Abstract: With regard to three shear wall residential buildings in Shanghai,cost control methods in the design stage were studied in view of architecture arrangement,structure arrangement,component design and material selection and so on.The study results indicate that some methods can control the cost of shear wall residential buildings in design stage effectively as follows:simple,regular,symmetrical architecture and structure arrangement;construction reinforcement in shear walls,differentiation between...

Key words: shear wall residential building； design stage； cost control；