Taipei 101 the World’s Tallest Green Building

Salman Amin
4 min readSep 10, 2020

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Taipei 101 is the tallest building of Taiwan. Taipei 101 held the title of ‘world’s tallest building’ for many years

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Taipei 101 is a beautiful building due to its Architecture, Lights, Energy system, and Sky touching heights. TAIPEI 101, At 850 meters, one of the world’s tallest constructions to date, it has been awarded LEED Platinum certification for energy efficiency and environmental design. The LEED energy and environmental design in this tower is the world’s most important green building rating system. Siemens Building Technologies Division played a key role in helping Taipei 101 achieves certification. Over the past two years, the TAIPEI 101 optimized building automation and energy efficiency to achieve 10 savings in power consumption, water consumption, and waste generation. Indoor air quality is upgraded their highest standards as laid out by LEED. Thus, the energy consumption of the Taipei’s 101 is 30 times lower than the average building, resulting in an annual energy cost savings of approximately US$ 7,000,000.

It is the world’s first building of its size to receive the LEED-EBOM Platinum Certification Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance. This identification can only be made by buildings that fully meet the energy efficiency and environmental sustainability requirements defined by the standard.

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Raising the Green Bar Higher

During the verification process, Siemens provided expertise in the building process and, in partnership with EcoTech International and Steven Leach Associates, provided consulting services to TAIPEI 101 operators in all aspects of green building certification. LEED consultant and leading provider of building control management systems, security solutions, and lighting for Taiwan’s high-rise, Siemens has been instrumental in enhancing the TAIPEI 101s building automation, which almost from the beginning was very energy-friendly, to the Platinum level.

Most Interesting Facts about Taipei 101

  • Taipei 101 Construction started at 1999, Completed in 2004 and Opening 31 December 2004 Cost on Taipei 101 is NT$ 58 billion (US$1. 934 billion).
  • The highest sector of the apex was installed on 9 October 2003. At the official function on 17 October, Taipei’s mayor Ma Ying-Jeou tight a golden bolt to convey the official topping-out.
  • Since the steeple was installed there was a sector topping-out function on July 1st, 2003 for achievement to the roof level. The president of Taiwan and the mayor of Taipei cooperate in the event.
  • This is one of the fewer buildings in the world supplied with double-deck elevators.
  • Consists of within is around 660-tonne tuned mass chill to counter seismic and wind-induced action. It is build up from 41 steel plates, is dangling from eight steel cables, rests on eight viscous dampers, and can move five feet next in any direction. It is the largest and heaviest of its type in the world.
  • The tower’s spire consists of two, 4.5-tonne tuned mass dampers to cut down wind-induced fatigue.
  • At the time of manufacture, the building held the record for the greatest height to which material had been pumped.
  • The lift brakes are brick a bit than steel (as found in high-performance cars) for greater ability.
  • Taipei 101 was the world’s first skyscraper to crack the half-kilometer mark in height.
  • The Taiwan Stock Exchange rental 7 floors in the building.
  • The main damper is clear from the restaurant which encloses the space over the ball.

Taipei 101 is the tallest building of twain. In these write facts about Taipei 101, Taipei 101 the world’s tallest green building. Taipei 101 held the title of ‘world’s tallest building’ for many years.

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Construction of the Taipei 101 began in 1999. The structure was brought to the top in 2003, and the work was completed in 2004. The largest part of the building, between the base and the spider, consists of eight modules, or in groups, each containing eight stories (eight Chinese numbers is an odd number). The building resembles its distinctive Chinese character with a bamboo pole or a tall pagoda.

The structural system is a core plus-out trigger, with 16 steel columns in the cover and 8 steel “super columns” in the frame. All columns up to floor 62 are filled with concrete. Large-scale steel outgrowth traces connect the cover and parameter columns on every eighth floor. The most prominent structural element of the building is its large-scale teasing of central poems, which can be seen from the indoor public observatory. The damper is steel weighing 660 metric tons (728 short tons), suspended between the 92nd and 87th floors in the center of the building. Under conditions of seismic pollution or hurricane-force winds, the impact of the damper counteracts any resistance of the building (dampen).

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Salman Amin
Salman Amin

Written by Salman Amin

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