tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66882494254528535702024-03-12T18:36:04.360-07:00Kingdom TowerThe Kingdom Tower in Jeddah or Burjul Mamlakah is the Tallest building in the world known as Mile-High Tower found in Jeddah Saudi Arabia it is two times tallest than burj khalifa.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-60275125160547372442012-05-05T08:01:00.002-07:002012-05-05T08:08:18.715-07:00Kingdom Tower برج المملكة Burjul Mamlakah<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>The <b>Kingdom Tower</b> or (Arabic: : برج المملكة Burjul Mamlakah), previously known as Mile-High Tower (Arabic: ), is a supertall skyscraper approved for construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at a preliminary cost of SR4.6 billion (US$1.23 billion). It will be the centerpiece and first phase of a SR75 billion (US$20 billion) proposed development known as Kingdom City that will be located along the Red Sea on the north side of Jeddah.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Actual Value - 15billion US Dollar</div><div style="text-align: center;">Client - Jeddah Economic Company (JEC) </div><div style="text-align: center;">Main Contractor - Prince Alwaleed bin Talal</div><div style="text-align: center;">Consultants<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Main Consultant: Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture</div><div style="text-align: center;">Country - Jeddah Saudi Arabia</div><div style="text-align: center;">Category<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Tower Building</div><div style="text-align: center;">EStimated finish - 2011 to 2018</div><div style="text-align: center;">Status<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- under construction</div><br />
<b>The Scope:</b><br />
The project calls for construction of a Mile Tower which is a skyscraper in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The height of the skyscraper is around 1600 metres. The Mile Tower is a mixed use tower includes apartments, hotels, commercial shops and malls. The skyscraper will be the tallest skyscraper in the world. <br />
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<b>The Remarks:</b><br />
The partners of JEC are Kingdom Holding Company, Mr. Samaual Bakhsh, Abraar, International Holding Company, prominent Jeddah businessmen Mr. Abdulrahman Hassan Sharbatly and Saudi Bin Laden Group (SBG). The capital of JEC is made up of SR8.8 billion in land value, assets that are SR7.3 billion, plus SR1.5 billion in cash contributed by SBG that further demonstrates their confidence in this extensive project.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-67587894373239278302012-04-23T11:01:00.000-07:002012-04-23T11:01:50.128-07:00Worlds Tallest Building in the World<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>1. Kingdom Tower</b> = is planned to become the new World's Tallest Building upon completion in 2016 with offices, hotel space and luxury residences being the envisioned uses of the tower.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A public viewing deck could be located at around 800 meters from the base of the tower, which is roughly near the height of the current World's Tallest Building, Dubai's 828 meter Burj Khalifa.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">World's tallest building since 2009 (eclipsing Taipei's Taipei 101) and now the world's tallest man-made structure.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>2. Burj Khalifa</b> = The Height of Burj Dubai, as it was known prior to its renaming as Burj Khalifa, was kept private until the building's completion in 2010. The developer held a tight grip over the buildings final height, although in 2006 a height of 808 meters had been leaked by an individual familiar with the technical aspects of the project. Ultimately in 2009 the official height, 20 meters taller than the leaked figure, was confirmed and the Burj Khalifa would claim the title of World's Tallest Building at 828 meters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>3. World Trade Center</b> = was a proposed 2500 feet (762 m) supertall skyscraper in Chicago, United States. It would have had 210 floors and it was also to look like the original World Trade Center towers in New York that were destroyed on September 11, 2001. The building was designed in 1982 by Harry Weese for Stanley Raskow, Sr. However, the design was never built.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>4. Space Needle</b> = is Proposed in 1968 by developer Lee M. Romano as the third phase of a large mixed use development in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg. Would have been located at the intersection of Interstate 290 and Higgins Road, across the street from Woodfield Mall. The tower would have held 113 stories of office and retail in a squared tube design like the nearby Aon Center or New York's World Trade Center. An off-center antenna and broadcast facilities were planned for the top of the building.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>5. Chicago Spire</b> = was a supertall skyscraper project in Chicago, Illinois, which was abandoned in 2008 with only its foundation work completed. The construction was halted after several years of on-going financing challenges, including the global recession that began in 2008. Anglo Irish Bank Corp. filed a US$77 million foreclosure lawsuit against The Spire's Irish developer Garrett Kelleher, claiming that loans made to Kelleher’s development company had been in default for a year. The bank was expected to take possession of the site where the Spire was to have been built.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-45593904859947806082012-04-20T05:29:00.002-07:002012-04-20T05:29:25.013-07:00Kingdom Tower megastructure plans revealed<br />
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A company backed by the Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal will build the world's tallest skyscraper in Jeddah as a "mega structure" building boom returns to the Middle East. original from <span style="color: #e69138;"><b>kingdomtowerskyscraper.com</b></span><br />
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Kingdom Holding secured a $1.2 billion (£737 million) deal with the Saudi BinLadin Group to build "Kingdom Tower" - a more than 1,000-metre (3,280ft) skyscraper close to the Red Sea in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s second largest city.<br />
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At more than a kilometre tall, it will replace the Burj Khalifa, which is at least 172 metres smaller, as the world's tallest building and will be more than 500 metres taller than the Willis Tower in Chicago and "The Shard" in London.<br />
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Jeddah Economic Corporation, part of the Kingdom Group and responsible for the development, said that the skyscraper was inspired by the "folded fronds of a young desert plant".<br />
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Kingdom Tower, designed by a Chicago architect AS&GG, will house a Four Seasons hotel and apartments, condominiums, offices and the world's highest observation deck.<br />
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It was conceived around 2007 as the first phase of a $20 billion urban development, Kingdom City, which marks the gateway to the holy city of Mecca.<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-14232981852496953562012-04-19T10:06:00.000-07:002012-04-19T10:06:23.750-07:00Kingdom Tower in Jeddah to be ready in 63 months<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div>Updated Jeddah Saudi Arabia News about Kingdom Tower, set to become the world’s tallest building, will be completed in 63 months, according to Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) Chairman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.<br />
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His remarks came as the Jeddah Economic Company (JEC) yesterday announced a capital increase from SR7.3 billion to SR8.8 billion for the mega project that includes the 1,000m high Kingdom Tower.<br />
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Prince Alwaleed, who initiated and has been the driving force behind the decision to build the tower, announced an investment of SR1.5 billion from the Saudi Binladin Group (SBG) for a 16.63 percent stake in Jeddah Economic Company, owner of the Jeddah mega project.<br />
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The Kingdom Tower will be the centerpiece and the first construction phase of Kingdom City Jeddah — new urban development of more than 5.3 million sq m of land in the north of Jeddah, overlooking the Red Sea and Obhur Creek.<br />
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The contract for construction of the tower was signed with SBG for SR4.6 billion ($1.2 billion) and the overall estimated cost of the entire Kingdom City Jeddah project is anticipated to be SR75 billion ($20 billion).Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-55630329945266301002012-04-19T10:00:00.000-07:002012-04-19T10:00:14.990-07:00About Prince Walid bin Talal to build the Tallest tower in the world<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">After rumors were confirmed and denied promised times during the past years, said Prince Walid bin Talal, his intention to build the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, which will be the tallest tower in the world, up nearly kilometer.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">You can see from the convergence of design projects in the great constraint Will increase the height of 1,000 meters (the longest of 173 meters at least from the Burj Dubai in Dubai ) and will span an area of 530.000 square meters, the tower will be the first stages of building an integrated project called Kingdom City" on an area of 5.3 million square meters</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The tower will cost $ 1.2 billion (around 4.6 billion Saudi riyals), while the project will cost the city when completed, about 20 billion dollars Expected to take 63 months, the establishment of the tower, while the entire project will take about ten years, the company said construction has begun on the construction site already through the Bin Laden Group for Contracting, which will partner in the project</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The project may be unique in terms of architecture may be a great addition to the city of Jeddah, although I do not think that the sinking of their homes in floods of Jeddah have a place in this project Kingdom Holding Company announced the issuance of building permit for the project from the secretariat of Jeddah, a step that a further step towards implementation</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-72738277899260388022012-04-19T09:32:00.000-07:002012-04-19T09:32:44.106-07:00Kingdom Tower Building Permit Issued<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">HE Dr. Hani ibn Muhammad Abu Ras, Mayor of Jeddah that the Secretariat had issued a building permit on Monday, the Kingdom Tower in the North have been sailed company received the Jeddah limited economic owner of the tower building permit for the project.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">It is worth mentioning that the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah sailed North will consist of 161, a role reserved for the administrative and commercial uses of the building permit as issued by the Jeddah Municipality.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-7697897404599090952012-04-18T06:41:00.000-07:002012-04-18T06:41:49.220-07:00Kingdom Tower and Other High Rise Experience<div style="text-align: left;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Client: Kingdom Holding Co.<br />
Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture<br />
Strategic Partner: Thornton Tomasetti<br />
Services:Site/Civil; Geotechnical; Transportation Planning<br />
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Rising 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) into the Arabian sky, the tower will eclipse the reigning tallest building by 173 meters (568 feet). The first phase of the Kingdom City comprises the Tower, a 65,000-square-meter retail mall, and a 3,000+ car underground garage.<br />
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Langan’s role has included the development and oversight of the site subsurface investigation, final design of the piles in collaboration with the design team, stormwater management and integration of the circulation and volume demands of the Tower and retail building into the traffic master plan for Jeddah’s Kingdom City.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-61881624919525187322012-04-18T05:48:00.000-07:002012-04-18T05:48:16.486-07:00The Kingdom Tower construction site<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div>Kingdom Tower piling work progress. Photos shows the sequence of work of execution the O-Cell® Test Pile (2 levels) with length of 78.0 m. These shots are from Jan. and Feb this year. photo from <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">EngineersInside.</span></b><br />
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The post from the other thread has shots from Nov. and Dec. of last year. This suggestion is to date a posted shots. The shots are new to most of us and are appreciated.<br />
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The photos are showing the implementation of the load test (O-Cell® Test Pile -78.0 m depth) for Kingdom Tower’s foundation. 1. O-Cell ® installed in the cage, Bundled bars 54 32, Putting the steel cage on the Lifting Pad, Start lifting using 2 cranes, Installing the cage inside the shaft, Inserting the tremie pipe & PouringAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-70000272910464654682012-04-18T05:02:00.000-07:002012-04-18T05:02:42.300-07:00Preliminary of the kingdom tower<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LV_I4Rsy39E/T46roB4VQsI/AAAAAAAAANM/SB7GQQeqWNM/s1600/preliminary+of+the+kingdom+tower+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LV_I4Rsy39E/T46roB4VQsI/AAAAAAAAANM/SB7GQQeqWNM/s320/preliminary+of+the+kingdom+tower+2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ydEIfSCbRgA/T46rnAUlI3I/AAAAAAAAANE/BOaSJHyLRVw/s1600/preliminary+of+the+kingdom+tower+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ydEIfSCbRgA/T46rnAUlI3I/AAAAAAAAANE/BOaSJHyLRVw/s320/preliminary+of+the+kingdom+tower+1.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preliminary work of the Kingdom tower</td></tr>
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The work is started in the site. Final design of deep foundation released and the execution of pilot concrete piles is in progress in order to be tested by applying a load of 7500 ton on one pile!<br />
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Deep foundations used there is 2 types:<br />
Concrete piles with diameter of 1500 mm & depth = 45 m<br />
Concrete barrettes 2800 x 1200 mm & depth = 85 - 120 m<br />
Polymer shall be used as a drilling fluid to support the excavation while drilling these piles/barrettes.<br />
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HUTA Foundations works limited company - is the deep foundations contractor there as a subcontractor from the main contractor SBG (Saudi Binladin Group).<br />
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Here is some photos from the work site.<br />
Remember while seeing these photos that there in that location, the most height building in the world will be constructed.<br />
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These are some photos for the polymer mixing & treatment plant constructed in the siteAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-73828593759401799622012-04-17T11:47:00.000-07:002012-04-17T11:47:29.918-07:00Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal about the kingdom tower<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal about the kingdom tower</td></tr>
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</div></div>Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal proposed build the kingdom tower in jeddah, towards of that the size of a place is too far<br />
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the tower will be built as part of a larger real estate of 3,500,000 square meters. The Kingdom Tower will be a milestone in this project, because it will boost the value of the rest of the property.<br />
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The time is appropriate to build the Kingdom Tower now because the prices for construction materials are low. From cement to iron, everything is low.<br />
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Secondly, it is being built in Jeddah, because this city is in need for a project of this kind, as it would attract more business here. Nothing of this size happened in Jeddah for over two decades.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-82735506859813083872012-04-17T11:31:00.000-07:002012-04-17T11:31:15.380-07:00adrian smith said about the kingdom tower<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">adrian smith said about the kingdom tower<br />
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</tbody></table>Smith said, would be at least 3280ft (1000m) tall, and about 50 storeys taller than the Burj Khalifa (164 floors). The building will have three sky lobbies, with the most prominent situated at the 157th floor. The viewing platform disc that juts out from the side of the building was originally designed as a helipad and is 25 metres across.<br />
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“We designed it in to the building and liked it but most pilots said it could be risky to land on, so we’ve convinced the prince, at the moment at least, that it is a pretty cool feature.”<br />
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Smith said the main challenge in designing the tower was incorporating structural, mechanical and architectural systems in to the tower.<br />
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“Getting everything to fit and still having room for the use of the building is a challenge.”<br />
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Smith said the main lessons learned from designing the Burj Khalifa that transferred over to the Kingdom tower design were the three legs around the core design; the nature of a stepped and sloping or tapered tower design.<br />
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“The advancement here is that the stepped design is not as high performance as the sloping design at wind mitigation.” “Wind forces are significant in a tower of 1km.”<br />
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"When the wind moves around a building, it creates negative pressure areas behind the building, which creates little tornados or vortices, which push the tower from side to side. It’s the acceleration of this movement that we are concerned about.”<br />
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“One of the ways to mitigate that is to step the tower, or slope it. Sloping is more effective but it is a little more expensive." The aspect ratio - the footprint to height ratio - of the two buildings is about the same, Smith said.<br />
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One of the limiting factors in skyscraper design, Smith said, was elevator design. At present, elevators can reach a maximum height of 550-570m – due, primarily, to the weight on the cable and the load placed on motors that were currently available. As it stands, the elevators don’t quite reach the highest occupied level of the Kingdom Tower, so a second tier of elevators has been designed in to the building. Smith didn’t elaborate further<br />
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Smith also said that skyscraper design had changed considerably post 2001, with thicker concrete walls required, larger stairwells and better security systems in place on all supertalls.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-59769541498764347742012-04-17T11:24:00.000-07:002012-04-17T11:24:22.984-07:00the foundation of kingdom tower<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the foundation of kingdom tower</td></tr>
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</div>About Langan group:<br />
langan group who design the foundation. The foundations of the Kingdom Tower. Besides it, the company will also provide geotechnical services the diverse portfolio of intelligent site planning, design, and engineering coupled with our Brownfield and site remediation expertise places us at the forefront of the sustainable design movement. Langan has been an instrumental player on dozens of LEED and sustainable design projects.<br />
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Our vision is to be recognized by our clients, employees, and competition as being the best engineering and environmental consulting firm.<br />
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To be the best, we will hire only people who can demonstrate the potential to grow; constantly seek to transfer our values and technical knowledge internally; relentlessly pursue improvement in the quality of our work, and know our clients and their needs better than any other firm in our field.<br />
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Langan’s role included the development and oversight of the site subsurface investigation, final design of the piles in collaboration with the design team, stormwater management and integration of the circulation and volume demands of the Tower and retail building into the traffic master plan for Jeddah’s Kingdom City.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-91976187063696092982012-04-17T11:09:00.000-07:002012-04-17T11:09:43.411-07:00Designing the kingdom tower elevator<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Designing the kingdom tower elevator</td></tr>
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</div>James fortune form the america is designing the The Kingdom Tower will be an architectural challenge in many ways. One of the more challenging tasks of it will be the design of the elevators.<br />
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It will be John Fortune, the architect who designed the elevators of other supertall skyscrapers like Taipei 101, Crown Tower in Las Vegas and Burj Khalifa, who will design the Kingdom Tower’s elevators too.<br />
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Just as in the case of Burj Khalifa in Dubai, James Fortune will collaborate with Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture on this project.<br />
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James Fortune is the president of the Denver-based “Fortune Consultants” company. Details about the elevators of the Kingdom Tower are not yet made public.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-41928790531883659222012-04-17T10:57:00.000-07:002012-04-17T10:57:50.662-07:00The Proposed of Kingdom Tower<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Proposed of Kingdom Tower </td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">The New record of world tower The proposed Azerbaijan Tower would reach 3,445 ft (1,050 m) into the sky, making it even taller than Saudi Arabia's proposed Kingdom Tower by 164 ft (50 m).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">By the Family of Bin Laden. The new skyscraper will measure one kilometre high and will be located in Saudi Arabia. The tower will outdo Gulf neighbour Dubai, which inaugurated its own record-breaking skyscraper the 828m Burj Khalifa less than two years ago.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Saudis awarded a more than $1 billion contract for a spire, to be named the Kingdom Tower. It will have a Four Seasons hotel, serviced apartments, luxury condominiums and offices, encompassing, in all, about half a million square metres. the announcment that finish kingdom tower is from the prince of saudi arabia.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-22184606261395746872012-04-17T10:34:00.000-07:002012-04-17T10:34:48.966-07:00Kingdom Tower<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F8kqF5-NUeE/T42pRQ7TrpI/AAAAAAAAAMU/vlnN2AemDOw/s1600/Kingdom-Tower-in-jeddah-saudi-arabia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Kingdom Tower" border="0" height="460" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F8kqF5-NUeE/T42pRQ7TrpI/AAAAAAAAAMU/vlnN2AemDOw/s640/Kingdom-Tower-in-jeddah-saudi-arabia.jpg" title="Kingdom Tower" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kingdom Tower</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: left;">The Kingdom Tower is previously known as Mile-High Tower, is a supertall skyscraper approved for construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at a preliminary cost of SR4.6 billion US 1.23 billion. It will be the centerpiece and first phase of a SR75 billion US$20 billion proposed development known as Kingdom City that will be located along the Red Sea on the north side of Jeddah. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The building has been scaled down from its initial 1.6 km about one mile proposal, which was never fully designed, to a height of at least 1,000 metres 3,280.84 ft the exact height is being kept private while in development, similar to the Burj Khalifa, which, at about one kilometre, would still make it by far the tallest building or structure in the world to date, standing at least 173 m 568 ft taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Former names =Mile-High Tower</div><div style="text-align: left;">Type= office, hotel, residential, apartments, observation, retail,</div><div style="text-align: left;">Country: Jeddah Saudi Arabia</div><div style="text-align: left;">Cost = 20 Billion</div><div style="text-align: left;">Antenna spire = 3,281 ft</div><div style="text-align: left;">Management = CBRE Group</div><div style="text-align: left;">Owner = Kingdom Holding Company, Abraar Holding Company, Abdulrahman Hassan Sharbatly, Saudi Binladin Group and Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal</div><div style="text-align: left;">Architect = Adrian D. Smith, Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, from the Chicago, USA</div><div style="text-align: left;">Structural engineer = Thornton Tomasetti</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688249425452853570.post-75541391895290489462012-04-14T07:52:00.006-07:002012-04-16T09:56:39.471-07:00Kingdom Tower -- The Tallest Building in the World<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDgSeuVGqJ8/T4mO1LHz0CI/AAAAAAAAAC0/aa82GzuIQVY/s1600/Kingdom+Tower+Jeddah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Mile-High Tower" border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDgSeuVGqJ8/T4mO1LHz0CI/AAAAAAAAAC0/aa82GzuIQVY/s640/Kingdom+Tower+Jeddah.jpg" title="Kingdom Tower The Tallest Building in the World" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Kingdom Tower is the Tallest building in the world found in Jeddah Saudi Arabia and it is times 2 tallest than burj khalifa Architect by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia is the chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, the largest company in Saudi Arabia, which Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a partner in Jeddah Economic Company , which was formed in 2009 for the development of Kingdom Tower and City.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101820973929658045noreply@blogger.com