Condor Tower, completed in June 2008, was a technically challenging project requiring unique engineering solutions.

Hybrid concrete construction can be described as being 'best of both worlds'. It marries together the advantages of precast and insitu concrete construction with often significant benefits. For example, the adoption of a hybrid concrete frame instead of a composite steel frame on a shell-and core office project in central London resulted in construction savings of 29 percent and a 13 percent increase in net lettable floor area.

AFS Logicwall is a modular building system consisting of sandwich panels lined with fibre cement sheets and concrete filled. HD Projects WA supplied and installed the wall system to the Condor Towers building project in Perth.

This Handbook covers all aspects of Australian precast concrete construction including design, specification, manufacture and installation. The Handbook reflects current industry best practice featuring the latest innovative applications of precast concrete. It provides guidelines in the form of graphs, charts and worked examples. The Handbook is intended for architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and students as well as those involved in the building, infrastructure and construction industry.
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Precast concrete construction has managed to remain the least understood of the major forms of multi-storey building construction. Precast structures have been shown to be extremely cost effective, durable, stable, and of the highest quality and strength. Design, due to its specialised nature, often remains with the manufacturers and their personal engineers. This paper is designed to give further insight into the benefits of structural precast concrete design and construction, with particular emphasis on skeletal frame structures.

This paper has provided a broad overview of different historic developments for concrete high-rise buildings. The evolution of concrete skyscrapers from the first reinforced concrete high-rise, the Ingalls Building, which was 15 stories high to modern skyscrapers Petronas and the Jin Mao is discussed. How new innovations in construction technology such as the advances in formwork, mixing of concrete, techniques for pumping, and types of admixtures to improve quality have all contributed to the ease of working with concrete in high-rise construction is also briefly discussed in the paper.

Guide to Long-Span Concrete Floors has been produced to provide architects, building designers, structural engineers and architectural and engineering students and lecturers with an appreciation of the factors that should be taken into consideration in selecting a flooring system for a particular building. Covering major architectural, structural design and construction considerations this publication incorporates sketches and photographs and included graphs to enable designers to quickly identify appropriate floor systems to carry applied loading for the desired span and provide approximate dimensions for the preliminary design.
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A review of contemporary views on achieving an efficient harmony between precast concrete and in situ concrete elements within a multi-rise building structure. A selection of recent projects are referenced to demonstrate 'best in class' applications of this hybrid concrete building approach.