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The Jumeirah Palm Islands
Presented to -Prof Bins Mathew
GNIMS
Group Members
• Priya Mohapatra – A 37• Dhanashree Mankame – A 33• Neha Rambhade – A 48• Faalgun Mehta – A 35
• The Palm Islands are on the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• They are three planned islands - Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and
Palm Deira which would have extended into the Persian Gulf,
increasing
• Dubai's shoreline by a total of 520 kilometres.
Purpose • Middle East Arab: Jewel of Arab
World• Profit by its Oil Reserves. Problem:
Oil Run Out• $2 Billion Plan – to save his country.• Ordered his Kingdom to transform
into Worlds No. 1 Luxury Tourist Destination.
• Perfect Spot – Mass Tourism• 5 million Tourists Annually
• Triple it to 15 million.Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
• Coastline of Dubai – 72 kms long• No enough space – for extra 10 million
people• Paradise Island – covering area of
7million sq.mt and extending 6.5 km shape of a Palm Tree with Crescent shape Breakwater
• Coastline – Increased by 56 kms
• 9 times more than circular island.
)Area 5.6km2
The breakwater 11.5km
Construction Started 2001
Completion First phase 2006
Client Nakheel
Total coast until 2007 USD 6.5bln
Consultant Hill International (USA)
Coastline added 78.6km to the country's 72km
Employees working on the project each day 40,000
Reclamation 94 million cubic metres of sand and seven million tonnes of rock.
Hotels 40 five-star
Guests Expected to become 30,000
Visitors per day Predicted to become 20,000, with 15 million visitors by 2010
Residents 60,000 from more than 70 nations round the globe
Project Timeline
1st Stage
2000: Project Announcement
2001-03: Breakwater
Construction
2nd Stage
2003: Land Reclamation Completion
2004-06: Constructing City
3rd Stage
2006: Partial Completion
2008: Final Completion
Pre Construction Tests
• Dubai based Emirates Nortech conducts survey to test shape and volume both above and below the projected high and low waterlines.
• Dubai based Sorgreath Gulf created a 3D physical scale model of the crescent to perform exhaustive tests in laboratory using a 12m random wave generator.
• Massive island is being constructed out at sea, using only natural materials, sand and rock.
• Water causes erosion of sand and rock..
• To keep it in place, barge-loads of rubble are dropped on top of this.
• Sand found at 6 miles out at sea.
• Pumped through a pipe and sprayed into place at 10 mps. This process is called Rainbowing.
Breakwaters
Environmentalists - test the water every day to check that the system is working.
The return of algae and stagnant water is something they can't allow.
Vibrocompaction • Bam in Iran - 6.6. If epicentre Dubai will
lead to liquefaction
• As the sand compacts, it pushes the water between the particles upwards, making the ground liquefy.
• This shaft then vibrates, shaking the ground around it, the sand compacts and sinks, more sand is poured in until the area around the probes is rock solid.
Controversy
• Extended delays to the completion of the project.• After launching the project, Increase in number of residential units on
the island.• Miscalculating the actual cost of construction.• Doubts about the quality of the construction.• Environmental impact.
Environmental Problems • Erosion, caused by winds and water
currents.• Due to the shape of the island right outside
the coast of Dubai, there is loss of coastal shape along the seashore of Dubai.
• Disturbances in the reproductive cycles of the species of fish
• Newly-born fish were not able to survive
• Damage to the marine ecology marine habitat, burying coral reefs, oyster beds and subterranean fields of sea grass
• Profound underwater changes- The typically crystalline waters of the gulf of Dubai have become severely clouded with silt
Economic Development
• Developing at a crazy pace averaging around 10% economic growth per year.
• Dubai has grasped the attention of the whole world due to its flourishing tourism and freehold property sectors.
• The economic scenario has grown dramatically in the short span of under a decade and the UAE has proved to the world to be a perfect business hub.