How Long Did It Take to Build the Burj Khalifa
Burj Khalifa was developed by Emaar Properties, a renowned local real estate firm that has also developed many other skyscrapers in Dubai and now they are working on next tallest structure of the world which temporarily named 'Dubai Creek Tower'.
The construction of Burj Khalifa was contracted by Samsung Construction, a subsidiary of Samsung Group, the group is best known for its electronic products and in respect of construction it had also constructed many famous buildings around the world including Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and Taipei 101 Tower in Taipei.
The construction began in 2004, the building started rising in March 2005.
After that Burj Khalifa grew very fast, below is how it looked in February 2006. The building had become a 30-floor highrise building from a Y-shape base structure in less than one year.
As the building tapers into the sky, the construction became faster when the building built to higher floors.
As of January 2007, the tower had become an imposing supertall skyscraper that has more than one hundred floors built. And one month later it became the building with most floors on the earth.
The tower surpassed Taipei 101 to become world's tallest building in architectural height by July 2007.
In less than a month the tower surpassed Sears Tower's antenna at 527 m becoming the world's tallest building in any category, unofficially though. In September 2007 the CN Tower was surpassed by Burj Khalifa and lost its title of tallest free standing structure in the world, not officially again, as Burj Khalifa was still under construction and growing.
Although the tower had already become the tallest building and tallest structure in the world, the height of Burj Khalifa was still substantially growing.
The tower topped out in January 2009 at its full height of 829.8 meters, this is much higher than the former tallest building Taipei 101.
The whole project cost 1.5 billion dollars, the tower itself cost 1 billion dollars, it's not very high for a building with that height, even many buildings around 300 meters in American cities cost this much, this is more obvious when compared with One World Trade Center in New York City, which cost 3.9 billions dollars. But for buildings in Dubai, this number is far ahead of other supertalls while the majority of Dubai's supertall skyscrapers cost only around 300 million dollars.
Tourism and Sightseeing:
Main Article: Visiting Burj Khalifa Observation Decks
Burj Khalifa has the world's highest building-based observation deck. When the tower first opened in 2010, they opened the observation deck on level 124 named At The Top at the same time, it's a observatory that contains outdoor terrace, at 452 meters high, almost only a half height of the tower, even Shanghai World Financial Center which is only 492 meters tall has a observation deck at 474 m high. But At The Top had been the highest observation deck that contains outdoor terrace until the Canton Tower's 488 m high outdoor observatory surpassed it.
In 2014 Burj Khalifa opened its second observation deck named At The Top SKY at level 148 at height of 555 m, surpassed the observation deck of Canton Tower, which was the highest observation deck back then. And there's also an outdoor part, thus became the highest observation deck of the world in both the indoor and outdoor category.
The price of the admission ticket is much higher than other skyscrapers around the world. As of 2018, the standard ticket for accessing the observation decks on 124th and 125th floors cost 135 UAE dirhams, approximately 37 dollars. The exception is dusk time, which starts at 17:30 and ends at 19:00, it is the ideal time for sightseeing as the scenery is usually most beautiful by this time, and by the way visitors can view both the day views and night views in a single visit, a same visit by that time cost 210 dirhams. The admission tickets can be booked from here.
The standard ticket for a visit to all three observation decks costs 370 dirhams, approximately 100 US dollars. For dusk times, it needs 525 dirhams for a same visit.
Note: There are more other options available, and the prices may subject to change, check the building's official website for more details and booking in advance on some third party sites will generally cost less.
Popular Culture :
American film Mission: Impossible - The Ghost Protocol :
In the film, for tracing the exchange of the code between the lady killer Moreau and two other men, Ethan Hunt(Tom Cruise) jumps out from a upper floor around 500 m high to scale on the glass cladding using a pair of special gloves, the destination is a computer service room, in the meanwhile, one of gloves got out of order, which makes him dropped about 30 foot before he steady himself to continues climb up using one arm with the left glove, and after climbed to a level at height of 523 m, he breaks the glass and enters the computer room.
Besides the film, in the reality, the French climber Alain Robert who dubbed 'spider-man' as he had scaled numerous skyscrapers before, scaled Burj Khalifa on March 28th 2011, it took him 6 hours to reach the top tip while a large crowd watching from below.
Chinese film Switch (Chinese: 天机·富春山居图) :
Several notable tourist spots in Dubai are featured in the film, like Al Arab, Palm Jumeirah, and Burj Khalifa, there's a scene in which Andy Lau (a famous Hong Kong actor) jumps out from an upper floor of Burj Khalifa with Lin Chi-ling (a Taiwanese actress).
Video game Sim City series : like other skyscrapers around the world, Burj Khalifa is featured in Sim City.
American film Independence Day 2 : Burj Khalifa is used as a spear by alien to destroy London, it is seen in the film that Burj Khalifa soars out of the clouds in Dubai and ploughs to London, finally it crashes into the River Thames.
How Long Did It Take to Build the Burj Khalifa
Source: https://thetowerinfo.com/buildings-list/burj-khalifa/
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