Council on tall buildings and urban habitat kick off each morning with.
Highest occupied floor buildings.
This measurement is the most widely used and is used to define the council on tall buildings and urban habitat rankings of the tallest buildings in the world.
Highest occupied floor height is measured from the level of the lowest significant open air pedestrian entrance to the highest continually occupied floor within the building.
The highest occupied floor height is the elevation from a building s base to the top of the floor slab of the highest interior level which contains usable space for building tenants.
In contrast the chrysler building employed a very large 38 1 m 125 ft spire secretly assembled inside the building to claim the title of world s tallest building with a total height of 318 9 m 1 046 ft although it had a lower top occupied floor and a shorter height when both buildings spires were excluded.
But even if you re counting height based solely on the highest occupied floor the burj khalifa would still win.