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Burj Dubai is the centerpiece of the Gulf regions most prestigious urban development, entitled Downtown Dubai which features over 30,000 homes, including villas, luxury residential suits and serviced apartments; nine hotels such as Burj Dubai Lake Hotel & Serviced Apartments; the world's largest mall. Burj Dubai is the tallest man-made structure in world. It is designed by Adrian Smithdrian Smith who works with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) which also designed Sears Tower in Chicago and World Trade Center in New York City. Burj Dubai is constructed by Samsung Engineering & Construction which also built the Petronas Twin Towers and the Taipei in a joint venture with Besix from Belgium and Arabtec from UAE.Turner is the Project Manager on the main construction contract. The interior is decorated by Giorgio Armani.The total project cost is $8.1 billion.
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The current height of the building is 818 m. It is scheduled to be completed in the end of 2009. It will set out new standards of living in today's world. The building sits on a concrete and steel podium with 192 piles descending to a depth of more than 50 meters. The exterior cladding with 2200 panels is of reflective glazing with aluminum and textured stainless steel spandrel panels to withstand Dubai's extreme summer temperatures. At peak cooling times it will require 10,000 tons of cooling per hour. Tower’s water system will supply an average of about 946,000lt of water per day. Electricity demand is estimated to be around 36MVA.It also encloses a condensate collection system which will provide about 15 million gallons of supplemental water per year. Elevators have 66 double deck cabs with a capacity of 21 persons, moving at the speed of 18m/s (40mph), making it the worlds fastest. It will be the first mega high rise in which certain elevators will be programmed to permit controlled evacuation for certain fire or security events. A total of 45,000 cubic meters of concrete are used in the foundations with a weight in excess of 110,000 tons. When completed, Burj Dubai's construction will have used 330,000 m3 of concrete and 39,000 tons of steel rebar, and construction will have taken 22 million man-hours. The consistency of the concrete used in the project is essential. It was difficult to create a concrete that could withstand both the thousands of tonnes bearing down on it and Persian Gulf temperatures that can reach 50 °C (122 °F). To overcome this problem, ice is added to the mixture and it is poured at night when it is cooler and the humidity is higher to avoid any cracks. They also possess a façade maintenance system.
The gigantic Burj Dubai will offer exclusive corporate offices, residential apartments, four lavish swimming pools, one cigar club, one observation deck, lounge, gym, library and several other amenities such as restaurants to enhance its aura. An Armani Hotel, the first of its kind, will occupy the first 37 floors. The next 68 floors will house 700 apartments. Offices occupy the rest of the tower, about 57 floors. Lobby and observation deck is housed in123rd and 124th floor. The top of the building will contain a public observation deck and a private club above that.
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