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Sunday, October 03, 2004

Burj Specifications

Location

Street Jumeirah Beach Road
City Dubai
Country United Arab Emirates

Technical Data


Height 321 m 1,053 ft
Floors 60
Construction 1999

Facts


- A 24 meter (79 feet) wide helipad projects from the building 210 meters above the ground.
- The Al Muntaha restaurant is located 200 metres above the Arabian Gulf, offering great views of Dubai. It is accessed by a panoramic elevator.
- The atrium is 180 metres high, one of the highest in the world.
- Burj Al Arab is the world's tallest structure with a membrane facade.
- This is the tallest operating hotel building in the world (not counting mixed-use buildings like Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai or the unfinished Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea).
- "Burj" is Arabic for "Tower".

Companies


architect
W.S. Atkins & Partners
construction company
Murray & Roberts
construction company
Al Habtoor Engineering Enterprises Co. L.L.C
shell construction
Sendai Eversendai Engineering Group
MEP engineering
DSE
landscape architect
Al Khatib Cracknell
consultancy
The Mitchell Partnership, Inc.
wind surveyor
BMT Fluid Mechanics Ltd.
elevator supplier
Otis Elevator Co.
elevator supplier
Mitsubishi Elevator and Escalator
facade supplier
Al Abbar Aluminium
facade supplier
Schmidlin AG HQ
formwork and scaffolding
Deutsche Doka Schalungstechnik GmbH
internal wall supplier
Dubai International Reinforced Plastics, LLC
steel supplier
DSD Dillinger Stahlbau GmbH


Official Site
: http://www.burj-al-arab.com/

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