What is the Burj Khalifa?

  The Burj Khalifa is known as the tallest building in the world, standing erect with a height of:

 Two thousand seven hundred twenty-two feet   , or  eight hundred and twenty-nine meters   , or the equivalent of  one hundred and sixty floors,   which is twice the height of a building.

Also, the monitoring platform located on its one hundred and forty-eight floor is the highest monitoring platform in the world, and for your information, birds do not fly to reach this height.

Why is the Burj Khalifa called by that name?

The Burj Khalifa, named after the ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, is the jewel in Dubai’s royal crown and is designed to give the city international recognition.

 But what would happen if the architectural icon of the United Arab Emirates and the tallest buildings in the world were attacked!?

For those who think about it, we say the Burj Khalifa is located in the Middle East and may never be attacked, but think about it secondly, there are many reasons, one of them is to attack the tallest building in the world even if it is in the Middle East. This tower is home to nine hundred luxury apartments in addition to offices, shops, restaurants, and a hotel designed by German Gorgo.

 It is the obvious physical divide between poverty and riches in the United Arab Emirates, from the outside, Dubai may look like a perfect futuristic city.

 But there are more problems in it than in any other city, and it always raises the gap between wealth and poverty and resentment.

The cost of building the Burj Khalifa.

 It was the extremely high cost of building the Burj Khalifa, one of which resulted in a massive debt, and the Dubai Stock Exchange had to become one of the worst.

 You must know that an attack on the tower is a matter that has been proposed before, so let’s move on to what could happen, start with the one hundred and ten thousand tons of reinforced concrete used in the construction of the Burj Khalifa, so that The infrastructure was reinforced with reinforced concrete and not with steel, and thus no longer subjected to collapse the way the World Trade Center collapsed during the events of September 11th.

 The World Trade Center:

 The structure of its architecture was dominated by iron, which melted and twisted due to the heat generated by the collision and explosion of the plane, and the phenomenon behind this is called the domino effect:

And it causes the building to collapse on itself. This scenario is excluded in the case of Burj Khalifa, according to the project manager at Emaar, a plane will not be able to slide on the tower in the way the plane slides with the World Trade Item through its steel columns, and this does not mean that a plane crashing into the tower will not cause any harm. If an aircraft hosts the building, the damage will depend on the amount of fuel that the aircraft carries at the time of impact, and on the speed of the aircraft.

Damage to the Burj Khalifa.

 But the potential threats involve more than that. There may be a threat of bombs in the future. If there were such threats;

What precautionary measures are in place!?

The building can house more than thirty-five thousand people at the same time, and in the event of a crisis, a super-full building like the Burj Khalifa will turn into a death trap.

 Because of the length of the building, elevators stop working in cases of fire, and this means a great danger to thousands of residents in the tower, workers and tourists who will have to cross the staircases with a lock.

But fortunately, the 38 towers in the tower can operate in emergency situations using emergency power sources and waterproof equipment. These elevators can carry up to five thousand five hundred kilograms.

Activate emergency mode when any damage occurs to the Burj Khalifa.

And to activate the evacuation and life-saving mode, a situation that enables the firefighters to take the passengers of these elevators from higher heights to the scheduled evacuation destinations, and in response to the growing terrorist threats spread across the world.

The tower included shelter floors every twenty-five to thirty stories and is designed for those who wish to use the stairs, or who need rest breaks on their way.

These shelter floors are more resistant to fire, have air conditioning and compressors, and independent air sources include the stairs themselves, reinforced with fire-resistant cement concrete.

 It must be said that Dubai is also planning to equip its firefighting crews with flying groups to be able to circumvent the outbreak of fire on the upper floors.

 It seems clear that if there is any attack, we will witness an escalation of problems, as there may be injuries, and the tower may cause some damage.

However, the world’s tallest buildings never lack safety factors.

The biggest threat that the Burj Khalifa can know is usually on New Year’s Eve on New Year’s Eve in the year two thousand and thirteen attended the celebrations. There is one point seven out of ten million people found around the Burj Khalifa.

Roads were closed and people were forced to use public transportation, and the streets and areas adjacent to the tower were monitored, and five thousand individual patrols were conducted to ensure the safety of everyone.