Welcome
Welcome to the Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council world-wide-web home page. The Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council formed in 1988 is a nonprofit organization whose members are those individuals who have demonstrated exceptional professional accomplishments in the structural design of tall buildings. The Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council is a liaison organization to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an international nonprofit organization of architects, engineers, planners, developers, and other professionals involved in the design, construction and operation of tall buildings.
Design Guidelines
design guidelines
LATBSDC publishes “An Alternative Procedure for Seismic Analysis and Design of Tall Buildings”.
2023 Los Angeles Tall Buildings Conference
The 2023 LATBSDC conference was held on November 10, 2023. The conference covered a variety of topics related to recent advances in the structural design of tall and special buildings. Unique case studies of recent projects were presented, followed by sessions on the Turkey/Syria earthquake, ACI 318-19 and ACI 318-25 design issues, 2023 edition of LATBSDC guidelines, and existing structures and structural re-use issues.
