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Dubai's Nakheel Tower Project

Spartan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:19:31 +0000

I just found out about this the other day. If he can pull of this tower it will be amazing. This thing will blow the Burj Dubai our of the water, and it's already humongous!

Burj Dubai Update

Fury — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:18:33 +0000

Hi all.

I found something interesting in my pile of BD info.
First I would like to mention that I am utterly amazed at the planning that goes into big projects like this. I believe project management and planning is something I could really enjoy.

Anyway - here is the first lines of the milestones and work to be done schedule. It is for the 705 meter revision (the last revision before the current one) and is from April '07. What amazes me is there is approx. 350 "pages" this size in this schedule ! It includes every and anything from concrete work to painting to handover dates. Fricken enormous thought process !

The shop drawing submittal alone must be a gigantic collection. The staffing schedule for near 10,000 people must be huge. The cashflow is something I have and is an extremely detailed collection of pages on its own. The construction method statement I also have and is hundreds of pages in various PDF files. Too bad they are all for the old revision. These are just the items from this "page" - needless to say there are many other big areas of planning. I could go on but suffice to say the amount of people and thought that goes into getting ready for a project of this size, let alone actually doing it, are bloody enormous.

We can see that over 2 years ago the estimated opening date for the hotel was May 09 '09. Of course we now know it is set for 09 09 09 as part of the soft opening (and probably the only part of the structure that will be part of the soft opening). So that is 4 months behind the schedule of 2 years ago.

The interesting estimated date is the completion of the whole of the works and the above level 42 handover. 2 years ago the date was Feb 14 2010. I find it questionable that the hotel opening is 4 months behind and completion is 3 months ahead of schedule ( Dec 20 '09 is the latest word for the grand opening). Although it's anyone's guess I seriously wonder whether the grand opening date will be met. Also there must be a month or so between completion and opening.

To sum up - the estimated opening date from 2 years ago was around Mar '10 and Emaar was saying much earlier all along ... but I digress.
I think we could see an opening date well into 2010.

Burj Dubai Update

Fury — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:01:49 +0000

Hi all.

burjdubaiskyscraper - Tony Montana

09 05 20

09 05 25

I am quite surprised to see how much landscaping is still left to be done. I figured podium zone A (the side facing the lake - with the crane above) would still have lots to do being it is the staging area for the top crane. These pics show all 3 sides have alot left to be done. Great shots though, showing there is some landscaping features coming along.

Burj Dubai Update

Fury — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:10:22 +0000

Hi all.

The crane disassembly proceedure plan is (was) as follows. The revision so far is that the crane at level 99 is the Favco M220D that was on top on the North side that was taken down in Aug '07 and put up on level 99 in Nov '07 instead of an Ogawa.

The first slide is just to show the 3 tower cranes.
TC #1 at the bottom is the last of the 3 that is up there now.

kuwait city

monsoon — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:18:32 +0000

I saw a program on TV a few months about that was about Kuwait City. It was from the perspective of someone going on a visit there. It was interesting to see how it had been rebuilt.

kuwait city

ku-8-ee — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:41:03 +0000

Neo, on Mar 19 2009, 02:54 AM, said:

That's a great pano! It is certainly not a city known to many here in the US and that is really unfortunate seeing what a great skyline Kuwait City has.

Exaclty! ... it's also weird how people know kuwait from the second gulf war and not by the good and great things it has even though that war was in 1990.

Burj Dubai Update

satalac — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:16:15 +0000

monsoon, on Apr 10 2009, 08:34 AM, said:

There are several articles written recently that talk about how horrifically bad this project is and for that matter how bad that most of the projects in Dubai are. It's completely unsustainable, and all of this would not be possible without the assistance of tens of thousands of "invisible people", essentially economic slaves, that live in several awful slave cities about 20-40 miles outside of Dubai.

while i've been in awe at the speed and grandeur that dubai is being built, i have my concerns as well. i'm just not seeing how this city will be able to sustain all of these projects. i'll be interested to see what the vacancy rates of these projects will be 10 years from now. and of course there is the issue of who is actually building these projects and the conditions which they live and work.

Burj Dubai Update

monsoon — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:34:30 +0000

Burj Dubai Update

Nashville_maestro — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:14:54 +0000

Here's one. From SSC

Cactus skyscraper

Neo — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:07:31 +0000

The Middle East and the Asia region is certainly known for pushing the boundaries of architecture and this is no exception:

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Interestingly the windows have sunshades that open and close according to the intensity of the Sun.

You can see more images on the architect's website: http://www.aesarch.com/main/profile.php

kuwait city

Neo — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:54:41 +0000

That's a great pano! It is certainly not a city known to many here in the US and that is really unfortunate seeing what a great skyline Kuwait City has.

Burj Dubai Update

Neo — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:52:41 +0000

Thanks for the continuous updates on this! This tower is quite the feat of engineering that will likely not be rivaled for some time. I feel for the city though to have so much development and to have the markets collapse from underneath them all of a sudden. Hopefully the city can continue to rise through this.

Burj Dubai Update

Fury — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:06:46 +0000

Hi all.

Here is 3 scans from Adrian Smith's book showing the Concourse level, Ground level, and level 1 podiums. Some of the drawings are cut off as I am using a flat panel scanner on a 600 page book. They are large so click on them to see full size.

Burj Dubai Update

Fury — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:24:05 +0000

Hi all.

Here is a timetable for the jacking proceedure.

Here is my set of pic to plan comparisons - complete now as of today's top out.

Here is a link to a zip file containing my Burj Dubai Plan and Tier Methodology containing plan heights, concrete pours, tier arrangements, etc. to help peek in behind Emaar's ludicrous (at this point) veil of secrecy.

BD_Plan_and_Methodology.zip (1.4 MB)

What a magnificent structure.

Burj Dubai Update

Fury — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:57:45 +0000

Hi all.

Here is a labelled shot from Imre. This is a day for the history books guys.

We are Topped out !!!

This has been a fantastic structure to watch grow and even though it will not grow any more there is lots of work to do yet.
- Finish up tier 22 sections.
- Finish attaching the small wings of tiers 22 and 23 to the pinnacle pipe.
- Finish all the cladding.
- Do the crane disassembly proceedure.
- Finish all the work at the base.
- Do all the interior finish and fitout.

We still have near a year to go before completion. I hope site visits are allowed again so we can see some of that interior work.

Burj Dubai Update

Fury — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:52:41 +0000

Hi all.

Here is a couple of timetables I have finally finished.

The first is one for the concrete tier tops. The dates are close but approximate as one must estimate what level is at the top of the forms The dates are when the forms were raised to that level. The heights are from the floor of the ground level (as per the plans) to the top of the core wall being formed.

The second is for the steel levels / sections. Again the heights are from from the floor of the ground level (as per the plans) to the top of the beams which are the floor of the next level / section.

I have a third one on the go for the spire / pinnacle jacking stages also. I will post it once we have topped out.

kuwait city

ku-8-ee — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:29:44 +0000

Injazat Tower, Kuwait

ku-8-ee — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:24:38 +0000

Ibis Hotel, Kuwait

ku-8-ee — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:22:23 +0000

Elite tower, kuwait

ku-8-ee — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:19:29 +0000