Skyscraper Manual: From Concepts to Construction Methods

by Alexandra Wynne and Dave Parker

It's hard to believe that the world's first skyscraper was built in 1885 - the ten-storey Home Insurance Building in Chicago. Little more than a century later the highest skyscraper is the 163-storey Burj Khalifa in Dubai, standing 828 metres tall. By 2020, the 1,000-metre Kingdom Tower in Jeddah will take first place.

The designs are becoming more extraordinary, but behind all the steel and glass how is a skyscraper logistically constructed?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785211099
• ISBN13: 9781785211096
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.7"