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Report: Expect more and taller skyscrapers

August 28, 2018

Building to great heights requires a great degree of innovation and as contractors build higher, they must acquire the necessary expertise.

For example, standard elevator rope cannot be used for a single ground floor-to-top floor trip in supertall buildings like the 1-kilometer-high Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia because it is too heavy. In these types of structures, passengers traveling from the ground floor are typically required to change elevators at some point.

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