Exercise 10. Write a short article about the Shanghai Tower using the data below. Use the articles in exercise 9 as examples.
Location
Shanghai, China
Technical Data
Height: 632 m.
Floors: 121.
Construction: 2008-2015.
Elevators: 106.
Building costs: $2.4 billion.
Structure in General
| Fig.29. Shanghai Tower (632 m.) Shanghai World Financial Center (492 m.) |
Foundation system: pile foundation.
Usage
Residential, commercial, hotel, shopping centre, observation deck (119 floor).
Exercise 11. Read about the skyscrapers with the fastest elevators in the world and answer the questions.
1. What is the fastest elevator in the world? Where is it?
2. Where can passengers travel the longest distance without exiting?
3. What building has the largest number of elevators?
4. Where are the most unusual elevators?
5. What is the most expensive elevator?
Yokohama Landmark Tower, Japan | Elevators by Mitsubishi
Located in the 296m-high Yokohama Landmark Tower this Mitsubishi elevator manages a speed of 45km/h. With a total of 79 elevators, the building has the fastest elevator in Japan. It only takes 40 seconds to travel from the second to the 69th floor. Each of these race-car like elevators have the price of over $2 million.
Burj Khalifa, UAE | Elevators by Otis
No elevators are installed to travel all 160 floors of the Burj Khalifa tower. The Sky Lobby is an intermediate floor where residents, guests, office staff change from an express elevator to a local elevator, which stops at every floor within a certain segment of the building. Burj Dubai’s Sky Lobbies are located on level 43, 76 and 123. The Burj Khalifa tower offers the world's fastest double-decker elevators, with the passengers able to travel the longest distance currently possible, exiting at the world's highest stop - 638m up the building. The double-decker elevators have a capacity of 14 people per cabin. A maximum elevator speed is 36 km/h. Each one of the elevators costs around $5 million. The skyscraper contains a total of 57 elevators.
Taipei 101, Taiwan | Elevators by Toshiba
With a building height of 509m (101 floors), passengers are catapulted at a speed of 60 km/h, from the fifth to the 89th floor of Taipei 101. The ride lasts 37 seconds, at the end of which passengers step out already 382 metres above the ground at the observation floor. Each elevator (there are 61) costs more than $2 million.
Exercise 12. Watch video 5.1. What is the correct order of the ideas in the video?
Underline the keywords before listening.
WHY WE SHOULD BUILD WOODEN SKYSCRAPERS
https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_green_why_we_should_build_wooden_skyscrapers
1. Mass timber panels for 30-story tall buildings.
2. Three billion people in need of a new home.
3. The influence of his grandfather and son.
4. A completely different behaviour in the building made of wood.
5. Deforestation.
6. Mother Nature’s fingerprints in the built environment.
7. The Eiffel Tower moment.
8. Fire.
9. Steel and concrete as the materials with high greenhouse gas emissions.
10. Using wood to store the carbon.
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