Tall Buildings in Numbers

World’s Tallest Buildings with Dampers

As tall buildings continue to be built in seismically-active and
cyclone-prone areas, the need to augment the structures of Types of Dampers
these buildings with dynamic modification devices (in this
case, dampers) to counteract these forces is growing. This AMD = Active Mass Damper TLD = Tuned Liquid Damper
ATMD = Active Tuned Mass Damper TMD = Tuned Mass Damper
data report graphically summarizes the findings of the
BRB = Buckling Restrained Brace VD = Viscous Damper
CTBUH Research project Study on Tall Building Damping
HMD = Hybrid Mass Damper VED = Viscoelastic Damper
Technologies, sponsored by Bouygues Construction (see also
TLCD = Tuned Liquid Column Damper
Damping Technologies for Tall Buildings, page 42).
See the research paper on page 42 for more details about each damper type.
›› See the full list of buildings with dampers at ctbuh.org/damping

Tallest 10 Completed Buildings with Dampers

Shanghai World Financial Center Princess Tower

Ping An Finance Center Shanghai, 2008 Dubai, 2012
Shenzhen, 2017 Building Height: 492 m Building Height: 413 m
Shanghai Tower Building Height: 599 m Damper Position: 90F/394 m Damper Position: 98F/363 m (estimated)
Shanghai, 2015 Damper Position: 113F/556 m Type of Damper: ATMD Type of Damper: TLD
Building Height: 632 m Type of Damper: TMD
Petronas Twin Towers 1 & 2
Damper Position: 23 Marina
Kuala Lumpur, 1998
125F/581 m Dubai, 2012
TAIPEI 101 Building Height: 452 m
Type of Damper: TMD Building Height: 392 m
Taipei, 2004 Damper Position: within four legs under
Damper Position: 86F/306 m
Building Height: 508 m skybridge (approx. 150 m above ground floor)
Type of Damper: TMD
Damper Position: Type of Damper: TMD
600 m 88F/378 m
432 Park Avenue
Type of Damper: TMD
New York City, 2015
Almas Tower
Building Height: 426 m Dubai, 2008
Damper Position:
Building Height: 360 m
85F/397 m
450 m Damper Position:
Type of Damper: TMD
48–49F/212 m
Type of Damper: TMD

300 m

150 m

30 %
Shanghai Tower’s damper The ball-shaped pendulum
Only 30% of the
is celebrated by a special damper at TAIPEI 101
World’s 20 Tallest
public “skyspace” with an is on public view, and is
Buildings are equipped
abstract scultpure atop commemorated with a
with dampers.
the damper enclosure. mascot called “Damper Baby.”

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 Tallest 50 Buildings with Dampers HMD
BRB
Includes buildings under construction 2% Mixed
2%
2%
AMD
Hotel VED
2%
4% Steel 2%
TLCD
8%
4%
Steel/Concrete ATMD
8% 4%
Office
Composite
22%
Mixed-Use Concrete/Steel 36% TLD TMD
48% 14% 14% 48%

Residential
Concrete VD
26%
34% 20%

By Function By Primary Structural Material By Damper Type

All 250 m+ Buildings with Dampers, by Location

Moscow

Toronto
Seattle Tianjin
2 2
11 New York Beijing Incheon
Chicago 3 Urumqi Osaka
Philadelphia 2 Tokyo
Shanghai
Los Angeles Chongqing Yokohama
6 3 Izumisano
Doha Suzhou 2
8 Taipei
Shenzhen
Jeddah Dubai Hong KongKaohsiung
Taguig City

2
Kuala Lumpur

2 Sydney
Melbourne
HIGHEST LOWEST

Wind Risk Single 250 m+ building in city

Seismic Risk # Number of 250 m+ buildings in city

288
The Shinjuku Center Tower, Tokyo
The damper at 111 West 57th
(1979) was retrofitted with 288
Street, New York City, will weigh
distributed oil dampers in 2009,
726 metric tons – more than 3.5
which reduced movement by 20%
Statues of Liberty.
during the 2011 Tohuku earthquake.

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