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Profile: Burj Dubai
The 700-metre Burj Dubai is a skyscraper in every sense of the word
- Gulf News Staff Report
- Published: 13:33 July 21, 2007
- The Burj Dubai is considered the world's tallest building.
- Image Credit: Kishore Kumar/ANM
- Height is being kept secret but will be more than this estimate: 700 metres
- The number of floors is also a secret but likely to be at least 180 floors
- Samsung Corporation from South Korea is main building contractor
- Estimated construction cost. The whole Dubai Downtown development is costing around $20 billion and will contain 30,000 homes and the world's largest shopping mall, The Dubai Mall $1 billion
- Many of the lower floors will be taken up by a 175-room Armani Hotel. In addition there will be 144 luxury residential suites designed by Giorgio Armani and kitted out with his home furnishing line
- Floors 17 to 108 will have 800 private apartments. These sold out within eight hours
- Most of the higher floors will be offices and private suites
- An observatory 442 metres above ground on the 124th floor will be open to the public ? the highest publicly accessible observation deck in the world
- There will be a club on floors 144 to 146
- Inspiration for the design was derived from the flower of the Hymenocallis plant that is widely cultivated in Dubai.
- Built of glass, aluminium, concrete and steel
- Much of the external surface is made of factory-produced unitised panels. Made of aluminium, glass and various brackets, they interlock on site and are up to two storeys tall. They improve quality and speed up building work
- Tip of the spire will be visible 60 miles away
- The rods that reinforce the structure weigh a total of 31,400 tonnes and laid end-to-end would stretch more than a quarter of the way around the world
- Water system will supply about 250,000 gallons per day
- The building's external surface is the size of 17 football fields
- The concrete used is equivalent to a solid cube of concrete 61 metres in size or a 1.5-metre wide pavement 1,200 miles long. It weighs the same as 100,000 elephants
- Peak electricity demand of the building is the same as 360,000 100-watt light bulbs
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