HIGH RISE BUILDINGS

Makkah Royal Clock Tower, Mecca

RISHABH JAIN
9TH SEM
FACTS
• #3 Tallest in the World
• Architect Dar al-Handasah Shair & Partners
SL Rasch (German)
• Structure BuroHappold Engineering
• Pot area 56.8 acres
• Official Name Makkah Royal Clock Tower
• Name of Complex Abraj Al-Bait Endowment
• Status Completed
• Country Saudi Arabia
• City Mecca
• Building Function residential / hotel
• Structural Material steel/concrete
• Proposed 2002
• Construction Start 2002
• Completion 2012
Architect - Dar al-Handasah Shair & Partners

• Team of 9,250 staff members, operate in 47 offices in the Middle

East, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Five principal design centers are
located in Beirut, Cairo, London, Pune, and Amman.

• MANY ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS WHO WORKED AND TO SEE THE

CONSTRCUTION WERE NOT ABLE TO SEE THE CONSTRUCTION AS
ONLY MUSLIMS WERE ALLOWED IN MECCA

• LIST OF SOME PROJECTS: WORKED ON 74 PROJECTS

MASTER PLAN OF GWEN ISLAND AT
Doha’s West Bay Coast

Egypt’s New Administrative Capital

Designing the International Airport of Catumbela

Abraj Kudai AT
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
INTRODUCTION
• The Abraj Al-Bait is a government-owned complex of seven skyscraper hotels in
Mecca, Saudi Arabia. These towers are a part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment
Project that aims to modernise the city to offer world-class accommodations for
the increasing number of visitors and residents of the Holy City of Makkah.

• The seven towers of the building rest on a 15-storey and 115m-high podium,
which houses a grand retail area. The tallest tower housing the Makkah Royal
Clock Tower Hotel is located in the middle of the building structure.

• The complex comprises seven towers—central tower surrounded by six towers

rising between 42 and 48 stories high.
• The Makkah Clock Tower complex houses residential towers for permanent
residents, a five-star hotel operated by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts for
accommodating the Hajj pilgrims, and the Abraj Al Bait shopping mall 5-story.
The building offers parking space for more than 1,000 vehicles.

• Other facilities at the tower complex include an Islamic Museum, a Lunar

Observation Centre and a large prayer room with a capacity for more than
10,000 people.

• Since a great deal of residents and guests in the tower perform prayers five
times a day, innovative solutions were provided in the elevator systems that
transport people in a smooth and efficient manner. Group control systems were
implemented that adapt to the travel patterns of passengers, intelligently
anticipating their general location and destination. Using this technology, up to
75,000 people can exit all seven buildings without issue.
CLOCK TOWER
• The building is topped by a four-faced clock, visible from 25
KM away.The clock, measuring 43m×43m on each above the
hotel tower, stands out as the world’s largest clock face 400
M above ground with 2 million LED lights
• Behind the clock faces there is an astronomy exhibition. In
the spire base and the glass-covered floors (The Jewel) there
is a scientific center which is used to sight the moon in the
beginnings of the Islamic months, and to operate an atomic
clock which controls the tower clocks.
• The upper portion designed by german architectural firm
and also manufactured by germany
Incidents
Construction fires
• on 28 October 2008 it took 400
firefighters to put out the fire, which
burned for 10 hours, consuming
nine floors of the tower spread
rapidly because of wood used for
construction stored in the premises.
Facilities and Services
• Five-star hotel services.
• Shopping center including the most world-famous brands.
• Restaurants and coffee shops that cater all tastes.
• 24-Hours medical services.
• Health club.
• Nursery.
• Business center.
• Luxurious halls for all events
• MUSEUM

•
AERO
DYNAMIC
CARBON
FIBER
CLOCK
HAND
23 M LONG
HAND
NATIONAL
AMBLEM
SOLAR PANEL USED TO
POWER CLOCK DRIVE..
ON SECONDAY
ELETRICAL SYSTEM
ALSO CONNECTED
4 GREEN
LASERS AT
BASE OF
CRESENT .
TILL INFINITY
DRUM BEAT
SYSTEM WHICH
INDICATED
TIME...eg. 4 DRUM
BEATS INDICATES
ITS 4
DEVICES TO PROTECT
FROM LOGHTING
WITH HIGH SELF
SECURITY AND
OPTIMSING
CAPABILITY
AFTER STUDY WHITE AND BLACK AT DAY
GREEN AND WHITE AT NIGHT FOR CLOCK DIAL

CATWALK SYSTEM FOR

MAINTIENCE OF CLOCK
SYSTEM AND LED
LIGHTS
CRANE SYSTEM
INSTALLED FOR
SERVIES LIKE
CLEANING OF
GLASS
• LOAD BEARING FRAME WORK
RESEMBLES EIFFILE TOWER
• USE OF MOSAIC TILE....WENT TO ITALY
98 MILLION GLASS TILES NEEDED
• A SUPER LOUD SOUND SYSTEM AT TOP
OF TOWER CAN BROADCAST TO ABOUT
7 KM IN EVERY DIRECTION
 A closeup of the clock face
indicates the huge scale of the
project

 NO ROOF- AALAH TARA KI IBADAT,PRAYER ROOM

 AFTER HIGH SPEED LIFT 18 M IS TO BE TRAVELLED BY STAIRS
WHICH ALSO HAS A SPECIAL CHAIR LIFT SYSTEM
An architectural umbrella, with
protection flaps closed
• Material main structural system: reinforced concrete (lower part),
steel/concrete composite construction, steel construction (upper
part);

• cladding: glass, marble, natural stone, carbon-/glass-fibre-reinforced

plastic(POLYMER)

• glass-fibre-reinforced panels on the clock faces

• The facade cladding for the tower top and the clock installation was performed by Premier
Lightweight roofscape
• the foundations could not support any additional loads
• SL Rasch was commissioned to develop a lightweight roofscape
• Steel cables tension the membranes in such a way that the tents can
withstand the enormous wind loads at these heights
• walls are fully glazed
• The skylights in the peaks of the tents are crowned by prismatic
lanterns made of decorated glass
• Technical data
• Steel structure: hot-dip galvanised steel
• Outer membrane: glass fibre, PTFE-coated
• Inner membrane: glass fibre, PU-coated
• Insulation: mineral wool
• Glass lanterns: stainless steel, decorated glass
• Facade: anodised aluminium profiles, safety glass
REFERENCE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=RIN9DisVaBA&feature=emb_logo
• WIKI
• http://www.builtconstructions.in/OnlineMagazine/BuiltConstructions/Pages/The-Mecca-Royal-Clock-Tower,-
Saudi-Arabia-0198.aspx
• https://www.kone.com/en/references/makkah-clock-royal-tower.aspx
• https://www.sl-rasch.com/en/projects/the-makkah-royal-clock-tower/
• http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/makkah-royal-clock-tower/84
• https://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/makkah-royal-clock-tower-mecca/
• https://www.agoda.com/en-in/makkah-clock-royal-tower-a-fairmont-hotel/hotel/mecca-
sa.html?cid=1844104