The World’s Tallest Skyscraper

Submitted by- Vinay Kumar Vishwakarma

B.Tech CE (V) sem
 Abstract :
 The Burj Khalifa Project is the
tallest structure ever built by man;
the tower is 828 meters tall and
compromise of 163 floors above
grade and 3 basement levels.
 As such, the designers sought to be
able to use conventional systems,
materials, and construction of
aerodynamic shaping and wind
engineering played a major role in
the architectural massing and
design of this multi-use tower,
where mitigating and taming the
dynamic wind effects was one of
the most important design criteria
set forth at the onset of the project
design.
Introduction:
 The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is a building of
superlatives. At 828 metres (2,717feet), it’s
the tallest in the world,227 metres taller
than No.2, the Makkah Clock Royal Tower
in Mecca.
 More than double the height of the Empire
State Building, the 163-story building took
six years, $1.5 billion, 110,000 tons of
concrete, and 22 million man-hours to
build. But the most interesting thing is the
way it looks.
 It is the first time that one building has succeeded
in exceeding through its height all previous
records of height whatever their classification: for
instance, the tallest building, the highest occupied
floor, the highest roof area, the tallest building
structure and the highest antenna tip.

 It also explains its success in exceeding more than

60 percent in height from the world’s former tallest
building—Taipei 101.
Shape of Tower
 Composed of a central hexagonal core with three
lobes (wings) clustered around it.
 As the tower rises, one wing at each tier sets back
in an upward spiraling pattern, decreasing the
cross section of the tower as it reaches toward the
sky. There are 26 terraces.
 At the top, the central core emerges and is sculpted
to form a finishing spire.
 Viewed from above or from the base, the form also
evokes the Onion domes of Islamic architecture.
 Structural System
 A Y-shaped floor plan provides high-performance
and maximizes views of the Persian Gulf.

 Has a “buttresses-core” of HPC walls

 Each wing buttresses the other via a six sided

central core or hexagonal hub. This central core
provides the torsional resistance.

 Corridor walls extend up to the end of wing, with

hammer head walls at the end.
Wind Engineering Design
 The upward spiraling set back shaping has the
effect of confusing the wind.

 As the wind encounters a different shape at each

new tier the wind vortices never gets organized.

 At its tallest point, the tower sways a total of 1.5 m

 The first mode has a period of 11.3 sec, the

perpendicular lateral sidesway second mode 10.2
sec, and the torsional fifth mode 4.3 sec.
Foundation Details
 3.7 m thick pile supported raft-12500 m3 of C50
SCC concrete

 Raft supported by 194 bored cast-in-place Piles of

1.5 m dia and app. 43 m long

 Capacity of each pile 3000 tonnes

 Piles made of C60 SCC concrete placed by tremie

method utilizing polymer slurry.
Comparision :
 It set the record in
occurred expenses too:
4.2 billion Dollars.
 Three primary
self-climbing
Favco tower cranes are
located adjacent to the
central core, with each
continuing to various
heights as required.
 At the upper level the Earth's curvature and rotation
is detectable.
 A view from the tower. In fair weather a person in the
Observation Deck can see as far away as 80 km!
Experimental Work:
 Excavation work began for
Burj Khalifa the tallest
skyscraper in the world in
January 2004 and over the
years, the building passed
many important milestones
to become the tallest man-
made structure the world
has ever seen.
In just 1,325 days since
excavation work started in
January, 2004, Burj Khalifa
became the tallest free-
standing structure in the
world.
 Designers purposely
shaped the structural
concrete Burj Dubai –
"Y" shaped in plan - to
reduce the wind forces
on the tower, as well as
to keep the structure
simple and foster
constructibility.
Conclusion:
 On the 4th of January 2010, the opening
ceremony of Burj Khalifa was held to celebrate
the tallest man made structure in the world for
at least the next decade.
 Symbol for Dubai’s ambitions and
contradictions.
 Unique landmark in architecture
 Global attention and recognition