BY AHMAD ALSHAKARGI AND YASEEN EL-GERWI

Introduction
 World tallest hotel (1053 ft)

 Most luxuries hotel (seven stars)

 28 double height floor (23 ft height)

 Built on private island

 Became a symbol for Dubai

Architect
 Designed by Tom Wills-Wright

 Needed unique design (simple)

 Shaped like a sail (sign of tourism)

 Rise out of the water

Engineering aspects

 The Island

 Foundation

 Steel Trusses

 Electric Load
The Island
 Man Made
 280 Meters offshore
 7.5 Meters high
 Shaped like Triangle
 November 1995
Foundation
 Not connected to bed rock
 Sand
 Skin Friction
 250 Foundation piles
 40 meters deep
Trusses
 Protect from wind and earthquake
 Building and transporting trusses
 Lifting trusses
 Steel expand problem
 Design special fixing
 Idea of engine camshaft
 Electric Load
 8 kw for suite (8 times European suite)

 52,000 lights, 3,106 miles cables, advance service

 Huge load cause harmonic distortion

 Cause melting in cable (burn entire building)

 Electric engineer design harmonic filter

 Detect distortion and cancel it

References
 Burj Al Arab (2006) Wikipedia®. Retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_al_arab
 Dubai's dream palace Burj Al Arab Documentary (May 19,
2012). [video file]. Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l2LhpyJfkg
 Hammond Richard (Feb 10, 2012). Richard Hammond's
Engineering Connections - (S03E01) Burj Al Arab
[video file]. Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_dXsr0WfxQ
 Pourabedain Ehsan (Feb 23, 2008) Burj Al Arab Construction.
SlideShare Inc. Retrieved fro
http://www.slideshare.net/persiankingdom/burj-al-arab
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 Alshakargi Abdulilah, personal communication, Nov 18, 2012
Thank you