Peter Weismantle

About

Peter A. Weismantle, Director of Supertall Building Technology, is responsible for overseeing the development of AS+GG’s supertall projects from onset to completion. He works in collaboration with the project team to develop the design of such technical elements as the building envelope, vertical transportation and life safety systems, and to assure compliance with applicable building codes and standards.

Before joining AS+GG in 2008, Peter was an Associate Partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he served as Senior Technical Architect on several supertall towers, including Shanghai’s 88-story Jin Mao Tower and the 163-story, 828 meter (2,717 foot) tall Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building.

He also collaborated on Ludgate Development, Broadgate Development and parts of Canary Wharf, all large mixed-use developments in London, as well as the 94-story Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago.

Peter is a Fellow of both the American Institute of Architects and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, is the past-Chairman of the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings, former President of the Safety Glazing Certification Council, former Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Board member of the Facade Tectonics Institute, as well as the National Fire Prevention Association’s High Rise Building Safety Advisory Committee.

His work at AS+GG includes the 340m tall Uptown Dubai , Wuhan Greenland Center, a 101 story, 476m tall, mixed use building in Wuhan, China and Kingdom Tower, a 167 story, 1000+ meter tall, mixed use building in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia which, when completed, will be the tallest building in the world.

Peter has published widely on supertall building technology, including articles in Wiley InterScience Journal—The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, Structure magazine, and the Eighth World Congress Report and Journal of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Illinois, Northwestern University and the Illinois Institute of Technology.