Indonesia hires Aecom, McKinsey and Nikken Sekkei to design new capital

2020-03-04T15:45:00-05:00

The Indonesian government is involving three international consulting firms in developing the masterplan of the country’s new capital city, which is to be located in East Kalimantan. [...] American engineering company AECOM, consulting firm McKinsey & Company and Japanese architectural and engineering firm Nikken Sekkei would design the city, which is to feature the latest technology and be environmentally friendly at the same time.

In August 2019, Indonesian President Joko Widodo had announced the selection of a 450,000-acre site in East Kalimantan province on Borneo Island where the nation's new capital would be relocated to.

Jakarta, the current capital on Java Island, is traffic-choked, increasingly prone to floods, and some areas of the metropolitan area with a population of more than 30 million have been sinking as much as 10 inches a year, caused by the digging of underground aquifers and amplified by rising levels.

70-story wooden skyscraper proposed for Tokyo could become world's tallest

2018-02-15T13:57:00-05:00

Sumitomo Forestry Co. Ltd. has announced that it plans to build a 70-story 350-meter mixed-use skyscraper in Marunouchi, a central Tokyo business district, by the year 2041. [...] The project [...] is estimated to cost 600 billion JPY (5.5 billion USD). This is almost twice that of conventional high-rise buildings using current technology, but the company hopes to reduce costs by making technological advances in wood-based construction.

Image: Sumitomo Forestry

Wooden skyscrapers have been seeing an unprecedented boom phase in recent years, but even the more ambitious projects don't even come close to what Japanese company Sumitomo Forestry, in collaboration with Nikken Sekkei, is proposing to build in Tokyo by the year 2041.

Image: Sumitomo Forestry

To pull off the massive structure required for a 350-meter, 70-story wooden tower, as the concept W350 plan outlines, 185,000 cubic meters of timber are needed — the equivalent of 8,000 single-family homes.

Image: Sumitomo Forestry

"The planned structure is a hybrid wood and steel structure made from 90% wooden materials," the company explains. "It will use a braced tube structure in which steel frame vibration control braces (diagonal braces) are positioned inside a column and beam structure, made from a combination of wood and steel."

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Indonesia hires Aecom, McKinsey and Nikken Sekkei to design new capital

70-story wooden skyscraper proposed for Tokyo could become world's tallest