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  1. 09-25-2009, 06:37 AM #31
    John Stevenson
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart Br
    I was out in Dubia on business about 20 months ago. From my hotel room I counted 83 tower cranes just in the direction I could see. That was after the building peak, when I was was told that over 25% of the worlds tower crane capacity was in this one city.
    Same when i was over in China last our driver said that the Chinese national bird is the Tower Crane
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  2. 09-25-2009, 07:22 AM #32
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    The top is the safest place to be. The last place I would want to be is near the bottom of that building. I wonder what the terminal velocity of a 10 inch long wrench is?
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  3. 09-25-2009, 07:55 AM #33
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    Quote Originally Posted by tumutbound
    Apparently concrete was pumped from ground level up to the 601 metre mark.
    There's no information on how it was/will be moved the extra couple of hundred metres.


    More information than you probably need to know about Burj Dubai can be found here. The section on labour practices is interesting.
    Or, you can do it like this...
    http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...light=building
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