Watch the 8-minute video via An impressive skyscraper construction
Hello ... you already twisted your neck while looking up
just to admire a skyscraper?
This is the Dubai Creek Tower.
One of the next tallest towers in the world.
Located in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates,
The tower has an estimated cost of $ 1 billion
and is a joint venture between Emaar Properties and Dubai Holding,
an investment asset in the UAE
administered by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum.
The final height of the tower will not be announced until its completion,
but it is speculated that the tower will reach approximately 1300 meters in height.
Do you have any idea how to start a construction
of a building more than 1 kilometer high?
The beautiful work was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava
that was inspired by the natural shape of a lily flower.
Calatrava is also the award-winning architect author of the Museum of Tomorrow
occupying 15,000 square meters
in the port area of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Dubai Creek Tower will have lush gardens and one of the covered areas
highest observation in the world.
Hotels, restaurants and several luxurious residences
will occupy the twenty usable floors.
The covered observation space will offer rotating counters
with a 360º view of the city.
Preparation work started in October 2016.
Emaar employs some of the best construction equipment to build this tower.
145 bars 75 m deep for the core.
170,000 cubic meters of soil have been excavated for the foundation.
211,200 tons of poured concrete.
15,000 tons of steel reinforcement, twice the weight of the Eiffel Tower
they were also placed for the construction of the tower.
More than 1 million hours of work without accidents.
3,200 tons of steel reinforcement
840 concrete trucks were delivered to be poured
in the foundation of this mega construction.
325 km of rebar from end to end.
151,000 tons of concrete on a construction site.
30 hours of pouring.
Mission Accomplished.
It is the largest concreting in the world in a single work.
In May 2018, a 20 m thick multilayer pile pile
was placed on top of the foundation.
The completion of this magnificent building was being planned for 2021.
With the decree of Pandemic by COVID-19,
the end of the work may be postponed.
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