Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the ‘bones and muscles’ that create the form and shape of man made structures.

High Rise Buildings in Structural Engineering

High–rise buildings are inevitable part of contemporary living style, and at the same time represent futuristic direction of structural and architectural development. For present societies where there is a constant increase in population number and ratios between constructed land and natural environment, high–rise buildings present new environmentally friendly and sustainable way of living, as they occupy practically small areas of the ground and expand vertically.

High–rise building are becoming taller and taller, thus there is a necessity for very careful and detailed design of each structure in order to provide safe, comfortable, stable and resistant structure, and to be trustworthy for
potential users and inhabitants of high–rise living.

High–rise structures themselves deal with the critical load combinations, where at this specific case of high–rise structures, lateral loads (wind and seismic actions) are crucial in structural design. With these enormous heights, wind acting increases and may cause a noticeable building movement
and sway.

However, high–rise structures can be of high–quality and detailed architectural, structural and mechanical design with carefully monitored construction process and efficient with the choice of the best suitable, resistant and safe structural material. There are similar and approximately the same structural systems and designs all around the world, which are efficient up to the certain heights, with correspondence to the use of the specific structural materials and ability to resist the critical loads combination in specific
environment.