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Burj Khalifa
Burj Khalifa is the tallest tower in the United Arab Emirates and the world, and it has been named the tallest building in the world since 2008, with a height of about 830 meters, and is considered the tallest man-made building. The tower was opened on the ninth of December The second of 2010 AD, it was known as the Burj Dubai, and it is the tallest self-supporting building in the world, as it surpassed the Tokyo Skytree Tower, which is about 634 meters high.
Burj Khalifa Engineering
The Burj Khalifa was designed by Owings & Merrill, an architecture firm based in Chicago, where engineer Adrian Smith worked as an architect, and engineer William Baker as a structural engineer in the tower, and designed it on a three-faceted space adapted from the shape The local heminocalis flower, where this architectural form plays an important role in reducing the influence of wind forces on the tower, and the central core of the building was supported by a series of wings supported by concrete pillars, and with increasing height the wings retract spirally, to give a different shape to the building on each floor, And thus reduce From the influence of wind forces on him.
The foundations of the tower were also supported by a layer of reinforced concrete, which is about four meters in thickness, in addition to a three-storey platform at the base of the building to support it, with an area of about 186,000 square meters. As for the external shape of the building, it is made of aluminum and steel panels Stainless steel, in addition to more than 28,000 hand-cut glass panels, has been built to accommodate a variety of commercial and residential projects, as it contained 162 floors.
Facts about Burj Khalifa
The Taipei Financial Tower in the Taiwanese capital was the tallest tower in the world until the Burj Khalifa was built in 2010 to break this record, and here is a set of information related to the tower:
- The cost of building the tower is about 1.5 billion dollars.
- His name was changed from Burj Dubai to Burj Khalifa in honor of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi.
- The construction of the tower started on September 21, 2004 AD.
- The building can accommodate about 12,000 people, and the number of its apartments is 1,044 apartments.
- The tower contains the highest mosque, the highest observation deck, and the highest swimming pool in the world.
- The tower consumes 946,000 liters of water daily.
- It contains 54 elevators, with a speed of 65 km per hour.
- 31,400,000 kg of rebar was used in the structure.
