- Author
- Gibbons, C. | Luo, M. | Dumigan, D.
- Title
- Assessment of the Life Safety Aspects and Structural Robustness of High Rise Buildings in Hong Kong.
- Coporate
- Ove Arup Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Central Waterfront Property Project Management Co. Ltd., Hong Kong
- Book or Conf
- Strategies for Performance in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center. CIB-CTBUH Conference on Tall Buildings. Proceedings. Task Group on Tall Buildings: CIB TG50. CIB Publication No. 290. October 20-23, 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Shafii, F.; Bukowski, R.; Klemencic, R., Editors, 261-269 p., 2003
- Keywords
- World Trade Center | high rise buildings | life safety | structural integrity | impact | loads (forces | scenarios | building collapse | floors | egress
- Identifiers
- World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; robustness; Two International Finance Centre (Two IFC), Hong Kong; effect of collapse of the floors; impact loading and intense fire scenarios; 420m office building: comparison of HK and US codes