Building the Burj Dubai (Part 4) - Big, Bigger, Biggest

[adelle0001]

nice tower really!

[jwhite50421]

sears tower is so nice!!

[jwhite50421]

I would love to see all these big buildings in my life!!

[jwhite50421]

give us our twin towers back!!!!

[BnTamim]

@jwhite50421

And what dubai has to do with your collapsed towers :s

[ahgoon69er]

this only 1b?B 2 spirit bomber is 2.2b :/

[vbn216]

йа плакалЪ

[holm79]

A new floor every 3 days- sounds like good hemp!

[thrillamf]

I've just got back from Dubai. Whilst the Burj Khalifa does look impressive, it would look better if there were other skyscrapers next to it so that you see the size difference. It's very isolated at the moment.

[arabdubai786]

i am from dubai and i live on the palm and have also got a house on jumeira beach and both my houses there are just tooooooooooooo big i love it i am proud to be a arab. i have seen this tower and have been inside it. it is sooo cool. no other cities can beat dubai or the whole of U.A.E.

[diebkgast]

hi guys, i hope one of you could help me:

for school we neer to build a building, to resist an earthquake.

so we chose to amke one with like taipei with aculy 2 buildings, one inside, one out

but we do not have any idea hoe fat to do the midddel one away from the outer one, anyone who could help?

thanx!

[ydabom]

@diebkgast For this you need some knowledge about your building structure's materials, harmonics, and mathematics. Take idea is that your building is like a tuning fork; introduce force (quaking earth) and the length of the fork (the building materials forming the skeleton) will vibrate. So, you need the resonant frequencies of the building materials, times how much mass-percentage vibration those freqs introduce into your materials, times the length of the building from top to bottom.

[ydabom]

@diebkgast All 3 multiplied together gives you the maximum "sway" vibration induces in your building, but only at a certain magnitude force. Calculate the sway at zero Richter (wind and non-ground-related factors only) and at one Richter.

[ydabom]

@diebkgast Take that difference, and logarithmically scale up according to the Richter logarithmic scale (acoustic scale is +3 is a doubling, for instance. I don't know what the Richter's logarithmic scale is). Now you have a rough model for sway tolerance for your building at specific Richters in Meters or Feet or whatever, and you can account for sway of the smaller building inside the larger one.

[MadelnJapan]

thanks for the sweet video

[boltjet135]

no, the world trade centre came up with the outer skelton

[SkudAlpha]

The problem with dubai is not this hotel wich is certainly bit kitch but the fact that outside of this hotel there is nothing to see except sand !

arabs leader should instead insist on building university and thousand of research centers instead of spending monney for sleeping room coz hotel wont last forever and clients will be rare soon but knowledge will remain, i always surprise of the wrong priority of people.

[abdtechno]

@SkudAlpha

I totally agree with you. I'm an Arabic speaking guy, and I must admit that across our gulf states, the concept of prioritization is almost absent. We do like to get the biggest, the tallest, the largest, the richest and the rest of 'est' and most. But the unignorable bold fact is that investment is not being injected into human development as much as malls, buildings, supermarkets, and camels festivals.

[Aussie7470]

You Should Revise the United Arab Eremites Law Because The Law in the country in the city Dubai Is very Tough it is a Islamic state any crime you commit your embassy can not help you in some situations but a great place to visit :)

[faheem647]

nice buildings

[shafiqulkabirjewel]

Really an amazing architecture.

[esprithk]

it is very tall, and amazing Architect technology.

but I must say, it's not a beautiful building.

[reazrj]

darn. always mentions architects, sometimes unfairly, although its structural engineers at work at thecore which makes this possible. architecture is less technology than engineering.

[BubbFromGEI]

'Merely shallow displays of opulence and wantonness"

Yet- people are sad when there's is no longer the tallest. A human desire to be respected is at work here. It is hard to get away from that, however expensive and destructive to an economy it may be

[legendagenda]

no offence to dubai but your landmark buildings, though spectacular on unprecedented scales, are merely shallow displays of opulence and wantonness.

[XOXOYOIi]

I feel sad for Taipei.

Taipei lost their only world landmark (Taipei101).

Not just Taipei, I feel sad for other cities too.

Like the city in China that owns the largest mall, etc.

Feel sad. Dubai is trying to make everything the largest but doesn't care about other cities.

Dubai is planning to beat my city's only landmark too. Sucks.

Whats the point of going to Taipei? Whats so special about those cities now? Nothing. It's all in Dubai.

How sad... how sad.

[bernardmarianovella]

The sad thing is, they're all in Dubai, and Dubai is probably the tackiest city in the world.

[megasugat]

sad? fuck you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheUltimateShadow64]

Forget Taipei, what about the world tade centre?

[Danafsta]

what bout it?? haha

[JUKIO01]

hey, im sad too. but what cant they do about it? their just gona have to beat them in other ways now. but i still would visit those countries not for the biggest stuff, but the culture, etc.

[andymate999]

hmmi understand where u are coming from, but this is how mankind moves forward, people will never forget the cities where the original landmarks you speak of are!

[JoseProkof]

I'm sad for all the egos who want more and more, and more power and more height putting in danger a lot of people. It takes a burp from nature to get these structures down.

[KingWilliamMB]

@XOXOYOIi get over it ....

[boltjet135]

@XOXOYOIi taipei 101 is by far the bigger engineering achivement, but hey, france is loseing it's effeil tower record, shard london bridge ftw

[arabdubai786]

@XOXOYOIi will you shut up. i am from dubai and i am an arab from the uae and i know how they work to get thoes towers up because i have seen it myself and i also know that there is nothing like what you have said because dubai is just the best city in th world and will get better everyday towards the future and onwards. so dont say that dubai wants to beat other cities because thats not the case. if dubai wants to get better it will, and if it wants other cities to suck then it will.

[whsdg00]

@XOXOYOIi but this is mother nature. "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST"

[annabatarowicz]

@XOXOYOIi i cany believe people are as shallow as you dont you know? people make as city

[Longfire3000]

just got back from holiday: half term, in Dubai and WOW that skyscraper is something else, when we took off from Dubai Intl and flew over it, I thought it was going to scrape the bottom of the plane!! Simply Amazing Achievement!

[SchoolBoysLocker]

3.00 - would not want to be in that!

[myiqisinfinity]

i would imagine the tube design of the sears give it a huge moment of inertia

[myiqisinfinity]

we cud build about a thousand of these with the bailout money. i think that would put people to work haha

[pur36054]

ye lol

[sasukealbah]

iam from uae and i think it will be the best

[Frenchkisssss]

you must help palestine , you have a lot of money

[Mike3smith]

1:30.......scary!!

[Maxbladee]

Lol there are only documentations in Usa and Uk not in Germany ;)

[UKHolidaydude]

For ayone in the UK, this documentary is repeated on Channel 5, Sunday 6th April 16:10 - 17:10

[RXTRUX1]

Wish they'd put this on BBCAmerica.

[RXTRUX1]

OK. It will be aired on National Geographic HD next week.

[Mender124]

i think is so amaizin how they do it and every days is gettin better and bigger

[grigg2k8]

that documentary was awesome. it was very intresting. first comment =)