CTBUH Gold Member

Rider Levett Bucknall

About

Member Since: 2013

Member Offices: Beijing, Chengdu, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Macau, Phoenix, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xi’an

Website: http://www.rlb.com

RLB is an independent global construction and property consultancy providing management and advice throughout the built environment.

We are committed to creating value for our clients, achieving commercial certainty, project and programme success and optimised assets to projects across the world. We do this through our extensive expertise in cost management and quantity surveying, project and programme management, asset advisory and specialist consultancy.

Throughout our long history, our 4000 people, working across 40 countries, have made a difference to our clients by combining fresh perspectives with sector expertise. Together, we’re creating a better tomorrow through flawless execution today.

Fields of Expertise

Cost Consulting; Project Management; Surveying

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

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Name
Status

Completed

Architecturally Topped Out

Structurally Topped Out

Under Construction

On Hold

Proposed

Vision

Never Completed

Demolished

Competition Entry

Canceled

Proposed Renovation

Under Renovation

Renovated

Under Demolition

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Height
1 Shanghai Tower
632 m / 2,073  ft
2 Ping An Finance Center
599.1 m / 1,965  ft
3 Lotte World Tower
554.5 m / 1,819  ft
4 Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre
530 m / 1,739  ft
5 Tianjin CTF Finance Centre
530 m / 1,739  ft
6 Wuhan CTF Finance Center
475 m / 1,558  ft
7 Two International Finance Centre
412 m / 1,352  ft
8 Guangxi China Resources Tower
402.7 m / 1,321  ft
9 Shun Hing Square
384 m / 1,260  ft
10 Eton Place Dalian Tower 1
383.2 m / 1,257  ft

Awards

Collins Arch

Winner: Collins Arch

Best Tall Mixed-Use Building 2022

Ctbuh Leaders

Stephen Y.F. Lai

Stephen Y.F. Lai

CTBUH Hong Kong Chapter, 2015 – Present

Hong Kong

Building Completions Timeline

Videos

31 October 2019

The Garden City in Three Dimensions

Moshe Safdie, Founder at Safdie Architects, speaks at the 2019 CTBUH International Congress in Chicago on 31 October 2019.

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Research

22 August 2022

The World’s Highest Pools: A Deep Dive

Tall building design has diversified and adapted to accommodate increased demand for distinctive amenities at a range of heights. Swimming pools are a classic feature...

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Research

22 August 2022

Structural Design of Iconic Tower, Egypt: Culmination of a Concrete Optimization Process

This paper presents an overview of a process of optimizing concrete mixture for tall buildings, culminating in the design of the Iconic Tower, the key...

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Associated companies

Levett & Bailey Chartered Quantity Surveyors Ltd. (2007)

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

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Name
Height
1 Suzhou Zhongnan Center

729 m / 2,392 ft
2 Ping An Finance Center

660 m / 2,165 ft
3 Wuhan CTF Finance Center

648 m / 2,126 ft
4 Shanghai Tower

632 m / 2,073 ft
5 Ping An Finance Center

599 m / 1,965 ft
6 Lotte World Tower

555 m / 1,819 ft
7 Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre

530 m / 1,739 ft
8 Tianjin CTF Finance Centre

530 m / 1,739 ft
9 Pertamina Tower

523 m / 1,716 ft
10 Wuhan CTF Finance Center

475 m / 1,558 ft
11 Nanning China Resources Tower

445 m / 1,460 ft
12 Two International Finance Centre

412 m / 1,352 ft
13 Guangxi China Resources Tower

403 m / 1,321 ft
14 Shun Hing Square

384 m / 1,260 ft
15 Eton Place Dalian Tower 1

383 m / 1,257 ft
16 Central Plaza

374 m / 1,227 ft
17 Bank of China Tower

367 m / 1,205 ft
18 Raffles City Chongqing T3N

354 m / 1,163 ft
19 Raffles City Chongqing T4N

354 m / 1,163 ft
20 Mandarin Oriental Hotel Tower A

333 m / 1,093 ft
21 Heartland 66 Office Tower

321 m / 1,053 ft
22 Fortune Center

309 m / 1,015 ft
23 Burj Rafal

308 m / 1,010 ft
24 One Island East

298 m / 978 ft
25 Cheung Kong Centre

283 m / 928 ft
26 Boulevard Point

280 m / 918 ft
27 Eton Place Dalian Tower 2

279 m / 917 ft
28 Republic Plaza

276 m / 906 ft
29 Shanghai SK Group Tower

275 m / 902 ft
30 Victoria Dockside

272 m / 894 ft
31 66 Tower 1

262 m / 859 ft
31 66 Tower 2

262 m / 859 ft
33 Guangdong Telecom Plaza

260 m / 853 ft
34 The Masterpiece

257 m / 843 ft
35 CITIC Ruibo Tower 1

256 m / 840 ft
36 Raffles City Chongqing T5

256 m / 839 ft
37 Raffles City Chongqing T2

256 m / 839 ft
38 Raffles City Chongqing T4S

256 m / 839 ft
39 Raffles City Chongqing T3S

256 m / 839 ft
40 Langham Place Office Tower

255 m / 837 ft
41 Queens Place North Tower

253 m / 829 ft
42 Center 66 Office 1

250 m / 820 ft
43 Ningbo New World Plaza Tower 5

250 m / 819 ft
44 Shenzhen Stock Exchange

246 m / 806 ft
45 Chifley Tower

244 m / 801 ft
46 CITIC Ruibo Tower 2

238 m / 781 ft
47 Sydney Greenland Centre

236 m / 773 ft
48 Tianjin International Trade Tower 1

235 m / 771 ft
49 Palm Tower

232 m / 760 ft
50 Kingtown International Center

231 m / 759 ft
51 Frasers Tower

231 m / 757 ft
52 One Taikoo Place

229 m / 750 ft
53 Raffles City Chongqing T1

228 m / 750 ft
53 Raffles City Chongqing T6

228 m / 750 ft
55 Center 66 Office 3

225 m / 738 ft
56 Mandarin Oriental Hotel Tower B

224 m / 733 ft
57 Optical Valley New World Center A

222 m / 729 ft
58 China Merchants Tower

211 m / 692 ft
59 435 Bourke Street

210 m / 690 ft
60 Xiamen Eton Center North Tower

210 m / 689 ft
61 Ping An Asset Tower

209 m / 684 ft
62 Leeza SOHO

207 m / 679 ft
63 Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 1

207 m / 679 ft
63 Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 3

207 m / 679 ft
65 Vietcombank Tower

206 m / 676 ft
66 Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 2

203 m / 665 ft
67 Center 66 Office 2

200 m / 656 ft
68 Wuhan CTF Finance Center Residential Tower 1

196 m / 644 ft
68 Wuhan CTF Finance Center Residential Tower 2

196 m / 644 ft
70 Grand Hyatt Dalian

195 m / 641 ft
71 Oasia Hotel Downtown

191 m / 626 ft
72 8 Corporate Avenue

180 m / 591 ft
73 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters

179 m / 587 ft
74 Manhattan @ Upper West Side

170 m / 558 ft
75 The Palazzo

166 m / 545 ft
76 Tianjin International Trade Tower 3

165 m / 542 ft
77 Tianjin International Trade Tower 2

165 m / 542 ft
78 One Peking Road

160 m / 525 ft
79 Optical Valley New World Center B

158 m / 518 ft
80 Optical Valley New World Hotel

157 m / 514 ft
81 130 Lonsdale Street

157 m / 513 ft
82 Hotel Panorama by Rhombus

156 m / 512 ft
83 Echelon Tower 1

155 m / 509 ft
83 Echelon Tower 2

155 m / 509 ft
85 7 Corporate Avenue

155 m / 508 ft
86 Chevron House

152 m / 497 ft
87 Collins Arch

148 m / 487 ft
88 Venetian Macau Hotel Tower

148 m / 485 ft
89 Eton Place Dalian Tower 3

147 m / 482 ft
89 Eton Place Dalian Tower 4

147 m / 482 ft
89 Eton Place Dalian Tower 5

147 m / 482 ft
92 2 Trafalgar Way, Building 2

138 m / 451 ft
93 Brookfield Place Sydney

133 m / 437 ft
94 6 Corporate Avenue

121 m / 396 ft
95 Boulevard Vue

116 m

381 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 34 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 8,559 other buildings of the same Residential function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
96 The Luna

116 m / 380 ft
97 Le Nouvel Ardmore

112 m

367 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 33 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 8,559 other buildings of the same Residential function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
98 Upper West Side Tower 4 (Midtown)

111 m / 364 ft
99 2 Trafalgar Way, Building 3

109 m / 358 ft
100 EDEN

105 m / 343 ft
101 1000 Trees Phase 2

100 m / 328 ft
102 Deloitte Center

96 m / 316 ft
103 PARKROYAL on Pickering

89 m / 292 ft
104 PARKROYAL on Pickering Office Building

89 m / 292 ft
105 2 Trafalgar Way, Building 1

87 m / 287 ft
106 171 Collins Street

86 m / 283 ft
107 The Alberton

84 m / 275 ft
108 Royal Elizabeth

76 m / 248 ft
109 Vermilion

75 m / 246 ft
110 The Miller

74 m / 243 ft
111 Philamlife Center

71 m / 234 ft
112 The Jockey Club Innovation Tower

71 m / 234 ft
113 UniSA Cancer Research Institute

71 m / 232 ft
114 700 Bourke Street

70 m / 231 ft
115 Pan Pacific Serviced Suites Orchard

69 m

226 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 18 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 1,126 other buildings of the same Hotel function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
116 One East Melbourne

63 m / 207 ft
117 Tower Centre

63 m / 207 ft
118 1000 Trees Phase 1

60 m / 197 ft
119 The Tembusu Block 107

59 m / 194 ft
119 The Tembusu Block 107 A-B

59 m / 194 ft
119 The Tembusu Block 107 C-D

59 m / 194 ft
122 Altitude Residential Tower

58 m / 190 ft
123 Chiswick Curve

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124 The Meridian

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125 Admiral Serebryakov Embankment Tower 1

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126 Admiral Serebryakov Embankment Tower 2

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127 Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye Tower 1

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127 Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye Tower 2

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Statistics

Average Building Age*

12 Years

Most Common Function*

Office (49%)

Most Common Material*

Composite (59%)

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Based on 74 buildings over 150 m height with a function
 
Based on 73 buildings over 150 m height with a material
 

Building Completions Timeline

Building Map

Construction Time Chart

NOTE: Construction start time is not available for all buildings. The average construction time is only displayed if there is three or more buildings with construction start and complete data in that year.

Designated Experts

Kenneth Kwan

Chairman, Rider Levett Bucknall
Hong Kong, China

Sam Graham

Managing Director, Rider Levett Bucknall
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Tim Ngai

Director, North Asia, Rider Levett Bucknall
Hong Kong, China

Kevin Mitchell

Executive Vice President, North America, Rider Levett Bucknall
Seattle, United States

Ctbuh Leaders At Rider Levett Bucknall

CTBUH Hong Kong Chapter, 2015 – Present

Stephen Y.F. Lai

Managing Director, Rider Levett Bucknall
Hong Kong, China

Videos

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31 October 2019

The Garden City in Three Dimensions

Moshe Safdie, Founder at Safdie Architects, speaks at the 2019 CTBUH International Congress in Chicago on 31 October 2019.

31 May 2018

A Beacon of Red and Green, Connected to the Cityscape

Envisaged as a “tropical tower” in the concrete jungle, the Oasia Hotel Downtown incorporates lush greenery on its façade and terraces. The tower is like...

31 May 2018

Vertical Village as National Symbol

Joining the ranks of the world’s top ten tallest buildings, the 123-story Lotte World Tower rises to 555 meters and offers one of the world’s...

31 May 2018

The Axis Mundi of the Pearl River Delta Megacity

The Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center (PAFC) is a transit-integrated, 600-meter-tall building that occupies a major node in the increasingly connected megacity of Hong Kong-Shenzhen-Guangzhou....

31 May 2018

A Living Tower in the Urban Tropics

A tower of green and red in the heart of Singapore’s dense Central Business District, the Oasia Hotel Downtown is a prototype of land-use intensification...

31 May 2018

A Milestone in Supertall Construction

Ping An Finance Center (PAFC) is an extraordinary project, which responds to the challenges of constructing in dense urban environments. PAFC advanced nearly every dimension...

12 April 2018

Five Minutes With: Ken Shuttleworth

Ken Shuttleworth, founding partner at Make, sat down with CTBUH to discuss Make's growing office in Sydney and the firm's role in the rapidly transforming...

03 November 2017

447 Collins St – Linking of Towers via Skybridge

447 Collins Street is a significant mixed-use precinct development comprising commercial office, 5-star hotel, luxury apartments, basement car parking and extensive public realm landscaping in...

30 October 2017

Quay Quarter Tower: Humanizing the High-Rise

Quay Quarter Tower (QQT) will create a stunning new building on the Sydney skyline that sets new benchmarks in office tower design globally and creates...

30 October 2017

Wynyard Place

As the global urban population continues to grow apace, so too does the need to address questions over density, affordability, and sustainability in the urban...

Research

22 August 2022

The World’s Highest Pools: A Deep Dive

S. Isaac Work & Shawn Ursini, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Tall building design has diversified and adapted to accommodate increased demand for distinctive amenities at a range of heights. Swimming pools are a classic feature...

22 August 2022

Structural Design of Iconic Tower, Egypt: Culmination of a Concrete Optimization Process

Tarek Hassan, Yehia El-Ezaby & Charles Malek, rector Dar Al Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners)

This paper presents an overview of a process of optimizing concrete mixture for tall buildings, culminating in the design of the Iconic Tower, the key...

12 January 2021

Interactive Study on Tall Buildings in 2020: COVID-19 Contributes To Dip in Year-On-Year Completions

CTBUH Research

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has released its annual report, CTBUH Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2020, part of the Tall...

20 March 2020

Tall + Urban Innovation 2020: Dominant Trends

CTBUH Research

Providing a global overview of tall building development, design and construction, the CTBUH Awards Program and related Tall + Urban Innovation Conference annually survey projects,...

20 March 2020

Interactive Study on The Tallest 20 in 2020: Then and Now

CTBUH Research

This research paper undertakes a review of the 2012 report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, “Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the...

30 January 2020

Determinism, Integration, and Articulation Lead Up to a Landmark

Brian Lee, Thomas Kinzl, Inho Rhee & Ronald Johnson, SOM

Completed in 2019, the Tianjin Chow Tai Fook (CTF) Finance Centre is currently the seventh-tallest building in the world, tied with the Guangzhou CTF Finance...

30 January 2020

Tall Buildings’ Lower Public Spaces: Impact on Health and Behavior

Yu Ye, Zhendong Wang, Nannan Dong & Xihui Zhou, Tongji University

Tall buildings unquestionably need to improve their impact on the urban habitat. A human-focused approach to measuring the social impact of tall buildings’ ground conditions,...

30 January 2020

Tall Building Predictions for 2020

CTBUH Research

The combined brains of the CTBUH editorial and database staff boldly predict what might happen across the global skyscraper industry in 2020. Check out our...

28 December 2019

Tall Buildings of the Future as Seen From the Present

SawTeen See, Robert Bird Group Pty Ltd

Aerodynamic damping through the use of vertical long slots reduces the dynamic component of the wind loads on the building. Seminal examples include the three-legged...

12 December 2019

Interactive Study on Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2019

CTBUH Research

The year 2019 was remarkable for the tall building industry, with 26 supertall buildings (300 meters or taller) completed, the most in any year. This...

CTBUH Initiatives Involving Rider Levett Bucknall

Calculating Floor Areas in Skyscrapers Workshop

29 October 2017

The day before the CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference, delegates gathered for the Calculating Floor Areas in Skyscrapers Workshop.

CTBUH Certifies Lotte Tower as Fifth Tallest Building Worldwide

04 April 2017

CTBUH has recognized the completion of Lotte World Tower, now the fifth tallest building worldwide at 555 meters.

Ping An Finance Center Now Fourth Tallest Building in the World

27 March 2017

CTBUH has certified the completion of Ping An Finance Center. At 599 meters it is the tallest building in Shenzhen, second tallest in China, and fourth tallest worldwide.

CTBUH 2016 Conference Silver+ Sponsor

16–21 October 2016

Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism takes place progressively across three Chinese cities: Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong.

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