The developer of the world’s tallest tower in Dubai has completed installing the exterior walls following severe setbacks that contributed to a year-long delay in finishing the building.
The exterior cladding work on Emaar’s Burj Dubai was delayed in late 2006, when Schmidlin Facade Technology, the cladding contractor based in Switzerland, went bankrupt.
Arabian Aluminium Company and its Hong Kong partner, Far East Aluminium, later took over the contract and started cladding work on the tower in May 2007.
The changeover was believed to have delayed work on the tower, which is thought to have topped out earlier this year at 818 metres, by about six months.
Revisions to the project, including the addition of extra floors to accommodate a communications centre, also pushed the completion date back from April this year to the end of the year.
Emaar said the total weight of aluminium used on Burj Dubai, which is the centrepiece of the 202-hectare Downtown Burj Dubai, was equivalent to that of five double-decker A380 aircraft. A total of 24,348 cladding panels over a curtain wall area of 132,190 square metres was used, requiring a team of more than 380 engineers and technicians.
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