Talk:Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

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Methods of ranking of tall buildings

I wrote to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat to ask them what method was used rank tall buildings. This is there reply:

I can confirm that the CTBUH does rank the height of buildings using four different methods. These are outlined below:

1) Height to structural top of the building This is the main criteria under which the CTBUH ranks the height of buildings. The height of a building is measured from the sidewalk level of the main entrance to the structural top of the building. This includes spires, but does not include television antennas, radio antennas, or flag poles.

Other rankings

2) To Highest Occupied Floor: Height to the floor of the highest occupied floor of the building.

3)To Top of Roof: Height to the top of the roof.

4)To Tip of Spire/Antenna: Height to the tip of spire, pinnacle, antenna, mast or flag pole.

Kind Regards,

Philip Oldfield,

Research Coordinator, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

I will put this in the article to describe their official method of ranking buildings. --WikiCats (talk) 10:06, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violations

This article contains content copied directly from http://www.ctbuh.org. Wikipedia does not allow copyrighted content from being added to its articles. I propose the removal of all the copyrighted content (preferably by reverting the edits). Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 20:37, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation appears to be substantial. For example, the article as it is now says, "The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is involved in many tall building design research projects in conjunction with higher-education institutions and academics around the world" The source says, "The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is involved in many tall building design research projects in conjunction with higher-education institutions and academics around the world." The article says, "This was a record event for the Council, with 954 delegates attending, representing 43 separate countries. The Congress hosted presentations, seminars and workshops covering virtually every aspect of tall building development, with a particular emphasis on sustainability." The source says, "This was a record event for the Council, with 954 delegates attending, representing 43 separate countries. The Congress hosted presentations, seminars and workshops covering virtually every aspect of tall building development, with a particular emphasis on sustainability." The article needs to be combed to see what other copyright problems might exist, as other sections may also be copied or closely enough follow to constitute a derivative work. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:20, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To whom it may concern.. I am one of the contributors working to update the CTBUH wikipedia page. I am working to remove all the copyrighted material, which was added as a mistake and to update the page so that it meets all the wikipedia criteria. My apologies about the copyright violation - all copyright text will be removed.