SUMMERY OF PROJECT AND THE SOCIAL IMPACT

Oil based economy to tourism oriented country

To create more job opportunity

Middle east Finance HUB

Attract and improve the tourism industry

To gain international recognition

YTD Floor Value Visitors Nos.

DHS14,500 per square foot 4,000 visitors a day to its viewing deck

Floor Rent rate increase 13% in

Available Jobs : 35,000

 THE RATIONALE OF THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES FOR
GLOBAL
SUSTAINABILITY

The Burj Khalifa will use solar power to meet the bulk of the
water heating requirements of its residents.
Solar panels can heat 140,000 Litres of water per day,
and this will be distributed to homes and commercial
establishments in the world's tallest building. The solar-
powered water system will produce energy savings
equivalent to 3,200 kilowatts per day and 690MWh of
energy per year. 11-hectare green Landscape is support to
reduce the carbon emission.
The condensate will then be collected in an on-site
irrigation tank and used for the tower's landscaping. When
operational, this system will provide 15 million gallons of Window washing: Maintaining the
supplemental water per year. building’s exterior wall led to the design of
The tower's cladding has been manufactured to a high a system that incorporates over a dozen
standard with a high shading co-efficient and a low U- specialized mechanized units at several
value to reduce the transfer of external heat gains. Other levels of the tower.
energy efficiency measures include automated solar
shading at the entrance pavilions.
THE IMPACT OF THIS TYPE MEGA PROJECT
TO THE SOCIETY
After researching into the prevailing wind direction, the
Influence on construction technology engineers rotate the building 120 degrees toward the
major wind direction
Burj Khalifa can be considered as a reinforced-
concrete structure, though there is a slender
spire made of steel above the first 155 stories.
Concrete offers higher stiffness, mass, and
damping for controlling building motions and
accelerations. Due to the use of concrete, there
is no supplemental damping devices are used in
this building.

High-performance concrete was utilized for the Future investments

tower, with wall and column concrete strength
ranging from C80 to C60 cube strength. world sheds new light on the Dubai thus further investment can
Additionally, in order to provide increased be expected. In this sense, it is possible to state that the tower
stiffness to the system, C80 wall and column was fruitful within certain parameters. This project will bring a
concrete was specified as a high-modulus
massive positive result to Dubai in long-term.
concrete. The concrete mix was designed to
provide low permeability and high durability.
 EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT

The major criterion of a project success is what has been called the
“Iron Triangle”, a criterion which measures the project based on three
features i.e. cost, time and quality.
As per the point of view of cost, the initial planned cost of the Burj
Khalifa project was 876 million dollars. The final cost was about 1.5
billion dollar. It is important to find reasons behind this increase in cost
occurred.
The duration of project was established for forty-seven months, starting
from February 2005 to December 2008, although excluding excavation
time. Thus the Burj Khalifa project was completed nine months later, on
September 2009.
Even though the Burj Khalifa project spent more
money and time than the initially planned, this is
not enough to come for a conclusion that the
project was a failure. For example, the Sydney
opera house project consumed 16 times more
than the original budget estimated. Yet, it is still
considered as a successful project. Thus, a more
sophisticated application of success and failure is
required, one which goes beyond using basic
values such as time and cost

Finally, it is conceivable to use quality as a critical measure of the

success or failure of this project. The based on prior experiences with
tall building construction. For example, Burj Khalifa was built using
“mixed reinforced concrete” in order to face heavy wind and pressure.
The bottom of the building obtains massive amounts of pressure, thus
the strength of the concrete is very key factor
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