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World's Tallest Building To Open Monday

Posted by timothy on from the things-humans-do dept.

dtmos writes "The Burj Dubai ('Dubai Tower' in Arabic) is scheduled to open to the public on Monday. Its height, claimed to be 824.55m (2,705.2 feet), but believed to be 818m (2,684 feet) — either way, more than half a mile — makes it far taller than Taiwan's Taipei 101, which had been the world's tallest skyscraper at 509m (1,670 feet)."

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  1. Impressive.. by Entropy98 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Too bad it was built with slavery...

  2. Re:More than tallest building by ls671 · · Score: 4, Informative

    > freestanding or otherwise

    I have regularly worked to build more than 1 mile tall structures while working on the oil rigs back then. We inserted permanent steel casing after digging the hole most of the time so the casing would constitute a taller non-freestanding permanent steel structure ;-)

    While drilling in the Rockies, we were well above sea level so our steel structures would actually be standing higher than the 'Dubai Tower' which I think is is at sea level (or almost).

    The deapeast holes are well above 5 miles !

    http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/AdamCassino.shtml

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well

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  3. Re:More than tallest building by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Informative

    This building has occupied floors higher than the world's tallest TV mast.

    That part isn't actually true (though not by much). The roof of Burj Dubai's highest occupied floor seems to be 620m or so, slightly less than the 629m TV mast (the last 200m or so of Burj Dubai is unoccupied structure). However, the structure as a whole is much taller than any other structure, and the highest occupied floor is over 100m higher than any other building's occupied floor.

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  4. Re:The way to go is up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Every night, the stuff is pumped out of municipal septic tanks by a half-mile long convoy of trucks, which then dump it in nearby storm drains. It all ends up on the beach.

  5. Re:Great timing by A12m0v · · Score: 5, Informative

    lol what?

    Burj Dubai wasn't built nor designed by Arabs. The architect was Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, structural engineer was Bill Baker, and it was built by cheap labor from South Asian countries like India and Bangladesh.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai

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  6. Re:Great timing by jonbryce · · Score: 4, Informative

    Abu Dhabi has lots of money, and lots of oil, yes, and has followed traditional prudent Islamic financial practices.

    Dubai has very little oil, and lots of debt, and has not followed traditional prudent Islamic financial practices, instead preferring to be more "westernised".

    When Dubai World Ports (nothing to do with Abu Dhabi) took over Peninsular and Oriental from the British, the Americans forced them to sell the US ports division as a condition of allowing the sale to go through.

  7. World's Tallest Building To Open Monday by PCWizardsinc · · Score: 5, Informative

    Kaspersky AV when going to http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/ shows the following: "detected: Trojan program Trojan-Downloader.JS.Agent.ewi" Be careful...