Sustainable by design
When the Burj Khalifa opened with a dazzling fireworks display earlier this year, the tower was hailed as a marvel of modern engineering, which it certainly is. However, it is also an excellent example of sustainability at work.
Elevator uplift
More recently, passengers were left stranded between floors after their lift car broke down inside the Burj Khalifa. And, in March this year, British former F1 driver Stirling Moss broke his ankles after falling down an elevator shaft in London.
Burj Khalifa and the Ledge at Willis Tower win top Illinois engineering honors for...
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill of Chicago won the most innovative structure honor for the Burj Khalifa, the 2,717-foot-tall, mixed-used Dubai tower that opened last January and easily surpassed a skyscraper in Taiwan to claim the world's tallest title.
Hyundai, Hitachi seek fast lift speeds to take on Otis
"They want to get into the big boys' playground," said James Fortune, an elevator consultant who has advised architects on some of the world's tallest buildings, including the current record holder, Dubai's Burj Khalifa.
Johnson Controls secures Burj Khalifa contract
Johnson Controls has supplied a system to Burj Khalifa to allow developer Emaar Properties to manage security in the tower’s corporate, residential, hotel and public spaces, including nearly 900 residential suites, hundreds of office suites and the observation deck.
Hyundai makes super-fast elevator
Hyundai said the new elevator can travel up to 600 meters in terms of distance. The elevators in Dubai’s Burj Kahlifa - which at 828 meters high ranks as the world’s tallest building - have a limit of 500 meters.
Integrated security system helps protect Burj Khalifa – world’s tallest building
Stunning addition to the Middle East skyline, the new Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates stands more than 2,700 feet high and features a sophisticated security management system developed by Johnson Controls(NYSE: JCI), the global leader in delivering products, services and solutions that increase energy efficiency in buildings.
Reaching for the sky: How tall is my country
In 2004, Dubai could dream of towering over the world, but by January 2010, the towers were renamed Burj Khalifa from Burj Dubai, to publicly acknowledge the role of the President of the United Arab Emirates in saving the city-state from a financial default in November 2009.
The World’s Highest Hotel
But the place with the highest concentration of skyscraper hotels is Dubai. The first, in the Burj Khalifa tower, is fashion designer Georgio Armani's first hotel.
Green Float – A carbon negative floating city featuring the world’s tallest building
A team of scientists, engineers and financers in Japan have begun work on a project that will make the Burj Khalifa in Dubai look tiny. The team is aiming to build a tower that is 1km tall and has a vertical farm balanced on a floating concrete lilypad. The team believes that by the year 2025 the necessary technology should be ready to start the building process.
