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COVER STORY “ConXn Construction Intelligence is a professional market intelligence and research platform exclusively focused on private sector building construction industry in India. We track and document thousands of signifcant projects and companies in major metropolitan areas in India. Similarly a major construction company interested in reaching out to upcoming super tall projects of a certain size in top 5 metropolitan areas can fnd those 30 target projects immediately.” Navin Rajpal, Co-Founder & Director, Across & Beyond Real Estate Solutions In India, the sight of several tower cranes NeW York's super-sLeNders working within one Since mid-19th Century, New York has height, but slenderness. Slenderness is a building, or one truly evolved as vertical or skyscraper proportion based on the width of the base construction site, is city…..now very rightly….. it is spawning to the height of the building. A tower can quiet common. We the latest evolution in supertalls, and that be very tall, but not slender, and it can be have developed an anti collision device (ACD), with built in is Super-Slenders. slender without being very tall. A new form in skyscraper typology has Designed by thirteen different architectural SLI and wind velocity control, which gives evolved in New York over the past decade: firms in a wide range of styles, from tremendous safety features for any make the super-slim, ultra-luxury residential historical to avant-garde, and clad in or model of tower cranes. These ACD tower. These pencil-thin periscopes — all materials from limestone to all-glass have a ground monitoring system through 50 to 90+ stories — use a development curtain walls, the rendering of these which you can monitor the functions of and design strategy of slenderness to towers underscore that the slenderness all tower cranes as well as upload data pile their city-regulated maximum square development strategy is the unifying changes (like height increasing, protect feet of floor area (FAR) as high in the sky characteristic of the new typology. Many some zones …etc) to all tower cranes as possible to create luxury apartments Developers say that apartment buyers without stopping the cranes. This system defined by spectacular views. The basic, shop first for neighborhood, then views, integrates with tower crane control panels yet complex principles of the economics, then amenities. and will take care of the cut off, alarm and engineering, and design of this new type But in the new crop of super-slender display, automatically without changing of super-slender towers were first detailed towers, the value of views is clearly the any OEM set up. in the Skyscraper Museum’s 2013-14 driving force for the tower form. Central P V Ramdev, Managing Director, exhibition ‘SKY HIGH & the Logic of Luxury,’ Park is the gold standard, but other Everest Engineering Equipment the exhibition’s lists 18 slender towers that geographies also have great appeal if they in May 2016 were either completed or in can command climb to 600 to 800 feet or early stages of construction. The defining taller, and command sweeping panoramas characteristic of these new towers is not of the city. u 18 construction opportunities|SEPTEMBER 2017