found this video,little to high for me thought i read its something like 2,000ft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnlnIevXnVc here's a better vid from the discovery channel its worth the watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LjTWSKbfiU&feature=related
Awsome find
Wow...that is one huge tower. Anyone here worked in Dubai?
Really tall!
I was gettin' queezy just watching the video.:throwup I knew there was a reason I liked working with dirt.... it's rarely 1/2 a mile up!!
cool vids man.. liking Dubai these days.. lots of sweet machinery
does anyone know the actual finished hight in feet? Including the buildings designers?
i dont know the exact height.. but i do know that it is going to be extremely high..would be a bit scary working on top of it
i think its supposed to be over 500m tall nope sorry 818m or 2684 feet for all of us on the other side of the pond.DANG!
I was in Dubai at Christmas the building is opening this week 09/09/09 its height is 818 m (2,684 ft).
your fuel bills at work! They can afford it also because labor is probably dirt cheap. I saw where laborers in mideast were on strike because they were getting 50 cents per hour.
I would be interesed to see what an earthquake would do over there. All that sand would be quick sand!
It's not that they don't have a whole lotta sand to build on, its all ego wanting it high. I read Dubai is defaulting on some loans. Great, looks like I'll end up taking the hit in my 401K somehow.
This is the real mother of the towers .. Kroll K10,000 Has a smaller tower to do the maintainence ...
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Liebherr1160 is right about that one! It's a beast among beast's. A Peiner tech [who was featured in a Discovery Channel show putting up a t/c in a rain forest jungle [using a helicopter], that I know well and he's very connected, says that they have one like it, almost as big, and with the secondary hammerhead t/c crane on top too. I don't know if he meant on paper, or that they actually had sold one tho.