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How the Burj was built

How the Burj was built

Vision is a word you hear a lot in the GCC. But just imagine if you will, sitting down in a meeting and deciding to construct the world’s tallest building in your city. Not one that is going to be the tallest by a few dozen metres, and relinquish its title to another tower, in another city, within a few years, but the tallest by a massive margin.

World's tallest building Burj Dubai is crane-free

World’s tallest building Burj Dubai is crane-free

By Sona Nambiar www.business24-7.ae
All the cranes have come down from Burj Dubai, according to a source close to the project. “The last crane was down by the third week of October,” the source told Emirates Business.
In September, an Emaar spokesperson had sent this newspaper a statement that the last of the cranes atop the Burj [...]