BURJ AL-ARAB (THE ARAB TOWER)

BY AHMAD ALSHAKARGI AND YASEEN EL-GERWI

Introduction

World tallest hotel (1053 ft)

Most luxuries hotel (seven stars)

28 double height floor (23 ft height)

Built on private island

Became a symbol for Dubai

Architect Designed by Tom Wills-Wright

Needed unique design (simple)

Shaped like a sail (sign of

tourism)

Rise out of the water

Engineering aspects

The Island

Foundation

Steel Trusses

Electric Load

The Island

Man Made 280 Meters offshore 7.5 Meters high Shaped like Triangle November 1995

Foundation

Not connected to bed rock Sand Skin Friction 250 Foundation piles 40 meters deep

Trusses Protect from wind and earthquake

Building and transporting trusses

Lifting trusses

Steel expand problem

Design special fixing

Idea of engine camshaft

Electric Load

8 kw for suite (8 times European suite)

52,000 lights, 3,106 miles cables, advance

service

Huge load cause harmonic distortion

Cause melting in cable (burn entire

building)

Electric engineer design harmonic filter

Detect distortion and cancel it

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_al_arab Dubai's dream palace Burj Al Arab Documentary (May 19,

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Hammond Richard (Feb 10, 2012). Richard Hammond'sEngineering Connections - (S03E01) Burj Al Arab[video file]. Retrieved fromhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_dXsr0WfxQ

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Alshakargi Abdulilah, personal communication, Nov 18, 2012

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