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Identification Name Burj Dubai Emporis Building ID 182168
Location
Address as text * Zone City State Country
Map and Surrounding Area
Technical Data Height (tip) * Height (architectural) 818.00 m Height (roof) * Height (top floor) * Height (observation deck) 442.10 m Floors (above ground) 162 Construction start * Construction end * Gross floor area * Parking places * Construction costs *
Structure in General Construction type skyscraper Current status  under construction [topped out] Structural system buttressed core Structural material concrete steel Facade material stainless steel Facade system curtain wall Architectural style modernism Official website
Usages Main usages  hotel  commercial office Side usages  restaurant  residential
Features and Amenities
Double-decker elevators present Exercise facility is available Internal safety rooms available One of the city's famous buildings Rainwater is recycled Swimming pool is available
Facts
Burj Dubai is the tallest man-made structure in the world, surpassing the  KVLY-TV Tower in North Dakota as well as  Warszawa Radio Mast, the previous tallest structure ever built. |
The triple-lobed footprint of the building is based on an abstracted desert flower native to the region. |
A subtle reference to the onion domes of Islamic architecture can be found in the building's silhouette when looking up at the lobes from near the base. |
The tower will be situated on a man-made lake which is designed to wrap around the tower and to provide dramatic views of it. |
Engineers working on the design considered installing triple-decker elevators, which would have been the first in the world. The realized building will use double-decker elevators. |
The top of the building will contain a public observation deck and a private club above that. |
Although the building's shape resembles the bundled tube concept of the Willis Tower, it is structurally very different and is technically not a tube structure. |
The design by Skidmore Owings & Merrill replaces a plan to reuse the design for  Grollo Tower, which was proposed in Melbourne a few years earlier. |
"Burj" is Arabic for "Tower". |
The highest residential floor will be level 109. |
An observation deck will occupy the 124th floor. |
The building was rotated 120 degrees to allow for less stress from the prevailing winds. |
The building sits on a concrete and steel podium with 192 piles descending to a depth of more than 50 metres (164 feet). |
A total of 45,000 cubic metres of concrete are used in the foundations with a weight in excess of 110,000 tonnes. |
The exterior cladding is of reflective glazing with aluminium and textured stainless steel spandrel panels with vertical tubular fins of stainless steel. |
The cladding system is designed to withstand Dubai's extreme summer temperatures. |
This is the first world's tallest building since prehistoric times to include residential space. |
The official height has not been released, and remains secret. The total height of 808 meters is subject to change. |
Designed by Adrian D. Smith, FAIA, RIBA Design Partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP. |
Burj Dubai became the world's tallest high-rise building on July 24, 2007, and the world's tallest self-supporting structure on September 12, 2007. |
Companies involved in this building
Emporis Premium Companies:
Depa Ltd. (interior fit-out)
architect:
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Other companies:
Matrix Laboratory, Macrocon Engineering Services Dubai, Universal Concrete Products, EMAAR Properties, Lerch Bates, Inc., Bauer Spezialtief GmbH, voestalpine Grobblech GmbH, Turner Construction International, Samsung Construction Company, Arab Technical Construction Co., Besix, Armani Hotels, Doka Industrie GmbH, Otis Elevator Company, Al Khatib Cracknell, ETA M&E, PMK International, Middle East Foundations Group L.L.C, RWDI Anemos Ltd., Hyder Consulting Middle East Limited, GHD Pty Ltd., Meva Schalungs-Systeme GmbH, Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction, NASA Multiplex, Al Abbar Aluminium, Al Bakhit General Contracting, Far East Aluminium Works Company Limited, CBM Engineers, LIN-TEC Engineering Ltd., Sendai Eversendai Engineering Group, Motorola Ltd., CoxGomyl |
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