“…In the past ten years, overlapping column transfer assemblies have been developed as a novel alternative method with the advantage of more efficient utilization of space and less consumption of materials. This method has been applied to projects located in China and other countries, e.g., Petronas Twin Towers at Kuala Lumpur City Centre in Malaysia (Thornton et al, 1997), Fujian Industrial Bank (Shenzhen) Tower (Xu et al, 2003;Fu et al, 2003), Customer Service and Technical Support Center Building of China PING AN INSURANCE Group (Li, 2006), and Tianhe Fangyuan Hotel in Guangzhou (Zhu et al, 2012). Fig.2.…”