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Madrid – Spanish for Gate of Europe, these twin office buildings are inclined at 15° over the Plaza de Castilla bus station.
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Ho Chi Minh City – Drawing inspiration from Vietnam's national flower, the lotus, the Bitexco Financial Tower is a representation of the aspiration and energy goals of Ho Chi Minh City.
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New York City – Part of the new World Trade Center complex, 4 World Trade Center stands on the southeast corner of the site, where the original once stood.
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LERA Structural Engineers
CTBUH Member Level: Donor
Member Since: 1981
Member Office:- New York City, United States
Field of Expertise:- Structural Engineering
- Wind Engineering
- Seismic Design
Buildings Involving LERA
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Featured Buildings Involving LERA
Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai
The Shanghai World Financial Center has become an icon of Shanghai and China, with its clear and elegant form and revolutionary structural design.
Taking inspiration from traditional Korean art forms in the design of the various interior spaces, the sleek tapered form will stand out from the city's rocky mountainous topography.
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Hermitage Plaza is a mixed-use project at the entrance of Europe's biggest central district, across from the Seine River.
4 World Trade Center, New York City
Part of the new World Trade Center complex, 4 World Trade Center stands on the southeast corner of the site, where the original once stood.
Spanish for Gate of Europe, these twin office buildings are inclined at 15° over the Plaza de Castilla bus station.
Bitexco Financial Tower, Ho Chi Minh City
Drawing inspiration from Vietnam's national flower, the lotus, the Bitexco Financial Tower is a representation of the aspiration and energy goals of Ho Chi Minh City.
KL118, the first building taller than the Petronas Towers proposed in Kuala Lumpur, is being constructed in the vicinity of Plaza Rakyat.
Cooper Square Hotel, New York City
Located in the heart of the East Village, this high-rise luxury hotel, offering 145 rooms and suites, opened to guests in 2008.
About LERA
LERA is a MBE/WBE consulting engineering firm providing structural engineering design services for architects, developers, contractors and owners.
As structural engineers, they focus on providing their clients with imaginative and responsible solutions to engineering challenges. Their staff of experts is known for its innovative use of materials and for the development of new structural systems and concepts.
Their design philosophy recognizes that their work does not exist in a vacuum...that responsiveness to the architectural systems and needs of the owner/developer, combined with an understanding of fabrication and construction, is essential to the development of constructible and economical designs.
LERA at CTBUH
CTBUH Certifies Lotte Tower as Fifth Tallest Building Worldwide
4 Apr 2017, CTBUH-Related News – CTBUH has recognized the completion of Lotte World Tower, now the…
NYC YPC Continues Future of Construction Series
19 Jan 2017, Event Report – CTBUH New York Chapter, with the YPC and Akdo, hosted the second part in the Future…
CTBUH 2016 Conference Silver Sponsor
16-21 Oct 2016, Conference Sponsor – Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism takes place…
LERA at CTBUH
4 Apr 2017, Seoul – CTBUH-Related News
CTBUH has recognized the completion of Lotte World Tower, now the fifth tallest building worldwide at 555 meters.
19 Jan 2017, New York City – Event Report
CTBUH New York Chapter, with the YPC and Akdo, hosted the second part in the Future of Construction lecture series, titled “Moving Parts: Modular Architecture in a Flat World.”
16-21 Oct 2016 – Conference Sponsor
Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism takes place progressively across three Chinese cities: Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong.
13 Oct 2016, Chicago – CTBUH Research
The Council is pleased to announce the Top Company Rankings for numerous disciplines as derived from the list of projects appearing in 100 of the World’s Tallest Buildings.
3 May 2016, New York City – Event Report
The CTBUH NYC Young Professionals Committee welcomed over 150 design professionals for ASPECT:RATIOS, a seminar focusing on female perspectives in architecture.
26-30 Oct 2015, New York City – Conference Sponsor
After a post-recession hiatus in tall building construction in many countries lasting several years, numerous cities are again resurgent.
11 Oct 2011, Seoul – Tour Report
A tour was hosted at the Lotte Jamsil Super Tower construction site that was abuzz with the activity of trucks and cranes.
CTBUH Chairman, 1985 – 1990
New York City, United States
CTBUH Awards Jury, 2008
New York City, United States
CTBUH Awards Structural Engineering Jury, 2020
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CTBUH Leaders at LERA
CTBUH Chairman, 1985 – 1990
New York City, United States
CTBUH Awards Jury, 2008
New York City, United States
CTBUH Awards Structural Engineering Jury, 2020
New York City, United States
CTBUH Annual Conference, Presenter, 2016
Hong Kong, China
Sami S. Matar
CTBUH IJHRB Research Journal, 2017
New York City, United States
CTBUH Resources Involving LERA
Award Winners & Award of Excellence Recipients
The CTBUH Awards recognize projects and individuals that have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment, and that achieve sustainability at the highest and broadest level.
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Panel Discussion: What Makes for Innovative Tall Building Engineering?
10 Apr 2019 – Roy Denoon, CPP Wind Engineering and Air Quality Consultants; Winnie Kwan, LERA Consulting Structural Engineers; Richard Marshall, BuroHappold Engineering; et al.
31 Oct 2017 – Leslie Robertson, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Structural Design Challenges of Merdeka PNB118, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
30 Oct 2017 – SawTeen See, Leslie E. Robertson Associates; Simon Cloherty, Robert Bird Group
Embossed Structural Skin for Tall Buildings
Mar 2018 –
International Journal of High-Rise Buildings Volume 7 Number 1
Jin Young Song, Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo,The State University of New York; Donghun Lee, LERA Consulting Structural Engineers; James Erickson, Arizona State University et al.
ASPECT: RATIOS – Voices of Women In the Tall Building World
8 Aug 2017 –
CTBUH Journal, 2017 Issue III
Ilkay Can-Standard, GenX Design & Technology; Martina Dolejsova, Studio Libeskind
Frontiers in High-Rise Outrigger Design
8 Aug 2017 –
CTBUH Journal, 2017 Issue III
Hi sun Choi & Leonard M. Joseph, Thornton Tomasetti; SawTeen See, Leslie E. Robertson Associates; Rupa Garai, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Videos
10 Apr 2019 – Roy Denoon, CPP Wind Engineering and Air Quality Consultants; Winnie Kwan, LERA Consulting Structural Engineers; Richard Marshall, BuroHappold Engineering; et al.
The engineering behind tall buildings allows towering structures to stay steady despite strong winds, seismic shifts and pelting rains through a series of innovative and elegant approaches that are developing at a startling pace. Tuned mass damping…
31 Oct 2017 – Leslie Robertson, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Looking back through a career comprising some of the most innovative and formally daring buildings of the modern era, this presentation from Dr. Leslie E. Robertson provided practical insights for future and current practitioners alike. Taken from…
30 Oct 2017 – SawTeen See, Leslie E. Robertson Associates; Simon Cloherty, Robert Bird Group
When completed at 630 meters, the Merdeka PNB118 Tower will be the tallest building in Malaysia, surpassing the Petronas Towers. The piling is completed and the tower construction is ongoing. This presentation focused on the wind engineering studies…
17 Oct 2016 – Presentation at CTBUH 2016 China Conference; SawTeen See, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Steel braced frames combined with a concrete services core are widely used in tall building design. To meet the special architectural design challenges in the Minmetals Capital South China Tower in Shenzhen, such as the large, column-free spaces at…
17 Oct 2016 – 2016 China Conference Interviews; SawTeen See, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
SawTeen See of Leslie E. Robinson Associates is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2016 CTBUH China Conference. SawTeen discusses the design process of structural engineering, the standardization of building codes and the aesthetics of…
17 Oct 2016 – Presentation at CTBUH 2018 Chicago Tall + Urban Conference; William O'Donnell, DeSimone Consulting Engineers; Dennis Poon, Thornton Tomasetti; SawTeen Seen, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. William O'Donnell, DeSimone Consulting Engineers; Dennis Poon, Thornton Tomasetti; SawTeen Seen, Leslie E. Robertson Associates, answer questions at the end of the 2016 China Conference Session Session 4c:…
Oct 2011 – Presentation at CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference; Leslie E. Robertson & Saw Teen See, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
When completed, the Lotte Jamsil Super Tower, at 555-meter, will be the tallest building in Seoul. The mat foundation is completed, and the tower construction is on-going. This presentation focuses on the wind engineering studies and on the mega-…
Oct 2011 – Presentation at 2017 Australia Conference Interviews; Ji Young Kim, Daewoo E&C; Mark Sarkisian, SOM; Leslie Robertson & Saw Teen See, Leslie E. Robertson Associates; James Von Klemperer, Kohn Pedersen Fox David Paul McLean, Lotte Engineering & Construction; Charles D. Clift, Curtain Wall Design and Consulting; Jungmyon Francis Lee, BAUM Architects
Question & Answers session for Track Session 18.
Oct 2011 – Presentation at CTBUH 2016 China Conference; Jay L. Berman, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners; William J. Faschan, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Prior to 2009, high-rise residential towers in Mumbai mostly comprised the extrusion of mid-rise typologies to their maximum limit at approximately 50-55 storeys. Planning an iconic residential tower twice that height has involved reinvention of the…
Oct 2011 – Presentation at CTBUH 2014 Shanghai Conference; Sabah Al-Rayes, PACE; Hyo Seon Park, Yonsei University; Rhys Williams, Honeywell; ; Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Samsung C&T; Peter Weismantle, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture; Jey Berman, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects; William Faschan, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Question & Answers session for Track Session 08.
5 Mar 2008 – Presentation at CTBUH 2014 Shanghai Conference; David Malott, KPF; Leslie Robertson, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
David Malott, KPF and Leslie Robertson, LERA, presented the Shanghai World Financial Center located in the Lujiazui district of Pudong. The focus of this presentation at the CTBUH 8th World Congress was to highlight the collaboration between…
5 Mar 2008 – Presentation at CTBUH 2008 8th World Congress, Dubai; David Malott, KPF; Leslie Robertson, LERA; Ken Dalton, AECOM / Faber Maunsell; Ole Scheeren, OMA
The panel of Plenary Session 3, David Malott, Leslie Robertson, Ken Dalton and Ole Scheeren, enthusiastically responded to questions from the CTBUH 8th World Congress audience.
25 Oct 2007 – Awards Symposium & Dinner Videos; Dinner 2007
The CTBUH 6th Annual Awards Dinner, set within the atmospheric setting of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, celebrated the remarkable achievements of a number of distinguished individuals and project teams…
Papers/Research
Mar 2018 – International Journal of High-Rise Buildings Volume 7 Number 1; Jin Young Song, Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo,The State University of New York; Donghun Lee, LERA Consulting Structural Engineers; James Erickson, Arizona State University et al.
This paper explores the function of a structural skin with an embossed surface applicable to use for tall building structures. The major diagrid system with a secondary embossed surface structure provides an enhanced perimeter structural system by…
8 Aug 2017 – CTBUH Journal, 2017 Issue III; Ilkay Can-Standard, GenX Design & Technology; Martina Dolejsova, Studio Libeskind
ASPECT: RATIOS is the outgrowth of a program developed by the CTBUH Young Professionals Committee in New York, beginning in 2016. The purpose of the lecture series, and of this special edition, is to showcase some of the exemplary work done by women…
8 Aug 2017 – CTBUH Journal, 2017 Issue III; Hi sun Choi & Leonard M. Joseph, Thornton Tomasetti; SawTeen See, Leslie E. Robertson Associates; Rupa Garai, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
In 2012, CTBUH published the first Outrigger Design for High-Rise Buildings Technical Guide. In 2016, the CTBUH Outrigger Working Group felt it would be beneficial to update the design guide with variations of outrigger systems and tall building…
8 Aug 2017 – CTBUH Journal, 2017 Issue III; Leading Women in Tall Buildings
Recently, there has been a growing and overdue recognition in the architecture discipline that women are under-represented, not just in terms of leadership positions held, but also in terms of receiving credit for the work they have done. The tall…
20 Apr 2017 – CTBUH Journal, 2017 Issue II; Alfonso Oliva, Richard B. Garlock, Nidhi Sekhar & Mia Tsiamis, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
The ability of architectural graphical software to generate infinitely complex geometrical solutions for building design calls for an equally concerted effort to provide rational structural solutions. This paper presents the example of the design of…
Mar 2017 – International Journal of High-Rise Buildings Volume 6 Number 1; Sami S. Matar & William J. Faschan, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Vertical shortening in tall buildings would be of little concern if all vertical elements shortened evenly. However, vertical elements such as walls and columns may shorten different amounts due to different service axial stress levels. With height,…
17 Oct 2016 – Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism; SawTeen See, Zhaohui Ding, Edward Roberts & Ma Ge, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Steel braced frames combined with a concrete services core are widely used in tall building design. To meet the special architectural design challenges in the Minmetals Capital South China Tower in Shenzhen, such as the large, column-free spaces at…
17 Oct 2016 – Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism; Peter Ramstedt, Chien Jou Chen, Matthew Hennessy & David Terenzio, Turner International LLC
In the construction of tall towers a variety of pile testing methodologies are used. Piles can be tested for many purposes including the optimization of pile design, operational verification, and quality assurance of completed piles or perhaps for…
26 Oct 2015 – Global Interchanges: Resurgence of the Skyscraper City; Matthew Melrose, Daniel Sesil & Michael Hopper, P.E., Leslie E. Robertson Associates
There is a tension between aspirations and risks in the development and delivery of any building project. Columbia University Medical and Graduate Education Building (CUMGEB) was designed to revitalize Columbia’s Washington Heights campus by creating…
May 2015 – CTBUH Journal, 2015 Issue II; David Malott, Keisuke Hiei & Heidi Werner, KPF; Leslie E. Robertson, LERA
“Next Tokyo” imagines a resurgent megacity, adapted to climate change through the realization of a high-density ecodistrict built on resilient infrastructure. The archipelago of reclaimed land supports transit-oriented development for a half-million…
2 Oct 2011 – CTBUH Journal, 2011 Issue III; Leslie E. Robertson, LERA; William Baker, SOM; Eugene Kohn, KPF
Three leading designers in the tall building industry share their take on the changes to the tall building industry and the impact of 9/11 on their design.
Apr 2008 – CTBUH Journal, 2008 Issue II; Paul Katz, KPF; Leslie E. Robertson, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
From the onset of the Shanghai World Financial Center project, its developers targeted a cutting-edge, mixed use mega-complex that would serve a multitude of tenant lifestyle demands. When a desire to change the building size surfaced after the…
Mar 2008 – CTBUH 2008 8th World Congress, Dubai; Paul Katz, KPF; Leslie Robertson & SawTeen See, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Shanghai World Financial Center is located in the Lujiazui district of Pudong, the Shanghai World Financial Center combines creative architecture and structural engineering to create a mixed-use building 492 meters in height. It will be recognized by…
LERA Tall Building Facts
| 150m+ Buildings | 28 Completed • 7 Under Constr. |
| 300m+ Buildings | 4 Completed • 2 Under Constr. |
| Average Building Age | 17 Years |
| Most Common Function | office, 17 Buildings |
| Most Common Material | Concrete, 16 Buildings |
All building-related facts are for 150m+ buildings currently in the database.
Tall Buildings Involving LERA
| 1 | Merdeka PNB118 | 2021 | 644 m | Kuala Lumpur | |
| 2 | Lotte World Tower | 2017 | 555 m | Seoul | |
| 3 | Shanghai World Financial Center | 2008 | 492 m | Shanghai | |
| 4 | Bank of China Tower | 1990 | 367 m | Hong Kong | |
| 5 | Three Sixty West Tower B | - | 361 m | Mumbai | |
| 6 | OCT Tower | 2020 | 300 m | Shenzhen | |
| 7 | 4 World Trade Center | 2014 | 298 m | New York City | |
| 8 | Shimao Hangzhou Twin Tower B | 2022 | 279 m | Hangzhou | |
| 9 | Shimao Hangzhou Twin Tower A | 2022 | 279 m | Hangzhou | |
| 10 | Bitexco Financial Tower | 2010 | 263 m | Ho Chi Minh City |
| Completed | Arch. Topped Out | Struct. Topped Out | Under Constr. |
| 1 | Tradewinds Square Tower A | - | 608 m | Kuala Lumpur | |
| 2 | Hermitage Plaza South Tower | 2024 | 320 m | Courbevoie | |
| 3 | Hermitage Plaza East Tower | 2024 | 320 m | Courbevoie | |
| 4 | Hong Plaza Main Tower | - | 317 m | Jinan | |
| 5 | United Nations Consolidation Bui… | - | 166 m | New York City | |
| 6 | 3001 John F Kennedy Boulevard | - | 156 m | Philadelphia | |
| 7 | Columbia University Site O | - | 130 m | New York City | |
| 8 | 3025 John F Kennedy Boulevard | - | 110 m | Philadelphia |
| Proposed |
| 1 | Merdeka PNB118 | 2021 | 644 m | Kuala Lumpur | |
| 2 | Tradewinds Square Tower A | - | 608 m | Kuala Lumpur | |
| 3 | Lotte World Tower | 2017 | 555 m | Seoul | |
| 4 | Shanghai World Financial Center | 2008 | 492 m | Shanghai | |
| 5 | Bank of China Tower | 1990 | 367 m | Hong Kong | |
| 6 | Three Sixty West Tower B | - | 361 m | Mumbai | |
| 7 | Hermitage Plaza South Tower | 2024 | 320 m | Courbevoie | |
| 8 | Hermitage Plaza East Tower | 2024 | 320 m | Courbevoie | |
| 9 | Hong Plaza Main Tower | - | 317 m | Jinan | |
| 10 | OCT Tower | 2020 | 300 m | Shenzhen |
| Completed | Struct. Topped Out | Under Constr. | Proposed |
The building list and facts show buildings involving LERA Consulting Structural Engineers, Leslie E. Robertson Associates