WELCOME

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BURJ KHALIFA
Guided by Presented by
ANJU PR ASIYA 4113
Assistant Professor AYANA 4114
CIVIL DEPARTMENT FARZANA 4115
FATHIMA 4116
GREESHMA 4117
HARSHA 4118

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 CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Architectural style
3. Design inspiration
4. The Building
5. Burj Khalifa in numbers
6. Structural system
7. Wind engineering design
8. World Records
9. The Construction
10. Design inspiration
11. Photo gallery
12. Conclusion
13. References

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INTRODUCTION
• The world’s tallest man-made structure ever built.
• The Burj Khalifa was revealed to be 828m (2,716ft)high,
far than the previous record holder, Taipei 101.
• He tower also lays claim to the highest occupied floor,
the tallest service lift, and the world’s highest
observation deck – on the 124th floor.

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• The $1.5bn tower is more than twice the size of the
Empire state Building and the construction took
thousands of workers six years to complete.
• Burj Khalifa employed the latest advances in wind
engineering, structural engineering, structural systems,
construction materials and methods.
• All design considerations took into account the 12,000
people who will live and work in the tower.

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ARCHITECTURAL STYLE
• The architecture features a triple lobed footprint, an
abstraction of a desert flower named Hymenocallis.
• The tower is composed of three elements arranged
around a central core.
• Twenty six helical levels decreases the cross section of
the tower incrementally as it spirals skyward.

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DESIGN INSPIRATION
• The architects of Dubai incorporated islamic traditional
partners and modern sophistication to design a structure
that will stand the test of time.
• The end product is a visually stunning building , towering
over the Dubai skyline.
• They did not lock further afield for influence as Dubai’s
rich with inspiration.

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THE BUILDING
• The Burj which stands 828m high and has more than 162
inhabitable floors, can be seen from 60 miles away.
• The world’s highest mosque and swimming pool are located
on the 158th and 76th floors.
• The tapering spire is made of reinforced concrete, steel,
stainless steel and glass. The exterior cladding of reflecting
glazing is designed to withstand Dubai’s extreme summer
temperatures.
• The building contains more than 1,000 apartments and 49
floors of office space, served by 57 lifts
• The foundations were dug to depths of 50m(164ft)

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BURJ KHALIFA IN NUMBERS
• 95 : distance in km at which its spire can be seen.
• 504 : rise in meters of its main service lift.
• 49 : number of office floors.
• 57 : number of lifts
• 1,044 : number of residential apartments.
• 900 : length in feet of the foundation at the foot of the
tower, the world’s tallest performing foundation.
• 28,261 : number of glasses cladding panels on the
exterior of the tower.

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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
• A Y-shaped floor plan provides high- performance and
maximizes views of the Persian Gulf.
• Has a “buttresses-core” of HPC walls.
• Each wing buttresses the other via a six sided central
core or hexagonal hub.
• This central core provides the torsional resistance.

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• Corridor walls extend up to the end of wing, with
hammer head walls at the end.
• The perimeter columns are connected at mechanical
floors in order to resist lateral loads.
• Three storey height outriggers tie the tower at different
heights periodically.

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WIND ENGINEERING
DESIGN
• The upward spiraling set back shaping has the effect of
confusing the wind.
• As the wind encounters a different shape at each new
tier the wind vortices never gets organized.
• It's tallest point, the tower sways a total of 1.5m.
• The first mode has a period of 11.3 sec, the
perpendicular lateral sideway second mode 10.2 sec.

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WORLD RECORDS
• Tallest building in the world.
• Tallest free-standing structure in the world.
• Highest number of stories in the world.
• Highest occupied floor in the world.
• Highest outdoor observation deck in the world.
• Elevator with the biggest travel distance in the world.
• Tallest service elevator in the world.

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THE CONSTRUCTION
• The tower is composed of three elements arranged
around a central core.
• The design is said to be based on the desert region.
• The Y-shaped floor plan aims to maximize views of the
Gulf.
• As the building rises, its floor space decreases in size.
• The building’s core also features double-decker
elevators, said to be some of the fastest in the world.

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FOUNDATION DETAILS
• 3.7m thick pile supported raft-12500 cu m of
C50 SSC concrete.
• Raft supported by 194 bored cast-in-place
• Piles of 1.5m dia and app. 43m long.
• Capacity of each pile 3000 tones.
• Piles made of C60 SSC concrete placed by
termie method utilizing polymer slurry

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BURJ KHALIFA FOUNDATION

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WINDOW CLEANING
• A horizontal track has been installed on the exterior
at three levels 40, 73 and 109, for window cleaning.
• Each track holds a 1.5 ton bucket machine which
moves horizontally and then vertically using heavy
cables.
• The top of the spire, however, is reserved for
specialist window cleaners, who brave the heights
and high winds dangling by ropes to clean the top
panels.

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ELEVATORS
• The building is expected hold up to 35,000 people at any
one time.
• So transportation as well as evacuation of the building is
an important consideration.
• Otis elevators has installed 58 elevators, which include
twenty Gen2 flat belt elevators.
• The observation deck elevators can carry 42 people at a
time and travel up to 18m/sec.
• Some elevators are programmed to allow controlled
evacuation during fire or emergency situations.

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PHOTO GALLERY

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OBSERVATION DECK

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BURJ KHALIFA TOP VIEW

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BURJ KHALIFA FRONT VIEW

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CONCLUSION
• Here we come to know that BURJ KHALIFA is a business,
demography, economics, mathematics, organization,
marketing, accounting, and so on subjects which we
learn.
• It is a business of attraction, entertainment, fun,
happiness given by them to us.
• The construction of Burj Khalifa has set a new benchmark
which is quite challenging.

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REFERENCES
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa
• http://www.burjkhalifa.ae
• Documentary of national geographic

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