Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council

Welcome

Welcome to the Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council world-wide-web home page. The Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council formed in 1988 is a nonprofit organization whose members are those individuals who have demonstrated exceptional professional accomplishments in the structural design of tall buildings. The Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council is a liaison organization to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an international nonprofit organization of architects, engineers, planners, developers, and other professionals involved in the design, construction and operation of tall buildings.

News

The 2008 edition of the LATBSDC "An Alternative Procedure For Seismic Analysis And Design Of Tall Buildings Located In The Los Angeles Region" is now available.

Past year's Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings Journal is available from Wiley Interscience
The 2004 Issue
The 2005 Issue
The 2006 Issue
The 2007 Issue

New Website
The website has a new design and more features. Look for new features shortly, including PDF versions of our previous conference proceedings articles.

LATBSDC Conference
The LATBSDC 2008 conference will focus on nonlinear modeling issues related to the analysis and design of tall buildings. The current CBC and IBC building codes are not tailored to tall buildings and, as such, may impose many prescriptive requirements that make the design of tall buildings difficult and economically challenged. The 2008 Edition of the LATBSDC Alternative Design Criteria will be presented. The Tall Building Initiative being coordinated by the PEER Center is spearheading many of the studies that will lead to more rational Performance Based Earthquake Engineering design procedures and an update on these efforts will be highlighted. PEER parametric case studies on tall building will also be presented.
View the full announcement and agenda.