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Tallest Building in the World - Bruj Khalifa (Earlier Bruj Dubai)
Location : Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Floor Count : 200
Ground Breaking : 2004
Completed : 2009
Opening: 4th Jan, 2010
Cost of Building: 1.5 Billion $
RECORDS:
1. Tallest structure: 818 m (2,684 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast - 628.8 m (2,063 ft)
2. Tallest freestanding structure: 818 m (2,684 ft) (previously CN Tower - 553.3 m (1,815 ft)
3. Building with most floors: 200
4. World's highest elevator installation
5. Worlds fastest elevators at speed of 64 km/h (40 mph) or 18 m/s (59 ft/s) (previously – 16.83 m/s)
6. Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 601 m (1,972 ft) (previously Taipei 101 - 449.2 m (1,474 ft)
7. Highest vertical concrete pumping (for any construction): 601 m (1,972 ft) (previously Riva del Garda Hydroelectric Power Plant - 532 m (1,745 ft)
8. The first world's tallest structure in history to include residential space
DETAILS:
01.Burj Dubai when completed is the tallest building in the World
02.It is the tallest man made structure ever built on the earth.
03.Burj Dubai is the only building in the world with most floors.
04.It is the only stucture in the world to pump concrete for any building.
05.It is the only stucture in the world to pump concrete for any construction.
06.Burj Dubai consists of 200 floors of which 160 are habitable
07.The design of Burj Dubai is based on Islamic Architecture.
08.Viewed from above or from the base, the form also evokes the onion domes of Islamic
architecture.
09.The exterior cladding of Burj Dubai will consist of reflective glazing with aluminum and
textured stainless steel spandrel panels with vertical tubular fins of stainless steel.
10.The cladding system is designed to withstand Dubai's extreme summer temperatures.
11.The interior will be decorated by Giorgio Armani. An Armani Hotel (the first of its kind) will occupy the lower 37 floors. Floors 45 through 108 will have 700 private apartments on 64 floors (which, according to the developer, sold out within eight hours of going on sale). Corporate offices and suites will fill most of the remaining floors, except for a 123rd floor lobby and 124th floor indoor/outdoor observation deck. The spire will also hold communications equipment.An outdoor zero-entry swimming pool will be located on the 78th floor of the tower.
12.It will also feature the world's fastest elevator, rising and descending at 18 m/s (40 mph).
12.It will also feature the world's fastest elevator, rising and descending at 18 m/s (40 mph).
13.Engineers had considered installing the world's first triple-decker elevators, but the final design calls for double-deck elevators. A total of 56 elevators will be installed that can carry 42 people at a time.
14.Engineers rotated the building 120 degrees from its original layout to reduce stress from prevailing winds.Over 45,000 m³ (58,900 cu yd) of concrete, weighing more than 110,000 metric tonnes (121,000 S/T/108,000 L/T) were used to construct the concrete and steel foundation, which features 192 piles buried more than 50 m (164 ft) deep
