With a length of 828 meters (2,717 feet) and 164 floors, the Burj Dubai / Burj Khalifa is the highest structure on the planet in January 2010.
Taipei 101, Taipei Financial Center in the capital of Taiwan, is from 2004 to 2010 the highest increase in the world, at an altitude of 509.2 meters, or 1,671 feet. The Burj effectively exceeds that height. Before its destruction in 2001, the World Trade Center Twin Towers in Manhattan were 417 meters (1,368 feet) and 415 meters (1,362 feet) tall.
• Burj Dubai / Burj Khalifa is dedicated on January 4, 2010.
• Burj costs: $ 1.5 billion, a portion of the $ 20 billion redevelopment program in downtown Dubai.
• The name of the peak was changed from the Burj Dubai to Burj Khalifa finally due to the award for the Sheik Khalifa container Zayed al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi leader, and in recognition of Abu Dhabi giving Dubai $ 10 billion in December 2009 to protect Dubai's sovereign wealth from bankruptcy.
• Construction began on September 21, 2004.
• More than 12,000 people will have a structure of 6 million square feet. Private condo number 1,044.
• Ado specifically combines 15,000 square feet of health offices, stogie clubs, the most famous mosques on the planet (on floor 158), the most amazing perception deck on the planet (on the 124th floor) and the most important swimming pool in the world. planet (on the 76th floor), just like the first Armani Hotel on the planet.
• Burj is relied on to eat 946,000 liters (or 250,000 gallons) of water for several days.
• Reliable use of electricity to reach a peak at 50 MVA or what can be compared with 500,000 100 watts consumed at any time.
• Burj has 54 lifts. They can speed up to 65km 60 minutes (40 mph)
• 100,000 similar cement elephants are used in the middle of development.
• 31,400 metric large amounts of steel reinforcement are used in the structure.
• 28,261 glass cladding boards spread outside the summit, each board cut by hand and introduced by Chinese cladding authorities.
• 12,000 workers were used on site during peak construction. Three workers kicked the bucket while taking pictures at the location.
• Number of underground parking lots at Burj: 3,000.
• The main contract workers are Samsung based in South Korea, along with Besix from Belgium and Arabtec from the UAE.
• This building is planned by Chicago's Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and made by Emaar Properties in Dubai.
• The building maid designer was specialist William F. Pastry, who on July 11, 2009, turned into an American principal to win the Fritz Leonhardt Prize for Achievement in Structural Engineering.
