The document summarizes information about Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world located in Dubai. It discusses the building's records, construction timeline from 2004-2009, structural elements like its foundations and spire, wind engineering challenges, and its significance as a symbol of progress for Dubai. The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to withstand wind loads at its height and have a reinforced concrete core and walls to resist torsion and wind shear forces.
The document summarizes information about Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world located in Dubai. It discusses the building's records, construction timeline from 2004-2009, structural elements like its foundations and spire, wind engineering challenges, and its significance as a symbol of progress for Dubai. The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to withstand wind loads at its height and have a reinforced concrete core and walls to resist torsion and wind shear forces.
The document summarizes information about Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world located in Dubai. It discusses the building's records, construction timeline from 2004-2009, structural elements like its foundations and spire, wind engineering challenges, and its significance as a symbol of progress for Dubai. The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to withstand wind loads at its height and have a reinforced concrete core and walls to resist torsion and wind shear forces.
The document summarizes information about Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world located in Dubai. It discusses the building's records, construction timeline from 2004-2009, structural elements like its foundations and spire, wind engineering challenges, and its significance as a symbol of progress for Dubai. The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to withstand wind loads at its height and have a reinforced concrete core and walls to resist torsion and wind shear forces.
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PROF. ANAP Maruti S Savant INTRODUCTION FACTS ABOUT BURJ DUBAI WORLD RECORDS STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS — ELEVATORS, SPIRE, AND MORE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WIND ENGINEERING FOUNDATIONS AND SITE CONDITIONS LONG-TERM AND CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE ANALYSIS CONCLUSION REFERENCES Burj Khalifa known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is currently the tallest structure in the world, at 828 m (2,717 ft). Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. January 2004: Excavation commences. February 2004: Piling starts. 21 September 2004: Emaar contractors begin construction. March 2005: Structure of Burj Khalifa starts rising. June 2006: Level 50 is reached. February 2007: Surpasses the Sears Tower as the building with the most floors. At over 828 metres (2,716.5 feet) and more than 160 stories, Burj Khalifa holds the following records: Tallest building in the world Tallest free-standing structure in the world Highest number of stories in the world Highest occupied floor in the world Highest outdoor observation deck in the world Elevator with the longest travel distance in the world Tallest service elevator in the world Tallest of the Supertall Foundation Podium Exterior Cladding Structural System Spire Mechanical Floors While it is superlative in every respect, it is the unique design of Burj Khalifa that truly sets it apart. The centrepiece of this new world capital attracted the world's most esteemed designers to an invited design competition. Ultimately, the honour of designing the world's tallest tower was awarded the global leader in creating ultra-tall structures, the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) with Adrian Smith FAIA, RIBA, consulting design Partner. The goal of the Burj Dubai Tower is not simply to be the world's highest building; it's to embody the world's highest aspirations. The 280 000 m2 (3 000 000 ft2) reinforced concrete multi-use tower is utilized for retail, a Giorgio Armani Hotel, residential and office. The center hexagonal reinforced concrete core walls provide the torsional resistance of the structure similar to a closed tube or axle. The center hexagonal walls are buttressed by the wing walls and hammerhead walls, which behave as the webs and flanges of a beam to resist the wind shears and moments. For a building of this height and slenderness, wind forces and the resulting motions in the upper levels become dominant factors in the structural design. The tower foundations consist of a pile-supported raft. The solid reinforced concrete raft is 3-7 m (12 ft) thick and was poured utilizing C50 (cube strength) self-consolidating concrete (SCC). Historically, engineers have typically determined the behavior of concrete structures using linear-elastic finite element analysis and/or summations of vertical column loads. As building height increases, the results of such conventional analysis may increasingly diverge from actual behavior. More than just the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa is an unprecedented example of international cooperation, symbolic beacon of progress, and an emblem of the new, dynamic and prosperous Middle East. It is also tangible proof of Dubai's growing role in a changing world. In fewer than 30 years, this city has transformed itself from a regional centre to a global one. This success was not based on oil reserves, but on reserves of human talent, ingenuity and initiative. www.google.com www.wikipedia.com www.studymafia.org
