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title: Tall Buildings
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# Tall Buildings

![Tall Buildings](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/quay-quarter-tower-amp-tower-australia-2-scaled.jpg)

## Engineering city skylines

**The tall building market continues to evolve, with a new era of landmark mega-towers and super-slender structures delivered in dense urban environments, balancing aesthetic ambition with economic, social and environmental performance.**

Each project is bespoke. The challenges of height – wind turbulence, lateral
acceleration, time-dependent movement and complex ground conditions – demand
technical integration across structure, architecture, services and construction
methodology, alongside resolution of constrained sites, phased programmes and
increasingly stringent performance criteria for occupant comfort and long-term
resilience.

![vision-tower-united-arab-emirates](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/vision-tower-united-arab-emirates.jpg)

### Decades of expertise in the high-rise market

SYSTRA’s tall building portfolio spans structures from 50 to over 300 metres
across residential, commercial, hotel, retail and mixed-use developments, with
particular depth in the Australian and Middle Eastern markets.

Delivery experience across high-seismic regions, complex urban environments and
large-scale basement structures, encompassing landmark towers, complex mixed-use
developments and technically demanding high-rise structures across diverse
geographies and ground conditions.

### A global portfolio

BG&E, now a part of SYSTRA, bolsters this capability – having shaped city
skylines for nearly half a century.

Their expertise originated in Australia with Central Park Tower in Perth, 249
metres and the tallest building in Australia at completion. In Sydney, BG&E
played a key role in the adaptive reuse of Quay Quarter Tower (54 storeys),
where a simultaneous demolish-and-rebuild and retain-and-refurbish methodology
preserved approximately two-thirds of the original structure, substantially
reducing embodied carbon.

There is also significant experience in the Middle East, with structural
engineering services provided for The Index in Dubai (85 storeys), Vision Tower
in Dubai (71 storeys), Addax Tower in Abu Dhabi (65 storeys) and JW Marriott
Marquis Hotel in Dubai (80 storeys).

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## Our references

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### Bridges & Viaducts

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### Adaptive Re-use

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### Rolling Stock & Depots

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### Consultancy & Multimodality

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### Tunnels & underground structures

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### Commercial & Mixed-Use

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### Stations