Scraping Clouds - The Majesty and Engineering of High-Rise Buildings (Paperback)

As buildings reach for the skies, the technology and engineering evolves to better handle earthquakes, tsunamis, and high wind issues.This book explores high-rise buildings from an engineering perspective, including building codes. Also included are the differences with skyscrapers and notable buildings. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.