Burj Dubai by the numbers
The Burj Dubai will be etched in record books forever once it launches on January 4.
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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
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