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Tours
& Travels - Asian Tourist Spots
The tallest building in the world (2,717 ft height
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- Burj Khalifa |
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Burj
Khalifa ("Khalifa Tower"), is the tallest
man-made structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717
ft). It was formerly known as Burj Dubai and named
to Burj Khalifa, in honor of United Arab Emirates
president and emir of Abu Dhabi Khalifa Bin Zayed.
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The construction began on 21
September 2004, with the exterior of the
structure completed on 1 October 2009
and the building officially opened
on 4 January 2010.
“Work began in 2004 and moved rapidly.
At times, new floors were being added
almost every three days. During the busiest
construction periods, some 12,000 people
worked at the tower each day, according
to Emaar. Low-wage migrant workers from
the Indian subcontinent provided much
of the muscle.”
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The
tower was designed by Chicago-based
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which has a long
track record in engineering some of the world's
tallest buildings, including the Willis Tower.
William Frazier Baker, an American is the structural
engineer of this Structure.
The total budget for the Burj
Khalifa project is about US$1.5 billion. Antenna
or spire height is 828 m (2,717 ft) and total
Floor area is 334,000 m2 (3,595,100 sq
ft)
The price of office space
at Burj Khalifa had reached US$4,000 per sq ft
(over US$43,000 per m2) and that the Armani
Residences, also in Burj Khalifa, were
selling for US$3,500 per sq ft (over US$37,500
per m2) as on Jan. 2010. |
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Burj
Khalifa ("Khalifa Tower") has many distinctions
in its credit.
• Tallest skyscraper to top of spire: 828
m (2,717 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 509.2
m (1,671 ft))
• Tallest structure ever built: 828 m (2,717
ft) (previously Warsaw radio mast – 646.38
m (2,121 ft))
• Tallest extant structure: 828 m (2,717
ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast – 628.8 m (2,063
ft))
• Tallest freestanding structure: 828 m
(2,717 ft) (previously CN Tower – 553.3
m (1,815 ft))
• Building with most floors: 160 (previously
both 1 and 2 World Trade Center – 110)
• World's highest elevator installation
• World's fastest elevators at speed of
64 km/h (40 mph) or 18 m/s (59 ft/s)previously
Taipei 101 – 16.83 m/s)
• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for
a building): 606 m (1,988 ft) (previously Taipei
101 – 449.2 m (1,474 ft))
• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for
any construction): 606 m (1,988 ft) (previously
Riva del Garda Hydroelectric Power Plant –
532 m (1,745 ft)
• The first world's tallest structure in
history to include residential space
• Highest outdoor observation deck in the
world
• World's highest mosque (located on the
158th floor)
• Elevator with the longest travel distance
in the world
• Tallest service elevator in the world
• World's highest installation of an aluminum
and glass façade, at a height of 512 m
(1,680 ft)
Courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa
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