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| Witness history in
the rising: A touchdown on Burj Dubai Tower
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• Recognised
as the world's tallest tower.
• Comprisis residential, commercial
and retail facilities.
• Project developers are Emaar Properties
PJSC.
• Architects: Chicago-based Skidmore,
Owings and Merrill (SOM).
• Designer: Adrin Smith (SOM).
•Contractors: Samsung Corporation.
• Main Contract: $900 million.
• Height: A secret, more than 700 meters.
• No of floors: A top secret. However,
estimated to be anywhere between 160 to
200 floors.
• The tip of the spire can be seen
by a person 95 km (60 miles) away.
• The tower will house one of the first
Armani Hotels. |
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| Burj Dubai will comprise of: |
• Burj Dubai Tower
• The Dubai Mall
• The Old Town Island
• The Old Town
• Burj Dubai Business Hub
• The Burj Dubai Boulevard
• The Lofts and Loft Towers
• 8 Boulevard Walk
• South Ridge
• Burj Views
• The Residences
• Burj Dubai Lake Hotel and Serviced
Apartments
• Armani Hotel and Residences |
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| The Burj Dubai Tower will include: |
• Armani Hotel Dubai
• Exclusive Corporate Suite Offices
• Residential Suites
• Four Luxurious Pools
• A cigar Club
• Observation Platform
• Restaurants
• Library
• Exclusive Resident's Lounge
• 15,000 sq. ft. of fitness facilities |
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| Concrete facts! |
| The amount of rebar used for the tower
(so far) is 31,400 metric tones - laid end
to end this would extend over a quarter
of the way around the world. |
| Cement Concrete - A total of 330,000
square meters. |
| Rebars Requirement - 39,000 tones |
| Share of build-up area usage -
Predominantly residential with the remainder
split between hotel and office use. |
| Number of lifts to be installed
- 56 |
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| Curtain Wall - The curtain wall
of the Burj Dubai will be equivalent to
17 football (soccer) fields or 25 American
football fields. |
| Glass Requirement - 142,000 square
meters (the equivalent of 30 American football
fields). |
Construction
• The concrete used for the Burj Dubai
is equivalent to: A solid cube of concrete
61 meters (200 ft) on a side.
• A side walk 1,900 kilometers long
(1,200 miles)
• Over five times the volume of concrete
used for the CN Tower in Canada.
•The weight of 100,000 elephants. |
Foundation: The Rough
Slab
• The structure is a 3.5 meter thick
rough slab
• Size: 80,000 square-feet rough slab
forms the base of the Burj Dubai Structure.
• Completion: In record 12 months
• Cost: $15 million, (Dh 55 million)
• Piles: 192 piles
• Depth 50 meters and are bound together
by a 3.7 meter thick concrete raft across
8,000 square meters, encompassing the tower's
entire footprint.
• Cement: 18,000 square meters (cbm)
of cement concrete was poured for the tower
piles while 15,000 cbm of concrete was used
for the podium piles. The raft, in addition,
comprise of 12,300 cbm of concrete, bringing
the total concrete poured into the foundation
to over 45,000 cbm weighing more than 110,000
tones.
The structure will house a hotel, furnished
apartments, over 600 apartments, which
will cover the ground level to 112th level.
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Elevators:
• The building service/fireman's
elevator will have a capacity of 5,500
kg and will be the world's tallest service
elevator.
• Burj Dubai will be the first mega-high
rise in which certain elevators will be
programmed to permit controlled evacuation
for certain fire or security events.
• Burj Dubai will contain the world's
highest elevator installation.
• The Burj Dubai's Observatory Elevators
(double deck cabs) have a capacity for
21 persons on each deck and will have
the world's longest travel distance from
lowest to highest stop. These elevators
will travel at 10m/sec.
Observation Deck:
• The Burj Dubai observation deck
is located 442 meters above ground will
be the highest publicly accessible observation
deck in the world.
Power
• The tower's peak electricity demand
is estimated at 36 kVA, equivalent to
roughly 360,000100-watt light bulbs all
operating at the same time.
• At the peak cooling times, the
tower will require approximately 10,000
tonnes of cooling per hour, which is equivalent
to the capacity provided by 10,000 tons
(22.4 million lbs or 10.2 million kg)
of melting ice in one day.
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| Supplements for the
Burj |
Water
• There will be 200 meters of spectacular
dancing fountains at the foot of the Burj
Dubai.
• The Burj Dubai's water system will
supply an average of about 946,000 liters
(250,000 gallons) of water per day. |
Maintenance
• Window Washing and façade
Maintenance: the tower's primary window
washing and façade maintenance system
consists of three permanently installed,
track-mounted, telescopic building maintenance
machines located in internal "garage"
positions on uppermost levels. The manned
cleaning cradle for each machine is capable
of serving the entire façade from
its garage level downward to level 7. Each
machine's jib arm, when fully extended,
will have a reach of over 36 meters with
an overall length of about 45 meters. When
collapsed into its parking position, the
arms will measure about 15 meters. |
Environment
• Condensate Collection System - Hot
and humid outside air, combined with the
cooling requirements of the building, will
result in a significant amount of condensation
of moisture from the air. This condensed
water will be collected and drained in a
separate piping system down to a holding
tank located in the basement car park. This
water will be pumped into the site irrigation
system for use on the tower's landscape
plantings. This system will provide about
15 million gallons of supplemental water
per year, equivalent to nearly 20 Olympic-sized
swimming pools. |
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| Burj Dubai Development:
Fact-file |
• $20 billion (Dh73 billion)
development
• 22 million sq. ft. of total development
• World's tallest tower, Burj Dubai
• World's largest shopping mall, The
Dubai Mall
• 30,000 homes
• 9 world-class hotels- a total of
2,000 keys, including the 160-room Armani
Hotel in the Burj Dubai
• 19 residential Towers
• Over 3.7 million sq. ft. of retail
space (net let table) within The Dubai Mall
• 73 meter wide and 3.5 km long Boulevard
• 200 meters of dancing fountains
• 16,000 car parking facility for The
Dubai Mall
• 12 hectare Burj Dubai Lake
• 6 acres of parkland
• Entire development of underground
parking |
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| Project handover : Early
2009 | Visit
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