2016.07.15
2006
Dubai, UAE
Housing construction
Concrete machinery
Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة, Latinization: burj khalifah, English: Khalīfa tower), formerly known as Burj Khalifa, also known as Dubai Tower or Burj Khalifa, is the world's *8982 high-rise and man-made structure. The Burj Khalifa is 828 meters tall and has 162 floors and cost $1.5 billion, and the building itself cost at least $1 billion, not including its large shopping mall, lake and slightly lower towers. A total of 330,000 cubic meters of concrete, 62,000 tons of reinforced steel and 142,000 square meters of glass were used in the Burj Khalifa. About 4,000 workers and 100 cranes were mobilized to lift the concrete vertically over 606 meters to build the Burj Khalifa, breaking the previous record of 492 meters when the Shanghai World Financial Center was built. There are 56 lifts in the building, with a speed of *8981 up to 17.4 m/s, and a double-decker sightseeing lift, which can carry more than 42 people each time*8981. The Burj Khalifa was built in 2004, on the evening of January 4, 2010 local time, Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum unveiled the curtain on the "Burj Khalifa" monument, known as the "world's * 8982 tall building", announcing the official completion of the building and renaming it "Burj Khalifa".

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