According to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030), disasters have demonstrated that recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction phase, which needs be prepared ahead of a disaster, is critical opportunity “Build Back Better”, integrating disaster risk reduction into development measures. In this respect, significant number structures, constitute several European urban nuc...

The construction of High-Rise Buildings (HRBs) first started in the 19th century, as a sort vertical urban sustainable development approach trying to minimize environmental footprint impact. Although, debates regarding HRBs' pros and cons, this era has witnessed huge boost HRB all over world. HRBs have transformed into an ego situation where countries not only developed ones but also...

A dual passive control system is proposed for high-rise buildings. Since the proposed system needs a substructure supporting the main building, it is usually used in high-rise residential apartment houses where a parking tower is used as the substructure. This new system consists of a base-isolation system and a building-connection system. While base-isolated buildings and interconnected buildi...