DUBAI | Burj Khalifa (Burj Dubai) | World's Tallest Structure | 828m | 2717ft | 162 fl | Com

[Þróndeimr]

New thread was needed!

Btw, a small completion of renderings of Burj Dubai. Something that this thread maybe need one of in the first post?

Renderings (click to enlarge)


More renderings (click on thumbnail to open)

[twickline]

Originally Posted by Jude12

when is Imre's return?

This week I think

[idkblk]

Anyway, I'm really looking forward for Imre's return. But have to say thanks to all the ones that contributed great updates in the meantime!

Yah, like mentioned by someone before, i also wonder about the lake depth. So it really looks like a big pool and doesn't give the illusion of a lake

[Sky Tower]

DMP is now updated.

I've put the original PDF's back online but I'd like to respectfully ask for people to NOT post links here from the site that are related to personal correspondences between Samsung/EMMAR/Besix staff or anything in relation to costings or financial agreements.

Please help me to keep these PDF's under the radar for as long as possible and we will be able to share this stuff for much longer this time.

I recommend that anyone who is interested in this stuff to download and save them to their personal files to not be disappointed if they disappear again!

Big thanks again to Fury who has spent many hours sharing this stuff and breaking it down for all to understand. Thank you

[Dubai Spacescraper]

Work in Progress, my new backround! Spent alot of time on it. Thanks Old Town

edit: will post TV show soon.

[ZZ-II]

wow, gob job!! that looks very real

[mcdonnell77]

The lake looks more like a giant swimming pool

[Charles Dubai]

wooow the last pic looks so real!!!! good job
btw thanks for the new thread!!!

[malec]

Originally Posted by mcdonnell77

The lake looks more like a giant swimming pool

Definitely does, especially in that picture showing a swimming pool and this lake, the lake doesn't look much deeper.

[vanhenrik]

in the previsley thred it was an time table of cunstruktion the strukture it self but das eny one have an time table of the cladding ?

[TGSwimFly]

so what happens if there is a fire in the structure serious enough to require total evacuation??

[The-Real-Link]

TGS - It seems that the plans call for controlled evacuation using both stairs and elevators, as well as refuge floors throughout the tower. Additionally, water tanks might be able to be used in emergency.

[*UofT*]

Originally Posted by The-Real-Link

TGS - It seems that the plans call for controlled evacuation using both stairs and elevators, as well as refuge floors throughout the tower. Additionally, water tanks might be able to be used in emergency.

Or people can jump into the lake and swim to safety =), Id drink some of that fresh water while im at it too!

[FM 2258]

Originally Posted by malec

Definitely does, especially in that picture showing a swimming pool and this lake, the lake doesn't look much deeper.

I wish they could go back and dig it deep and throw some plant life so it can look like a natural lake or river. I know they have the money to do that. This was the look I was hoping for:

[Sentient Seas]

Damn, Dubai looks like paradise in that photo. Good work on that, by the way.

[Julito-dubai]

Malaysian firm to cap Burj Dubai
by Lauren Willington on Saturday, 13 October 2007
Sky-high trailblazers: Malaysia’s Eversendai will become the first company in the world ever to carry out steel works at 555.3 metres.
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Sky-high trailblazers: Malaysia’s Eversendai will become the first company in the world ever to carry out steel works at 555.3 metres.

Malaysia's Eversendai Corporation has won a US $14.7 million (AED 53.9 million) contract from Samsung Corporation for the structural steelworks on Emaar's Burj Dubai.

Work on the steel structure is set to begin this week - making Eversendai the first company in the world to carry out steel works at a 555.3-metre height.

"We can confirm that Samsung has taken on Eversendai to carry out the steel works for the Burj Dubai and to construct the spire at the top of the building," said So Young, spokeswoman, Samsung.
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Eversendai will require more than 4,000 tonnes of structural steel for the Burj Dubai.

The company will build the spire from the inside of the building, and will then use a hydraulic pump to extend the spire out of the top. This will mean that the height is adjustable.

"The finished spire will actually be dropped down and built inside the building, and will be jacked up to full height; when it's ready the height will be locked off," said Fred Durie, executive director, Emaar.

"The project is scheduled to be finished next summer, but I think they may finish earlier with the way things are going."

Eversendai has worked on other major projects with Samsung, including Dubai Festival City and Burj Al Arab.

The company is also working on the Dubai Mall project.

Eversendai has completed more than 32 jobs in the Middle East in the last 11 years.

In September, Burj Dubai surpassed Toronto's CN Tower to become the tallest free-standing structure in the world.

According to the most recent estimation, the tower stands at 555.3 metres.

[Momo1435]

I don't think Eversendai won the contract yesterday, since you can't make the steel frames and ship them to Dubai in under one week. So this has to be some sort of official announcement that the steelwork is going to begin.

I wonder if the spire will still be adjustable after the tower is finished, then they could make it even higher when some other building is build that's just a little bit higher.

And I will somehow miss all the old Burj Dubai thread nonsense but it will be a hell of a lot better to navigate.

[Alain75]

This stuff looks so ridiculous and outdated ...

[vanhenrik]

today it shuld be the day imre coms back to dubai ! i think

end today it is 33 c in dubai so the averidge tempiture has dropt from ower 40 c end the ramadahn is ower so the cunstruktion shuld go faster from now on !

[idkblk]

Originally Posted by Sentient Seas

Damn, Dubai looks like paradise in that photo. Good work on that, by the way.

It looks like its shot in some Mediterranean location.
The pic is really really cool, too sad i've never seen such a clear sky there and that photoshop is needed to get the whole "wow" thing the very final touch