the world’s tallest building, Burj Dubai schedule delay may become the contractor on schedule
2007 Nian 11 months, the highest skyscraper under construction in the “Dubai Tower”
; the world’s highest skyscraper under construction, “Dubai Tower” when finished hanging the. Its contractors Emaer Group, March 5 announced that “Burj Dubai” schedule was delayed for some reason, and refused to disclose the specific time for completion, but also did not give specific reasons for the delay. The project was originally scheduled for completion by the end of this year.
lower floors of the apparent bias
It is reported that “Dubai Tower” in the construction process beset with obstacles. In November 2006, when the Dubai tower built to 87 layers and the concrete core up to 300 meters, the building walls can not be completed on schedule, the concrete floor some of the problems also appeared. Swiss supplier Asahi jungle curtain wall company in February 2007 after the collapse, curtain wall procurement difficulties, the lack of progress, the building walls finally arrived on site in June 2007, and ultimately by China’s Far East engineering company manufacturing aluminum. According to Emaer Group, said curtain wall installation is now “in progress.”
During this period a project team members emphasized that there are other reasons for delays on the project, such as building a high degree of design changes. “On the structural integrity of floor there are still some problems, some results are still questionable.” This person said.
, according to local media analysts say the building structure, all the floor are using carbon fiber reinforcement. The subsequent lower floors of the floor sources said there is a clear bias has been the use of external steel reinforcement repairs.
time, Aimar Group, responsible for “Dubai Tower” project management Geleigesang President said: “The project duration has been the impact of company closures Asahi forests. we have some backward, but we hope to take some measures to ensure the orderly to achieve the original completion date set. “” Under normal circumstances the need to complete a floor of 3 to 4 days, sometimes it may be 7 days, depending on the specific work of the technical requirements. We are still fine to work, but I hope that we have developed a speed up the installation schedule, so that we can catch up with deadlines. “said Mr. Geleigesang.
site riots
In addition, human factors also contributed to the “Dubai Tower” project postponed. In March 2006, construction workers in the area of two square kilometers of the downtown construction site in Dubai riots to protest the salary was too low and subject to abuse. Although the workers in the cause of more than one million U.S. dollars worth of loss to resume work soon after, and the Dubai Municipality promised to increase wages and improve working conditions, but unrest in the UAE continues. Group
Aimar said at a news conference that they would rather hand over the name later do not want to sacrifice the quality of the building, the project may be delayed until 2009, but they refused to disclose the specific time.
the world’s largest
floor tower in Dubai last July has been declared so far, “the world’s tallest building\The former record holder is China Taiwan 508 meters-high Taipei 101 building, since 2004, after the completion of this record has been maintained. Has been built into the 141-story Burj Dubai is the world’s largest floor buildings. August 20 Emaer Group, said the Burj Dubai has reached the height of 536.1 meters, completed 146 floors. Burj Dubai’s final height concrete core is expected to reach 575 meters. Top of the building will have a steel spire, height will reach 800 meters above the height may also be higher, because Emaer Group spare no effort to want to make the “Dubai Tower” for a long period of time to keep the world’s tallest building record.
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Burj Dubai to create a number of world records
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“Dubai Tower” Since 2004, the construction of its contractors Emaer Group has maintained secret, without revealing any building project. According to high-rise buildings and Urban Habitat Committee set of international norms, whether it is structural height, the top surface height, roof height, including antennas or flagpoles, or the like height, after completion of the “Dubai Tower” are indeed unique in the world.
“Dubai Tower” for the building technology opened a new page. To strengthen the building structure, the current buildings have spent 31 more million cubic meters of reinforced concrete and 6.2 million tons of reinforced steel bars, but also an unprecedented vertical concrete pumping to over 460 meters on the place, breaking the time the construction of Taipei 101 building 448 m record.
“Burj Dubai” is the 20 billion U.S. dollars development plan one of the core project, intends to build a new commercial district, where, in 2015 the number of tourists is expected to increase to 15 million people.