The construction implementation of Taipei 101 was not that successful. One month after its commencement, the impact of aviation height restriction from Sunshan Airport exposed. Therefore, Civil Aeronautic Administration Ministry urged them to reduce its height. Later, after airplane’s aviation courses were amended and aviation control reinforced, 101 floors maintained with a height of 508 meter.

　　Taipei 101 is located in Taipei basin; there are not only frequent typhoons but also earthquakes within the region. To crown it all, Taipei was originally a lake with earth of soft geological nature. Therefore, how to fix Taipei 101 in firmly standing up is actually testing Taiwan’s construction standard. In order to fulfill 2 kinds of demand - its main structure to be strong and firm enough to resist strong wind; when there happens to be an earthquake, it also has to be flexible, the engineers have designed a building of firm and flexible structure.

　　The main frame structure of 101 building applied the most advanced architectural technology - “Tenacity 3-dimentional steel cable system”. A number of 30 columns are installed as its vertical support where 8 of them with mega steel columns poured with 10,000 psi concrete. Moreover, there are 3 to 4 meter thick concrete underneath the ground level. There are 380 nos. of reinforcing bar driven down onto laccolith 80 meter below ground level for fulfilling required strength and tenacity in order to enable the building firm as mountain when encountering strong wind.
 

　　On March 31, 2002, the big 331 earthquake occurred. It was within the very site where Taipei 101 was constructed. At that time, the steel structure of the building had been built up to about the height of 56^th floor. Two of the 4 sets of tower crane fixed on the building were shaken down to the ground killing 5 workers and 16 victims of minor or serious injuries. One of the two tower cranes had pounded onto Sun-Chi Road that smashed many cars and injured passer-by. The other set had smashed the roof of the podium area (bright cover). This accident forced the City Government to partially suspend the work of the pylon portion with written order. The work restored on 4^th of July, that had lengthened her completion schedule.
 

　　The grand opening ceremony of Taipei 101 was held on December 31, 2004. In addition to declaration of Taipei 101’s entry to the brand new operation stage, the lighting of the new year crossing matched with superb eye-catching 30 sec firework, which rather has successfully declared to the people around the globe that Taipei 101 era is here.
 

Taipei 101 has been granted several items of No. 1 in the world.

　　In primitive age, buildings were mostly bungalows where they were single-storey to a maximum of two floors. Therefore, in 1885, when the world’s first high-rise building – Home Insurance Building appeared in Chicago, USA, the competition of constructing taller high-rise buildings began since then.

    The first building that had got the breakthrough of 100 meter restriction was - the World Building built in New York, USA. It had a total of 20 floors.

She has surpassed the height of Petronas Twin Tower of Koala Lumpur in Malaysia, Shell Building of Chicago, the well known World Trade Building and Empire State Building of USA, in making Taiwan visible to the entire world. The top list of the world’s tallest buildings is as follows:

(Picked from Release No. 239 of Little Newton)

　　President Chen Shui-bian said: “Taipei 101 is the honor and pride of Taiwan’s all citizens, she will be a new index of Taiwan to be grandly standing on the global stage!”