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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).

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

Biggest Building in the World - Abraj Al Bait

Location : Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Status : Under Construction
Ground Breaking : 2005
Estimated Completion : 2010

Records :
1. Biggest Building in the World.
2. Largest Hotel in the World.
3. Largest and Highest Clock in the World.
4. Tallest Building in Saudi Arabia.
5. Second Tallest Building in the World.

Abraj al bait is the biggest building in the world, in terms of build up space.
It consists of 7 cojoined towers, together.

Hotel Tower	595 m (1,952 ft)	76	2010	Under construction
Hajar	260 m (853 ft)	48	2008	Completed
ZamZam	260 m (853 ft)	48	2006	Completed
Maqam	250 m (820 ft)	45	2009	Under construction
Qibla	250 m (820 ft)	45	2009	Under construction
Marwah	240 m (787 ft)	42	2008	Completed
Safa	240 m (787 ft)	42	2007	Completed

In addition to the seven towers, the project also consists of -Shopping Malls -Museum -Astronomical research and monitoring center -Two helicopter pads -Medical center -900 Cars parking -15 Bus Stops -385 elevators,53,000 cu.m water tanks -Rail roads

It also hosts world's tallest Clock Tower

The Abraj Al Bait Towers, when completed, will be located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It will be the biggest (not tallest) building in the world by mass, it will be the tallest building in Saudi Arabia and one of the tallest buildings in the world, surpassing the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia which held the title as world's tallest building between 1998 and 2003. The Abraj Al Bait Towers will be most notable for its prime location. The site of the structure is across the street from the entrance to the Masjid al Haram, which houses the Kabaa, the holiest site in Islam and the building towards which all Muslims face during prayer. In fact, bait in Arabic means house, in reference to Kabaa. As a result, the Abraj Al Bait Towers will have a large prayer room capable of holding nearly four thousand worshippers.


It will contain a five-star hotel to help accommodate the over two million pilgrims who participate in hajj each year. In addition, the Abraj Al Bait Towers will have a four-story shopping mall and a parking garage capable of holding over eight hundred vehicles. Residential towers will house permanent residents while two heliports and a conference center would accommodate business travellers. In total, up to 65,000 people would be housed inside the Towers. The Al Bait Towers are expected to rise to a towering 485 m when completed. The buildings construction is already underway and should be completed before 2009.