BY AHMAD ALSHAKARGI AND YASEEN EL-GERWI

Introduction  World tallest hotel (1053 ft)  Most luxuries hotel (seven stars)  28 double height floor (23 ft height)  Built on private island  Became a symbol for Dubai

Architect  Designed by Tom Wills-Wright  Needed unique design (simple)  Shaped like a sail (sign of tourism)  Rise out of the water

Engineering aspects  The Island  Foundation  Steel Trusses  Electric Load

The Island  Man Made  280 Meters offshore  7.5 Meters high  Shaped like Triangle  November 1995

Foundation  Not connected to bed rock  Sand  Skin Friction  250 Foundation piles  40 meters deep

Trusses  Protect from wind and earthquake  Building and transporting trusses  Lifting trusses  Steel expand problem  Design special fixing  Idea of engine camshaft

Electric Load  8 kw for suite (8 times European suite)  52,000 lights, 3,106 miles cables, advance service  Huge load cause harmonic distortion  Cause melting in cable (burn entire building)  Electric engineer design harmonic filter  Detect distortion and cancel it

References  Burj Al Arab (2006) Wikipedia®. Retrieved from  Dubai's dream palace Burj Al Arab Documentary (May 19, 2012). [video file]. Retrieved from  Hammond Richard (Feb 10, 2012). Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections - (S03E01)Burj Al Arab [video file]. Retrieved from  Pourabedain Ehsan (Feb 23, 2008) Burj Al Arab Construction. SlideShare Inc. Retrieved fro #btnNext  Alshakargi Abdulilah, personal communication, Nov 18, 2012

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