CTBUH Silver Member

CDC Curtain Wall Design & Consulting, Inc.

About

Member Since: 2009

Member Offices: Dallas

Website: http://www.cdc-usa.com/

CDC is a world leader in design and consulting services for state-of-the-art building envelope systems. Founded in 1973, CDC operates as a 100% Employee-owned and operated organization.

As a professional services firm, they provide design and engineering for some of the most well-known façade cladding manufacturers in the world, providing design support for established and tested systems, creating new systems, and assisting in development of innovative new approaches to cladding execution.

The quality distinction that CDC provides to clients is a product of their experienced staff and their dedication to excellence in their respective specialty.

Fields of Expertise

Cost Consulting; Engineering, Other; Façade Design / Engineering; Legal; Structural Engineering; Wind Engineering

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Makkah Royal Clock Tower

m

ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 120 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 324 other buildings of the same Office / Hotel function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
2 Vista Tower

362.9 m

1,191 ft
3 311 South Wacker Drive

292.9 m

961 ft
4 NEMA Chicago

273.1 m

896 ft
5 181 Fremont

246.9 m

810 ft
6 Chapultepec Uno R-509

240.5 m

789 ft
7 609 Main at Texas

230.1 m

755 ft
8 River Point

223 m

732 ft
9 FMC Tower at Cira Centre South

222.5 m

730 ft
10 1144 Fifteenth

183.6 m

602 ft

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Makkah Royal Clock Tower

m

ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 120 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 324 other buildings of the same Office / Hotel function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
2 Vista Tower

362.9 m

1,191 ft
3 311 South Wacker Drive

292.9 m

961 ft
4 NEMA Chicago

273.1 m

896 ft
5 181 Fremont

246.9 m

810 ft
6 Chapultepec Uno R-509

240.5 m

789 ft
7 609 Main at Texas

230.1 m

755 ft
8 River Point

223 m

732 ft
9 FMC Tower at Cira Centre South

222.5 m

730 ft
10 1144 Fifteenth

183.6 m

602 ft
11 Torre Sofia

158 m

518 ft
12 Pacific Gate by Bosa

139.6 m

458 ft
13 Three Nationwide Plaza

124.4 m

408 ft
14 United States Federal Courthouse

118.9 m

390 ft
15 Fubon Fuzhou Financial Center

118 m

387 ft
16 Wynn Palace

115 m

377 ft
17 Equus 333 Torre 1

112.1 m

368 ft
17 Equus 333 Torre 2

112.1 m

368 ft
19 Equus 333 Torre 3

96.3 m

316 ft
20 22 West Washington

84.1 m

276 ft

CTBUH Initiatives Involving Curtain Wall Design and Consulting, Inc.

Top Company Rankings: The World’s 100 Tallest Buildings

13 October 2016

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.

International Journal of High-Rise Buildings Vol. 2 No. 4

01 December 2013

The International Journal of High-Rise Buildings, Volume 2: Number 4 includes 8 papers focusing on pure research content and investigations in tall building design.