Tallest building of the world, 2722 ft high, with 163 floors, 24348 windows and costs USD $ 1.5 billion is the excellence of engineering.
Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is the tallest man-made building of the world. It is 829.8 m (2,722 ft) high. It was inaugurated on on January 4, 2010.
Salient features which make Burj Khalifa Outstanding
- Height: 829.8 m (2,722 ft)
- Cost: USD $ 1.5 billion
- Floor count: 163 floors
- Floor area: 309,473 m2 (3,331,100 sq ft)
- Construction Material Used: 4,000 tonnes of structural steel to composed the spire of Burj Khalifa
- 142,000 m2 (1,528,000 sq ft) of reflective glazing, and aluminium and textured stainless steel spandrel panels with vertical tubular fins at the exterior cladding.
- 26,000 glass panels are used in the exterior cladding.
- Accommodate Capacity: 35,000 people at any one time
- Elevators: 57
- Escalators: 8
- Speed of Elevators: fastest rising and descending at up to 10 m/s (33 ft/s) for double-deck elevators
- No. of Stairs: 2,909 stairs from the ground floor to the 160th floor
- Plumbing Systems in Burj Khalifa: 946,000 L (250,000 US gal) water supply per day
- 100 km (62 mi) of pipes used in plumbing
- 213 km (132 mi) of piping serves the fire emergency system
- 34 km (21 mi) supplies chilled water for the air conditioning system
- Air conditioning : the tower’s cooling is equivalent to that provided by 13,000 ton (29,000,000 lb) of melting ice in one day.
- No. of Windows: 24,348 windows
- The Residence: 900 Burj Khalifa residences
- The Corporate Suites: 37 office floors
- Armani Hotel Dubai: 160 guestrooms and suites
- Armani Residences Dubai: 144 private residences
- The Park: 11 hectares park
Records Pocketed by Burj Khalifa
- Tallest existing structure
- Tallest structure ever built
- Tallest freestanding structure
- Tallest skyscraper (to top of spire)
- Tallest skyscraper to top of antenna
- Building with most floors
- Building with world’s highest occupied floor
- World’s highest elevator installation (situated inside a rod at the very top of the building)
- World’s longest travel distance elevators
- Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building)
- World’s tallest structure that includes residential space
- World’s second highest outdoor observation deck
- World’s highest installation of an aluminium and glass facade
- World’s highest nightclub
- World’s highest restaurant (At.mosphere)
- World’s highest New Year display of fireworks
- World’s second highest swimming pool
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Author: Sonia Goyal