FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

MINNA

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY 5 (ARC413)

ASSIGNMENT ON

BURJ KHALIFA FLOORS CONSTRUCTION METHOD

CATEGORIZATION OF BUILDINGS BASED ON NO OF
FLOORS

SUBMITTED TO: DR O.F.ADEDAYO

5TH OF DECEMBER 2016

CONTRUCTION METHOD OF THE BURJ KHALIFA FLOORS
Foundations
If you want to build high, you must first dig deep, driving foundations down well below the
surface. The towers superstructure is supported by a large reinforced concrete mat, which is in
turn supported by 192 bored reinforced concrete piles.

The mat is 3.7m thick, and was constructed in four separate pours totaling 12,500 cubic metres
(m) of concrete. Bauer Spezialtiefbau, with Middle East Foundations, took on much of the
piling work, which required bores to be sunk for cast in-situ piles, to a depth of 43 metres.

Bores for the 192 deep piles were sunk in . Each of them was designed to be cast in situ, and as
such needed to be very deep. Ground conditions at the Burj site were favourable the soft, but
not unstable, soil proved easy to dig into.

For the construction of the tower, a special concrete mix was pumped to a height of more than
600 metres (see Pumping) without segregating. This allowed for a shorter construction time
and gives the building a longer useful life, making it more sustainable. The highest reinforced
concrete corewalls were made using concrete pumped from ground level to a vertical height of
601 metres.

SLAB CONSTRUCTION.

The fastest method which was used to build high rise buildings was used(a process called JUMP
FORMING) . Using an hydraulic jump form system molds were built at the base, re-inforcement
bars were inserted then concrete was poured in. At the point of concrete setting, the moulds were
raised to the next level and on and on till the desired height was reached. Using this process 1
floor was built per week. It climbs up automatically 4metres. With the buttress core, glass
claddings were used to reflect the blazing heat.

Benefits

Fast construction can be achieved by careful planning of the construction process.

Self-climbing formwork cuts down the requirement for crane time considerably. By
allowing the crane to be used for other construction work this may reduce the total
number of cranes needed on site.

The formwork is independently supported, so the shear walls and core walls can be
completed ahead of the rest of the main building structure.

Climbing forms can be designed to operate in high winds.

 Highly engineered nature of jump form systems allows quick and precise adjustment of
the formwork in all planes.

CATEGORIZATION OF BUILDINGS BASED ON NO OF FLOORS

High-rise building is a building that reaches 100m height and is above 60 stories.

Skyscrapers are buildings that reach a 200m height or 120 stories.

Mega-tall buildings reach 600m or 200 floors and more.

Low-rise buildings are between 4-12 storeys.