Reach to where you cannot see

"Piling and foundation engineering are really too costly to build high-rise buildings in Warsaw", a construction manager told us. However, because of land prices (e.g. USD 2,000/ sqm.) and the low supply of plots in the city centre, investors are prepared to pay. We look at two projects near the ONZ roundabout. Construction of the Inter-Continental hotel is in progress on the plot of land between  the Warsaw Financial Centre and Warsaw Towers. According to engineer Janusz Zytomirski of Porr, (an Austrian General Contractor), with a steel fin on the roof it will reach 163 m. and become the highest reinforced-concrete skeleton building in Poland. Protected against the elements Because of its reinforced-concrete structure, the building is very rigid, and less susceptible to wind. The hotel, whose top storey will stand at 153 m,  will go out of plumb by no more than 14 cm. This would be 32 cm  for a  building of similar height, but built on a s