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Burj Al-Arab

Background information  Located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates  321m high (1053 feet)  Designed by Tom Wright, architect of Atkins  Designed with unique concept of a blowing sail of a yacht  Regarded as The World's Most Luxurious Hotel  Built in year 1994 and completed in the year 1999  Built on man-made island connected with private curving bridge

 Managed by Jumeirah group

 Consist 202 bedrooms with two-storey suites

one of the bed rooms located in the hotel.

 Al Mahara - large sea aquarium restaurant with different aquatic species

Sea Aquarium located in the restaurant.

 Al Muntaha - 200 meters above Persian Gulf with the view of the whole Dubai

 Al Iwan – famous for local arabic cuisines. Burj Al-Arab

Structure & type of material used  Pile foundation is used as the foundation of this hotel.

 The building is built on sand.

 It is ed on total 250 numbers of 40 metres long concrete piles drilled deep into the sea.  The load is transferred to the ading soil by friction between the piles and the surrounding soil. Concrete armour units surrounding the hotel are used to reduce the impact of waves.

 It takes two years to just build the foundation, which included placing large rocks in a honeycomb pattern and total of 5 years to complete the construction.

 The superstructure of this building are made of concrete, steel, carbon, fiber, fabric, glass and gold.  Total of 56 storeys with 28 split levels.  Concrete and steel used the most during the construction.  Total of 60,000 cubic meters of concrete and 9,000 tons of reinforced steel.  For the external part of the hotel, 90% of it was made up of steel structures.

 Glazed curtain walls and aluminium cladding was used to construct the building.  The interior features were made of marble and 24 karat gold.  The roofs and walls of the building are made of prefabricated concrete. The steel works used are phased into the exoskeleton rear leg, horizontals, diagonals,

rear

brace

frame,

helipad,

sky

restaurant,

exterior construction of the Burj Al-Arab

atrium

and

IBS implemented  The Industrialized Building System is defined as a construction system which uses industrial production techniques.

 One of these techniques includes standardized forms of pre-cast concrete and pre-fabricated steel structures in construction works.

 The construction of the Dubai Burj-Al-Arab hotel utilized pioneering concrete blocks, which were made out of pre-cast concrete, which functions as a sponge, to block the forces of the waves from the sea.

 The construction also used pre-cast concrete to put the interior of the structure to place.

 Pre-cast concrete wall s were lifted; one by one to fit into their respective places.

How IBS helped the construction of the hotel.

Other names for the IBS system:  Pre-fabrication, off-site production, manufacturing and mass production of the building component. The IBS system includes:  Pre-cast concrete, pre-stressed and more.  The Teflon coated fiberglass was used in the construction of the hotel.  The hollow concrete blocks were used in the construction of the artificial island for the hotel.  Both of the components used were considered as ibs.  Both of the components were pre-fabricated off site in large numbers.  If a building component is pre-fabricated off site but only in small number, it will not be considered as an ibs. i.e. steel exoskeleton of the hotel.

Advantages of using the IBS  Saves time.  Reduces the labour cost.  Reduce the usage of formwork which results in reducing cost and environmental friendly.