Burj Dubai Tower – Half a Mile High

[Omnis]

I think relatively ridiculously tall towers look way corny. I mean, look at that rendering. It's just ridiculous. The whole city should be tall, not like this one crazy thing pointing into the sky.

 

[RedFordKiller]

I think they did that because of the storyline and the effect that building has on it.

 

[Encyclopedia]

I sure hope they don't get big earthquakes there.

 

[Omnis]

Not much really happens there... I mean, it's a "desert-region" (but it's also on the coast), but other than that (and maybe dust storms and crap), There's not really much mention of natural disasters and crap.

Maybe when the mice designed earth, they put all the oil there thinking that we stupid humans would drink it or something. Haha, their plan backfired.

 

[jamesbob]

Which tower are you refering to? The burj IS being built as part of an environment, the whole area will contain about 500 towers to be built over 15 years or so. That's why I love Dubai, cars and skyscrapers are my love, they've already got the best cars and plenty of them too, now they'll have the scrapers aswell!!

Anyway that rendering is wrong since the image has been stretched in photoshop

 

[Speedy Samurai]

Scientists have noted that since the 500 meter tower in Taipei was built, earthquakes there have tripled in frequency. It seems that when you have that much weight pushing down onto the earth it does indeed have an effect.

I hope that Japan considers this and scraps there plan for Sky City 1000 (or whatever it is) which is planned to be 1 kilometer tall.

 

[jamesbob]

Any of those japanese proposals are visions and have less than a 0.0001% chance of being built. I've heard that story aswell but think it's bullcrap. A 500m tower is nothing compared to the earth, maybe if the tower was the size of mt everest I'd believe them more.

 

[OZZYGT]

Now what I'd really like to see is the foundation plan for any of these towers...the thickness and depth of the walls must be awesome!



Ciao!

 

[Kylehnat]

Scientists have noted that since the 500 meter tower in Taipei was built, earthquakes there have tripled in frequency. It seems that when you have that much weight pushing down onto the earth it does indeed have an effect.

What?? The earth weighs 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds. How much does a building weigh? The building is a dust mite on an elephant.

 

[McLaren]

Great...let's make it even easier for terrorists or planes into buildings incidents to happen, esp. when the building STANDS OUT from the rest.

 

[OZZYGT]

What?? The earth weighs 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds. How much does a building weigh? The building is a dust mite on an elephant.

Actually, it weights 11,944,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds.



Ciao!

 

[jamesbob]

Now what I'd really like to see is the foundation plan for any of these towers...the thickness and depth of the walls must be awesome!
Ciao!

Exactly, there's this thing called "piling" where you stick these long metal things inside the earth to help support the building, for the burj dubai I think they're almost 300ft deep
Also look at this picture, the heights between each floor is about 11 to 12 feet, the concrete may look thin in the picture but look how thick it actually is when you actually take this into account

 

[OZZYGT]

I know...that's amazing. As far as floor height, It is 12 feet, most buildings have the same codes for designing no matter in what city/country they are goign to be built at. The floor thickness should consist in a 5/8" layer of concrete, followed by a 12" or a 1 foot steel beam which is the main support, followed by a 1/2" concrete layer on top of it...this is basic steel dwelling for most skyscrapers.

Have in mind that it's doesn't matter how tall the building is...what's supporting it is:

1: Foundation Plan

2: Amount of weight set on each side beam and column

3: The pressure of pretensioners to hold each bond together

4: Stabilizers. (which are mostly at the very top of the building, balancing the center of gravity for the extreme height of the building), some are at the bottom, but mostly on old buildings.

Floor plans are basically the same between each story.


Ciao!

 

[Omnis]

You mean feet or inches? ' is feet, " is inches.

 

[Raghavan]

That's insane. I'd go up to see the view, then take the next elevator down. Or skydive off of it.
I'm afraid of really really tall buildings like those. Still cool though.

 

[Speedy Samurai]

What?? The earth weighs 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds. How much does a building weigh? The building is a dust mite on an elephant.

Yes, but the earth is not solid. There's a liquid core, and tectonic plates floating and moving around, not to mention the thousands of tons of concrete poured into a huge hole where they removed some of the earth, etc.

 

[Kylehnat]

I still don't think you appreciate just how big the earth and those plates actually are. For a building, they might dig a hole into the earth's crust a few hundred feet deep. Earthquakes typically occur 30-50 miles below the surface (158,400 - 264,000 feet deep).

 

[jamesbob]

Speaking of big things have any of you seen this? The biggest hole in the world at 525m in depth!

If the taipei 101 caused earthquakes then I wonder what this did

 

[Alex.]

right n front of an airport. have a word.

 

[DQuaN]

That looks deeper than 525m.

 

[Omnis]

Look at the bottom left corner of aerial shot. I think the hole is supposed to be some dude's mouth.

 

[OZZYGT]

You mean feet or inches? ' is feet, " is inches.

I think I have some knowledge in that Omins , I mean what I meant before.

5/8 of an INCH.

those layers don't serve as support for the general floor plan, they are just there for isolating sound waves comming from the floor above/below.


Ciao!

 

[vladimir]

right n front of an airport. have a word.

...and helicopters are not allowed to fly over it because some have been sucked into the hole by downwinds and crashed.

thats a diamond mine in russia...

 

[Evolution.]

Look, it's Oprah's rectum!














Ba-dum-tish.

 

[Omnis]

LOL. DP, dude.

But, damn, Ozzy... 5/8ths of an inch of concrete for the floor? What a cheap POS.