{"id":1219,"date":"2016-02-08T20:39:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2016-02-08T20:39:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:39:58","slug":"how-tall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/2016\/02\/08\/how-tall\/","title":{"rendered":"How tall??"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"skyscrapers\"<\/a>A post from student blogger Nicole<\/em><\/p>\n

So I decided to take a detour from patent law to talk about my tech elective.\u00a0 As a civil engineer I\u2019ve taken courses in structures, water resources, transportation, etc.\u00a0 The tech elective I\u2019m currently taking is in the structures branch of civil engineering.\u00a0 It\u2019s called structural systems, and it is a completely different class than I\u2019ve ever taken that deals with structures.\u00a0 My teacher is having us look at buildings as a whole rather than analyzing each beam or bolt specifically.\u00a0 We\u2019re learning how a building as a whole will fail and what factors of the skyscrapers allow them to be so tall.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually very interesting because I\u2019ve never has a class that was so broad.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s even better about the class is all the skyscrapers she\u2019s talked about, such as the tallest or most known skyscrapers in the world.\u00a0 Some of the known skyscrapers are the John Hancock Building and the Sears Tower in Chicago.\u00a0 We also talked about the World Trade Center and the Empire State Building in New York.\u00a0 If you think these buildings are tall then you have to visit the Burj Khalifa in Dubai or the soon-to-be tallest building in the world, Jeddah Tower (Kingdom Tower) in Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 It is currently under construction and will be about 3,280 feet tall!\u00a0 I would be freaking out if I went to the top of that building.\u00a0 It would be an awesome experience, but I hate the ferris wheel so I\u2019m not sure how much I would really enjoy it.\u00a0 But anyway, they wanted to build it a mile high but there was an issue with the geology of the area so they reduced the height to 3,280 feet (about 0.62 miles).\u00a0 Let\u2019s put that into perspective. \u00a0The Jeddah Tower is about 3,280 feet and the One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower) is 1,792 feet.\u00a0 So the Jeddah Tower is almost twice as tall as the One World Trade Center in New York!\u00a0 That\u2019s insane!<\/p>\n

Is anyone else wondering why the United States hasn\u2019t jumped on the bandwagon yet and tried to have the tallest building in the world?\u00a0 Well if you\u2019re like me then you didn\u2019t know that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Communications Commission don\u2019t allow buildings to go over 2,000 feet in the U.S.\u00a0 The reason is to prevent the structures from being a hazard to air navigation.<\/p>\n

I love the saying \u2018you learn something new every day\u2019 because I definitely learned something new that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A post from student blogger Nicole So I decided to take a detour from patent law to talk about my tech elective.\u00a0 As a civil engineer I\u2019ve taken courses in structures, water resources, transportation, etc.\u00a0 The tech elective I\u2019m currently … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29602],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}