3M High Technology on the Guard of Ecology

The world-major capitals, cities of the future, respectable offices and apartments are tightly associated in our mind with modern wonders of the world – skyscrapers. Glass skyscraper with panoramic windows flooded with light is a completely new concept of construction, forming specific subvariety of engineering tasks. When meeting these challenges, architects and design engineers face a number of problems starting with a foundation (the world-tallest skyscraper Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE, weighs over 10 thousand tons) and ending with telecommunications inside the building (maximum signal transmission distance is only 20m for traditional copper communication lines and 300m for optical lines, while super high skyscrapers are much taller). That is why high-rise buildings are distinguished by a wide range of the most advanced materials and design peculiarities.  

High-rise construction technologies are relatively new for Russia. This finds reflection in a “young” legal framework regulating the most important aspects for erection of residential buildings higher than 75 m and public buildings higher than 55 m. For instance, the code of practice of federal importance SP 267.1325800.2016 was developed and approved by the Russian Ministry of Construction on December 30, 2016 and was put in force only on June 30, 2017. The document describes a number of construction requirements including the impact of loads and environment, structural loads of the building itself, fire safety, engineering systems, building energy efficiency as well as environment protection against negative impact of the constructed object and its infrastructure. 

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 Text by Alina Safonova
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