 14 CARBON FUELS AND INDUSTRIALISATION: REDUCTION OF ENERGY DEMAND WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TALL BUILDINGS MAX FORDHAM 17 Theme Papers POLICIES AND PLANNING OF TALL BUILDINGS IN HONG KONG MARCO WU 29 THE SHIFTING PARADIGMS OF HIGH-RISE LIVING BELINDA YUEN 33 THE CHALLENGE OF MANAGING THE 88-STOREY TWO INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CENTRE IN HONG KONG THOMAS H. K. HO 39 A CITY BEYOND TALL BUILDINGS - REDISCOVER CITY VALUE AND PEOPLE VALUE MEI NG 49 SUSTAINABLE TALL BUILDINGS – FROM AN ENERGY PERSPECTIVE OTTO POON 55 BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE REVISED TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION FOR CONCRETE STRUCTURES OF TALL BUILDING XIAO-KUN HUANG 59 Framed Structure BEHAVIOR OF CONCRETE FRAME-COREWALL STRUCTURE WITH NON-CONTINUOUS EXTERIOR FRAME BEAMS X. G. HE 67 TEST RESEARCH ON BEAM-WALL SEMI-RIGID JOINT IN SUPER HIGH-RISE HYBRID STRUCTURE DEYUAN ZHOU, AIMIN LIU, XUAN ZOU and HAO ZHU 72 APPLICATION OF STRUT-AND-TIE METHOD ON OUTRIGGER BRACED CORE WALL BUILDINGS R. K. L. SU, P. C. W. WONG and A. M. CHANDLER 80 ANALYSIS OF SHEARING STIFFNESS OF COLUMN RELATED TO EXTERNAL FORCES IN FRAMES BANGDA WU 86 TIME DEPENDENT DIFFERENTIAL SHORTENING OF REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS IN TALL BUILDINGS K. W. LEE and S. H. LO 90 Seismic Engineering DESIGN OF ENERGY DISSIPATION-SEISMIC REDUCTION OF ONE TALL BUILDING AND IT'S SHAKING TABLE TEST VERIFICATION SI CHAO, FULEI YANG and WEI QING 99 DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS AND SEISMIC RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF MULTI-TOWER STRUCTURE CONNECTED WITH CIRCULAR CORRIDOR YIMIN ZHENG and YUTANG CHEN 104 FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ON SEISMIC PROPERTIES OF MID-HIGHRISE STEEL BRACED FRAME Y. HUANG, Y. Q. WANG, H. CHEN and Y. J . SHI 109 COMPARATIVE RESEARCH ON DISPLACEMENT CONTROL SCHEME OF HIGH-RISE BUILDING IN HIGH SEISMIC INTENSITY AREA WEIJIAN GU 116 DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF ASYMMETRICAL BUILDING SUBJECT TO HORIZONTAL EARTHQUAKE AND APPLICATION IN SHEN ZHEN INTERNATIONAL MAYOR BUILDING LIAN WEI, SEN WANG and CHENG MING YUAN 123 ELASTIC SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF RC CORE-TUBE STEEL FRAME HYBRID STRUCTURES WITH DIFFERENT DAMPING MODELS YIQUN WANG, HONGXING WEN and FUZHI WANG 128 VARIABLE FRICTION DAMPERS FOR EARTHQUAKE PROTECTION OF COUPLED BUILDING STRUCTURES C. L. NG and Y. L. XU 132 THE APPLICATION OF PUSH-OVER ANALYSIS IN SEISMIC DESIGN OF BUILDING STRUCTURES PROCEDURES C. S. FU and J. YING 139 A NEW METHOD OF EVALUATING DAMAGE OF RC FRAME STRUCTURE UNDER EARTHQUAKE FORCE WEITAO LI and HUIQING YING 144 STUDY ON OPTIMAL SHEAR WALL QUANTITY OF FRAME-SHEAR WALL STRUCTURES IN EARTHQUAKE ZONE SHIMIN HUANG and KE SONG 149 MULTI-MODE CONTROL OF COUPLED LATERAL-TORSIONAL VIBRATION OF ASYMMETRICAL TALL BUILDINGS SHIMIN HUANG, KE SONG, LEI JIANG and HONGJIAN YI 154 DISPLACEMENT-BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF SHEAR WALL STRUCTURE IN TALL BUILDINGS XINGWEN LIANG, MINGKE DENG, BO LI and KEJIA YANG 159 THE UPDATE PHILOSOPHY OF ASEISMIC DESIGN FOR CAST-IN-SITU RC BUILDING STRUCTURES XUEYI FU 165 RELIABILITY-BASED SEISMIC PERFORMANCE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS XIAO-KANG ZOU and Q. S. LI 174 OPTIMAL SEISMIC PERFORMANCE DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAMES BASED ON LIFE-CYCLE COST XIAO-KANG ZOU, CHUN-MAN CHAN and GANG LI 180 MODELING AND SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF CONCRETE-FILLED RECTANGULAR STEEL TUBULAR COLUMNS IN TALL BUILDINGS XUEPING LI and XILIN LU 187 SHAKING TABLE TEST AND ANALYSIS OF A COMPLICATED CFRT FRAME STRUCTURE CHUNGUANG MENG, XILIN LU, WENSHENG LU and BIN ZHAO 194 PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON THE FEASIBILITY OF POURING R.C. FRAME JOINTS WITH THE SAME STRENGTH CONCRETE AS BEAMS YINGMIN LI, NINA ZHENG, SHUYAN JI, XUAN ZHAO and LIANG SHAN 201 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SUPER HIGH RISING BUILDING XILIN LU, YUN ZOU, WENSHENG LU and BIN ZHAO 208 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SHEAR STRENGTH OF EXTERIOR BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF BEAM BAR ANCHORAGES H. F. WONG and J. S. KUANG 215 Foundation A STUDY ON LARGEST SCALE SUPER-HIGH RIVERSCAPE DELUXE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING -FOUNDATION INTERACTION IN CHINA JIAN GONG, XIHONG ZHAO and BAOLIANG ZHANG 223 REAL-TIME CONTROL OF INTERNAL FORCE OF RETAINING STRUCTURE FOR THE DEEP PIT SHAOHUI LI, MIN SUN and WEI XU 229 PREDICTION OF BEHAVIOR OF PILED RAFT FOUNDATION FOR SHANGHAI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER OF 101-STOREY USING COMPARISON CONCEPT JIAN GONG, XIHONG ZHAO and BAOLIANG ZHANG 233 PILED RAFT DESIGN PROCESS FOR A HIGH-RISE BUILDING ON THE GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA PARAN MOYES, HARRY G POULOS, JOHN C. SMALL and FRANCES BADELOW 241 A FIELD STUDY ON SUPER-TALL BUILDING/SUPER-LONG PILE/THICK RAFT INTERACTION IN SHANGHAI QINGGUO FAN, BIAOBING DAI, WENLONG DENG, ZHIYONG AI and XIHONG ZHAO 250 SIMPLIFIED DYNAMIC FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PILE-GROUPED-RAFT-HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS HUI XIONG, XILIN LU and LIANG HUANG 258 SOIL RESPONSE AND GROUP INTERACTIONS IN TORSIONALLY LOADED LARGE-DIAMETER BORED PILE GROUPS LIMIN ZHANG and CARMEN Y. M. TSANG 267 GROUND MOVEMENTS DUE TO EXCAVATION WITH LATERAL SUPPORTING SYSTEMS TONY W. LAU and J. YANG 274 LIMITING FORCE PROFILE AND LATERALLY LOADED PILE GROUPS WEI DONG GUO 280 PRACTICE OF '2 IN 1' TECHNOLOGY IN DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF DEEPLY EXCAVATED FOUNDATION FOR HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS SHIMING CHEN and XIAOMING XU 286 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SOIL-FOUNDATION-SUPPORTING PILE-HIGH-RISE BUILDING DYNAMIC INTERACTION SYSTEM PEIZHEN LI, XILIN LU, HONGMEI ZHANG and YUEQING CHEN 291 AN ANALYTICAL MODEL TO ESTIMATE LOAD CAPACITY POSSESSED BY SUPPORTING SOIL FOR PILED RAFT FOUNDATIONS CIMIAN ZHU, XIANGHONG YAN and SHENGGUO BI 302 THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF TORSIONALLY LOADED LARGE-DIAMETER BORED PILE GROUPS LIMIN ZHANG and CARMEN Y. M. TSANG 311 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE JOINT NODE USED IN THE DEEP FOUNDATION OF TOP-DOWN CONSTRUCTION METHOD QI ZHAO and JIANBIN XIE 318 DESIGN PRINCIPLE FOR LARGE-AREA THICK RAFT FOUNDATION UNDER TALL BUILDINGS J. F. GONG, X. L. HUAN and Y. J. TENG 322 VERTICALLY LOADED SINGLE PILES IN SAND SUBJECTED TO LATERAL SOIL MOVEMENT WEI DONG GUO and HONG YU QIN 327 RESPONSE OF AXIALLY LOADED PILE GROUPS SUBJECTED TO LATERAL SOIL MOVEMENT - AN EXPREMENTAL INVESTIGATION WEI DONG GUO and ENG HOW GHEE 333 DEVELOPMENT OF THE APPARATUS FOR QUALITY CONTROL OF RUSHED STONE PILE LONGAN CHEN, ZHAO LIU, BINGLON WANGG and JIANGUO LIU 339 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON REINFORCED-AT-HIGH-STRESS-REGION SOIL-CEMENT RETAINING STRUCTURE FOR DEEP FOUNDATION PIT DAYU ZHU 345 CONCEPT OF PLASTICALLY BEARING PILE AND ITS ENGINEERING APPLICATION JINMIN ZAI, GUOXIONG MEI, XUDONG WANG, FENG ZHOU, JIE PEI and HESHAN LIAO 351 Case Studies TUBULAR SYSTEMS FOR TALL OFFICE BUILDINGS WITH SPECIAL CASES FROM TURKEY AYSIN SEV 361 DIFFERENTIAL DEFORMATIONS OF COLUMNS AND CORES IN TALL BUILDINGS – ASSESSMENT, MONITORING AND CORRECTION MEASURES SADUDEE BOONLUALOAH, SAM FRAGOMENI, YEW-CHAYE LOO and DAKSH BAWEJA 368 CHINA CENTRAL TELEVISION NEW HEADQUARTERS, BEIJING, CHINA CHRIS CARROLL, XIAONIAN DUAN, CRAIG GIBBONS, RICHARD LAWSON, ALEXIS LEE, ANDREW LUONG, RORY MCGOWAN and CHAS POPE 375 THE STRUCTURAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF "THREE PACIFIC PLACE" HONG KONG SAR, CHINA SHUNG LUNG, GORDON NG and SAU CHUNG, PAUL TSANG 381 STRUCTURAL DESIGN CHALLENGES FOR TWIN TOWER OF "GATE TO THE EAST", SUZHOU CHINA JOEY TSUI, CRAIG GIBBONS, MICHAEL KWOK and GORDON NG 390 THE STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF THE MEGA TOWER, CHINA WORLD TRADE CENTRE PHASE 3, BEIJING CHINA MICHAEL KWOK, CRAIG GIBBONS, JOEY TSUI, PENG LIU, YANG WANG and GOMAN HO 396 THE CONSTRUCTION TRACING AND SIMULATING ANALYSIS FOR HIGH-RISE LEANING STEEL BUILDING STRUCTURES Y. L. GUO, Q. L. DONG and D. B. HU 403 STEEL STRUCTURE DESIGN OF ZHONGGUANCUN FINANCIAL CENTER TOWER ZHONG FAN and CHUNYANG HU 409 THE CHOICE OF STRUCTURAL FORMS AND USE OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS OF THREE LANDMARK TALL BUILDINGS IN HONG KONG: CENTRAL PLAZA, TWO INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CENTRE, INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE CENTRE JOHN W. K. LUK, PETER AYRES, CRAIG GIBBONS, ALEXIS LEE, ANDREW LUONG, GEORGE CHAN, KELVIN LAM and JACKIE YAU 416 Wind Engineering WIND TUNNEL STUDIES ON THE BEHAVIOR OF A HIGH-RISE BUILDING SHIXIONG ZHENG and SHANGLING XUE 429 WIND TUNNEL AND CFD STUDIES ON WIND FLOW AROUND A HIGH-RISE BUILDING WITH A REFUGE FLOOR CHARLES C. K. CHENG, K. M. LAM, RICHARD K. K. YUEN and S. M. LO 435 WIND-INDUCED VIBRATION RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF LONG SPAN STEEL SPATIAL CORRIDOR YIMIN ZHENG and XIONGTAO CHENG 442 INTEGRATION OF GPS WITH ACCELEROMETER FOR MEASURING TOTAL DISPLACEMENT RESPONSE OF TALL BUILDINGS W. S. CHAN, Y. L. XU and X. L. DING 447 PARAMETERS AFFECTING WIND-DRIVEN RAIN AND ITS EFFECT ON HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS EDMUND C. C. CHOI 454 WIND-INDUCED DYNAMIC RESPONSE ANALYSIS FOR POWER TRANSMISSION TOWER BY PDEM LINLIN ZHANG and JIE LI 462 EFFECTS OF NONLINEAR DAMPING AND TIME CONSTANT ON WIND-INDUCED RESPONSES OF A 79-STOREY TALL BUILDING J. R. WU, P. F. LIU and Q. S. LI 468 WIND LOAD ESTIMATION FOR A PRACTICAL TALL BUILDING CONSIDERING TOPOGRAPHICAL EFFECT YUANQI LI, ZHENJUN LIU, JI XIA and YUKIO TAMURA 477 Transfer Structure SCHEME COMPARISON BETWEEN PRIMARY BEAM AND SECONDARY BEAM IN THE TRANSFER STRUCTURE OF TALL BUILDINGS YIWEI LIU and RUTANG LIN 487 ANALYSIS OF TRANSFER PLATE STRUCTURES USING 3D COUPLING ELEMENT S. H. LO, Y. K. CHEUNG and K. Y. SZE 490 THE THEORETICAL ANALYSIS AND ENGINEERING PRACTICE OF OVERLONG JOINTLESS TRANSFER STRUCTURES SHULING ZHOU and WEIJIAN GU 497 MEASURES TO ALLEVIATE SHRINKAGE PROBLEMS IN LARGE REINFORCED CONCRETE PODIUM STRUCTURES C. H. LIU, FRANCIS T. K. AU and PETER K. K. LEE 503 Computer Modelling and Analysis THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF POST-PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR CAD OF HIGH-RISING STEEL BUILDING BASED ON 3D SOLID MODEL ZHIGUO CHANG, HUIZHU YANG and QILIN ZHANG 513 OPTIMIZATION OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES WITH GENETIC ALGORITHM K. I. WONG and S. H. LO 518 OPTIMUM RC STRUCTURAL DESIGN SYSTEM BUILDS-C IN AN INTELLIGENT BUILDING DESIGN SYSTEM i-BUILDS CHANG-KOON CHOI, HYO-GYOUNG KWAK and JI-EUN KIM 525 MULTILEVEL OPTIMIZATION FOR STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF TALL BUILDINGS HAI GONG, TSE-YUNG P. CHANG and GUO-QIANG LI 534 NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME UNDER DIFFERENT LATERAL LOADING PATTERNS XIN JIA, XIAN LIU and YONG YUAN 539 STUDY ON INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL INPUT AND CALCULATION SYSTEM OF FRAME JOINT QIANHUA XU, QILIN ZHANG and HUIZHU YANG 546 IFC BASED DESIGN INTEGRATION BETWEEN ARCHITECTURAL AND STRUCTURAL MODELS XUE YUAN DENG, TSE-YUNG P. CHANG and GUO JIAN WANG 552 STUDY ON TALL BUILDING STRUCTURE ANALYSIS HUAFENG LIU and NING ZHAO 557 APPLICATION OF INTEGRATED CAD FRAMEWORK IN TALL BUILDING DESIGN JIANGHUA LONG, J. S. KUANG and T. Y. P CHANG 561 VIRTUAL IMPLEMENTATION OF RC FRAMES PUSH-OVER TEST BASED ON THE OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING METHOD YUSHI ZHOU, XIAN LIU and YONG YUAN 566 Innovative Technology OPTIMIZATION OF SCAFFOLD SUPPORTING SYSTEM FOR SLAB TRANSFER STOREY SUQIN CAI, ZHIMING CHEN and YULIN HUANG 575 DYNAMICAL PROPERTY ANALYSIS OF SELF-CLIMBING SCAFFOLD IN HIGH-RISE BUILDING CAN CHEN, XIAOSONG XIE and WEI XU 580 WORKING STATE ANALYSIS AND HYDRAULIC SYSTEM DESIGN FOR EXCAVATOR RI YONG UK, ZHAO LIU and CAIPING HUANG 584 RESEARCH ON INTELLIGENT CONTROL OF BULLDOZER'S TRANSMISSION CHAO ZHANG, ZHAO LIU and FANG DU 589 INNOVATIVE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUILDING INTERNAL PARTITIONS FOR SUPER HI-RISE BUILDINGS ON AN INTERNATIONAL BASIS S. ABOMOSLIM and ALAN D. RUSSELL 594 RC Structure CONCURRENT FLEXURAL STRENGTH AND DUCTILITY DESIGN OF NORMAL- AND HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE BEAMS JOHNNY C. M. HO and ALBERT K. H. KWAN 607 COMPLETE NONLINEAR BEHAVIOUR OF NORMAL- AND HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE BEAMS UNDER CYCLIC LOADING BILL Z. Z. BAI and FRANCIS T. K. AU 615 NUMERICAL STUDY OF PLATE STRENGTHENED DEEP RC COUPLING BEAMS WITH DYNAMIC SET ANCHORS R. K. L. SU and Y. ZHU 622 A METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMUM LOCATIONS AND NUMBER OF STIFFENING COUPLING BEAMS IN COUPLED SHEAR WALL STRUCTURE QINGSHAN LIU, XINGWEN LIANG and MINGKE DENG 628 A BREAKTHROUGH IN PRECASTING OF PUBLIC HOUSING BLOCKS IN HONG KONG S. C. LAM, K. C. CHUNG and S. W. SHAM 635 Steel Structure EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION AND SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF NEW STEEL SHEAR WALLS WITH SLITS DE-MIN WEI, PEI-GANG WEN and LIAN-BIN LI 643 EFFECTS OF TRANSVERSE WELDS ON ALUMINUM TUBULAR COLUMNS JI-HUA ZHU and BEN YOUNG 649 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF COLD-FORMED HIGH STRENGTH STAINLESS STEEL COMPRESSION MEMBERS BEN YOUNG and WING-MAN LUI 657 STATIC BEHAVIOR OF BUCKLING-RESTRAINED STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALLS Y. L GUO and Q. L. DONG 666 OPTIMIZED LOCATION OF ENERGY-DISSIPATION BRACES IN TALL BUILDINGS WITH IRREGULAR FLOORS SI CHAO, FULEI YANG and YUBING HU 671 Management Issues APPLYING WIRELESS TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT IN TALL BUILDINGS LEE-KUO LIN, CHING-LUNG CHENG, SHANG-XIAN LI and PEI-CHIN LIN 677 DISTINGUISHING THE DECREPIT FROM THE OLD: IS BUILDING AGE A GOOD PROXY FOR BUILDING PERFORMANCE? S. K WONG, A. K. C. CHEUNG, Y. YAU, K. W. CHAU and D. C. W. HO 687 FIRE DISASTER AND PREVENTION MANAGEMENT OF TALL BUILDINGS LEE-KUO LIN, CHUAN-HSU WANG, CHUN-TING CHAN and HUI-CHING LIN 693 A STUDY ON THE DEBONDING OF EXTERNAL WALL TILE FOR HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS IN HONG KONG S. M. LO, C. W. HO, EDWARD C. Y YIU, D. Q. YANG and ADA S. K. MAN 700 SPRINKLER SYSTEM DESIGN FOR AUDITORIUM IN THE THEATRE ZHENGRONG LIU and SEJIN FAN 707 A FRAMEWORK FOR MONITORING REWORK IN BUILDING PROJECTS EKAMBARAM PALANEESWARAN, M. MOHAN KUMARASWAMY, S. THOMAS NG and PETER LOVE 710 COST COMPARISON STUDY OF PLASTERBOARD DRYWALL PARTITIONS VS. TRADITIONAL MASONRY/CONCRETE PARTITIONS IN HIGH-RISE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS, SHANGHAI SHIMING CHEN 716 STUDY ON THE ECONOMICAL EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE COMPARISON BETWEEN REINFORCED CONCRETE HOLLOW GIRDERLESS FLOOR AND COMMON FLOORS XUESHU WU, XUEYU XIONG and DINGYE HUANG 721 ENABLING AUTOMATION IN TALL BUILDING WORKS WITH WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES AND TAGGING DEVICES EKAMBARAM PALANEESWARAN, S. THOMAS NG, MOHAN M. KUMARASWAMY and DAVID W. CHEUNG 726 CRITERION TO EVALUATE THE HIGH OFFICE BUILDING JIE WANG and HU FEI ZHU 733 Composite Structure DESIGN AND RESEARCH FOR A TALL BUILDING OF CONCRETE FILLED SQUARE STEEL TUBE JIEMIN DING, SI CHAO and JIANBIN CHEN 739 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON CONCRETE-FILLED STEEL TUBE STRUCTURE SUBJECTED TO COMPRESSION AND BENDING IN HIGH RISE BUILDINGS SI CHAO and MINFANG WU 742 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF CONCRETE-FILLED HIGH STRENGTH STAINLESS STEEL TUBE COLUMNS FOR TALL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION BEN YOUNG and EHAB ELLOBODY 748 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE APARTMENT TOWER OF FORTUNE CENTER PHASE SITED IN BEIJING TONG-YI ZHANG, ZI-QIANG XIAO, LIANG LI, RUI ZHANG and BIN LUO 757 COMPOSITE (HYBRID) SYSTEMS FOR TALL BUILDINGS AYSIN SEV 764 Other Structural Aspects CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY FOR SUPER HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS YI-PING YAO, SONG-LIN ZHANG and HONG-ZHENG HUANG 773 COLLAPSE OF A PILED INDUSTRIAL BUILDING DUE TO SURCHARGE LOADS BI TANG ZHU and MIN YANG 779 RESEARCH ON THE APPLICATION OF PRESTRESSED TECHNOLOGY TO FLOOR OF SUPER TALL BUILDING XUEYU XIONG, YUE CAI and JISHU WANG 787 EFFECT OF CONCRETE STRENGTH ON SHEAR RESISTANCE OF STUD CONNECTORS AND MOMENT RESISTANCE OF COMPOSITE BEAMS XIAMIN HU, WEI YANG and QI ZHANG 795 RESEARCH ON CALCULATING METHODS OF STOREY DRIFT FOR REINFORCED CONCRETE SHEAR WALL STRUCTURES MINGKE DENG, XINGWEN LIANG and QINGSHAN LIU 800 Urban Planning and Development BETTER UNDERGROUND UTILITY SERVICES DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES K. C. LAM 811 EARTH ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN CITY CONSTRUCTION BAOMIN MA and LEI LIN 817 PILOT SURVEY ON PERCEPTIONS AND USE OF OPEN SPACE IN TWO SLECTED MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN HONG KONG S. B. A. COOREY and S. S. Y. LAU 821 THE EFFECTS OF COMPACT NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN ON PEDESTRIAN BEHAVIOR IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CITIES – CASES STUDIES FROM URBAN GUANGZHOU YINGQING OU, BEISI JIA and S. S. Y. LAU 831 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WATER AND LANDSCAPE JIN LIU 839 Urban Living Space FANTASY AND SPATIALITY HIGH-RISE LIVING BUILDINGS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CITIES HUA LI 845 PROPERTY PRICE, FLOOR LEVEL, AND BUILDING DENSITY S. K. WONG, K. W. CHAU, Y. YAU and A. K. C. CHEUNG 853 AIR QUALITY AND PROPERTY PRICES IN HIGH DENSITY URBAN AREAS ANDY T. CHAN, K. W. CHAU, S. K. WONG and K. LAM 859 A STUDY OF MICROCLIMATE CONDITIONS IN OUTDOOR SPACES OF HIGH-RISE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS R. GIRIDHARAN, J. TAI and S. S. Y. LAU 865 AN INITIAL ENVIRONMENTAL-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SPREAD OF SARS AT A HIGH-RISE HOUSING ESTATE IN HONG KONG LAWRENCE W. C. LAI, K. W. CHAU, DANIEL HO, GEORGE LAM and VERONICA LIN 872 Energy Efficiency, New and Renewable Energy A SYSTEMIC SIMULATION MODEL AND EXPERIMENTS ON VERTICAL GROUND HEAT EXCHANGERS IN GCHP SYSTEMS PING CUI, HONGYING YANG and ZHAOHONG FANG 881 FUTURE LIVING – SAFE, SMART AND EFFCIENT USE OF ENERGY T. F. CHOW 888 IMPLICATIONS OF SOLAR CHIMNEY SIZE FOR VENTILATION MATTHIAS HAASE and ALEX AMATO 895 BUILDING DEVICES CONTROL SYSTEM BASED ON ETHERNET AND CAN AND ITS APPLICATION IN LIGHTING SCENE PROJECT AN XU, ZHENFU ZHANG, JUN LIU, RUTONG LI and CAIYUN DING 902 DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ELECTRIC SYSTEM FOR PROVINCIAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS HUB BUILDING HONGYU NA 909 Sustainable Development — Cases THE NEW POLICE HEADQUARTERS – ARSENAL HOUSE AT ARSENAL STREET, WANCHAI: SMALL FOOTPRINT, BIG EXPECTATIONS ANTHONY WILSON, ALICE YEUNG and ANDREW FUNG 919 SUSTAINABILITY OF A TALL BUILDING IN HONG KONG – TWO INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CENTER EVIA WONG and BONNIE LAM 926 SUGGESTING A NEW LIFESTYLE IN ASIA ROPPONGI HILLS IN THE VERY HEART OF TOKYO, A COMPACT NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE WORKPLACES AND RESIDENCES ARE WITH CLOSE PROXIMITY — A MODEL FOR THE NEXT DECADE MASAHIRO WATAHIKI and HITOMI NAMBA 931 AIR QUALITY AND HIGH-RISE HIGH-DENSITY RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT IN HONG KONG PRIYANTHA S. EDUSSURIYA, ARLEN M. YE and ANDY T. Y. CHAN 942 TWO IFC JOSEPH LEUNG and ALBERT TO 951 Sustainability Assessment The New Intelligent Building Index (IBI) for Buildings around the World – A Quantitative Approach in Building Assessment and Audit Experience with the Hong Kong Tallest Building, Two International Finance Centre (420m and 88-storey High) LEONARD K. H. CHOW 963 TALL BUILDINGS: MEASURES OF GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE! JOHN BURNETT 972 HONG KONG BUILDING ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT METHOD PETER CHAN and CHARLES CHU 979 THE CULTURAL SHIFT OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY OF HONG KONG UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT C. S. POON and Robin C. P. YIP 987 ECOLOGICAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION SERIALIZATION OF HIGHRISE HOUSING IN SHANGHAI DEXUAN SONG and FEI GUO 993 Sustainble Design A STUDY OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FACTORS FOR TALL OFFICE BUILDINGS WITH REGIONAL CLIMATES BASED ON SUSTAINABILITY JONG-SOO CHO 1001 ARE RE-ENTRANTS GOOD OR BAD? AN EMPIRICAL TEST IN HONG KONG S. K. WONG, Y. YAU, A. K. C. CHEUNG, K. W. CHAU and D. C. W. HO 1011 TOWARDS BIOCLIMATIC HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS: IS A BIOCLIMATIC DESIGN APPROACH APPROPRIATE FOR IMPROVING ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS? JOYCE LAW 1017 DEVELOPMENT IN ENHANCING THE STANDARDS OF LIFT INSTALLATION FOR TALL BUILDING C. K. MOK, EDDIE W. K. WU and S. Y. MUI 1026 A DISCUSSION ON DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY OF ENERGY-SAVING ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS HONGLIANG YAN and MIAOFANG CHEN 1032 Post-Occupancy Operation, Maintenance and Management CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES – A STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE THOMAS K. T. WONG and EVIA WONG 1039 SAMPLING POINT DENSITIES FOR ASSESSING INDOOR AIR QUALITY P. S. HUI, L. T. WONG and K. W. MUI 1045 HONG KONG: ROAD TO SUPER SUSTAINABLE CITY CHEUN-CHOW THOMAS YEUNG and KA-LUN TIM LEE 1050 DEVELOPING A LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR COMMERCIAL BUILIDNGS IN HONG KONG WELMAN LEUNG and WING KEUNG TAM 1057 ENERGY EFFICIENCY TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY EVIA WONG and ERIC K. S. CHAN 1063 Living Environment CAN WE LIVE 'HIGH AND HEALTHY'? MARDIE TOWNSEND 1073 THE PROBLEMS AND THEIR TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS OF SUPERTALL LIVING IN TOKYO AREA HIROTADA KAMIYA and HIROHIDE KONAMI 1083 HOW WILLING ARE WE TO LIVE IN TALL(ER) HOUSING? BELINDA YUEN, ANTHONY GAR-ON YEH, STEPHEN JOHN APPOLD, GEORGE EARL, JOHN TING and LANNY KURNIANINGRUM KWEE 1088 AGE SEGREGATION AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE ELDERLY IN HIGH-RISE STUDIO APARTMENTS ADDAE-DAPAAH KWAME 1095 DELINEATION OF VIEW RIGHTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS – THE CASE OF VANCOUVER FRANK LORNE, DEBRA T. M. CHEUNG and ARLEN M. YE 1102 SOLVING EXTERNALITIES PROBLEMS USING INNOVATIVE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN W. S. WONG, FRANK LORNE and K. W. CHAU 1107 TOTAL BUILDING EVACUATION STRATEGY FOR HIGH RISE BUILDINGS KELVIN H. L. WONG and M. C. LUO 1113 OPTIMIZED INTERIOR SPACE DESIGN OF SMALL HIGH-RISING FLATS YUJIAN WU 1121 MIXED-USE HIGH RISE IN THE UK: AN URBAN RENAISSANCE? ANTONY WOOD 1126 CHANGING THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC FABRIC OF SINGAPORE TIMOTHY JOHNSON 1137 Back

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