^^ Watch closer. They have put in a contrete floor to put the rebar on. (instead of just laying the rebar on the sandground.)
So it looks like there is still progress.

sorry if been asked before, but is damac tower ALL resi or mixed?

sorry if been asked before, but is damac tower ALL resi or mixed?

residential

9/September/2011

Damac Heights, new board

http://i51.tinypic.com/2i8zn9x.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/o08kg9.jpg

19/September/2011

Damac Heights , new board

http://i52.tinypic.com/25rmced.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/2ypbv2w.jpg

Imre, is there no chance to get some pictures from the construction site?:/

Imre, is there no chance to get some pictures from the construction site?:/

http://www.rpdubai.ae/rpdubai/SharedFolder/ProgressIndicator/430_45.jpg

:cheers:

Will be a fanastic tower if they get it up

and the top section and the curve of the tower will probably turn out very well

and we also know that Damac can pull it off ocean heights is a good testimony design and architectural wise

only thing that bugs me about the tower is that its too close to the iconic Infinity tower. wich looks outstanding now with good breathing space on the sides

because this took so long to really get rolling they should hawe moved it over to the big empty plot behind The marriot hotel and Crown of the emirates, also known as the former marina sky towers site.

^^ You can't just move to someone elses property.

Im pretty shure Damac wich owns the Damac heights project and plot for the damac heights and Emaar who did the master planning for the whole marina, could hawe found a solution with the owners of the other plot where nothing really has happened at all for many years now.

In my mind that would hawe been a very good solution if they could hawe pulled it off.

Follow this link. Some realy good informations

http://www.damacproperties.com/plot-development/UAE/Dubai/Dubai-Marina/Damac-Heights/constr-updates/28.xhtml?p=3&cons=t

because this took so long to really get rolling they should hawe moved it over to the big empty plot behind The marriot hotel and Crown of the emirates, also known as the former marina sky towers site.


If I was invested here I'd like to stay at the front row on the sea.

22/September/2011

Damac Heights

http://i54.tinypic.com/2mdfkas.jpg

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/DSC03099.JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/DSC03101.JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/DSC03102.JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/DSC03103.JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/DSC03098.JPG
www.damacproperties.com

^^ That looks awesome, at least now we can see the cement being laid down.:)

beautiful design. reminds me a lot of burj al arab


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Damac representative told me it will have 85+G floors now.

Its rising!!
ha ha ha its just a joke

how long will take this Damac beauty to rise ?

Imre, is it possible to get weekly updates here too like Infinity, PT, EliteR,...? =]

Damac representative told me it will have 85+G floors now.

5B + G + 5P + 81 = 87 floors actually, as shown on this official RERA presentation: http://www.rpdubai.ae/rpdubai/SharedFolder/ProgressIndicator/430_45.jpg

It's going to be awesome

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/DSCN3171.JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/DSCN3169.JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/DSCN3170.JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/DSCN3172.JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/DSCN3167.JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/DSCN3168.JPG
www.damacproperties.com

Thanks for the update, kanye! Progress - but no subfloor walls yet.

The site is fully lit in the dark on the following Marina pano, taken from 48th floor of Marina Heights.

Around 01/November/2011 by Sebastian Opitz on ablazewithlight.com (http://www.ablazewithlight.com) and skyscraperlist.com (http://www.skyscraperlist.com/showthread.php?402-Dubai-Marina-General-Photography/page6):

http://www.ablazewithlight.com/cityscapes_dubai_Marina_Heights2_sRGB_a_y.jpg

Thanks for the update, kanye! Progress - but no subfloor walls yet.

The site is fully lit in the dark on the following Marina pano, taken from 48th floor of Marina Heights.

Around 01/November/2011 by Sebastian Opitz on ablazewithlight.com (http://www.ablazewithlight.com) and skyscraperlist.com (http://www.skyscraperlist.com/showthread.php?402-Dubai-Marina-General-Photography/page6):

http://www.ablazewithlight.com/cityscapes_dubai_Marina_Heights2_sRGB_a_y.jpg

^^ also notice some site work on the massive Emaar plot near Marina Walk... what's going on there?

^^ Nothing going on there, just cleaning up after a pipe burst/flooded on the plot.

^^ preparation for a new park, perhaps? :)

no, no constructive activity on the plot in front.

If I were a skyline planner, I wouldn't position such a bended tower next to a torqued tower, but still, I think the design is pretty.
Does someone know what side the tower is going to bend over to?

^^ away from Infinity according to the renders, I think?

Thanks for the update, kanye! Progress - but no subfloor walls yet.

The site is fully lit in the dark on the following Marina pano, taken from 48th floor of Marina Heights.

Around 01/November/2011 by Sebastian Opitz on ablazewithlight.com (http://www.ablazewithlight.com) and skyscraperlist.com (http://www.skyscraperlist.com/showthread.php?402-Dubai-Marina-General-Photography/page6):

http://www.ablazewithlight.com/cityscapes_dubai_Marina_Heights2_sRGB_a_y.jpg

OMG!!!! you make me miss the days when i was in Dubai man i miss that days so much!!!!

^^ away from Infinity according to the renders, I think?

from the model they showed at cityscape a few weeks ago it looked like bended towards infinity. not sure what it's going to be now.

the other way would be better though.

03-nov

http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac210/PrincessTower/xIMG_3719.jpg

should get up to speed soon :)

damac, once hated now loved:lol:

01-Dec

BAD NEWS for Damac.

Site began to flood last night. Seems to be under control now. Hopefully the damage won't be too bad. :(


http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac210/PrincessTower/IMG_4259b.jpg

Reminds me of Infinity Tower site :ohno:
But at least no complete breakdown of the wall..

I have heard that many projects in this area had issues with water at the foundation stages and that DAMAC intentionally flooded it to equalise the water pressures while some work was carried out.

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/Promise(57).JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/damac%20heights-4%20-%2028-11-11.JPG
www.damacproperties.com

The site is full to the brim with water. Pressure equalised.

LOL

but if the tower foundation is flooded with water wont it pose a threat to the tower once completed and what is the condition of the other towers like princess towers or marina 101?

upward hydrostatic pressure is balanced out and then exceeded by mass of building. flooded basement means major issues for all rebar

... what is the condition of the other towers like princess towers or marina 101?

They are not at the water edge. Their sites needed dewatering too during the construction process, but beeing far from the Marina canal, there was never a danger of site flooding there.

19-dec

http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac210/PrincessTower/zPC190010.jpg


http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac210/PrincessTower/zPC190001.jpg

the site looks bad. could make a great pool for infinity towers!

looks funny. :hahano:
what happened? :?

This is a serious affect to adjacent building foundation also.....

There not really having any luck with that bit of the marina wall, first infinity floods, and now this, at least there aren't any more buildings to be built there :) :lol: :cheers:

(at least not for now)

Bugger!:nuts:
Oh well, the building right next to it is proof that they can recover just fine.:)

looks funny. :hahano:
what happened? :?

They flooded it themselves to avoid the collapse of the wall, which would have been a major incident, as in the case of the tower nextdoor.

its sad to see this interruption due to the water. i hoped to see this beutyful tower would rise soon

This is what happens if you're not building fast enough ;)

23/December/2011

Damac Heights

http://i44.tinypic.com/10h7eqb.jpg

http://i44.tinypic.com/293jaxy.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/651y4z.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/dbjy88.jpg

Here's whats happened when you trying saving costs too much :no: Really I can't grasp the fact that they knew what happened just the site next to them and they didn't install those supports first.

Here's whats happen when you trying to speak about things you don't know/understand ... what 'supports', and what those 'supports' (whatever they are you are referring them as) have to do with anything?

1. They deliberately flooded site so the walls wouldn't collapse.
2. They will secure the site so the walls wouldn't collapse without water in.
3. They will dry the site.


Now please, oh wise sir, explain why couldn't they do just a second step during digging?

they probably didnt expect that to happen... not like they learnt anything from the infinity towers incident

it's not as bad as it was for the neighboring site this is a quick work :)

Thanks for the update.

they probably didnt expect that to happen...


oh really? :D


not like they learnt anything from the infinity towers incident

At least they haven't let this wall collapse, but I'm sure they could save a lot of money if they have made better protection during digging.

"the pool" is dry again :banana: hopefully construction will resume soon

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/Promise(57).JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/uploaded-files/Property/ConstructionUpdates/-1/damac%20heights-4%20-%2028-11-11.JPG

http://www.damacproperties.com/plot-development/UAE/Dubai/Dubai-Marina/Damac-Heights/constr-updates/28.xhtml?p=4&cons=t

Good news.:)

"the pool" is dry again :banana: hopefully construction will resume soon


Excellent! So many towers are close to finishing on this block so we need another to start.

"the pool" is dry again :banana: hopefully construction will resume soon....



hold your horses. the water is still in. the picture on damacs website is old. wouldn't expect they upload a shot of the desaster....

hold your horses. the water is still in. the picture on damacs website is old. wouldn't expect they upload a shot of the desaster....
Thanks PT for the confirmation. I had assumed that was the case.
Sadly, many developers have always been quick to 'doctor' photos and dates in any way they can...

hold your horses. the water is still in. the picture on damacs website is old. wouldn't expect they upload a shot of the desaster....

Damn that sucks. But I assume workers are on-site trying to effect repairs right?

Dubai is suffering of major hybris. And alot of the tower looks like copies of other known towers from the world.

Damn that sucks. But I assume workers are on-site trying to effect repairs right?

Yes they are.

Dubai is suffering of major hybris. And alot of the tower looks like copies of other known towers from the world.

Yes, like the Al Kazim towers are similiar to the Chrysler Building.

8/January/2012

Damac Heights

http://i39.tinypic.com/15flp5e.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/mjpssg.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/sdmeyh.jpg

update is different... compared to above Construction Updates,this pics are remain fill waters.

have they said how much this is going to be scaled back yet?

^^ What do you mean by scaled back?

BTW, the water level is higher on Jan 8th, compared with Dec 23rd. Would that be a high/low tide issue, or it shouldn't matter at all (I guess)?

^^ What do you mean by scaled back?

Maybe he means a height reduction for the Tower?

Maybe he means that they start later with the tower.

^^ He does actually mean what he says ... is just the motives.

Is there still water in it?

was there a problem with the retaining wall of the marina or the towers foundation....or both?

^^ They flooded it themselves to stop the wall from collapsing :)

they don't appear to be in an utterly big hurry to get this thing going...

http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac210/PrincessTower/zIMG_4390.jpg

also showing the new Arabtec site office on the bottom.

^^
yeah ... this is very strange and very sad... :(

:lol: Nice Pool

Hahah Just Kidding :)

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Wow, I just checked out your projects and they are very good, they are awsome. :shocked:

Awesome xD

Maybe this hit them hard financially? Since it was on hold, I'm guessing they found enough money to start building again but no money spare for stuff like this happening. Would they be able to claim insurance or anything for it? Or was it there fault?

Or maybe there waiting for steel or materials to fix the wall?

any news here? did they fix it already?

Not yet. We have active forumers living nearby that can even see the site from their windows, so they'll certanly report if that's to happen.

10/March/2012

Damac Heights

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/429738_10151376161270648_741515647_23373815_1728557270_n.jpg

They work so hard to get the water out of there.:ohno:

site looks almost deserted to me.

DAMAC Depths - Status Completed :lol:

If it's filled with water I'd say it's donezo

If they literally have no money left, I wonder how the city would force or encourage them to dewater that hole. I'd think it's the developer's responsibility but if they leave town, who gets stuck footing the cleanup of this? I'd imagine it affecting the towers nearby in some way.

Of course hopefully the developer is just having trouble but can restart the project eventually.

Maybe they are adding on to the marina. HAHAHA! Maybe they should drain the water and put in a little park or mini cafe.

If they literally have no money left, I wonder how the city would force or encourage them to dewater that hole. I'd think it's the developer's responsibility but if they leave town, who gets stuck footing the cleanup of this? I'd imagine it affecting the towers nearby in some way.

Of course hopefully the developer is just having trouble but can restart the project eventually.

It's not a money problem, it's a technical one. The contractor filled the site with water to avoid a collapse of the Marina wall as it happened in 2007 on Infinity's site next door.

The water will stay in until they'll re-enforce the marina wall and the strip between the site and the water edge.

DAMAC Depths - Status Completed :lol:

WRONG!

Status: Topped Out ... the site perimeter is still there :lol:

WRONG!

Status: Topped Out ... the site perimeter is still there :lol:

good eye there. i must have overseen it in the hype :cheers:

Negative points on Emporis... :lol:

^^ Nope, neutral/Zero ... it's at sea level currently :D

Thanks AltinD. I wasn't sure if it was only funds or as you said, a technicality. While it'd certainly make sense for them to purposely flood the site to avoid overpressuring the wall, it was only mentioned on one post explicitly and was easy to overlook as perhaps a joke. Or well, at least that's what I thought at least.

From the site side it looks like from other photos that there is a natural barrier of sand sandwiched between the concrete walls on each side (the outer marina wall and the ribbed coffer wall of the site). Any idea on what they'll do to strengthen the whole section? Wonder if they'll just do horizontal pipe braces like Infinity did? I can't see any place where they'd be able to outright thicken the wall without disrupting the "flow" of how things look. If as you said that once they can pour the foundation and the basement levels will have enough mass to support the wall / site on its own then that's great. Just gotta get to that point first.

I'm sure they'd want to have their nice foundation waterlogged for as little time as possible ;)

No I kept watching the Burj and Infinity when that huge issue happened - remember it through the forums very well. Was, at first, just shocked to see flooding happen as I thought it had been an accident as opposed to well, on purpose. All makes sense now either way, thanks.

^^ I wouldn't call it "as planned". Something certainly was oversight there. Come'on if they knew the walls need to be straightened they would do it during digging and no flooding would be necessary. Strangely enough they oversight that, even though it happened to the site next to it.

From the site side it looks like from other photos that there is a natural barrier of sand sandwiched between the concrete walls on each side (the outer marina wall and the ribbed coffer wall of the site). Any idea on what they'll do to strengthen the whole section? Wonder if they'll just do horizontal pipe braces like Infinity did? I can't see any place where they'd be able to outright thicken the wall without disrupting the "flow" of how things look.

They were doing the horizontal pipe braces, but in both cases it didn't work (which is understandable, since they are to counter the terrain pressure not the body of water one). They can't widen the natural part but they can reinforce it. It was done on the Infinity site but I think both planting steel/rebar and pouring concrete. I guess they will do something like that here as well.

My opinion is that the contractors are on the design stage of the reinforcement measures to be taken,


DISCLAIMER: All my opinions are based on logic and long-time observation and documenting of construction activities in Dubai, I do not have a civil engineering background. The closes to that was a university class of hydro-power plants dams and basins construction techniques :)

so maybe we should wait more 1 year to restart the project :(

^^ We don't know, although the damage is not comparable to that of infinity site

Still highly doubt that they'd restart it "fast". Unless they can easily reinforce things, I'd still think a good 3 month+ delay, easy. Hopefully we are proved wrong.

@AltinD - Thanks for the observation ;). Oh I wasn't expecting a formally correct reply in terms of structural theory; it's nice to hear your suggestions though as to what may happen. Since 99% of us aren't in Dubai and can't see the site save through the kindness of posters on the forum, it's just nice to get an idea of the situation, that's all.

I've only taken a few architectural construction classes myself back in college and didn't quite finish up the degree. But hey, it was mostly wood-frame, steel, and concrete construction for smaller buildings and homes, not giant skycraper sites where they have unique challenges such as what happened here.

Hopefully Damac Heights will not have such stupid floor plans as they done for Ocean Heights. It would be disappointing too much!

^^ Same Architects though (AEDAS), and their other designed towers (Marina Scape) have also strange floor plans. Having said that, I don't think floor plans were ever posted in this forum, or seen by the forumers elsewhere.

http://www.southtravels.com/middleeast/uae/realestate/oceanheights/gifs/typicalfloor.jpg

^^ We know and have seen the Ocean Height's floorplans since the begining, the year 2005 or 2006. I was talking about the floorplans of Damac Heights

It's pretty much a disaster too. How could an architect be so dumb!?...:wallbash:
http://www.ppdubai.com/pimg/fp27-Typical%2014th%20Floor.jpg

It looks like someone took the regular square tic-tac-toe floorplan and said "let's just stretch this!"... there we go! I'd have to see it closer but it looks like the ammentities toward the core are really tightly packed and look pretty tiny. Then again gauging by the size of the fittings, those "apartments" look pretty large for a couple people.

I think the curved sections look alright. The zig-zagging wing walls though on top and bottom look like they literally tried to conform the plan to the structural load first; as if they couldn't change the layout. Hopefully it works better in reality than the drawing shows.

They look fine to me? Also it's a bit hard to base an opinion on just one floor plan.....

30/March/2012

Damac Heights plot

http://i44.tinypic.com/xkt3qa.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/mtr1o1.jpg

Oh, so it's all for the fishes and seagulls then :lol:

damac needs the cowboy back to get this built

^^ But they started doing great (and still are) on all their other projects, when he left.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/429738_10151376161270648_741515647_23373815_1728557270_n.jpg

Does water go out of the bottom?

^^ The water comes in from the bottom ... and the sides

Damac's next focus appears to be the Lotus Towers project in the Business Bay.....

^^ I don't think there is a corelation. All their other projects have been progressing very well, many topped out or close to do it.

Ongoing retaining wall-reinforcing work on the site. At least two cranes are involved and a considerable work force

no offense, but it seems Dubai finally realized that building nearly half the world's supertalls in a metro of 3.5 million probably wasn't the best idea.

Not quite half. More like a quarter or fifth of them (so far at least). It may not have made the most financial sense, but it sure has been fun to watch. I can't wait to visit Dubai someday.

And just wait till the next big real estate boom. I hope Dubai doubles their number of supertalls. SZR needs some filling out.

Oh it was definitely fun to watch and I appreciate their enthusiasm regarding engineering but they need to be careful at this point.

Dubai will never double their supertalls because they've already built enough for the next several decades.

...cause they've already built enough for the next several decades.
Not really. Usually, it takes a few weeks since a handover of another high-rise building before it gets crowded. Come visit Dubai and you will see! :)
NB: I'm not talking about deserts like JV and IMPZ, they make no rule :lol:

From Daniel Cheong

http://i50.tinypic.com/28k1naf.jpg

Nice reflection pool for Infinity Tower ;)