Project Details
- Project Name
- Burj Khalifa
- Location
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1 Emaar Boulevard
Dubai ,United Arab Emirates
- Architect
- SOM
- Client/Owner
- Emaar Properties PJSC
- Year Completed
- 2010
- Awards
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2011 International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering: 2011 Outstanding Structure Award ,2010 National Council of Structural Engineers' Associations: 2010 Outstanding Project, International Projects Category ,2010 Structural Engineers Association of Illinois: 2010 Most Innovative Structure
- Shared by
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editor,hanley wood, llc
- Consultants
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General Contractor: Samsung Corporation/BESIX/Arabtec,CBM Engineers, Inc.,Crystal Fountains,emerystudio,Emrill Services/CCD-SKM,Lighting Designer: Fisher Marantz Stone,Hyder Consulting,Jaume Plensa,Lerch Bates, Inc.,PA EMS, Ltd.,Pelton March Kinsella,RWDI, Inc.,Speirs and Major Associates,STS Consultants,Landscape Architect: SWA,The Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory,The RJA Group, Inc.,Trend Foodservice Design,Construction Manager: Turner International,Walker Parking
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
The Burj Khalifa, conceived and designed as the world’s tallest building, is a mixed-use tower which blends hotel, luxury residential, and office uses. The first Armani Hotel occupies the lowest levels of the tower, while mid tower floors contain private luxury residences and corporate office spaces occupy the upper stories. The tower features the highest outdoor observatory in the world and sky lobbies with amenities for residents. Below grade levels are used for parking and service areas. Drawing on its experience as the world’s leader of tall building design and engineering, the design firm designed the tower utilizing a “Y” shaped plan to maximize the perimeter for residential and hotel uses while maintaining the efficiency of the floor plan. The “Y” shaped plan also provided a stable platform on which to base the development of a new “buttressed core” structural system specially developed to support a building of this height while maintaining the tower’s slender and elegant shape. The Burj Khalifa holds the record in all three categories as recognized by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (i.e., highest architectural top, highest occupied floor and highest tip).
