Talk:Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

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[edit] Methods of ranking of tall buildings

I wrote to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat to ask them what method was used rank tall buildings. This is there reply:

I can confirm that the CTBUH does rank the height of buildings using four different methods. These are outlined below:

1) Height to structural top of the building This is the main criteria under which the CTBUH ranks the height of buildings. The height of a building is measured from the sidewalk level of the main entrance to the structural top of the building. This includes spires, but does not include television antennas, radio antennas, or flag poles.

Other rankings

2) To Highest Occupied Floor: Height to the floor of the highest occupied floor of the building.

3)To Top of Roof: Height to the top of the roof.

4)To Tip of Spire/Antenna: Height to the tip of spire, pinnacle, antenna, mast or flag pole.

Kind Regards,

Philip Oldfield,

Research Coordinator, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

I will put this in the article to describe their official method of ranking buildings. --WikiCats (talk) 10:06, 3 May 2008 (UTC)