Burj Dubai by the numbers

Dubai: When the world’s tallest building is inaugurated on January 4, 2010, the record books will brace themselves to receive a flood of new entries.

At over 800 metres and with more than 160 floors, here are some of the essential numbers associated with the world’s tallest building:

• 95 – the distance in kilometres at which Burj Dubai’s spire can still be seen
• 124 – the floor location of ‘At The Top, Burj Dubai’, the world’s highest and only publicly accessible observation deck with an outdoor terrace
• 160 – the number of luxury hotel rooms and suites
• 605 – the vertical height in metres to which concrete was pumped in the construction of Burj Dubai, a world record for concrete pumping
• 504 – the distance traveled, or ‘rise’ in metres of Burj Dubai’s main service lift, the most of any elevator
• 49 – the number of office floors, including the 12-floor annexure
• 57 – the number of elevators
• 1,044 – the total number of residential apartments inside Burj Dubai
• 3,000 – the number of underground parking spaces
• 5,500 – the capacity in kilograms of the tower’s service lift
• 31,400 – the amount of steel rebar in metric tonnes used in the structure of Burj Dubai
• 28,261– the number of glass cladding panels making up the exterior of tower and its two annexes
• 15,000 – the amount of water in litres collected from the tower’s cooling equipment that will be used for landscaping irrigation
• 900 – the length in the feet of the world’s tallest performing fountain, The Dubai Fountain, that lies at the foot of the tower
• 19 – the number of hectares of lush green landscaping that envelops the foot of the tower
• 12,000 – the numbers of workers on site during peak of construction