10 Fun Facts about the Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building

10 Fun Facts about the Burj Khalifa





The Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building


1. The Burj Khalifa height is a staggering 828 (eight hundred eight ) meters tall, soaring over Dubai. It’s three times as tall as the Eiffel Tower and nearly twice as tall as the Empire State Building. Laid end to end, its pieces stretch over a quarter of the way around the world. It’s cloud-piercing height is certainly one of the most impressive facts about Bruj Khalifa.



Views of the Dubai Fountain from the top of the Burj Khalifa


2. Aside from holding the world record for being the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa holds six other world records. The Burj Khalifa is also the tallest freestanding structure in the world, has the highest number of stories in the world, has the highest occupied floor in the world, has the highest outdoor observation deck in the world, has the elevator with longest travel distance in the world, and has the tallest service elevator in the world.

Views of Dubai and stretching out over the Persian Gulf from the top of the Burj Khalifa


3. One of the most mind blowing Burj Khalifa facts is how much the materials weigh. To put things in to perspective, the weight of the concrete is equivalent to 100,000 ( one hundred thousand ) elephants. The total weight of aluminum used on the Burj Khalifa is equivalent to that of five A380 ( three hundred eighty )aircraft.



The Dubai Fountain dances in front of the Burj Khalifa every 30 ( thirty) minutes from 6pm Wednesday through Sunday


4. Burj Khalifa fun facts that you can truly applaud are its sustainability and reuse of resources. Every year 15 ( fifteen) million gallons of water are collected sustainably. The water is used for irrigation to water the landscaping and plants, for the cooling system and to supply the Dubai Fountain.


5. Some Burj Khalifa trivia about the elevators: the building has the longest single running elevator, which is 140 ( one hundred forty) floors. The Burj Khalifa elevator speed is 10 (ten) meters per second, making the elevators among the fastest in the world. The Burj Khalifa elevator time to reach the observation deck on the 124(one hundred twenty four) th floor is only one minute.



Craning our necks to look up at the sphere from the ground level


6. One of the lesser known and more interesting facts about Burj Khalifa is that the tip of the sphere of the Burj Khalifa can be seen from up to 95 (ninety five) kilometers away.
7. Fairly known Burj Khalifa information is that at the peak of construction, 12,000 (twelve thousand ) workers worked on the building per day.
8. Of course, you can’t leave out how the materials and man hours measure up when talking about interesting facts about the Burj Khalifa. It took more than 110,000 ( one hundred ten thousand ) tons of concrete, 55,000 (fifty five thousand ) tons of steel rebar, and 22 (twenty two) million man-hours to complete the Burj Khalifa.



The Burj Khalifa still stretches up for many more stories from the observation deck on the 124 the (one hundred twenty four) floor

9. Exactly how long did it take to build the Burj Khalifa? Excavation began in January 2004.( two thousand four) Six years later, the Burj Khalifa finally opened in January 2010. (two thousand ten)



The spire is designed to resemble the Hymenocallis flower


10. Another of the Burj Khalifa interesting facts is that it is designed to resemble the Hymenocallis flower. The central core emerges at the top and culminates in a sculpted spire.