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Emaar Technologies, a unit of top developer Emaar Properties, said it has been awarded with ISO/IEC20000-1:2005 certification for its IT service management system, underscoring its adherence to the IT industry best practices across all aspects of operations. Emaar Technologies provides end-to-end ICT solutions & services to external organisations as well as the various business units of the Group.

The jetpack rider is initially hidden within the billboard, then emerges and flies around it for approximately 20-30 seconds, before landing back on the billboard. The makers claim that one month of continuous advertising would run up a cost of US$1.3Bn, which rather begs the question of what else the company could do with $1.3Bn. Thoughts such as 'retire and stop doing very expensive billboards' spring to mind.

Broad Group, a construction company in China, has announced it will built the world’s tallest skyscraper in just 90 days. Plus, says Broad Group, its building will be much cheaper to build than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) which is currently the world’s tallest manmade structure at 830 meters (2,723 feet).

The Ara Gallery and At the Top, Burj Khalifa have announced “Art At the Top,” a competition giving one artist the chance to have his or her artwork displayed on a featured wall in At the Top, Burj Khalifa. The competition began on Monday with a call to Emirati artists around the UAE to submit their portfolios. The deadline for portfolio submission is on July 15.

Zhang said Sky City is expected to consume a fifth of the energy required by a conventional building due to BSB’s unique construction methods, such as quadruple glazing and 15-centimeter-thick exterior walls for thermal insulation.

Tokyo is awash with skyscrapers offering bird's-eye views across the city. All are eclipsed by the Skytree, which not only dominates the city's skyline but is also the world's tallest free-standing tower (at 634 metres, it is almost double the height of the Eiffel Tower, but falls short of the 828 metres recorded by the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai).

The hotel scooped the ‘World Luxury Spa Award/Country Winner’ at the 2012 World Luxury Hotel Awards, the Middle East ‘Best Fitness & Leisure Facilities Award,’ at the Middle East Hotel Awards, and the second runner-up place for the Middle East ‘Spa Signature Body Treatment Award’ at the Middle East Spa Awards.

There's a picture of Dubai's giant Burj Khalifa skyscraper on the cover of the PowerPoint presentation that Cyril and Shardul Shroff use to explain the far-reaching reorganization that they've planned for their law firm, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co. Not that the Shroffs, who are brothers and Amarchand's co–managing partners, have any plans for a big Middle East push.

Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, has been picked by the GCC Civil Defence General Managers as an ideal example for high rise structures in terms of fire protection systems and safety measures taken in emergency cases. The civil defence managers team, which concluded its 23rd meeting in the UAE, agreed to circulate the fire protection system installed in Burj Khalifa to the member states

The world’s tallest tower and Japan’s biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public last Tuesday. It is only second to the world’s tallest structure, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which stands 828 metres. The Tokyo Skytree stands at 634m. These tall structures are classified under different categories – buildings or skyscrapers and towers, each required to meet a host of specifications to qualify.