Consideration of site specific lateral loading due to wind or earthquake loads along with vertical gravity loads is important for finding the behaviour of tall buildings. The design criteria for tall buildings are strength, serviceability and human comfort. In the present study, the analysis and design of a 3B+G+40 storey residential building for earthquake and wind loads is carried out considering the member forces due to dead load, live Load, wind load and earthquake load combinations with the partial safety factors for limit state of collapse as per Indian standard codes of practice. The members are designed for the most critical member forces. In present study, an alternative simplified method of considering load combinations for finding the member forces and choosing the most critical member forces for design is suggested. The final design of members is found to be more economical and satisfy the recommendations of most of the international codes of practice.

Keywords: Tall buildings, Seismic loads, Wind loads, Response spectrum method, Gust factor method.