• Name:-Divya Chandrakant Thakur

• Roll no:-16424

• BSC Degree

• Year:-1st year

• Module:-Room Division fundamentals

• Faculty:-Room Division

• Topic:- Five Star Property

 Burj Al Arab

Burj Al Arab takes hotel design to a new level of modern

luxury, and has also redefined the meaning of exceptional
hospitality, both in Dubai and around the world.
 About Jumeirah

Today, Jumeirah(Burj Al Arab) is a Dubai national champion and an acclaimed luxury

hospitality leader — operating 24 Jumeirah branded properties (6,747 keys) in eight countries,
and employing more than 13,500 colleagues across 140 nationalities. As exemplified through
its flagship hotel, and global icon, Burj Al Arab, Jumeirah has transformed the way that luxury
is defined.
Design and construction

The Burj Al Arab was designed by the multidisciplinary

consultancy Atkins, led by architect Tom Wright. The
design and construction were managed by Canadian
engineer Rick Gregory, also of WS Atkins. Construction of
the island began in 1994 and involved up to 2,000
construction workers during peak construction. It was built
to resemble the billowing spinnaker sail of a J-class
yacht. Two "wings" spread in a V to form a vast "mast",
while the space between them is enclosed in a massive
atrium.
The hotel was built by South African construction
contractor Murray & Roberts, now renamed Concor and Al
Habtoor Engineering. The interior designs were led and
created by Kwan Chau and John Coralan of KCA
international and delivered by UAE based Depa Group.
The building opened on 1 December 1999.
 Features
• Several features of the hotel required complex engineering feats to achieve. The hotel rests on an
artificial island constructed 280 m (920 ft) offshore. To secure a foundation, the builders drove 230
40-metre-long (130 ft) concrete piles into the sand.
• Engineers created a ground surface layer of large rocks, which is circled with a
concrete honeycomb pattern, which serves to protect the foundation from erosion. It took three
years to reclaim the land from the sea, while it took fewer than three years to construct the building
itself. The building contains over 70,000 m3 (92,000 cu yd) of concrete and 9,000 tons of steel
• Inside the building, the atrium is 180 m (590 ft) tall. The 18 storied atrium is enclosed by 12
individually tensioned two-layer membrane panels form the north facing façade.
• Given the height of the building, the Burj Al Arab is the world's fifth tallest hotel after Gevora
Hotel, JW Marriott Marquis Dubai, Four Seasons Place Kuala Lumpur and Rose and Rayhaan by
Rotana. But where buildings with mixed use were stripped off the list, the Burj Al Arab would be the
world's third tallest hotel. The structure of the Rose Rayhaan, also in Dubai, is 333 metres (1,093 ft)
tall, 12 m (40 ft) taller than the Burj Al Arab, which is 321 metres (1,053 ft) tall
Rooms and suites
• The hotel is managed by the Jumeirah Group. Despite its size, the Burj Al
Arab holds only 28 double-story floors which accommodate 202 bedroom
suites. The smallest suite occupies an area of 169 m2 (1,820 sq ft), the
largest covers 780 m2 (8,400 sq ft).
• Suites feature design details that juxtapose east and west. White columns
show great influence.[clarification needed] Bathrooms are accented by
mosaic tile patterns.[citation needed]
• The Royal Suite, billed at US$24,000 per night, is listed at number 12
on World's 15 most expensive hotel suites compiled by CNN Go in 2012.
• The Burj Al Arab is very popular with the Chinese market, which made up
25 percent of all bookings at the hotel in 2011 and 2012
 Restaurants
• There are six restaurants in the hotel,
including:
• Al Muntaha ("The Ultimate"), is located 200 m
(660 ft) above the Persian Gulf, offering a view
of Dubai. It is supported by a
full cantilever that extends 27 m (89 ft) from
either side of the mast, and is accessed by
a panoramic elevator.
• Al Mahara ("Oyster"), which is accessed via a
simulated submarine voyage, features a large
seawater aquarium, holding roughly 990,000 L
(260,000 US gal) of water. The wall of the tank,
made of acrylic glass in order to withstand the
water pressure, is about 18 cm (7.1 in) thick.
& Ratings
The Burj Al Arab is a five-star hotel, the highest
official ranking. While the hotel is sometimes
erroneously described as "the world's only
'seven-star' hotel", the hotel management
claims never to have done that themselves. The
term appeared due to a British journalist who
had visited the hotel on a tour before the hotel
was officially opened. The journalist described
Burj al Arab as "more than anything she has
ever seen" and therefore referred to it as a
seven-star hotel.[26] In the words of a Jumeirah
Group spokesperson: "There's not a lot we can
do to stop it. We're not encouraging the use of
the term. We've never used it in our
advertising."
Notable events
• 2004: Tiger Woods teeing off.
• 2005: Andre Agassi and Roger Federer playing tennis.
• 2006: Ronan Keating shot the Music Video for his single "Iris" at the Helipad
of Burj Al Arab.
• 2007: The Today Show broadcast from the Helipad a segment of Where in the
World is Matt Lauer?
• 2011: Golfer Rory McIlroy performing a bunker shot.
• 2013: Heli-lift of Aston Martin Vanquish.
• 2013: David Coulthard performing donuts in a Formula 1 racecar.
• 2017: Nick Jacobsen kiteboards down to the sea.
 In popular culture
• The last chapter of the espionage novel Performance Anomalies takes place at the top of the
Burj Al Arab,  where the spy protagonist Cono 7Q discovers that through deadly betrayal his spy
nemesis Katerina has maneuvered herself into the top echelon of the government of Kazakhstan.
The hotel can also be seen in Syriana and also some Bollywood movies.
• Richard Hammond included the building in his television series, Richard Hammond's Engineering
Connections.
• The Burj Al Arab serves as the cover image for the 2009 album Ocean Eyes by Owl City.
• The Burj Al Arab was the site of the last task of the fifth episode of the first season of the Chinese
edition of The Amazing Race, where teams had to clean up a room to the hotel's standards.
• The building was the location of the main challenge of the ninth episode of the Canadian-
American animated television series Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race,[41] where
contestants were forced to either return a serve from a tennis robot on the hotel’s helipad, or
squeegee an entire column of the hotel’s windows.